{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob: and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Rath; and Obed begat Jesse;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her of Urias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz; begat Ezekias;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren upon the transferring of Babylon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And after the transferring of Babylon Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim beget Elind;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And Elind 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, of whom was born Jesus, being called Christ, the anointed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations; and from David to the transferring of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transferring of Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations. The Birth of Jesus ( Isaiah 7:10–16 ; Luke 2:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And the generation of Jesus Christ was thus: for Mary his mother having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child by the Holy Ghost."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And Joseph her husband being just, and not willing to expose her to disgrace, wished to let her go in secret."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And reflecting upon these things, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared to him saying, Joseph, thou son of David, thou shouldest not fear to take to thyself Mary thy wife: for that begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And the whole of this has been that it might be completed having been spoken by the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And Joseph having awaked from sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord commanded him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And he took to himself his wife, and knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and be called his name Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold the magi from the sunrisings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Where is he born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the sunrising, and have come to worship him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And Herod the king having heard, was stirred up, and all Jerusalem with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus has it been written by the prophet:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, by no means art thou least among the leaders of Judah for out of thee shall come forth the leader, who shall feed my people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Then Herod having secretly called for the magi, searched thoroughly from them the time of the star appearing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, Having gone, examine thoroughly concerning the child; and when ye should find, announce ye to me, so that I also, having gone, will worship him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And they having heard the king went forth; and, behold the star they saw in the sunrising, it led before them, till having come, it stood above where the young child was."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And seeing the star, they rejoiced with great joy exceedingly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And having come into the house, they found the young child with Mary his mother, and having fallen, they worshipped him; and having opened their treasures they brought forward to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And having received intimation of the divine will in a dream not to turn back to Herod, by another way they went back to their own country. The Flight to Egypt ( Hosea 11:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And they, having gone back, lo, the messenger of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and be there till I speak to thee; for Herod is about to seek the young child to destroy him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And having risen, he took to himself the young child and his mother by night, and turned back in Egypt:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And was there till the death of Herod: that it might be completed having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Weeping and Great Mourning ( Jeremiah 31:1–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Then was completed that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "A voice was heard in Rama, wailing, and weeping, and much lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, for they are not. The Return to Nazareth ( Luke 2:39–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod having died, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they seeking the soul of the young child have died."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And having risen, he took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea, instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; and having received intimation of the divine will in a dream, he turned back into the parts of Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And having come, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be completed spoken by the prophets, That he shall be called a Nazarite."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert 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 he spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, 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 round about Jordan;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were immersed in Jordan by him, acknowledging their sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Do ye therefore fruit worthy of repentance."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you, that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I truly immerse you in water to repentance; but he coming after me is stronger than I, whose shoes I am not fit to lift up; he shall immerse in the Holy Spirit, and fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire. The Baptism of Jesus ( Mark 1:9–11 ; Luke 3:21–22 ; John 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Jesus approaches from Galilee to Jordan, to John, to be immersed by him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And John hindered him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and dost thou come to me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And Jesus, having been immersed, went up straight from the water, and, behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and sets him upon the small wing of the temple;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus said to him, Again has it been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to him, All these will I give to thee, if, falling down, thou wouldst worship me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Then says Jesus to him, Retire, Satan; for it has been written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship, and him alone shalt thou serve."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Then the devil lets him go, and behold, the messengers came up, and they served him. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Isaiah 9:1–7 ; Mark 1:14–15 ; Luke 4:14–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, went back into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having left Nazareth behind, having come, he dwelt in Capernaum, near the sea, in the boundaries of Zabulon and Nephthalim:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "That it might be completed having been spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "The people sitting in darkness saw a great light; and to them sitting in the room and shadow of death, light has sprung up to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "From then Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near. The First Disciples ( Mark 1:16–20 ; Luke 5:1–11 ; John 1:35–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you the fishermen of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And they instantly having let go their nets, followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And having proceeded thence, he saw other two brethren, James him of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, adjusting their nets; and he called them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And they having instantly let go the ship and their father, followed him. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Mark 3:7–12 ; Luke 6:17–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus went about the whole of Galilee, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing disease, and every weakness in the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And a report went forth of him into the whole of Syria: and they brought to him all those having injuries, being oppressed by various diseases, and trials, and being under the influence of a demon, and being lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "And many crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain; and he having sat down, his disciples came to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying, The Beatitudes ( Psalm 1:1–6 ; Luke 6:20–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Happy the compassionate: for they shall be commiserated."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Happy the pure in heart: for they shall see God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you. Salt and Light ( Mark 9:49–50 ; Luke 14:34–35 ; Philippians 2:12–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens. The Fulfillment of the Law"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Whoever therefore, should loose one of the least of these commands, and so teach men, he shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whoever should do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens. Anger and Reconciliation ( Luke 12:57–59 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and whoever should kill shall be subject to judgment:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But I say to you, That every one becoming angry with his brother, shall be subject to judgment: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca, should be, subject to the council: and whoever should say, O foolish, shall be subject to a hell of fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "If therefore, thou bring thy gift upon the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother has anything against thee,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Verily I say to thee, Thou shouldst not come out thence, even till, thou shouldst give back the last fourth. Adultery ( Leviticus 18:1–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not commit adultery:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And if thy right hand give thee cause of offence, cut it off, and cast from thee; for it is profitable to thee, that one of thy members should be destroyed; and not thy whole body should be cast into hell. Divorce ( Deuteronomy 24:1–5 ; Luke 16:18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And it was said, That whosoever should loose his wife, let him give her a repudiation."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "But I say to you, That whosoever shall let go his wife except for the reason of adultery, makes her to commit adultery; and whosoever should marry her having been loosed, commits adultery. Oaths and Vows ( Numbers 30:1–16 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Again, ye have heard, that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not swear a false oath, and thou shalt return to the Lord thine oaths."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "But I say to you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, it is the throne of God:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "Neither by the earth; for it is the footstool of his feet: neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great kings."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "Neither shouldst thou swear by thy head, for thou cant not make one hair white or black."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "But let your word be Yea, yea, and No, no: but that above this is of evil. Love Your Enemies ( Leviticus 24:17–23 ; Luke 6:27–36 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "Ye have heard, that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "But I say to you, not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And to him wishing to be judged with thee, and to take thy coat, let go to him also thy garment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "And whoever shall compel thee to carry dispatches one mile, go forward with him two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "To him asking thee, give thou, and him wishing to borrow from thee, thou shouldst not turn away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For if ye love them loving you, what reward have you? do not also the tax collectors the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "48", "text": "Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly. The Lord’s Prayer ( Luke 11:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love in the assemblies, and in the corners of the broad ways to stand praying, so that they might appear to men. Verily I say to you, that they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be as in heaven also upon the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults. Proper Fasting"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And thou fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly. Treasures in Heaven ( Luke 12:32–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The Lamp of the Body ( Luke 11:33–36 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Do Not Worry ( Luke 12:22–31 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "And I say to you, that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. Sufficient for the day its evil."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Judge not, that ye be not judged."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend you. Ask, Seek, Knock ( Luke 11:5–13 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets. The Narrow Gate ( Luke 13:22–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it. A Tree and Its Fruit ( Luke 6:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "A good tree cannot make evil fruits, nor a rotten tree make good fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Every tree not making good fruit is cut off, and cast into fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And then shall I confess to them that I never knew you. Go away from me, ye working iniquity. The House on the Rock ( Luke 6:46–49 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall. The Authority of Jesus"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And it was when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were struck with amazement at his teaching:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "For he was teaching them as having power, and not as the scribes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And having come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, a leper, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst cleanse me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but retire, show thyself to the priest, and bring near the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. The Faith of the Centurion ( Luke 7:1–10 ; John 4:43–54 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus having entered into Capernaum, a captain of a hundred came to him, and beseeching him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And saying, Lord, my servant has been laid up in the house a paralytic, being grievously tormented."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And Jesus says to him, I, having come, will cure him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the captain of a hundred having answered said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter in under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "For I also am a man under power, having soldiers under me: and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus having heard, admired, and said to those following; Verily I say to you, not in Israel have I found such faith."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And I say to you, That many shall come from the sunrising and the descents, and shall recline with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus said to the captain of a hundred, Retire; as thou hast believed, let it be to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Mark 1:29–34 ; Luke 4:38–41 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus, having come into Peter's house, saw his mother-in-law having been laid up, and affected with fever."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And he touched her hand, and the fever let her go: and she arose, and served them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And evening being come, they brought him many possessed with evil spirits: and he east out the spirits by the word, and cured all having evils:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "So that that spoken by Esaias the prophet was completed, saying. He took our weakness, and lifted up diseases. The Cost of Discipleship ( Luke 9:57–62 ; Luke 14:25–33 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus seeing many crowds about him, encouraged to go away beyond."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And one scribe, coming near, said to him, Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou goest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, permit me first to go and inter my father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "But Jesus said to him, Follow me; and let the dead inter the dead. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Psalm 107:1–43 ; Mark 4:35–41 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And he having gone into a ship, his disciples followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And, behold, a great shaking was in the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves: and be slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And his disciples, having come near, awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we are lost."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And he says to them, Why are ye timorous, ye of little faith? Then having risen, he censured the winds and sea; and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And the men admired, saying, of what race is this for the winds and the sea listen to him. The Demons and the Pigs ( Mark 5:1–20 ; Luke 8:26–39 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And he having come beyond the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed with evil spirits, coming out of the tombs, met him, very rough, so that not any could pass by that way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And, behold, they cried out, saying, What to us and thee, Jesus, Son of God? hast thou come here to torture us before the time."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And far off from them was a herd of many swine grazing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And the evil spirits besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And he said to them, Retire. And having gone, they went away into the herd of swine: and, behold, all the herd of swine rushed down the precipice into the sea, and died in the water."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And they feeding fled; and having come into the city, they announced all things, and those of the possessed with evil spirits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And, behold, all the city came forth to the meeting to Jesus: and seeing him, they besought that he would go away from their boundaries."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And having entered into a ship, he passed over and came into his own city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And behold, certain of the scribes said in themselves, This defames."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus seeing their reflections, said, Why reflect ye within your hearts?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "For why is it easier to say, Sins are let go to thee; or say, Arise and walk?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "But that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to let go sins, (then he says to the paralytic), Having risen, take up thy bed and retire to thy house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And having risen, he went away into his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And the crowds, seeing, admired, and praised God, giving such power to men. Jesus Calls Matthew ( Mark 2:13–17 ; Luke 5:27–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus, passing away from thence, saw a man sitting by the custom-house, being called Matthew, and he says to him, Follow me; and having risen he followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And it was he sitting at table in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinful, having come, sat at table with Jesus and his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Pharisees, seeing, said to his disciples, Wherefore does your teacher eat with tax collectors and the sinful?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus having heard, said to them, They being strong have no need of a physician, but they having evils."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance. Questions about Fasting ( Mark 2:18–20 ; Luke 5:33–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Mark 2:21–22 ; Luke 5:36–39 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And no one puts on a cover of uncombed fragment upon an old garment, for its filling takes away from the garment, and the division is Worse."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "Neither do they cast new wine into old wine-skins: but if otherwise, the wine-skins burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wine-skins are destroyed; but they cast new wine into new wine-skins, and they are both preserved. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Mark 5:21–43 ; Luke 8:40–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "He speaking these things to them, behold, a ruler, having come, worshipped him, saying; That my daughter has just now died: but having come, put thy hand upon her, and she shall live."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus having risen, followed him: also his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And behold, a woman discharging blood twelve years, having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "For she said in herself, If I should only touch the hem of his garment, I shall be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having turned round, and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; thy faith has saved thee. And the woman was saved from that hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus having come into the ruler's house, and seeing the flute players and the crowd making an uproar,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "He says to them, Give way; for the girl is not dead but sleeps; and they mocked him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "But when the crowd was driven forth, having entered, he seized her hand, and the little girl was awakened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And this report went forth into that whole land. Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute ( Mark 7:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus passing from thence, two blind ones followed him, crying out and saying, Commiserate us, O son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "Then touched he 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 threatened them, saying, See, let none know."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "But they, having gone out, divulged it in that, whole land."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And they having gone, behold they brought to him a man dumb, possessed with an evil spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And the demon being cast out, the dumb, spake, and the crowd admired, saying, It was never so brought to light in Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "But the Pharisees said, By the chief of demons he casts out demons. The Lord of the Harvest ( Luke 10:1–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every weakness in the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Then he says to his disciples, Truly the harvest much, but the laborers few."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "Implore therefore the Lord of the harvest, so that he might draw forth laborers into his harvest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And having called his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every weakness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James, he of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, he surnamed Thaddeus;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, he also having delivered him up. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Mark 6:7–13 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And going, proclaim, saying, That the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Cure the sick, cleanse the leprous, rouse the dead, cast out demons; as a gift ye have received, as a gift give."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor wallet for the way, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor rod: for the laborer is worthy of his food."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And to whatever city or town ye should come in, examine who in it is worthy; and there remain till ye go forth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And entering into a house, do ye greet it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And if the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy let your peace return to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "And whoever should not receive you, nor hear your words, coming out of that house or that city, shake off the cloud of the dust of your feet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Verily I say to you, it shall be more supportable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. Sheep among Wolves ( 2 Timothy 1:3–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child: and children shall rise up in revolt against parents, and kill them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And when they drive you out in this city, flee ye to another; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "The disciple is not above the teacher, nor the servant above his lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Sufficient to the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzeboul, how much more those pertaining to his household? Fear God Alone ( Luke 12:4–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore fear them not; for nothing has been covered, which shall not be revealed; and concealed, that shall not be known."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Are not two little sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the earth without your Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And also the hairs of your head are all numbered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Fear not therefore; ye have the preeminence over many sparrows. Confessing Christ ( Luke 12:8–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Every one therefore who shall agree with me before men, I also will agree with him before my Father, him in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "But whoever should deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father, him in the heavens. Not Peace but a Sword ( Micah 7:1–6 ; Luke 12:49–53 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "Think not that I came to cast peace upon earth; I came not to cast peace, but a sword."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "And a man's enemies, they pertaining to his household."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And whoever takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "He finding his soul shall lose it; and he having lost his soul for my sake shall find it. The Reward of Service ( 2 Kings 4:8–17 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "He receiving you, receives me; and he receiving me, receives him sending me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "He receiving a prophet in a prophet's name, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he receiving the just in the name of the just, shall take the reward of the just."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was when Jesus finished ordering his twelve disciples, he went away from thence to teach and proclaim in all their cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And John having heard in prison the works of Christ, having sent two of his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "He said to him, Art thou he coming, or should we look for another?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus having answered said to them, Having gone, announce to John what ye hear and see:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "The blind receive sight, and the lame walk, the leprous are cleansed, and the deaf bear, the dead are roused, and the poor have good news announced."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And happy is he who shall not give cause of offence in me. Jesus Testifies about John ( Malachi 3:1–5 ; Luke 7:24–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And these going forth, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "But what went ye out to see? A man clad in soft garments? but they having soft things are in king's houses."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "But what went ye out to see? A prophet? yes, I say to you, and more eminent than a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "For this is he for whom it was Written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "From the days of John the Immerser till now the kingdom of the heavens is achieved by force, and they committing violence seize it eagerly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "For all the prophets, And the law prophesied till John."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And if ye will receive, this is Elias he about to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "He having ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And saying, We played the flute to you, and ye moved not; we lamented to you and ye lamented not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children. Woe to the Unrepentant ( Luke 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Then began he to blame the cities in which were his greatest powers, because they repented not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon had been the powers being in you, long since had they repented in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "But I say to you, To Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "And thou, Capernaum, lifted up even to heaven, thou shalt he brought down to hades: for if in the people of Sodom had been the powers being in thee, they had remained till this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "But I say to you, That to the land of Sodom it shall be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you. Rest for the Weary ( Luke 10:21–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "In that time Jesus having answered, said, I acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Yes, Father: for so was it benevolence before thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "All things were delivered to me by my Father; and none knows the Son, except the Father; nor knows any one the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For my yoke is useful, and my load is light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "In that time Jesus went in the sabbaths through the standing corn and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears, end eat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees, seeing, said to him, Behold, thy disciples do what is not lawful to do in the sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they with him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "How he went into the house of God, and ate the loaves of setting up, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor those with him, but for the priests alone?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Or have ye not read in the law, that in the sabbaths, the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are innocent?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "But I say to you, That he here is greater than the temple."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And if ye knew what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For the Lord of the sabbath is also the Son of man. Jesus Heals on the Sabbath ( Mark 3:1–6 ; Luke 6:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And having passed from thence, he went into their assembly;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And, behold, there was a man having the hand withered. And they asked him saying, Is it lawful to cure in the sabbaths? that they might expose him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And he said to them, Which of you shall be the man who shall have one sheep, and if this should fall into a pit in the sabbaths, will he not take hold of it, and raise it up?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "How much then does a man surpass a sheep? So that it is lawful to do well in the sabbaths."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Then says he to the man, Stretch out thy hand; and he stretched it out; and it was restored, sound as the other."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Pharisees took counsel against him, having gone out, that they might kill him. God’s Chosen Servant ( Isaiah 42:1–9 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jesus having known, withdrew from thence; and many crowds followed him, and he cured them all;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And he rebuked them that they should not make him known:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "So that that spoken by the prophet Esaias might be completed, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold my servant, which I have chosen: my dearly beloved, in whom my soul was contented; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim judgment to the nations."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "He shall not contend, nor cry; nor shall any hear his voice in the streets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "He shall not break a bruised reed, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he should draw forth judgment to victory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And in his name shall the nations hope. A House Divided ( Mark 3:20–27 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Then he possessed with a demon, blind, and dumb, was brought to him; and he cured him, so that the blind and dumb spake and saw also."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And all the crowds were affected, and said, Is not this the son of David?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "But the Pharisees, having heard, said, He casts not out demons, but by Beelzebub, ruler of demons."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus knowing their reflections, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And if Satan casts out Satan, he was divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast out? for this shall they be your judges."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "But if I, by the Spirit of God, cast out demons, the kingdom of God has come before hand upon you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Or how can any one come into the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, except be first bind the strong? and then he will plunder his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "He not being with me is against me; and he not gathering with me; scatters. The Unpardonable Sin ( Mark 3:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "For this I say to you, All sin and blasphemy shall be let go to men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be let go to men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be let go to him, neither in this time, nor that about to be. Good and Bad Fruit ( Luke 6:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "For by thy words shalt thou be justified, and by thy words shalt thou be condemned. The Sign of Jonah ( Jonah 3:1–10 ; Luke 11:29–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, An evil generation and an adulteress seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "The Ninevite men shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "The queen of the South shall be raised up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the end of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon here. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Luke 11:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "And when the unclean spirit has gone out from a man, he passes through sterile places, seeking rest, and finds not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Then says he, I will return into my house, whence I came out; and having come, he finds vacant; having been swept, and put in order."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits, worse than he, and having come in, they dwell there: and the last things of that man are worse than the first. So also shall it be to this evil generation. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Mark 3:31–35 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "And he yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And a certain one said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "And he having answered, said to him speaking to him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "And having stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "For whoever should do the will of my Father, him in the heavens, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And in that day Jesus, having come out of the house, sat by the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And many crowds were assembled together to him; therefore having entered into the ship, he sat down, and all the crowd stood upon the sea-shore."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, he, the sower, went forth to sow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And in his sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things came and swallowed them down."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "He having ears to hear let him hear. The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Isaiah 6:1–13 ; Mark 4:10–12 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And the disciples having come near, said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "For verily I say to you, that many prophets and just desired eagerly to see what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not. The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Mark 4:13–20 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore hear ye the parable of him sowing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty. The Parable of the Weeds ( Ezekiel 17:1–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "And when the grass sprouted up and made fruit, then appeared the tares also."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said, No; lest gathering the tares, ye root up the wheat together with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Mark 4:30–34 ; Luke 13:18–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "Which truly is less than all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so that the flying things of heaven come and lodge in its young shoots. The Parable of the Leaven ( Luke 13:20–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened. I Will Open My Mouth in Parables ( Psalm 78:1–72 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "All these things spake Jesus in parables to the crowds; and without a parable spake he not to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world. The Parable of the Weeds Explained ( Zephaniah 1:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Then Jesus having dismissed the crowds, went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, He 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 tares are the sons of the evil one;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "As therefore the tares are gathered together and burnt in fire; so shall it be in the end of this time."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear. The Parables of the Treasure and the Pearl"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a wholesale merchant, seeking beautiful pearls:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "Who, finding one pearl of great value, having departed, he sold all things which he had, and purchased it. The Parable of the Net"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the sea, and having gathered of every kind:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "Which when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these? They say to him, Yes, Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old. The Rejection at Nazareth ( Mark 6:1–6 ; Luke 4:16–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "53", "text": "And it was when Jesus finished these parables, he removed thence."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "54", "text": "And having come into his native land, he taught them in their assembly, so that they were struck with amazement, and said, Whence to him this wisdom, and powers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "55", "text": "Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "56", "text": "And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then to him all these?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "57", "text": "And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "58", "text": "And he did not many powers there, because of their unbelief."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "In that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report of Jesus,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; be was aroused from the dead; and for this, powers are energetic in him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "For Herod, having seized John, bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And wishing to kill him, he was afraid of the crowd, because they held John as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "The festivities of Herod's birthday being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore, with an oath, he agreed to give her whatever she should ask."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And having been urged on by her mother, Give me, she says, here upon a board, the head of John the Baptist."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And the king was grieved: but for his oath, and those reclining together at the table, he ordered to be given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And having sent, he beheaded John in the prison."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And his head was brought upon a board, and given to the girl, and she brought to her mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And his disciples having come near, took away the body, and interred it; and having come, they announced to Jesus. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Mark 6:30–44 ; Luke 9:10–17 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus having heard, withdrew from thence into a desert place apart: and the crowds, having heard, followed him on foot from the cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having come, saw a great crowd: and he felt compassion for them, and he cured their sick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And being evening, his disciples came to him, saying, It is a desert place, and the time has passed already; loose the crowds, that, having gone into towns, they might purchase food for themselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "But Jesus said to them, They have no need to depart; give ye them to eat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And they say to him, We have not here but five loaves, and two fishes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, Bring them here to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining of fragments, twelve baskets full."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And they eating were five thousand men, besides women and children. Jesus Walks on Water ( Mark 6:45–52 ; John 6:16–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And quickly Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the ship, and to go before him to the other side, till he should loose the crowds."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having loosed the crowds, he went up into a mount apart to pray: and being evening, he was there alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And the ship was already in the midst of the sea, overcharged by waves: for the wind was contrary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking upon the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And the disciples seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying, It is an apparition; and they cried out for fear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And quickly Jesus spake to them, saying, Take courage; I am; be not afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter having answered him, said, Lord, if thou art, encourage me to come upon the waters."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said, Come. And Peter having gone down from the ship, walked upon the waters, to go to Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and beginning to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "And quickly Jesus, having stretched out the hand, laid hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, for what didst thou doubt?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And having gone into the ship, the wind ceased."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And they in the ship, having come, worshipped him, saying, Thou art truly the Son of God. Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Mark 6:53–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And the men of the place, having known him, sent into the whole country round about, and brought to him all those having evils:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were saved from danger."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Then came to Jesus from Jerusalem the scribes and Pharisees, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And he, having answered, said to them, Wherefore do ye also pass by the command of God by your tradition."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men. What Defiles a Man ( Mark 7:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And having called the crowd, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Then his disciples having come near, said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were scandalized?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And having answered, he said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And Peter, having answered, said to him, Explain to us this parable."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man. The Faith of the Canaanite Woman ( Mark 7:24–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus, having gone forth from thence, withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And, behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those boundaries, cried out to him, saying, Pity me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is badly possessed with an evil spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And he answered her not a word. And his disciples, having come, asked him, saying, Loose her; for she cries out after us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "And he, having answered, said, I was not sent except to the sheep having been lost, of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "And she, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And he, having answered, said, It is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And she said, Yes, Lord; for the little dogs also eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "Then Jesus, having answered, said to her, O woman, great thy faith: let it be to thee as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour. The Feeding of the Four Thousand ( 2 Kings 4:42–44 ; Mark 8:1–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And having passed from thence, Jesus came to the sea of Galilee; and having gone up into a mountain, he sat there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And many crowds came to him, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them at the feet of Jesus; and he cured them:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "So that the crowds wondered, seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed sound, the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they praised the God of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And Jesus having called his disciples, said, I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain with me three days, and they have nothing they could eat: and I will not leave them fasting, lest they be relaxed in the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And he encouraged the crowd to recline upon the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having returned thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And all ate, and were satisfied: and they took up that remaining of the fragments seven wicker baskets full."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And they eating were four thousand men, besides women and children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And having loosed the crowds, he went into a ship, and came into the bounds of Magdala."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, asked him to shew them a sign from heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, It being evening, ye say, Calm weather: for the heaven is fiery red."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be given her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And having left them, he departed. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees ( Mark 8:14–21 ; Luke 12:1–3 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Attend and keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And they reasoned among themselves, saying, Because we took no loaves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus having known, said to them, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no loaves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of five thousand, and how many baskets ye took?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor the seven loaves of four thousand, and how many wicker baskets ye took?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "How do ye not understand that I spake not to you concerning bread, to keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Then understood they that he spake, not to keep from the leaven of bread, but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Mark 8:27–30 ; Luke 9:18–20 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus, having come into the parts of Caesarea of Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say me to be, the Son of Man?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And they said, Some, truly, John the Baptist: and others, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And he says to them, But whom say ye me to be?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed to thee, but my Father, he in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And I say to thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not overcome her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens: and whatever thou shalt bind upon earth shall be bound in the heavens: and whatever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be loosed in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Then he enjoined his disciples that they say to none that he is Jesus Christ. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Mark 8:31–33 ; Luke 9:21–22 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "From then Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must depart to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised in the third day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And Peter having taken him, began to reproach him, saying, Be propitious to thyself, Lord: this shall not be to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And having turned, he said to Peter, Retire behind me, Satan: thou art an offence, to me: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men. Take Up Your Cross ( Mark 8:34–38 ; Luke 9:23–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers; and then he will give back to each according to his deed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "Verily I say to you, Some are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "And he was transformed before them: and his face shone as the sun, and his garments were white as the light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And, behold, Moses and Elias were seen to them, conversing with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter, having answered, said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: let us make here three tents; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And the disciples, having heard, fell upon their face, and were greatly afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And Jesus, having come, touched them, and said, Be raised, and be not afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "And they, coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the sight to none, even till the Son of man rises from the dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, Elias truly comes first and will re-establish all things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And I say to you, That Elias has already come, and they knew him not, but did by him whatever they would. So also the Son of man is about to suffer by them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "Then understood the disciples that he told them of John the Baptist. The Boy with a Demon ( Mark 9:14–29 ; Luke 9:37–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And they having come to the crowd, there came to him a man, supplicating on his knees to him, and saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "Lord, pity my son: for he is a lunatic, and suffers badly: for many times he falls into the fire, and many times into the water."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I endure you? bring him here to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus censured him; and the demon went forth out of him: and the child was cured from that hour. The Power of Faith ( Luke 17:5–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "Then the disciples having come to Jesus apart, said, Why could not we cast it out?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And Jesus said to them, For your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If ye have faith as a kernel of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Go away from thence, and it shall go away; and nothing shall be impossible to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "But this kind goes not forth but by prayer and fasting. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 9:30–32 ; Luke 9:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And they having returned into Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered into the hands of men:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised. And they were greatly grieved. The Temple Tax"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What seems to thee, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth take taxes or census? from their sons, or from strangers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then are the children free."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "But that we should not scandalize them, having gone to the sea, cast a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming up first, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a gold coin: having taken that, give to them for me and thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "In that hour came the disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus, having called a young child, set it in the midst of them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Whoever, therefore, should be humbled as this young child, the same is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And whoever shall receive such a young child in my name, receives me. Temptations and Trespasses ( Mark 9:42–48 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And whoever should offend one of these little ones believing in me, it is profitable for him that the millstone of an ass be hung upon his neck, and he be sunk in the midst of the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "Woe to the world for offences I for there is necessity for offences to come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "And if thy hand or thy foot give thee cause of offence, cut them off, and cast from thee: it is good for thee to come into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and east from thee: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire. The Parable of the Lost Sheep ( Luke 15:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of my Father which is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "For the Son of man has come to save the lost."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And if it be found, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it, than over the ninety-nine not led astray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "So is not the will of your Father, he in the heavens, that one of these little ones be lost. A Brother Who Sins ( Deuteronomy 19:15–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Truly I say to you, Whatever things ye should bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever things ye should loose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven. Ask in My Name ( John 16:23–33 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "Again, I say to you, That if two of you agree in opinion for everything which they ask, it shall be to them of my Father, he in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "For where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them. The Unforgiving Servant ( Romans 12:14–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And he having begun to settle accounts, one was brought him, a debtor of ten thousand talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "Then the servant, having fallen, worshipped him, saying, Lord, be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And the lord of that servant, having felt compassion, loosed him, and let go to him the money lent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Then his fellow-servant having fallen at his feet besought him, saying, Be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "And he would not; but having departed he cast him into prison till he should give back that being owed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "And his fellow-servants having seen the thing done, were greatly grieved, and having come, made known to their lord all things done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And his lord having become angry, delivered him to the torturers even till he should give back all being owed to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was when Jesus finished these words he removed from Galilee, and came from the bounds of Judea beyond Jordan;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And many crowds followed him; and he cured them there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And he said to them, All have not room for this word, but to whom it is given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "For there are eunuchs, who were born so from the mother's belly: and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of the heavens. He being able to receive, let him receive. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Mark 10:13–16 ; Luke 18:15–17 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Then young children were brought to him, that he might put hands upon them and pray: and the disciples censured them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "But Jesus said, Let go the young children, and hinder them not, to come to me: for of such is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And having put hands upon them, he went out from thence. The Rich Young Man ( Mark 10:17–31 ; Luke 18:18–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And, behold, one having come said to him, Good teacher, what good shall I do, that I might have eternal life?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, thus: Thou shalt not murder; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "The young man says to him, All these have I watched from my youth; what yet do I want?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, That with difficulty shall a rich one come into the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And again I say to you, It is of easier labor for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And his disciples were greatly struck with amazement, saying, Who then can be saved?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "And Jesus having looked up said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That ye having followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man should sit upon the throne of his glory, shall be seated ye also upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "And many first shall be last, and the last first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And having agreed for a drachma a day, he sent them to his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And he says to them, Retire ye also into the vineyard, and whatever should be just I will give you: and they departed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to him, That none has hired us. He says to them, Retire also to the vineyard; and whatever be just, ye shall receive."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen, and give back to them the wages, beginning from the last even to the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And they of the eleventh hour having come, thereupon received a drachma."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the first, having come, thought that they will receive more; and they also received thereupon a drachma."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And having received, they murmured against the master of the house,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And he, having answered, said to one of them, Friend, I injure thee not; didst not thou agree with me for a drachma?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "Take thine and retire: and I will to give to this last, as also to thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my things? Or is thine eye evil because I am good."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "So shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few chosen. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 10:32–34 ; Luke 18:31–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and he said to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "And they shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and scourge, and crucify: and he shall be raised the third day. A Mother’s Request ( Mark 10:35–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, worshipping, and asking something of him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion which I am immersed? They say to him, We can."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "And he says to them, Truly my cup shall ye drink, and with the immersion which I am immersed shall ye be immersed; but to sit on my right, and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those it was prepared for by my Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "And the ten having heard, felt pain about the two brethren."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "And whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many. The Blind Men by the Road ( Mark 10:46–52 ; Luke 18:35–43 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "And they going out from Jericho, a great crowd followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, two blind sitting by the way, having heard that Jesus passes by, cried out, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "And the crowd censured them that they should be silent: but they cried the more, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And Jesus having stood, called them, and said, What will ye I shall 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 Jesus, having felt compassion, touched their eyes: and quickly their eyes looked up, and they followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, to the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "Go ye into the town opposite to us, and quickly shall ye find an ass bound, and a colt with her; having loosed, bring to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And if any one say to you, Why? ye shall say, That the Lord has need of them; and quickly will he send them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And the whole of this was, that that spoken by the prophet be completed; saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and a colt, son of a beast of burden."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And the disciples, having gone and done as Jesus commanded them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "Brought the ass, and colt, and put on them their garments, and he sat over them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And a very great crowd strewed their garments in the way; and others cut down young shoots from the trees, and strewed in the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And the crowds leading before, and following, cried, saying, Osanna to the son of David: he coming in the name of the Lord being praised; Osanna in the highest ones."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And he having come to Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, Who is this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds said, This is Jesus, the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Mark 11:15–19 ; Luke 19:45–48 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus came into the temple of God, and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the money-changers tables, and the seats of those selling doves,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And the blind and lame came to him in the temple; and he cured them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things which he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Osanna to the son of David; they felt pain."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And they said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yes; have ye never read, That out of the mouths of young children and sucklings thou hast adjusted praise?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And leaving them, he went without the city, to Bethany; and lodged there. The Barren Fig Tree ( Mark 11:12–14 ; Mark 11:20–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And in the morn, having returned into the city, he hungered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And having seen one fig tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only; and he says to it, Let no more fruit be from thee forever. And instantly the fig tree was dried up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And the disciples, seeing, wondered, saying, How suddenly was the fig tree dried up!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Truly I say to you, if ye have faith, and be not removed, ye shall do not only that of the fig tree, but also to this mountain, if ye should say, Be thou lifted up, and cast into the sea, it shall be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And all things, whatever ye ask in prayer, believing, shall ye receive. Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Mark 11:27–33 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And to him, having come into the temple to him teaching, came the chief priests and elders of the people, saying, By what authority doest thou these? and who gave thee this authority?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to them, I will also ask you one word, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "The baptism of John, whence was it of heaven or of men And they reasoned by themselves, saying, If we say, of heaven; he will say to us, Why, then, believed ye him not?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "But if we say, of men; we fear the crowd; for all hold John as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And having answered Jesus, they said, We know not. And he said to them, Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these. The Parable of the Two Sons"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "But what seems to you A man had two children; and having come to the first, he said, Child, retire today, work in my vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "And he, having answered, said, I will not; but afterward, having felt regret, he departed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And having come to the second, he said likewise. And he, having answered, said, I, Lord: and he departed not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him. The Parable of the Wicked Tenants ( Mark 12:1–12 ; Luke 20:9–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his parts."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And afterwards he sent to them his son, saying, They will be changed by my son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "And the farmers, seeing 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, they cast out of the vineyard, and killed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "When, therefore, the lord of the vineyard should come, what will he do to those farmers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "41", "text": "They say to him, He will miserably destroy these wicked, and let out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the writings, The stone which the builders disapproved of, this was for the head of the corner? This was from the Lord, and it was wonderful in your eyes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "43", "text": "For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "44", "text": "And he falling upon this stone shall be crushed: but upon whomsoever it should fall, it shall winnow him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "45", "text": "And the chief priests and Pharisees, having heard his parable, knew that he spake of them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "46", "text": "And seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the crowd, since they held him as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, spake to them in parables, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made a nuptial feast for his son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And the rest, having seized his servants, were insolent, and killed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "Then says he to his servants, Truly the nuptial feast is prepared, and those called were not worthy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "For many are called, and few chosen. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Mark 12:13–17 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Then the Pharisees, having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in word."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore say to us, What seems to thee Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "But Jesus, having known their evil, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "Show me the piece of money of tribute. And they brought him a drachma."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "They say to him, Caesar's. Then says he to them, Give back then to Caesar the things of Caesar; and the things of God to God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard, they wondered, and having left him, they departed. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Mark 12:18–27 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "In that day the Sadducees came to him, they saying there is to be no rising up: and they asked him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And with us were seven brethren: and the first, having married, died; and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And likewise the second, and third, even till the seven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And after all died also the woman."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore in the rising up whose of the seven shall the woman be? for they all had her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Ye are led astray, not having known the writings, nor the power of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "For in the rising up they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers of God in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "And for the rising up of the dead, read ye not that spoken by God, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "I am God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And the crowds having heard, were astonished at his teaching. The Greatest Commandment ( Deuteronomy 6:1–19 ; Mark 12:28–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "And the Pharisees having heard that he muzzled the Sadducees, were gathered upon the same."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "And one of them, skilled in the law, asked, tempting him, and saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "Teacher, which the great command in the law?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "This is the first and the great command."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "And the second like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "In these two commands hang the whole law and the prophets. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Mark 12:35–37 ; Luke 20:41–44 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus asked them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, What seems to you about 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 by my right, till I make thine enemies the footstool of my 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 none could answer him a word, nor dared any one from that day to ask him any more."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "Then spake Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying, Upon Moses' seat sat the scribes and Pharisees."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore all whatever they say to you to keep, keep and do; and according to their works do not, for they say and do not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "For they bind loads heavy and difficult to carry, and put upon men's shoulders; and with their fingers will they not move them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And love the first place at suppers, and the first seat in the assemblies,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "And be ye not called Rabbi: for one is your guide, Christ; and all ye are brethren."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And call not your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor be ye called leaders, for one is your Leader, Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And the greater of you shall be your servant."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for pretence, praying at great lengths; for this shall ye receive more distinguished judgment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! for ye go about sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he should become, ye make him the son of hell, twofold more than you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "Foolish and blind; for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple consecrating the gold?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "And, Whoever should swear by the altar, it is nothing; and whoever should swear by the gift above it, he is indebted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "Foolish and blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar, consecrating the gifts?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore, he having sworn by the altar, swears by it, and by all above it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "And he having sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him dwelling in it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "And he having sworn by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him sitting above it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "O blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, and side dish of sweetmeats, that also their outside might be clean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we had not been their partakers in the blood of the prophets,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "Truly I say to you, All these shall come upon this generation. Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:31–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to her; how often did I wish to gather thy children together, which manner a bird gathers together her young broods under the wings, and ye would not!"}
{"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, Ye should not see me from henceforth, till ye should say, Praised be he coming in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus having gone out, went out of the temple: and his disciples came near to shew him the buildings of the temple."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus said to them, See ye not all these? truly I say to you, Stone upon stone shall not be left here, which shall not be loosened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And sitting upon the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him apart, saying, Say to us when these shall be, and what the sign of thy arrival, and the termination of the time."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, See lest any lead you astray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "For many shall come upon my name, saying, I am Christ; and deceive many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "And ye will be about to hear of wars and rumors of war: see, be not terrified; for all must be, but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "For nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and plagues, and shakings in places."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "And all these the beginning of anguish. Witnessing to All Nations ( Mark 13:9–13 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole habitable globe for a witness to all nations: and then shall the end come. The Abomination of Desolation ( Mark 13:14–23 ; Luke 21:20–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, when ye see the abomination of devastation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him reading, understand:)"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "Then let them in Judea flee to the mountain;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "He upon the house-tops, let him not come down to take away anything out of his house:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "And he in the field, let him not turn back to take up his garments:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "And woe to those having in the womb, and to those giving suck, in those days!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "And pray that your flight be not in winter, nor in the sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And except those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen, those days shall be shortened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Then if any say to you, Behold, here Christ, or there; believe ye not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "For false Christs, and false prophets, shall be raised up, and give great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if possible, also the chosen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "Behold, I have told you beforehand. The Return of the Son of Man ( Mark 13:24–27 ; Luke 21:25–28 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "For as the lightning comes forth from the sunrisings, and shines to the descents; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "For wherever be the fall, there will the eagles be gathered together."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall the tribes of the earth lament bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and much glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "And he shall send his messengers, with the great voice of the trumpet, and they shall bring together his chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Mark 13:28–31 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "And from the fig tree learn a parable; When already her young shoot should be tender, and the leaves should spring forth, ye know that summer is near:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "So also ye, when ye should see all these things, know ye that it is near at the doors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, till all these things should be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words should not pass away. Readiness at Any Hour ( Genesis 6:1–7 ; Mark 13:32–37 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "And concerning that day and hour, none know, nor the messengers of the heavens, except my Father only."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "Then shall be two in the field; one shall be taken, and one is let go;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "Two grinding in the mill; one shall be taken, and one let go."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "Happy that servant which his lord, having come, shall find doing thus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "Truly I say to you, That he shall set him over all his possessions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "But if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays to come;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "And he should begin to strike the fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with those intoxicated;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "And five of them were discerning, and five foolish."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes. The Parable of the Talents ( Luke 19:11–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "For as a man going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered them his possessions:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "And to one he truly gave five talents, and to one, two, and to one, one; to each according to his own power; and he quickly went abroad."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "And he having received five talents, having gone, worked with them, and he made other five talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "Likewise he having the two also, gained he also other two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "And he having received one, having departed, dug in the earth, and concealed his lord's silver."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "And after much time the lord of these servants comes, and lifts up the word with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And he having received the five talents, having come near, brought the other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst me five talents: and I have gained other five talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "And he also having received the two talents, having come near said, Lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; see, I gained two other talents to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And he also having received one talent, having come near, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou sowedst not, and gathering where thou scatteredst not:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "And having been afraid, having gone away, I concealed thy talent in the earth; see, thou hast thine own."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money-changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore take the talent away from him, and give him having ten talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "29", "text": "For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "30", "text": "And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. The Sheep and the Goats"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "31", "text": "And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "32", "text": "And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "33", "text": "And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "34", "text": "Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "35", "text": "For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "36", "text": "Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "37", "text": "Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "38", "text": "And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "39", "text": "And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "40", "text": "And the king having answered, will say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "41", "text": "Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "42", "text": "For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "43", "text": "I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "44", "text": "Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "45", "text": "Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "46", "text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was when Jesus finished all the words, he said to his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye know that after two days is the passover, and the Son of man shall be delivered to be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caiaphas,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "And they said, Not in the festival, lest there should be an uproar among the people. Jesus Anointed at Bethany ( Mark 14:3–9 ; Luke 7:36–50 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus having been in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leprous,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of costly perfumed ointment, and she poured upon the head of him, reclining at table."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "And his disciples seeing, felt pain, saying, For what this loss?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "For this perfumed oil could have been sold for much, and have been given to the poor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus having known, said to them, Why offer ye toils to the woman? for a good work has she worked upon me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "For always the poor ye have with you, but me ye have not always."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "For she, casting this perfumed oil upon my body, did to prepare me for interment,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "Truly I say to you, Wheresoever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, shall it also be spoken what she did, for a remembrance of her. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Mark 14:10–11 ; Luke 22:3–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "Then one of the twelve having gone forth, he being called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "And from then he sought opportunity, that he might deliver him. Preparing the Passover ( Mark 14:12–16 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "And in the first of the unleavened loaves, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou we should prepare for thee to eat the pascha?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, Retire ye into the city, to a certain person, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near; with thee do I the pascha with my disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "And the disciples did as Jesus commanded them: and they prepared the passover. The Last Supper ( Mark 14:17–26 ; Luke 22:14–23 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "And it being evening, he reclined at table with the twelve."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "And they eating, he said, Truly I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "And they being greatly grieved, began each of them to say to him, Far from it am I, O Lord:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "And he having answered, said, He having dipped with me the hand in the small dish, the same shall deliver me up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "Truly the Son of man retires as has been written concerning him; and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it was good for him if that man had not been born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "And Judas delivering him up, having answered, said, Far from it, am I, Rabbi? He said to him, Thou hast said."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "And they eating, Jesus, having taken the bread and praised, brake and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "And having taken the cup, and given thanks, he gave to them, saying, Drink of it all ye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And having sung, they went forth to the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Zechariah 13:7–9 ; Mark 14:27–31 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "And after I be raised, I will lead before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "33", "text": "And Peter having answered, said to him, And if all men shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee that in this night, before the cock utters a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "35", "text": "Peter says to him, Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee: likewise also said all the disciples. Jesus Prays at Gethsemane ( Mark 14:32–42 ; Luke 22:39–46 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "36", "text": "Then comes Jesus with them into the place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here, till I, having gone, shall pray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "37", "text": "And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved, and to be dejected."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "38", "text": "Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye 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: but not as I will, but as thou."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "40", "text": "And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "41", "text": "Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "42", "text": "Again of a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, My Father if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, let thy will be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "43", "text": "And having gone he finds them again sleeping: for their eyes were loaded."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "44", "text": "And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed of the third time, speaking the same word."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "45", "text": "Then comes he to his disciples, and says to them, Sleep for the remaining time, and take rest: behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "46", "text": "Be aroused, let us lead forth; behold, he delivering me up, has drawn near. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Mark 14:43–52 ; Luke 22:47–53 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "47", "text": "And he yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd, with swords, and sticks, from the chief priests, and the more ancient of the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "48", "text": "And he delivering him up, gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, the same is he: hold him firmly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "49", "text": "And quickly having come to Jesus, he said, Hail, Rabbi! and kissed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Friend, for what comest thou? Then having come near, they put hands upon Jesus, and held him firmly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "51", "text": "And, behold, one of them with Jesus, having stretched out the hand, pulled out his sword, having struck the chief priest's servant, took away his ear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "52", "text": "Then says Jesus to him, Turn back thy sword to its place: for all they having taken the sword, shall perish by the sword."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "53", "text": "Thinkest thou that I am not able to call to my Father for aid, and he will set before me more than twelve legions of messengers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "54", "text": "How then would the writings be filled up, that so it must be?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "55", "text": "In that hour, Jesus said to the crowds, As against a robber came ye out, with swords and sticks, to take me? In the day I sat down with you, teaching, and ye took not hold of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "56", "text": "But this has been wholly that the writings of the prophets might be filled up. Then all the disciples, having left him, fled. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Mark 14:53–65 ; Luke 22:66–71 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "57", "text": "And they having held Jesus, brought to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered together."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "58", "text": "And Peter followed him from far, even to the court-yard of the chief priest, and having entered within, he sat with the attendants, to see the end."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "59", "text": "And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "60", "text": "And they found not: and many false witnesses having come near, they found not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "61", "text": "And afterwards two false witnesses, having come near, said, This said, I can loosen the temple of God, and after three days build it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "62", "text": "And the chief priest, having risen, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these witness against thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "63", "text": "But Jesus was silent. And the chief priest having answered, said to him, I cause thee to swear by the living God, that thou tell us, if thou art Christ, the Son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "64", "text": "And Jesus says to him, Thou hast said: but I say to you, from henceforth ye shall see the Son of man, sitting from the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "65", "text": "Then the chief priest tore his garments, saying, That he blasphemed: what further need have we of witnesses? see, now ye have heard his blasphemy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "66", "text": "What seems to you? And they having answered, said, He is liable to the penalty of death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "67", "text": "Then did they spit in his face, and cuffed him, and struck him with a rod:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "68", "text": "Saying, Prophesy to us, O Christ, Who is he having struck thee. Peter Denies Jesus ( Mark 14:66–72 ; Luke 22:54–62 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "69", "text": "And Peter sat without in the court-yard, and one young girl came to him saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "70", "text": "And he denied before all, saying, I know not what thou sayest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "71", "text": "And he having gone out into the gate, another saw him, and she says to them there, This also was with Jesus the Nazarite."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "72", "text": "And again he denied with an oath, That I know not the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "73", "text": "And a little after, those standing, having come near, said to Peter, Truly thou also art of them; for also thy speech makes thee manifest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "74", "text": "Then began he to anathematize, and to swear, That I know not the man: and quickly the cock uttered a sound."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "75", "text": "And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, having said to him, That before the cock utter a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice. And having gone forth without, he wept bitterly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And having been morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to kill him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "And having bound they brought him away, and they delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the leader. Judas Hangs Himself ( Zechariah 11:10–17 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And the chief priests, having taken the silver coins, said, It is not lawful to cast them for an offering, since it is the price of blood."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And having taken counsel, they purchased with them the potter's field, for the interment to strangers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, that field was called, The field of blood, even to this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "Then was completed that having been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of him prized, whom they from the sons of Israel prized;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me. Jesus before Pilate ( Luke 23:1–5 ; John 18:28–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus stood before the leader: and the leader asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, Thou sayest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And in the accusing him by the chief priests and the more ancient, he answered nothing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "Then says Pilate to him, Hearest thou not what they witness against thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "And he answered him not to one word: so that the leader wondered greatly. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Mark 15:6–11 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And in the festival the leader was accustomed to loose one imprisoned to the crowd, which they desired."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "And they had then an imprisoned distinguished, called Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore they assembled together, Pilate laid to them, Whom will ye I shall loose to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, called Christ?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "For he knew that through envy, they had delivered him, up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "And he sitting upon the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Nothing to thee and that just one: for I have suffered this day many things in a dream, on his account."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "And the leader having answered, said to them, Which of the two will ye I shall loose to you? And they said, Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, called Christ? They all say to him, Let him be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "And the leader said, For what evil hath he done? and they cried excessively, saying, Let him be crucified. Pilate Washes His Hands ( Mark 15:12–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "And all the people having answered, said, His blood upon us, and upon our children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "Then he loosed to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up, that, he might be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Isaiah 50:4–11 ; Mark 15:16–20 ; Luke 22:63–65 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "And having unclothed him, they put round him a scarlet, loose, warm cloak."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "And having twined a crown of thorns, they put upon, his head: and a reed upon his right hand: and having fallen upon the knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "And having spit upon him, they took the reed, and struck upon his head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "And when they mocked him, they put off from him the loose, warm cloak, and put on him his garments, and brought him away to crucify. The Crucifixion ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "And coming, they found a man, a Cyrenian, Simon by name; they compelled him that he should lift up his cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "And having come, to the place called Golgotha, which is called the place of the skull,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "They gave him vinegar to drink. (mingled with bile: and having tasted, he would not drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And having crucified him, they divided his garments among them, casting lot: that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up: They divided among them my garments, and upon my clothing they cast lot."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "And sitting down, they observed him there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And they set above his head his accusation, having been written: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "Then were crucified with him two robbers; one from the right hand, and the other from the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And they coming near, blasphemed him, shaking their heads,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "And saying, He loosing the temple, and building in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "Others he saved; himself he cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "He trusted upon God; let him now deliver him, if he desires him: for he said, That I am the Son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "And the robbers crucified with him, reproached him with the same. The Death of Jesus ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "45", "text": "And from the sixth hour, darkness was upon all the earth, even to 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 I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "47", "text": "And some of them standing there, having heard, said, That he calls Elias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "48", "text": "And quickly one of them, having run, and taken a sponge, and filled with vinegar, and put upon a reed, gave him to drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "49", "text": "And the rest said, Let go: we should see if Elias comes, going to save him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus, again having cried with a great voice, let go the spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "51", "text": "And, behold, the covering of the temple was cleft in two, from above to below; and the earth was shaken; and the rocks were cleft:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "52", "text": "And the tombs were opened: and many bodies of the holy ones, having been set to sleep, were raised,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "53", "text": "And having come forth from the tombs, after his arising, went into the holy city, and were exhibited to many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "54", "text": "And the centurion, and they with him, observing Jesus, having seen the shaking, and the things having been, were greatly afraid, saying, Truly this was the Son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "55", "text": "And many women were there, beholding from far off, who followed Jesus out of Galilee, serving him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "56", "text": "Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons. The Burial of Jesus ( Isaiah 53:9–12 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "57", "text": "And being evening, then there came a rich man from Arimathea, Joseph by name, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "58", "text": "He having come to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the body to be given back."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "59", "text": "And Joseph having taken the body, inwrapped it in clean fine linen:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "60", "text": "And put it in his new tomb, which he quarried in the rock: and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "61", "text": "And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. The Guards at the Tomb"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "62", "text": "And in the morrow, 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, we remember that that impostor said, yet living, After three days, I arise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "64", "text": "Order therefore, the tomb to be rendered secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, should steal him, and say to the people, He was raised from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "65", "text": "And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: retire, render secure as ye know."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "66", "text": "And they, having gone, rendered the tomb secure, having sealed the stone with the watch."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "And after the sabbaths, in the shining forth to one of the sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the tomb."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, there was a great shaking; for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come near, rolled away the stone from the door, and sat above it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And his aspect was as lightning, and his garment white as snow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "And from fear of him the keepers were shaken, and were as dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "And the messenger, having answered, said to the women, Be ye not afraid; for I know that ye seek Jesus, having been crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here: for he was raised, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "And having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he was raised from the dead; and, behold, he leads before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him: behold I have said to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And they having come quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy, ran to announce to his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "And as they were going to announce to his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, Rejoice ye. And they having come, held his feet firmly, and worshipped him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "Then says Jesus to them, Be ye not afraid: retire, and announce to my brethren that they should go away into Galilee, and there shall they see me. The Report of the Guards"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And they going, behold certain of the watch having come to the city, announced to the chief priests all having been done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And having been gathered together with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave sufficient silver coins to the soldiers,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "Saying, Say ye, That his disciples having come by night, stole him, we being asleep."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "And if this should be beard by the leader, we will persuade him, and we will make you undisturbed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And they having received the silver coins, did as they were taught; and this word was spread a report by the Jews till this day. The Great Commission ( Mark 16:14–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, into a mountain, where Jesus commanded them:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "And having seen him, they worshipped him; and some doubted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus, having come near, spake to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing 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 keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "As it has been written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his beaten paths straight."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And the Judean country, and the Jerusalemites, were going out to him, and all were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And he proclaimed, saying, The stronger than I comes after me, of whom I am not sufficient, having bent the head, to loose the strings of his shoes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I truly immersed you in water: but he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And it was in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed by John in Jordan."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And quickly coming up from the water, he saw the heavens cleft asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And a voice was from the heavens; Thou art my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented. The Temptation and Preaching of Jesus ( Matthew 4:1–17 ; Luke 4:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And directly the Spirit casts him, out into the desert."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And he was there in the desert forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with wild beasts; and messengers were serving him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And saying, That the time has been completed, and the kingdom of God has drawn near: repent ye, and believe in the good news. The First Disciples ( Matthew 4:18–22 ; Luke 5:1–11 ; John 1:35–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a large sweep-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 fishermen of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And quickly having left their nets, they followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And having moved forward a little from thence, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they in the ship adjusting their nets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And quickly he called them: and having left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hirelings; they went after him. Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit ( Luke 4:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they go into Capernaum; and quickly in the sabbaths, having entered into the synagogue, he taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And they were struck with amazement at his teaching; for he was teaching them as having power, and not as the scribes?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And there was in the synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came out of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "And all were amazed, so as to seek out with themselves, saying, What is this? what new teaching this? for with power also he commands the unclean spirits, and they listen to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And a report of him went out quickly in the whole country about Galilee. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Luke 4:38–41 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "And quickly, having come 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 Simon's mother-in-law was laid down, affected with fever: and quickly they speak to him concerning her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And having come, he raised her, having held her hand; and the fever quickly left her, and she served them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And evening having come, when the sun set, they brought to him all being afflicted, and the possessed with a demon."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And the whole city was gathered together at the door."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And be cured many afflicted with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and permitted not the devils to speak, for they knew him. Jesus Prays and Preaches ( Luke 4:42–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And early, having risen far in the night, he went out, and departed into a deserted place, and there prayed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And Simon, and they with him, followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "And having found him, they say to him, That all seek thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And he says to them, We should lead into the next small cities, that I might proclaim there also: for, for this have I come forth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And he was proclaiming in their synagogues in the whole of Galilee, and casting out demons. The Leper’s Prayer ( Leviticus 14:1–32 ; Matthew 8:1–4 ; Luke 5:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And a leprous one came to him, beseeching him, and supplicating him on his knees, and saying to him, That if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "And he having spoken, quickly the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And having threatened him violently, quickly he cast him forth:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "And says to him, See thou say nothing to any one: but retire, shew thyself to the priest, and bring forward for thy cleansing what things Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim many things, and to spread the word a report, so that he could no more openly enter the city, but was without in desert places: and they come to him from every quarter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And again he went into Capernaum after the days; and it was heard that he is in the house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And quickly many were gathered together, so as no more to have room, neither at the door: and he spake the word to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And they come to him, bringing a paralytic, lifted up by four."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And not being able to draw near to him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was and having excavated, they let down his couch upon which the paralytic was laid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins have been remitted to thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And certain of the scribes were sitting there, and discussing in their hearts,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Why does this thus speak blasphemies? who can remit sins but the one God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus quickly having known that they discuss in themselves, says to them, Why discuss ye these things in your hearts."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Why is it easier to say to the paralytic, Sins have been remitted to thee? or to say, Arise, lift up thy couch, and walk?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And that ye might know that the Son of man has power to remit sins upon earth, (he says to the paralytic)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "I say to thee, Arise, and lift up thy couch, and retire to thy house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And he was quickly raised up; and having lifted up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were affected in mind, and praised God, saying, That we never saw it thus. Jesus Calls Levi ( Matthew 9:9–13 ; Luke 5:27–32 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And he went out again by 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, him of Alpheus, sitting by the customhouse, and he says to him, Follow me. And having risen, he followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was in his reclining at table in his house, and many publicans and sinful reclined together with Jesus and his disciples: for they were many, and they followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees having seen him eating with publicans and sinful, said to his disciples, Why does he eat and drink with publicans and sinful?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus having heard, says to them, They being strong have no need of a physician, but those being affected: I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance. Questions about Fasting ( Matthew 9:14–15 ; Luke 5:33–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees were fasting: and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees fast, and the disciples to thee fast not?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the nuptial chamber, in which the bridegroom is with them, fast? as much time as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And the days shall come when the bridegroom should he taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Matthew 9:16–17 ; Luke 5:36–39 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And none sews a piece of uncombed fragment upon an old garment; and lest its new filling up take away from the old, and the splitting be worse."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And none puts new wine in old wine-skins: and lest the new wine rend the wine-skins, and the wine be poured out, and the wine-skins perish; but they put new wine in new wine-skins. The Lord of the Sabbath ( 1 Samuel 21:1–7 ; Matthew 12:1–8 ; Luke 6:1–5 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And it was he passed by through the standing corn in the sabbaths: and his disciples began to make the way, picking out the ears of corn."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they in the sabbaths what is not lawful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And he said to them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and hungered, himself, and those with him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "How he went into the house of God to Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the loaves of setting up, which is not lawful to eat but for priests, and gave to those being with him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said to them, The sabbath was for man, and not man for the sabbath:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And he went again into the synagogue; and a man was there having the hand dried up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And they were observing him narrowly, if in the sabbaths he will heal him; that they might accuse him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And he says to the man having the hand dried up, Rise in the midst."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And he says to them, Is it lawful in the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? to save a soul, or to kill? And they were silent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And having looked round upon them with anger, grieved for the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched out: and his hand was restored whole as the other."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Pharisees having come out, quickly with the Herodians were making counsel against him, that they might destroy him. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Matthew 4:23–25 ; Luke 6:17–19 )"}
{"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 Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard what he did, came to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And he said to his disciples, that a small vessel should remain for him, on account of the crowd, that they might not press him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For he cured many; so as to fall upon him that they might touch him, as many as had plagues."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell before him, and cried, saying, That thou art the Son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And he censured them much, lest they should make him manifest. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Luke 6:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And he goes up to a mountain, and calls whom he would: and they came to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And he made the twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to proclaim,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And have power to cure diseases, and cast out demons:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And he set to Simon the name Peter;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names 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 him of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And Judas Iscariot, who also delivered him up. A House Divided ( Matthew 12:22–30 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And they came into the house; and again came the crowd together, so that they could not even eat bread."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "And they with him, having heard, came forth to take hold of him: for they said, That he is affected in mind."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the scribes, they having come down from Jerusalem, said, That he has Beelzeboul, and that by the ruler of demons he casts out demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And having called them, in parables spake he to them, How can Satan cast out Satan."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And if Satan rise up against himself, and has been divided, he cannot stand, but has an end."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "None can plunder the vessels of the strong, having entered his house, except he first bind the strong; then he will plunder his house. The Unpardonable Sin ( Matthew 12:31–32 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Truly I say to you, That all sins shall be remitted to the sons of men, and defamations whatever they defame:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "And whoever should defame against the Holy Spirit has no remission forever, but he is liable to the penalty of eternal condemnation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "For they said, He has an unclean spirit. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Then came his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, they sent to him, calling him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "And the crowd sat about him, and they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, and my brethren?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "And having looked round upon those sitting round about him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "For whoever should do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And again he began to teach by the sea: and a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that he, having gone into the ship, sat in the sea; and all the crowd was by the sea upon land."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And he taught them in parables many things, and said to them in his teaching,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Hear ye; behold, he sowing went out to sow:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was in sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things of heaven came and ate it down."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And other fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth; and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no deepness of earth:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and because it had no root, it was dried up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell in thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And other fell in good earth, and gave fruit coming up and increasing; and one brought thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he said to them, He having ears to hear, let him hear. The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Isaiah 6:1–13 ; Matthew 13:10–17 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And when he was alone, they about him with the twelve asked him of the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them. The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Matthew 13:18–23 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And he says to them, Know ye not this parable? and how will ye know all parables?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "He sowing sows the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred. The Lesson of the Lamp ( Luke 8:16–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said to them, Much less the light comes that it be set under a bushel, or under a bed; that it be not set upon a candlestick."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For not anything is hid, which should not be manifested; neither was concealed, but that it should come clear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And he said to them, See ye how ye hear: with what measure ye measure, shall be measured to you: and to you hearing, shall be added."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "For whoever should have, to him shall be given: and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him. The Seed Growing Secretly"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Matthew 13:31–32 ; Luke 13:18–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And he said, To what should we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable should we hold it forth?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "As a kernel of mustard, which, when it be sown in the earth, is smaller than all seeds upon the earth:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And when it be sown, it comes up and is greater than all vegetables, and makes great young shoots; so that the flying things of heaven can encamp under its shadow."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And with many such parables spake he the word to them, as they were able to hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "And without a parable spake he not to them: and apart, he solved all to his disciples. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Psalm 107:1–43 ; Matthew 8:23–27 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And he says to them in that day, being evening, Let us go beyond."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And having let the crowd go, they receive him as he was in the ship. And there were also other small vessels with him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And there is a great hurricane of wind, and the waves struck against the ship, so that it was already filled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And having risen, he censured the wind, and said to the sea, Be silent, be constricted. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "And he said to them, Why are ye so timorous? how have ye not faith?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And they feared a great fear, and said to one another, Who is this, that also the wind and sea listen to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And they went beyond the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And to him coming out of the ship, quickly a man met him from the monuments with an unclean spirit,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Who had a dwelling among the monuments; and neither with chains could any one bind him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For he had been bound many times with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and none could tame him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And always, night and day, was he in the mountains, and among the monuments, crying, and mangling himself with stones."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And having cried with a great voice, he said, What to me and thee, Jesus, O Son of God most high I adjure thee by God, that thou torture me not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "For he said to him, Come forth out of the man, thou unclean spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And he asked him, What the name to thee? And he answered, saying, My name, Legion: for we are many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And he besought him much that he would not send them out of the country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And a great herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we might enter into them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And quickly Jesus permitted them. And the evil spirits having come forth, entered into the swine: and the herd rushed through the precipice into the sea, (and they were about two thousand;) and they were choked in the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And those feeding the swine fled, and they announced in the city, and in the fields. And they came forth to see what is it that was done."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And they come to Jesus, and they see him possessed with the demon, sitting down, and being clothed, and of sound mind: and they were afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And they having seen, recounted to them how it was to him possessed with the demon, and concerning the swine."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And they began to beseech him to depart out of their bounds."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And he having gone into the ship, he having been possessed with a demon besought him that he might be with him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus permitted him not; but he says to him, Retire to thy house, to thine own, and announce to them what things the Lord did to thee, and he pitied thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And he went away, and began to proclaim in Decapolis what Jesus did to him: and all were wondering. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Matthew 9:18–26 ; Luke 8:40–56 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus having passed over again in the ship on the other side, a great crowd was gathered together to him: and he was by the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And, behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue comes, Jairus by name; and having seen him, he fell at his feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "And he besought him much, saying, That my little daughter is at the last extremity: that, having come, thou Mightest put the hands upon her, so that she might be saved; and she shall live."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And he went away with him; and a great crowd followed him, and they pressed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And a certain woman, being in a flowing of blood twelve years,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "And having suffered many things by many physicians, and having expended all of her own, and not having been benefited, but having come rather to the worse,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "Having heard concerning Jesus, having come in the crowd behind, she touched his garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "For she said, That if I touch his garment, I shall be saved."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And quickly the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she knew in the body that she is healed from the plague."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus, having quickly known in himself the power having gone out of him, having turned round in the crowd, he said, Who has touched my garments?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And his disciples said to him, Seest thou the crowd pressing thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And he looked round about to see her having done this."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And the woman, afraid and trembling, having known what bad been upon her, came and fell down before him, and spake all the truth to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith has saved thee; retire in peace, and be whole from thy plague."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "He yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue, saying, That thy daughter is dead: why yet dost thou importune the Teacher?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "And Jesus having quickly heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not, only believe."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And he permitted not any to follow him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees an uproar, they weeping and wailing much."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And having time in, he says to them, Why make ye an uproar, and weep? the young child is not dead, but sleeps."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And they laughed at him. And he, having cast them all out, takes the father and mother of the young child, and those with him, and goes where the young child was lying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "And having taken the hand of the young child, he says to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Little girl, I say to thee, arise."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And the little girl arose quickly, and walked; for she was of twelve years. And they were affected in mind with great amazement."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "And he charged them much that none should know this thing; and he spake to give her to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And he came out thence, and came to his native land; and his disciples follow him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And sabbath having come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing were struck with amazement, saying, Whence to this one these things? and what this wisdom given to him, that such powers are done by his hands?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And he could do no power there, except having laid his hands upon a few sick, he cured."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And he wondered for their unbelief. And he went about the towns teaching. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Matthew 10:5–15 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And he calls the twelve, and began to send them, two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no traveling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But bound with sandals; and not clothed with two coats."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And he said to them, Wherever ye come into a house, there remain ye even till ye should come forth thence."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And as many as receive you not, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the heap of dust under your feet for testimony to them. Truly I say to you, It shall be more supportable for the Sodomites or Gomorrhites in the day of judgment, than that city."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And having gone out, they proclaimed that they repent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And they cast out many demons, and anointed many sick with oil, and they were cured. The Beheading of John ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Luke 9:7–9 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And king Herod heard his name; (for it was manifest:) and said, That John the Immerser was raised from the dead, and for this the powers were energetic in him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Others amid, That he is Elias. And others said, That he is a prophet, or as one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And Herod, having heard, said, That John whom I beheaded, this is he; he was raised from the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "For this Herod, having sent, took John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: for he married her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herodias had a grudge against him, and desired to kill him; and could not:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For Herod feared John, knowing him a just and holy man, and he observed him: and having heard him, did many things, and heard him cheerfully."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "And he swore to her, That whatever thou shouldest ask, I will give thee, even to half my kingdom."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "And she having come out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Immerser."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And having come quickly with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I wish that thou wouldest give me by itself, upon a board, the head of John the Immerser."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "And the king having been sorely grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining at table together, wished not to refuse her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "And quickly the king, having sent a scout, commanded his head to be brought:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And he having departed, beheaded him in prison, and brought his head upon a board, and gave it to the little girl: and the little girl gave it to her mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "And his disciples, having heard, came and took up his corpse, and put it in a tomb. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Matthew 14:13–21 ; Luke 9:10–17 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "And the sent are gathered to Jesus, and announced to him all things, whatever they did, and whatever they taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little: for many were coming and returning, and neither had they leisure to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "And they departed to a desert place by ship apart."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "And the crowds saw them retiring, and many knew him, and they were running there on foot from all cities, and came before them, and came together to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus, having come out, saw a great crowd, and felt compassion for them, for they were as sheep having not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "And having been already much time, his disciples, having come to him, say, This is a desert place, and already the time much:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "Loose them, that having departed to the fields and towns round about, they might buy to themselves loaves: for they have nothing they might eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "And having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Having gone, should we buy loaves of two hundred drachmas, and give them to eat?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? retire and see. And having known, they say, Five, and two fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And he commanded them all to recline a drinking together, drinking together upon the green grass."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "And the borders, the borders reclined, by one hundred, and by fifty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, he praised, and he brake the loaves, and gave to his disciples that they might set before them; and the two fishes he divided to all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "And they all ate, and were satisfied."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "And they eating the loaves were about five thousand men. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; John 6:16–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "And quickly he constrained his disciples to go to the ship, and to lead before to the other side of Bethsaida, till he loose the crowd:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "And having dismissed them, he went away to the mount to pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "And evening having come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone upon land."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "And he saw them trying to urge forward, for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking upon the sea, and he would pass by them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "And having seen him walking upon the sea, they thought it was an apparition, and cried out:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "For all saw him, and were troubled. And quickly he spake with them, and says to them, Take courage: I am; be not afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "And he went up to them to the ship; and the wind ceased, and they were greatly affected in mind above measure and wondered."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "For they understood not the loaves; for their heart was hardened. Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Matthew 14:34–36 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret, and put into a harbor."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "And they having come out of the ship, quickly having known him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "Running round about that whole country, began to bring the afflicted upon couches, where they heard that he is there."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "And wherever he went, in towns, or cities; or fields, they set the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might even touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were saved."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Pharisees are gathered together to him, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And from the market-place, except they be immersed, they eat not. And there are many other things which they received to hold; the immersion of cups, and of measures, and of brazen vases, and of chairs.)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For having left the command of God, ye hold firmly to the tradition of men, the immersion of measures and cups: and many other such like things ye do."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And he said to them, Well do ye abrogate the command of God, that ye might keep your tradition."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And ye permit him to do nothing more for his father or his mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. What Defiles a Man ( Matthew 15:10–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "If any have ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And when he came into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him of the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man. The Faith of the Gentile Woman ( Matthew 15:21–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And arising from thence, he departed into the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, and having come into the house, he would have none know; and he could not be hid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "For a woman having heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And the woman was a Grecian, a Syrophenician by birth; and she entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord: for also the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said to her, For this word retire; the demon has gone out of thy daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And having departed to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter cast upon the bed. The Deaf and Mute Man ( Matthew 9:27–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And again, having gone out from the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "And they bring to him a deaf one, tongue-tied; and they beseech him that he would put the hand upon him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers in his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "And having looked up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, which is, Be opened."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And quickly his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake rightly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And he charged them that they should say to none: and as much as he charged them, they proclaimed more abundantly;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And above measure were they struck with amazement, saying, Well has he done all things: he makes the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "In those days the crowd being very many, and having nothing they might eat, Jesus having called his disciples, says to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain three days with me, and have nothing they might eat:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And if I loose them fasting to their house, they will be relaxed in the way: for some of them have come from far."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And his disciples answered him, Whence might anyone be able to satisfy these with loaves here in the lonely place?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And he enjoined to the crowd to recline upon the earth: and having taken the seven loaves, having returned thanks, he brake, and he gave to his disciples that they might set before; and they set before the crowd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And they had a few little fishes: and having praised, he spake to set them also before."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And they ate, and were satisfied: and they took up the remains of the fragments, seven wicker baskets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And they eating were about four thousand: and he loosed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And quickly having gone into the ship with his disciples, he came into the parts of Dalmanutha. The Demand for a Sign ( Matthew 16:1–4 ; Luke 12:54–56 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Pharisees came out, and began to search out with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And having sighed deeply in spirit, he says, Why seeks this generation for a sign Verily I say to you, shall a sign be given to this generation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And having let them go, having gone again into the ship, he departed beyond. The Leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod ( Matthew 16:5–12 ; Luke 12:1–3 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And they forgot to take loaves, and had not but one loaf with them in the ship."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And he enjoined them, saying, See ye, look away from the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And they reasoned with one another, saying, Because we have no loaves."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus having known, says to them, Why reason ye with yourselves, because ye have no loaves? observe ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and remember ye not?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "When I brake the five loaves to five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And when the seven to four thousand, the fillings of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said to them, How do ye not understand. The Blind Man at Bethsaida"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring to him one blind, and beseech him that he would touch him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And having taken the hand of the blind, he led him forth without the town; and having spit into his eyes, having put hands upon him, he asked him if he saw any thing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And having looked up, he said, I see men that I see as trees, walking."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "Then again he put hands upon his eyes, and made him look up; and he was restored, and he saw all clearly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And he sent him to his house, saying, Thou shouldest not either enter into the town, neither, say to any in the town. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Luke 9:18–20 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus went out, and his disciples, to the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples in the way, saying to them, Whom do men say me to be?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And they answered, John the Immerser: and some, Elias; and others, One of the prophets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And he says to them, And whom do ye say me to be? And Peter, having answered, says to him, Thou art Christ."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And he rebuked them, that they should say to none concerning him. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Matthew 16:21–23 ; Luke 9:21–22 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be disapproved of by the elders, and the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And he spake the word with frankness. And Peter having taken him, began to rebuke him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And he having turned back, and having seen his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Retire behind me, Satan: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men. Take Up Your Cross ( Matthew 16:24–28 ; Luke 9:23–27 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "Or what shall a man give for the exchange of his soul?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; also the Son of man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the glory of the Father with the holy messengers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That some of those are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God having come in power."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and John, and brings them up into a high mountain apart alone: and he was transformed before them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And his garments were shining, exceeding white, such as no fuller on earth can make white."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And Elias was seen to them, with Moses: and they were speaking together with Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And Peter having answered, says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "For he knew not what he said; for they were terrified."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And a cloud was overshadowing them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son: hear ye him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And suddenly, having looked around, they no more saw any one, but Jesus alone with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And they coming down from the mount, he charged them that they recount to none what they saw, except when the Son of man should arise from the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they held the word firmly to themselves, searching out together what it is to arise from the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And having asked him, saying, That the scribes say that Elias must first come."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, Elias truly having first come, restores all things; and how it has been written of the Son of man, that he suffer many things; and be set at nought."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "But I say to you, that Elias also has come, and they did to him whatever they would, as it has been written of him. The Boy with an Evil Spirit ( Matthew 17:14–18 ; Luke 9:37–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And having come to the disciples, he saw a great crowd about them, and the scribes seeking out with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And immediately all the crowd; having seen him, were amazed, and running near greeted him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And he asked the scribes, What seek ye together with them?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And one from the crowd having answered, said, Teacher, I have brought my son to thee, having a speechless spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And wherever he overtakes him, he rends him: and he foams, and gnashes his teeth, and he is dried up: and I spake to thy disciples that they might cast him out; and they could not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And he having answered, says to him, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And they brought him to him: and having seen him, quickly the spirit rent him; and having fallen upon the earth, foaming he rolled himself about."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And he asked his father, How long is it that this has been to him? And he said, From childhood."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou canst anything, help us, having had compassion upon us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus said to him, If thou canst believe, all things possible to him believing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "And quickly the child's father having cried out with tears, said, I believe, O Lord, help thou mine unbelief."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus, having seen that the crowd ran together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Speechless and deaf spirit, I command thee to come out of him, and that thou come no more into him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And having cried and rent him much, it came forth, and he was as dead; so that many said, That he is dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus having held him by the hand, raised him; and he stood up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And he having come into the house, his disciples asked him apart, Wherefore were we not able to cast him forth?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said to them, This kind can go, out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 17:22–23 ; Luke 9:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And having come out thence they passed through Galilee; and he desired not that any one should know."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "For he taught his disciples, and said to them, That the Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, he shall raise himself the third day."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And they knew not the word, and were afraid to ask him. The Greatest in the Kingdom ( Matthew 18:1–5 ; Luke 9:46–50 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What reasoned ye to yourselves in the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And they were silent; for they discussed to one another in the way, who the greatest."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And having sat down, he called the twelve, and says to them, If any wish to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And having taken a young child, he set him in the midst of them: and having taken it up in his arms, he said to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Whoever should receive ones of such young children in my name, receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives not me, but him sending me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name, who follows not us: and we checked him, for he follows not us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Jesus said, Check him not: for there is no one who shall do power in my name, and shall be able quickly to revile 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 should give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are of Christ, verily I say to you, he should not lose his reward. Temptations and Trespasses ( Matthew 18:6–9 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And whoever should scandalize one of these little ones believing in me, it is good for him rather if a millstone is put about his neck, and he be cast into the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into inextinguishable fire:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "And if thine eye offend thee, cast it out: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to come into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. Good Salt ( Matthew 5:13–16 ; Luke 14:34–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And having risen from thence, he comes into the bounds of Judea, through the other side of Jordan: and crowds came together again to him; and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees having come near, asked him, if it is lawful for a man to loose his wife; tempting him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And he, having answered, said to them, What did Moses command you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to them, For your hard heart he wrote you this command."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And from the beginning of creation God made them male and female."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And again in the house, his disciples asked him of the same."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he says to them, Whoever should loose his wife, and should marry another, commits adultery against her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And if a woman should loose her husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Matthew 19:13–15 ; Luke 18:15–17 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples rebuked those bringing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child, should not come into it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And having taken them up in his arms, having put the hands upon them, he praised them. The Rich Young Man ( Matthew 19:16–30 ; Luke 18:18–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And he going in the way, one running and having fallen upon his knees, asked him, Good teacher, What shall I do that I might inherit eternal life."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Why sayest thou me good? none good, except the one God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Thou knowest the commands: Thou shouldst not commit adultery; Thou shouldst not kill; Thou shouldst not steal; Thou shouldst not bear false testimony; Thou shouldst not defraud; Honour thy father and mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And he, having answered, said to him, O teacher, all these have I watched from my youth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus having looked upon him, loved him, and said to him, One thing is wanting to thee retire; whatever thou hast, sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, having taken up the cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And he, being sad at the word, went away being grieved: for he had many possessions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus having looked round, said to his disciples, With what difficulty shall they having property enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And his disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again having answered, says to them, How difficult, children, is it for those trusting in property to enter into the kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were struck with amazement, excessively, saying to themselves, And who can be saved."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus having beheld them says, With men impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter began to say to him, Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And many first shall be last; and the last first. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 20:17–19 ; Luke 18:31–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was leading before them; and they were amazed; and following, they were afraid. And again taking the twelve, he began to say to them the things about to happen to him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "For, behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and scribes; and they shall condemn him to death: and shall deliver him to the nations:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall be raised up. The Request of James and John ( Matthew 20:20–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying, Teacher, we wish that whatever we should ask, thou wouldst do for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "And he said to them, What wish you me to do for you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And they said to him, Give us that we might sit, one from thy right hand, and one front thy left, in thy glory."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I drink? and the immersion with which I am immersed to be immersed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Truly the cup which I drink shall ye drink; and the immersion with which I am immersed, shall ye be immersed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And to sit from my right hand, and from 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, began to feel pain about James and John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus having called them, says to them, Ye know that they thinking to be first of the nations rule over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "And it shall not be so among you: but whoever should wish to be great among you, shall be your attendant:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "And whoever of you should wish to be the first, he shall be the servant of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "For also the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many. Jesus Heals Bartimaeus ( Matthew 20:29–34 ; Luke 18:35–43 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "And they come into Jericho: and he going out from Jericho, and his disciples, and a sufficient crowd, Bartimeus the blind, son of Timaeus, sat by the way asking alms."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "And having heard that it is Jesus the Nazarite, he began to cry, and to say, Son of David, O Jesus, compassionate me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And many were rebuking him, that he should be silent: and he cried much more, Son of David, compassionate me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "49", "text": "And Jesus having stood, spake for him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Take courage, arise; he calls thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "50", "text": "And he, having cast away his garment, having risen, came to Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "51", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to him, What wishest thou I should do to thee? And the blind said to him, Rabboni, that I might see again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Retire; thy faith has saved thee. And quickly he looked up, and followed Jesus in the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And says to them, Retire into the town over against you: and quickly going into it, ye shall find a colt tied, upon which none of men has sat; having loosed, bring him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And if any say to you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord has need of him; and quickly will he send him here."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And they went away, and found the colt tied to the door without by the road, and they loose him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And certain standing there said to them, What do ye, loosing the colt?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And they said as Jesus charged them: and they let them go."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And they brought the colt to Jesus, and they cast their garments upon him, and he sat upon him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And many strewed their garments in the way: and others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed in the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And they going before, and they following, cried, saying, Osanna; praised he coming in the name of the Lord:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Praised the kingdom coming in the name of the Lord of our father David: Osanna in the highest ones."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus came into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and having looked around upon all things, the hour being already coming, he went into Bethany with the twelve. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree ( Matthew 21:18–22 ; Mark 11:20–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And in the morrow, they having come from Bethany, he hungered:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And having seen a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if yet he shall find any thing upon it; and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves; for it was not time of the figs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to it, May none eat more fruit of thee forever. And his disciples heard. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Luke 19:45–48 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus having entered into the temple, began to cast out those selling and buying in the temple; and the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those selling doves he overturned;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And he permitted not that any should bring a vessel through the temple."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And he taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, That my house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations? and ye made it a den of robbers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the scribes and chief priests heard, and they sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the crowd were struck with amazement at his teaching."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And when it was evening, he went without the city. The Withered Fig Tree ( Matthew 21:18–22 ; Mark 11:12–14 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And in the morning, coming near, they saw the fig tree having been dried up from the roots."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And Peter, having recalled to mind, says to him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is dried up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having answered, says to them, Have the faith of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "For truly I say to you, That whoever should say to this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and should not discuss in his heart, but believe that what he says, is; it shall be to him, whatever he should say."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "For this I say to you, All things whatever, praying, ye ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one: that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And if ye do not let go, neither will your Father, he in the heavens, let go your falls. Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Matthew 21:23–27 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And they come again to Jerusalem: and he walking in the temple, the chief priests, and scribes, and elders come to him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And say to him, By what power doest thou these things? and who gave thee this power that thou doest these things?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, And I will ask you one word, and answer ye me, and I will tell you by what power I do these things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Was the immersion of John from heaven, or from men? answer me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Wherefore did ye not believe him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "But if we say, of men; they feared the people: for all held John, that he was truly a prophet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "And having answered they say to Jesus, We know not. And Jesus having answered, says to them, Neither say I to you by what power I do these things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in time, that he might receive of the husbandmen from the fruit of the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And they, taking him, stripped, and sent away empty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "Yet therefore having one dearly beloved son, and him he sent last to them, saying, That they will be changed by my son."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And these husbandmen said with themselves, That this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And they having taken him, killed, and cast out of the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And have ye not read this writing; The stone which the builders disapproved of, this was for the head of the corner:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "This was of the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And they sought to seize him, and they feared the crowd: for they knew that he spake this parable against them: and having let him go they went away. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And they having come, say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and thou carest not for any one: for thou lookest not to the face of men, but in truth thou teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or no?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Should we give, or not give? And he knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a drachma that I might see it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And they brought. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, Give back Caesar's things to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they wondered at him. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Matthew 22:23–33 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And the Sadducees come to him, who say there is no rising up; and they asked him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That if any one's brother die, and leave his wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "There were seven brethren: 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, and neither left he seed: and the third likewise."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the seven took her, and left no seed: and the woman died last of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore in the rising up, when they should rise, to which of them shall the woman be? for the seven had her a wife."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, For this do ye not go astray, not knowing the writings, nor the power of God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "For when they arise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers which in the heavens."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And concerning the dead that they are raised: have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the bramble, how God spake to him, I the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "He is not God of the dead, but God of the living; ye therefore go astray greatly. The Greatest Commandment ( Deuteronomy 6:1–19 ; Matthew 22:34–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And one of the scribes having come, having heard them seeking out together, knowing that he answered them well, asked him, Which is the first command of all?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus answered him, That the first of all the commands, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength: this the first command."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And the scribe said to him, Well, Teacher, in truth hast thou spoken: for one God is; and there is no other but he:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the whole burnt offerrings, and the sacrifices."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus having seen him that he answered understandingly, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And none dared to ask him any more. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Matthew 22:41–46 ; Luke 20:41–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said, teaching in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my right hand, till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "Therefore David himself calls him Lord; and whence is he his son? And a great crowd heard him willingly. Beware of the Scribes ( Luke 20:45–47 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And first seats in synagogues, and first place at tables in first meals:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment. The Widow’s Offering ( Luke 21:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus having sat over against the royal treasury, saw how the crowds cast money into the treasury: and many rich cast in much."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And he going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see of what country the stones, and of what country the buildings!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? stone upon stone shall not be left which shall not be loosed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And he sitting in the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Say to us, when shall be these things? and what the sign when all these be about to be finished?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus having answered began to say to them, See ye lest any should lead you astray:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "For many shall come in my name, saying, That I am; and they shall lead many astray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For nation shall be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in places, and there shall be famines, and commotions: these the beginnings of anguish. Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "And see ye to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues shall ye be stripped: and shall be set before rulers and kings for my sake, for testimony to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And the good news must first be proclaimed to all nations."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And when delivering up, they bring you, take no care beforehand what ye speak, neither bestow attention: but whatever should be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for not ye are speaking, but the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and kill them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved. The Abomination of Desolation ( Matthew 24:15–25 ; Luke 21:20–24 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And when ye see the abomination of desolation, that spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him reading understand,) then let them in Judea flee to the mountains:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And he upon the house, let him not come down into the house, nor let him come in, to take any thing away out of his house:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And he being in the field, let him not turn back to take up his garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck in those days!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And pray ye that your flight be not of winter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "For those days shall be pressure, such as there has not been from beginning of creation which God created till now, and should not be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And except the Lord shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And if any say to you, Behold, here Christ; or, behold, there; believe ye not:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "For false Christ's and false prophets shall be raised up, and shall give signs and wonders, to deceive, if possible, also the chosen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "But see ye; behold, I have foretold you all things. The Return of the Son of Man ( Matthew 24:26–31 ; Luke 21:25–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "But in those days, after that pressure, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And the stars of heaven shall be falling out, and the powers which in the heavens shall be shaken."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with much power and glory."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And then shall he send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from extremity of earth to extremity of heaven. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Matthew 24:32–35 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And from the fig tree learn ye a parable; When its young shoot be tender, and cause the leaves to grow, ye know that summer is near."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "So also ye, when ye see these things done, ye know that it is near at the door."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Truly I say to you, that this generation should not pass away, till all these things should be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Heaven and earth shall pass away, and my words shall not pass away. Readiness at Any Hour ( Matthew 24:36–51 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "As a man traveling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "And what I say to you, I say to all, Watch ye."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And after two days was the pascha, and the unleavened loaves: and the chief priests and scribes sought how, having taken him by fraud, they might kill."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And they said, Not in the festival, lest there be an uproar of the people. Jesus Anointed at Bethany ( Matthew 26:6–13 ; Luke 7:36–50 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard; and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And there were some displeased in themselves, and saying, For what has been the loss of this perfumed oil?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "For this could have been sold for above three hundred drachmas, and have been given to the poor. And they raged against her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus said, Let her go; why bestow ye weariness upon her? she has wrought a good work upon me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And what she had, she has done: she has undertaken beforehand to perfume my body for the burial."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, also what she has done shall be spoken for a memorial of her. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Matthew 26:14–16 ; Luke 22:3–6 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And having heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely deliver him up. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And in the first day of the unleavened, when they sacrificed the pascha, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou, we, having gone, should prepare that thou eat the pascha."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Retire to the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And wherever he should enter in, say to the lord of the house, That the Teacher says, Where is the room where I might eat the pascha with my disciples?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And he will shew you a great apartment spread, ready: there prepare for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And his disciples went out, and came to the city, and found as he said to them: and they prepared the pascha. The Last Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Luke 22:14–23 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And having been evening, he comes with the twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And they reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, That one of you shall deliver me up, he eating with me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And they began to be grieved, and to say to him one by one, What, not I? and another, What, not I?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And he having answered, said to them, One of the twelve, he dipping with me into the small dish."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "Truly the Son of man retires, as has been written of him: and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it were good for him if that man had not been born."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having taken the cup, having returned thanks, he gave them: and they all drank of it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, being poured out for many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "Truly I say to you, that I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And having sung, they came out to the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Zechariah 13:7–9 ; Matthew 26:31–35 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus says to them, That all ye shall be offended with me in this night: for it has been written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "But after I have risen, I will lead before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And Peter said to him, And if all shall be offended, yet not I."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee, That to day, in this night, surely before the cock has uttered a sound twice, thou shalt deny me thrice."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said more excessively, If I should die with thee, I shall not deny thee. And so likewise they all said. Jesus Prays at Gethsemane ( Matthew 26:36–46 ; Luke 22:39–46 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And they came to a place, the name of which Gethsemane: and he says to his disciples, Sit here, while I shall pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And he takes Peter and James and John with himself, and began to be amazed, and to be dejected."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And he says to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth and prayed that, if it be possible, the hour might pass away from him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? could eat thou not watch one Hour?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "Watch ye and pray, that ye should not come into temptation. Truly the spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "And again having gone away, he prayed; saying the same word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "And having turned back, he found them again sleeping, (for their eyes were loaded,) and they knew not what they might answer him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "41", "text": "And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep the remaining time, and take rest: it is sufficient, the hour has come; behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "42", "text": "Arise, and let us lead; behold, he delivering me up has drawn near. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Matthew 26:47–56 ; Luke 22:47–53 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "43", "text": "And quickly, he yet speaking, Judas approaches, being one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and scribes and the more ancient."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "44", "text": "And he delivering him up gave them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, this is he; seize him, and lead away safely."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "45", "text": "And having come, quickly having approached him, he says, Rabbi, rabbi; and kissed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "46", "text": "And they put their hands on him, and seized him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "47", "text": "And a certain one of them standing by, having drawn a sword, struck the chief priest's servant, and took away his ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "48", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, As against a robber come ye out, with swords and sticks to take me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "49", "text": "Daily was I with you in the temple teaching, and ye seized me not: but that the writings might be completed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "50", "text": "And having left him, they all fled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "51", "text": "And one certain young man followed him, having cast a garment of fine linen over his nakedness; and the young men seized him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "52", "text": "And having left the fine linen garment, he fled from them naked. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Luke 22:66–71 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "53", "text": "And they led Jesus away to the pontificate: and all the chief priests and elders and scribes came with him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "54", "text": "And Peter followed him from far, even to within the court-yard of the chief priest: and he was sitting with the attendants, and warming himself near the light."}
{"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 found not:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "56", "text": "For many testified falsely against him, and the testimonies were not alike."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "57", "text": "And certain having risen up testified falsely against him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "58", "text": "That we heard him saying, That I will abolish this temple made with hands, and in three days will I build another, made without hands."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "59", "text": "And neither so was their testimony alike."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "60", "text": "And the chief priest having risen up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what these testify against thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "61", "text": "And he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asks him, and says to him, Art thou Christ, Son of the Praised."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting from the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "63", "text": "And the chief priest, having rent his tunic, says, What further need have we of witnesses."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "64", "text": "Ye have heard the blasphemy; How does it appear to you? And they all condemned him to be liable to the penalty of death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "65", "text": "And certain began to spit upon him, and to cover his face, and to cuff him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the attendants struck him blows with rods. Peter Denies Jesus ( Matthew 26:69–75 ; Luke 22:54–62 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "66", "text": "And Peter being in the hall how, one of the chief priest's young girls comes:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "67", "text": "And seeing Peter warming himself, having looked upon him, she says, And thou wast with Jesus the Nazarene."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "68", "text": "And he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand what thou sayest. And he went forth without into the vestibule; and the cock uttered a sound."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "69", "text": "And the young girl seeing him again, began to say to, them standing by, That this is of them: and again he denied."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "70", "text": "And after a little, again they standing by said to Peter, Truly thou art of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech is like."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "71", "text": "And he began to anathematize and swear, That I know not this man of whom ye speak."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "72", "text": "And of the second time the cock uttered a sound. And Peter remembered the word which Jesus spake to him, That before the cock utter a sound twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And throwing blame, he wept."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And quickly the chief priests having made counsel with the more ancient and scribes and the whole council, having bound Jesus, led away, and delivered to Pilate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And having answered, he said to him, Thou sayest."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And the chief priests accused him much."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate again asked him, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how much they accuse thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate wondered. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And at the festival he loosed to them one in bonds, whomsoever they asked."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was he called Barabbas, bound with those exciting sedition, who did murder in the revolt."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And the crowd having cried, began to ask as he did always to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye I loose to you the King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "For he knew that through envy the chief priests had delivered him up:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "And the chief priests moved the crowd, that he would rather loose Barabbas to them. Pilate Delivers Up Jesus ( Matthew 27:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And Pilate having answered, again said to them, What then will ye I should do to him whom ye call King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And again they cried out, Crucify him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And Pilate said to them, But what evil has he done? And they cried out more excessively, Crucify him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And Pilate, willing to satisfy the crowd, loosed to them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, having scourged, that he might be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Isaiah 50:4–11 ; Matthew 27:27–31 ; Luke 22:63–65 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And the soldiers led him away within the hall, which is the Pretorium; and they call together the whole band."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And they clothed him with purple, and put round him, having woven, a thorny crown."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "And they began to greet him, Hail, O King of the Jews."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "And they struck his head with a reed, and they spit upon him, and having placed the knees, they worshipped him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And when they mocked him, they put off the purple from him, and clothed him with his own garments, and led him out that they might crucify him. The Crucifixion ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Matthew 27:32–44 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And they constrain a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, passing by, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might take up his cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And they bring him to the place Golgotha, which is, interpreted, The place of a skull."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And they gave him wine to drink, prepared with myrrh: and he took not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots upon what any should take up."}
{"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 the inscription of his accusation was inscribed above, THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And with him they crucify two robbers; one from the right, and one from the left."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "And the writing was completed, saying, And he was reckoned with the lawless."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And they going by blasphemed him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ah, thou loosing the temple, and building in three days,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Save thyself, and come down from the cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And likewise also the chief priests, mocking to one another with the scribes, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "Let Christ, King of Israel, come down from the cross, that we might see and believe. And they crucified with him reproached him. The Death of Jesus ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Matthew 27:45–56 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And being the sixth hour, darkness was upon the whole earth till the ninth hour."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, for what hast thou forsaken me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And some of them standing by, having heard, said, Behold, he calls Elias."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And one running and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put round a reed, gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see if Elias will come to take him down."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Jesus having let go a great voice, expired."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And the veil of the temple was split in two from above to below."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And the centurion, standing over against him, having seen that having so cried out he expired, said, Truly this man was the Son- of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And women also were beholding from far: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James the small and the mother of Joses, and Salome;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "(And they, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him;) and many other women, having come up with him to Jerusalem. The Burial of Jesus ( Isaiah 53:9–12 ; Matthew 27:57–61 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "And being already evening, for it was the preparation, which is before sabbath,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "Joseph came from Arimathea, a distinguished counsellor, who also himself was expecting the kingdom of God, having ventured, 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 dead: and having called the centurion, he asked him if he had been dead long ago."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "And having known from the centurion, he bestowed the body to Joseph."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "And having bought fine linen, and taken him down, he rolled in fine linen, and placed him in a tomb, which was quarried out of a rock, and he rolled a stone at the door of the tomb."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "And Mary Magdalene and Mari of Joses were beholding where he is laid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And the sabbath having intervened, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they might anoint him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And very early in the morning of one of the sabbaths, they came to the tomb, the sun having risen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And they said to themselves, Who shall roll away for us the stone from the door of the tomb?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And having looked up, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And having come to the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, being encompassed with a white robe; and they were terrified."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And he says to them, Be not terrified: Ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, being crucified: he was raised; he is not here: see the place where they laid him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But retire ye; say to his disciples and to Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having come forth quickly, they fled from the tomb; and terror and amazement held them: and they said nothing to any; for they were afraid. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( John 20:10–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And having risen early the first of the sabbath, he was manifested first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast seven demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "She having gone announced to them having been with him, grieving and weeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And they having heard that he lives, and was seen by her, believed not. Jesus Appears to Two Disciples ( Luke 24:13–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And after these things, to two of them, walking about, was he manifested in another form, they going into the field."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And they having come announced to the rest: neither did they believe them. The Great Commission ( Matthew 28:16–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Afterwards to those reclining at table was he manifested, and he reproached their unbelief and hard heart, because they believed not them having seen him raised."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And these signs shall follow those having believed; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well. The Ascension ( Luke 24:50–53 ; Acts 1:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "Truly therefore the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into the heavens, and sat on the right hand of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And they, having gone forth, proclaimed every where, the Lord performing together, and confirming the word by signs following. Amen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed. Gabriel Foretells John’s Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And no child was to them, as Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And it was in his being priest, in the arranging of the daily order before God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "According to the custom of the priesthood, he drew lots to burn incense, having entered into the temple of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And all the multitude of people were praying without at the hour of incense."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And a messenger of the Lord was seen to him, standing from the right of the altar of fumigation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And Zacharias having seen, was troubled, and fear fell upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And the messenger said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy supplication has been heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And joy shall be to thee, and gladness: and many shall rejoice at his birth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And many of the sons of Israel shall he turn back to the Lord their God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And Zacharias said to the messenger, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in her days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "The messenger having answered, said to him, I am Gabriel, standing before God; and was sent to speak to thee, and announce these good news to thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And, behold, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall be, because thou didst not believe my words, which shall be completed in their time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And the people were expecting Zacharias, and wondered at his tarrying in the temple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And having come out, he could not speak to them: and they knew that he had seen a vision in the temple: and he was nodding to them, and remained dumb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And it was when the days of his service were filled, he departed to his house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And after these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and concealed herself five months, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "That so has the Lord done to me in days which he looked upon, to take away my reproach among men. Gabriel Foretells Jesus’ Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And in the sixth month the messenger Gabriel was sent by God into a city of Galilee, to which the name Nazareth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "To a virgin betrothed to a man to whom the name of Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name Mary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And the messenger, having come in to her said, Hail, thou made acceptable; the Lord with thee: praised thou among women."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "And having seen him, she was troubled at his words, and turned in her thoughts of what country this greeting might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And the messenger said to her, Fear not, Mary: thou hast found grace with God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "He shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And Mary said to the messenger, How shall this be, since I know not man?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And the messenger having answered, said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing born of thee shall be called the Son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And, behold, Elizabeth thy kinsman, she also having conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month to her, called barren."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "For nothing shall be impossible with God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And Mary said Behold the servant of the Lord; may it be to me according to thy word. And the messenger departed from her. Mary Visits Elizabeth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And Mary having risen in those days, went into the mountainous country with haste, into a city of Judah;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And she entered into the house of Zacharias, and greeted Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And it was when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe 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 voice, and said, Praised thou among women, and praised the fruit of thy womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And whence this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "For, behold, when the voice of thy greeting was in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And happy she having believed: for a completion of the things spoken shall be to her from the Lord. Mary’s Song ( 1 Samuel 2:1–11 )"}
{"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 rejoiced in God my Saviour."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "For he looked upon the humiliation of his servant; for, behold, from now shall all generations deem me happy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "For the powerful one has done great things for me; and his name holy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "And his mercy to generations of generations to those fearing him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "52", "text": "He has pulled down the powerful from thrones, and lifted up the."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "53", "text": "He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he sent away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "54", "text": "He succored Israel his servant, remembering mercy;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "55", "text": "As he spake to our fathers, to Abram, and his seed forever."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "56", "text": "And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house. The Birth of John the Baptist"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "57", "text": "And the time was completed to Elizabeth, for her to bring forth; and she brought forth a son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "58", "text": "And they dwelling near and her kinsmen heard, for the Lord magnified his mercy with her; and they rejoiced with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "59", "text": "And it was in the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him by the name of his father Zacharias."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "60", "text": "And his mother, having answered said, Nay; but he shall be called John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "61", "text": "And they said to her, That there is none among thy kindred who is called by this name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "62", "text": "And they nodded to his father, what he may wish to have him called."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "63", "text": "And having asked for a small writing tablet, he wrote, saying, John is his name. And they all wondered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "64", "text": "And his month was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake, praising God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "65", "text": "And fear was upon all dwelling round about them: and in all the mount of Judea all these words were discoursed about."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "66", "text": "And all having heard, set in their heart, saying, What then shall this child be! And the hand of the Lord was with him. Zechariah’s Song"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "67", "text": "And Zacharias his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "68", "text": "Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "69", "text": "And he raised up a horn of salvation to us in the house of David, his servant;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "70", "text": "As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, from forever:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "71", "text": "Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all hating us;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "72", "text": "To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "73", "text": "The oath which he sware to Abraham our father,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "74", "text": "To give to us, fearlessly, delivered from the hands of our enemies,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "75", "text": "To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "76", "text": "And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "77", "text": "To give knowledge of salvation to his people, in remission of their sins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "78", "text": "Through the bowels of mercy of our God; by which the rising of the sun of sublimity has reviewed us,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "79", "text": "To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "80", "text": "And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing forth to Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "(This enrolling was first, Cyrenius being leader of Syria.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And all went to be enrolled, each in his own city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (for he was of the house and family of David:)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "To be enrolled with Mary his betrothed wife, being pregnant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And it was in their being there, the days were completed for her to bring forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a manger; for there was no place for them in the inn. The Shepherds and the Angels"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And shepherds were in the country, sleeping in the fields, and watching over their flock the watches of the night."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And, behold, a messenger of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them: and they fear a great fear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And the messenger said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I announce you good news, great joy, which shall be to all people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For this day a Saviour was born to you, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And this the sign to you; ye shall find the babe swathed, lying in a manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And suddenly was there a multitude with the messenger of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Glory to God in the highest ones, and upon earth peace, benevolence in men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was when the messenger departed from them into heaven, and the men, the shepherds, said to one another, Let us pass through now to Bethlehem, and see this word done, which the Lord made known to us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And having hastened, they came and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And having seen, they made known concerning the word spoken to them about the child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And all having heard wondered at the things spoken to them by the shepherds."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Mary kept together all these sayings, reflecting in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And the shepherds returned, honouring and praising God for all which they heard and saw, as was spoken to them. Jesus Presented at the Temple"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And when eight days were completed for circumcising the child and his name was called JESUS, called by the messenger before he was conceived in the womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And when the days of her cleansing were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present to the Lord;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "(As has been written in the law of the Lord, That every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And to give a sacrifice according to that said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two of the young of pigeons. The Prophecy of Simeon"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And it was intimated to him by the Holy Spirit, not to see death, before he should see the Christ of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he came in the Spirit to the temple: and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for them to do according to the custom of the law for him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And he took him into his arms, and praised God, and said:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "A light for the revelation of the nations, and the glory of thy people Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "And Joseph and his mother were wondering at the things spoken of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "And Simeon praised them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, he is laid for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "(And also a spear shall pass through the soul of thyself,) so that the reasonings from many hearts might be revealed. The Prophecy of Anna"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And she having stood at that hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake concerning him to all awaiting redemption in Jerusalem. The Return to Nazareth ( Matthew 2:19–23 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "And when they finished all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their city, Nazareth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. The Boy Jesus at the Temple"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "And his parents went every year to Jerusalem to the festival of the passover."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "And when he was of twelve years, they having gone up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "And having completed the days, in their returning the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "And they, having supposed him to be in the caravan, came the way of a day, and sought him among kinsmen and among acquaintances."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "And not having found him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "And it was after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of teachers, and hearing them, and inquiring of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "And all hearing him were affected in mind at his understanding and answers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "48", "text": "And having seen him, they were struck with awe: and his mother said to him, Child, why didst thou so to us? behold, thy father and I, grieving, have sought thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "49", "text": "And he said to them, For what have ye sought me? knew ye not that among the things of my Father I must be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "50", "text": "And they understood not the word which he spake to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "51", "text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was placed under them: and his mother kept all these words in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age, and in grace with God and man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Know in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of God was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And he came into all the country round about Jordan, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for remission of sins;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "As it has been written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his footpaths straight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mount and hill shall be lowered; and the crooked shall be into straightness, and the rough into smooth ways."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said he to the crowds coming out to be immersed by him, Generation of vipers, who indicated to you to flee from the anger about to come?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say in yourselves, We have a father Abraham: for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And the crowds asked him, saying, What therefore shall we do?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And he having answered, says to them, He having two coats, let him impart to him having none; and he having food, let him do likewise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And publicans came to be immersed, and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And he said to them, Do nothing more than that appointed you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And they making war asked him, saying, And what shall do? And he said to them, Shake none violently, neither make slanderous accusation; and be content with your pay."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And the people awaiting, and all reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he may not be the Christ;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "John answered to all, saying, I truly immerse you with water; and he stronger than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to loose his shoes' strings: he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit and fire:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Whose winnowing fan in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into his store; and the chaff he will burn down with inextinguishable fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And then truly many other things beseeching, he evangelized the people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod did,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And he added this to all, and shut up John in prison. The Baptism of Jesus ( Matthew 3:13–17 ; Mark 1:9–11 ; John 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "And it was in all the people having been immersed, and Jesus having been immersed, and praying, heaven was opened,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son; in thee I was contented. The Genealogy of Jesus ( Ruth 4:18–22 ; Matthew 1:1–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus himself was beginning about thirty years, being, as was thought, the son of Joseph, of Eli,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naum, of Esli, of Naggai,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "Of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "Of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zorobabel, of Salathiel, of Neri,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "Of Jose, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "Of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, of Jonan, of Eliakim,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Of Melea, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "Of Jesse, of Obed, of Booz, of Salmon, of Naasson,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "Of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "Of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Thara, of Nachor,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "Of Saruch, of Ragau, of Phalec, of Eber, of Sala,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "Of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem, of Noe, of Lamech,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "37", "text": "Of Mathusala, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, 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, turned back from Jordan, and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, say thou to this stone that it might be bread."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus answered to him saying, It has been written, That not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And the devil, bringing him into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable globe in an instant of time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for to me has it been delivered; and to whom I will I give it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore if thou worship before me, all shall be thine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And having answered him Jesus said, Retire behind me, Satan: for it has been written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him upon the small wing of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God; cast thyself down from hence:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For it has been written, That he shall charge his messengers concerning thee, to watch over thee:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And upon hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou shouldest strike thy foot against a stone."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus having answered said to him, That it has been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having ended all the trial, the devil departed from him for a time. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Isaiah 9:1–7 ; Matthew 4:12–17 ; Mark 1:14–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a rumor went out concerning him through the whole country round about."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And he taught in their assemblies, being honoured of all. The Rejection at Nazareth ( Isaiah 61:1–11 ; Matthew 13:53–58 ; Mark 6:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And the book of Esaias the prophet was given to him. And having unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And having folded the book and given back to the servant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the assembly were looking attentively upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And he began to say to them, That this day has this writing been filled up in your ears."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And he said to them, Directly will ye say to me this proverb, Physician, cure thyself: what things we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And he said; Truly I say to you, That not any prophet is accepted in his country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "And to none of them was Elias sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow woman."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And many leprous were during Eliseus the prophet in Israel; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "And all in the assembly were filled with wrath, hearing these things,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And having risen up, they cast him without the city, and they brought him to the brow of the mount upon which their city was built, to hurt him down."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And he having passed through the midst of them, went away. Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit ( Mark 1:21–28 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and he was teaching them on the sabbaths."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And they were struck with amazement at his teaching: for his word was with power."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And in the assembly was a man having the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Saying, Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus answered him, saying, Be then silent, and come Out of him. And the demon having thrown him into the midst, came out of him, not having injured him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And amazement was upon all, and they spake to one another, saying, What this word with authority and power he commands unclean spirits, and they come out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And a report went forth concerning him into every place of the country round about. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Mark 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And having risen from the assembly, he went into Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was taken with a great fever; and they entreated him for her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And having stood over her, he censured the fever: and it left her: and having risen immediately she served them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "And the sun setting, all as many as had sick ones with various diseases brought them to him; and he having put hands upon each one of them, cured them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And demons came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And answering he suffered them not to speak, for they knew him to be Christ. Jesus Preaches in Judea ( Mark 1:35–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "And it having been day, having gone forth he went into a deserted place: and the crowds sought him, and came to him, and detained him not to go from them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "And he said to them, That also to other cities must I announce the good news, the kingdom of God: because for this have I been sent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "And he was proclaiming in the assemblies of Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was the crowd pressing close upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing near the lake of Gennesaret,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And he saw two ships standing near the lake: and the fishermen having gone out of them, washed the fishing-nets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And having gone into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to sail out a little from land. And having sat down, he taught the crowds out of the ship."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Sail out into the deep, and slacken your nets for fishing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And Simon having answered, said to him, Commander, wearied for the whole night, we took nothing: but at thy word I will slacken the net."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net broke through;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And they nodded to partners, those in the other ship, that having come they should succor them. And they came and filled both ships, so that they were sinking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And Simon Peter fell upon his knees before Jesus, saying, Go out from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "For amazement held him, and all those with him, at the fishing of the fishes which they took:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And likewise also James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now thou shalt be capturing men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And having brought down the ship upon the land, having let go all things, they followed him. The Leper’s Prayer ( Leviticus 14:1–32 ; Matthew 8:1–4 ; Mark 1:40–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And it was in his being in one of the cities, and behold a man full of leprosy: and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon the face, supplicated him, saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And having put forth the hand, he touched him, saying, I will: be thou cleansed. And the leprosy departed from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And he enjoined him to tell none: but having departed, show thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But the more the word passed through concerning him: and many crowds came together to hear, anti to be cured from their weaknesses."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And he was retreating into the deserts, and praying. Jesus Heals a Paralytic ( Matthew 9:1–8 ; Mark 2:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And it was in one of the days, and he was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was for healing them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And, behold, men bringing upon a bed a man who was affected with paralysis; and they sought to bring him, and set before him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And not finding how they might bring him in, for the crowd, having ascended upon the house, they put him down through the tiles, with the small couch, in the midst before Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And having seen their faith, he said to him, Man, thy sins are remitted to thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason with themselves, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can remit sins but God alone?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having known their reflections, having answered, said to them, What do ye reason with yourselves in your hearts?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are remitted to thee; or to say, Arise and walk?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to remit sins, (he said to him affected with paralysis,) I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy conch, go into thy house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And immediately having risen before them, having taken up on what he lay, he went away to his house, honouring God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "And amazement took them all, and they honoured God, and were filled with fear, saying, That we have seen wonderful things to day. Jesus Calls Levi ( Matthew 9:9–13 ; Mark 2:13–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And after these, he went out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting by the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "And having left all, having risen, he followed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house: and there was a great crowd of publicans and others who were sitting down with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Wherefore eat and drink ye with publicans and sinful?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Those being in good health have no need of a physician; but they being ill."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance. Questions about Fasting ( Matthew 9:14–15 ; Mark 2:18–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And they said to him, Wherefore do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make prayers, and likewise they of the Pharisees; and they to thee eat and drink."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And he said to them, Ye cannot make the sons of the nuptial chamber fast, when the bridegroom is with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "But the days will come also, when the bridegroom shall be carried away from them; then shall they fast in those days. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Matthew 9:16–17 ; Mark 2:21–22 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "And he also spake to them a parable; That none put a piece of new garment, upon an old garment; and if not so, the new also splits, and the piece from the new agrees not with the old."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And none put new wine into old wine-skins; and if not so, the new wine bursts the wine-skins, and it will be poured out, and the wine-skins will perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "But new wine cast into new wine-skins; and both are kept."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And none drinking old, quickly desires new, for he says, The old is better."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in the second first sabbath, he went through the standing corn; and his disciples pulled out the ears of corn, and ate, crumbling in small pieces with hands."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do in the sabbaths."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And having answered to them, Jesus said, Have ye not read this, which David did when he hungered, and they being with him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "How he went into the house of God, and took the loaves of the setting before, and ate, and gave also to those with him; which is not lawful to eat, except for priests alone?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. Jesus Heals on the Sabbath ( Matthew 12:9–14 ; Mark 3:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And it was also in another sabbath, he came into the assembly, and taught: and a man was there, and his right hand was withered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees observed him narrowly, if he will heal in the sabbath: that they might find accusation against him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And he knew their reflections, and said to the man having the withered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst. And having risen, he stood."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you; What is lawful in the sabbath; to do good, or to do evil? to save the life, or destroy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And having looked round upon them all, he said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were filled with want of understanding; and they discoursed with one another What they may do to Jesus. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Mark 3:13–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And it was in those days, he went out to the mount to pray, and he was passing the whole night in prayer to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And when it was day, he called to his disciples: and having chosen twelve from them, and he named them, the sent;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Simon, (and he named him Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Matthew and Thomas, James, him of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Judas, of James, and Judas Iscariot, and he was the traitor. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Matthew 4:23–25 ; Mark 3:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come down with them, he stood upon a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the maritime country of Tyre and Sidon, they also came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And those molested with unclean spirits: and they were cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And all the crowd sought to touch him; for there came forth power from him, and healed all. The Beatitudes ( Psalm 1:1–6 ; Matthew 5:3–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "And he having lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Happy the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "Happy are ye, when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reproach, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets. Woes to the Satisfied ( Amos 6:1–7 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "But woe to you rich for ye take away your consolation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Woe to you when all men speak well of you! for according to these did their fathers to the false prophets. Love Your Enemies ( Matthew 5:38–48 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "And to every one asking thee, do thou give; and from him taking away thy things, re-demand not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "And if ye love them loving you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful would love those loving them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "And if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful do the same."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate. Judging Others ( Matthew 7:1–6 ; Romans 14:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "For the learner is not above his teacher: and every one set in order shall be as his teacher."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "Or how Canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out the mote in thine eye, thyself not beholding the beam in thine eye? O hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine own eye, and then shalt thou see through to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye. A Tree and Its Fruit ( Matthew 7:15–23 ; Matthew 12:33–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "For it is not a good tree making decayed fruit; neither a decayed tree making good fruit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak. The House on the Rock ( Matthew 7:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "Every one coming to me, and hearing my words, and doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "And he having heard, and not having done, is like a man having built a house upon the earth, without a foundation; against which the river dashed, and immediately it fell; and the breaking of that house was great."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And when he completed all his words in the ears of the people, he came to Capernaum."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain centurion's servant being sick, was about to die; which was highly valued by him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And having heard of Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him, that having come, he would save his servant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And they approaching to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, That he is worthy to whom he will bestow this:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus went with them. And now he being away not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not fit that thou shouldest come under my roof;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come to thee: but speak in a word, and my servant shall be healed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself, and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes: and to my servant, Do this, and he does."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus having heard these, wondered at him, and having turned to the crowd following him, he said, I say to you, Neither have I found so much faith in Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And those sent, having turned back to the house, found the servant being sick, restored to health. Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And it was in continuation he went to a city called Nain; and sufficient of his disciples went with him, and a great crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And the dead 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 praised God, saying, That a great prophet has risen up among us; and That God has reviewed his people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And this word went out about him in all Judea, and in all the country round about. John’s Inquiry ( Matthew 11:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And John's disciples announced to him of all these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "And having called certain two of his disciples, John sent to Jesus, saying, Art thou he coming? or should we expect another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And the men, having approached to him, said, John the Immerser has sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he coming? or should we expect another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "And in that same hour he cured many of diseases, and scourges, and evil spirits, and to many blind he conferred the favor to see."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having answered said to them, Having gone, announce to John what ye saw and heard; for the blind look up, the lame walk, the leprous are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor are announced good news."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And happy is he, whoever should not be offended in me. Jesus Testifies about John ( Malachi 3:1–5 ; Matthew 11:7–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And the messengers of John having departed, he began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those in glorious clothing, and being in luxury, are in royal abodes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "But what went ye out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, superior to a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "This is he of whom it has been written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "For I say to you, Among the begotten of women none is a greater prophet than John the Immerser; and the less in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And all the people having heard, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with the immersion of John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And the Pharisees, and they pertaining to the law, rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not immersed by him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And the Lord said, To whom shall I liken the men of this generation? and to whom are they like?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "For John the Immerser came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "The Son of man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a man, a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And wisdom was justified of all her children. A Sinful Woman Anoints Jesus ( Matthew 26:6–13 ; Mark 14:3–9 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And a certain one of the Pharisees asked him that he would eat with him. And having come into the Pharisee's house, he reclined."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And, behold, a woman in the city, who was sinful, knowing that he is reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, having brought an alabaster box of perfumed oil,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "And the Pharisee having called him, seeing, said within himself, This, if he were a prophet, had known who and what race of woman which had touched him: for she is sinful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to him, Simon, I have something to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, speak."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "Two debtors were to a certain money-lender: one owed five hundred drachmas, and the other fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "And they not having to pay, he bestowed as a gift upon both. Which of them therefore will love him the more? Say thou."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "And Simon, having answered, said, I suppose, that to whom he bestowed more favor. And he said to him, Thou hast judged rightly,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And having turned to the woman, he said to Simon, Thou seest this woman? I came into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: and she wet my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "Thou gavest me no kiss: and she from when I came in left not kissing my feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "Thou anointedst not my head with oil: and she anointed my feet with perfumed oil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "And he said to her, Thy sins are remitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "And they reclining together began to say in themselves, Who is this who also remits sins?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee; go in peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was afterwards, and he passed through city and town proclaiming and announcing good news, the kingdom of God; and the twelve with him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And certain women, who were cured from evil spirits and weaknesses, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went forth seven demons,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them. The Parable of the Sower ( Matthew 13:1–23 ; Mark 4:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And a great crowd being together, and coming to him in the city, he spake by a parable:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."}
{"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 they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience. The Lesson of the Lamp ( Mark 4:21–25 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "None, having lighted a light, covers it with a vessel, or puts under a bed; but sets upon a candlestick, that they entering might see the light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "For there is nothing hid, which should not be made manifest; nor concealed, which should not be made known, and come clear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "See therefore how ye hear: for whoever should have, shall be given him; and whoever should not have, and what he seems to have shall be taken away from him. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Mark 3:31–35 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And his mother and brethren approached to him; and they could not come to him for the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And it was announced to him, saying, Thy mother and thy brethren have stood without, wishing to see thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And he having answered, said unto them, My mother and my brethren are they hearing the word of God, and doing it. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Psalm 107:1–43 ; Matthew 8:23–27 ; Mark 4:35–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And it was in one of the days, and he went into a ship, and his disciples: and he said to them, Let us pass through to the other side of the lake. And they led forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And they sailing, he fell asleep: and a hurricane of wind came down upon the lake; and they were filled, and were in peril."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And having come near, they awoke him, saying, Ruler ruler, we perish. And having risen, he censured the wind and heaving of 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 feared, they wondered, saying to one another, Who then is this! that also commands the winds and the waters, and they listen to him! The Demons and the Pigs ( Matthew 8:28–34 ; Mark 5:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And they sailed over to the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And he coming upon land, a certain man met him from the city, who had demons of long times, and put on no garment, and abode not in a house, but in the tombs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And having seen Jesus and cried out, he fell before him, and with a great voice said, What to me and thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I implore thee, thou wouldst not torment me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "For he proclaimed to the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it snatched him: and he was bound with chains, and being guarded with fetters; and bursting the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the deserts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus asked him, saying, What is the name to thee? And he said, Legion: for many demons came into him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And he besought him that he would not command him to go away into the abyss."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And a herd of numerous swine was there feeding on the mount: and they besought him that he would permit them to come into the swine. And he permitted them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And the demons having come out of the man, came into the swine: and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And they feeding, having seen that done, fled, and having departed, proclaimed in the city and in the fields."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And they went out to see that done; and came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting clothed, and being of sound mind, at the feet of Jesus; and they were afraid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And they, having seen, proclaimed to them how he possessed with a demon was saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "And all the multitude of the country round about, of the Gadarenes, asked him to depart from them; for they were held fast by great fear: and he having gone into the ship, returned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And the man from whom the demons had gone out implored him to be with him: and Jesus loosed him, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "Return to thy house and recount what God did to thee. And he departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city what Jesus did to him. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Matthew 9:18–26 ; Mark 5:21–43 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And it was in Jesus' returning, the crowd received him; for all were expecting him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "And, behold, a man came, to whom the name of Jairus, and he was ruler of the assembly: and having fallen before the feet of Jesus, he besought him to come to his house:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "For an only daughter was to him, of about twelve years, and she was dying. And in his going the crowds pressed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "Having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: and immediately her flow of blood was stopped."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And Jesus said; Who having touched me? And all denying, Peter said, and they with him: Ruler, the crowds hold with thee and press thee, and thou sayest, Who having touched me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "And Jesus said, Somebody touched me: for I know power having gone out from me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "And the woman having seen that she was not hid, came trembling, and having fallen before him, announced to him before all people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "And he said to her. Take courage, Daughter: thy faith has saved thee; go in peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "He yet speaking, there comes a certain of the ruler of the assembly, saying to him, That thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Teacher."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, Fear not: only believe, and she shall be saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "And having come into the house, he suffered not any to come in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father and mother of the child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "And all wept, and bewailed her: and he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeping."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "And they derided him, knowing that she was dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "And he having cast all without, and held firmly her hand, called, saying, Child, arise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "And her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately: and he ordered to give her to eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "And her parents were affected in mind: and he proclaimed to them, to tell no one that having been done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And he sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God, and heal the sick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said to them, Take away nothing for the way, neither rods, nor wallet, nor bread, nor silver; nor to have two coats apiece."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And into whatever house ye come in, remain there, and come out thence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And as many as should not receive you, having come out of that city, and shake off the cloud of dust from your feet for testimony against them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And having gone out, they went through the towns, proclaiming the good news, and healing every where. Herod Tries to See Jesus ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Mark 6:14–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And Herod the tetrarch heard all done by him: and was in perplexity, for it was said by certain, that John had been raised from the dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And by certain, that Elias has appeared; and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And Herod said, John I beheaded and who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Matthew 14:13–21 ; Mark 6:30–44 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And the sent, having returned, recounted to him what they did. And having taken them, he retreated apart in a desert place of the city, called Bethsaida."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds having known, followed him: and having received them, he spake to them, of the kingdom of God, and healed them having need of cure."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And the day began to decline: and the twelve having come near, said to him, Loose the crowd, that having departed into the towns round about and the fields, they might rest, and might find provisions; for here are we in a deserted place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, There are no more to us than five loaves and two fishes; except having gone we buy food for all this people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "For they were about five thou sand men. And he said to his disciples, Place them reclining by fifty in a place for reposing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And they did so, and they made all recline."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, be praised them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And they all ate, and were satisfied: and that over and above having remained to them was taken up, twelve baskets of fragments. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Mark 8:27–30 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And it was in his being alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom do the crowds say me to be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And they having answered, said, John the Immerser; and others, Elias; and others, that a certain prophet of the ancients has risen up."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said to them, And whom say ye me to be? And Peter having answered said, The Christ of God. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Matthew 16:21–23 ; Mark 8:31–33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And he having censured them, enjoined them to tell this to no one;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "Saying, That the Son of man must suffer many things, and be disapproved of by the more ancient and the chief priests and the scribes, and be slain, and be raised up the third day. Take Up Your Cross ( Matthew 16:24–28 ; Mark 8:34–38 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he should come in the glory of himself, and of the Father, and of the holy messengers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And I say to you truly, certain are standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they should see the kingdom of God. The Transfiguration ( Matthew 17:1–13 ; Mark 9:1–13 ; 2 Peter 1:16–21 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And it was after these words about eight days, and having taken Peter and John and James, he went up into the mount to pray."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And it was in his praying, the look of his face was another, and his clothing white, shooting forth lightning."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, two men were speaking with him, which were Moses and Elias:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "Who, having been seen in glory spake of his exit which he was about to complete in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And Peter and they with him were heavy with sleep: and having waked, they saw his glory, and two men standing with him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And it was in their having withdrawn from him, Peter said to Jesus, Ruler, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he says."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And he saying these things, there was a cloud, and it overshadowed them: and they were afraid in their going into the cloud."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And there was a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son: hear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And in there having been a voice, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and announced nothing to any one in those days, of what they had seen. The Boy with an Evil Spirit ( Matthew 17:14–18 ; Mark 9:14–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And it was in the day following, they having come down from the mountain, there met him a great crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And, behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore thee look upon my son: for he is my only born."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And, behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out; and it tears him with foam, and with difficulty withdraws from him, bruising him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And I implored thy disciples that they cast it out; and they could not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus having answered said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you, and endure you I Bring hither thy son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And he yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tare him. And Jesus censured the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and gave him back to his father. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 17:22–23 ; Mark 9:30–32 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And all were struck with amazement at the majesty of God. And all wondering at all which he did, Jesus said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "Put ye these words into your ears: for the Son of man is about to be delivered up into the bands of men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "And they knew not this word, and it was hid from them, lest they should understand it: and they feared to ask him concerning this word. The Greatest in the Kingdom ( Matthew 18:1–5 ; Mark 9:33–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "And there came up a conference among them, thus, which of them should be the greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "And Jesus, having seen the reflection of their heart, having taken up a child, set it by himself,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "And he said to them, Whoever should receive this child in my name receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives him having sent me: for he being less among you all, the same shall be great."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "And John having answered said, Ruler, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name; and we hindered him, because he follows not with us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus said, Hinder him not: for who is not against us is for us. The Samaritans Reject Jesus"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "51", "text": "And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "52", "text": "And he sent messengers before his face: and having gone, they came into a town of Samaritans, in order to prepare for him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "53", "text": "And they received him not, for his face was going to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "54", "text": "And his disciples James and John having seen, said, O Lord, wilt thou that we should speak fire to come down from heaven, and destroy them, as also did Elias?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "55", "text": "And having turned he censured them, and said, Ye know not of what sort of spirit ye are."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "56", "text": "For the Son of man came not to destroy men's souls, but to save them. And they proceeded into another town: The Cost of Discipleship ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 14:25–33 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "57", "text": "And it was, they going in the way, a certain one said to him, I will follow thee wherever thou shouldest go forth, Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "58", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "59", "text": "And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me having gone, first to inter my father."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "60", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "61", "text": "And another said, I will follow thee, Lord; and first permit me to take leave of those in my house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these the Lord showed forth other seventy, and sent them together two and two before his face into every city and place, where he was about to come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Then said he to them, Truly the harvest much, and the laborers few: implore therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Retire: behold, I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor shoes: and greet none by the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And in whatever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And if truly the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: and if not so, it shall turn back to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things of them: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And in whatever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat the things set before you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And cure the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has drawn near to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And in whatever city ye enter, and they receive you not, having gone into its spacious ways, say,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And the dust having cleaved to us from your city, we wipe off to you but know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn nigh to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And I say to you, that it shall be more supportable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe to the Unrepentant ( Matthew 11:20–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "Woe to thee Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon were the powers having been in you, long since had they changed the mind, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "But for Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in judgment, than for you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And thou, Capernaum, indeed even lifted up to heaven, shalt be cast down to hades."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "He hearing you hears me: and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me. The Joyful Return"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, and the demons are subject to us in thy name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said to them, I saw Satan as lightning fallen from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Behold, I give you power to tread above serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names were written in the heavens. Jesus’ Prayer of Thanksgiving ( Matthew 11:25–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I will acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes Father, for so was it benevolence before thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "All things were delivered me by my Father: and none knows who is the Son, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son would wish to reveal."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And having turned to the disciples apart he said, Happy the eyes seeing what ye see:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to behold what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not. The Parable of the Good Samaritan"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And, behold, a certain skilled in the law stood up, tempting him, and saying, Teacher, what having done shall I inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And he said to him, What has been written in the law? how readest thou?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And he having answered, said. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to him, Thou hast answered rightly; this do and thou shalt live."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus having replied said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers: and having stripped him, and laid on blows, they departed, leaving him half dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And by accident a certain priest went down in that way: and having seen him, went on the opposite side."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And likewise also a Levite, having been in the place, having come and seen him, went on the opposite side."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "And a certain Samaritan, traveling, came to him: and having seen him, felt compassion."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and having mounted him upon his own animal, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "And upon the morrow, he having come forth, taking out two drachmas, he gave to the inn-keeper, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever thou spendest besides, I, in my coming back, will repay thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "Which then of these three seems to thee to have been neighbor to him fallen among robbers?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And he said, He having done mercy with him. Then said Jesus to him. Go thou, and do likewise. Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And it was in their going forth, and he came to a certain town: and a certain woman by the name of Martha received him in her house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And also a sister was to her, called Mary; and she having sat at Jesus' feet, heard his word."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to her, Martha, Martha, thou hast care, and art confused about many things:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And of one thing there is need: and Mary has chosen the good part which shall not be taken away from her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in his being in a certain place praying, when he ceased, a certain of his disciples said to him Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father he in the heavens, Holy be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be, as in heaven, also upon the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Give us our bread sufficient for sustenance by the day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And remit to us our sins; for we ourselves also remit to everyone indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil. Ask, Seek, Knock ( Matthew 7:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and should say to him. Friend, lend me three loaves;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "Since my friend has come to me from the way, and I have not what I may set before him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And he within, having answered, should say, offer not weariness to me: already has the door been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot having risen, give thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, If also having risen he will not give him because of being his friend, yet for his effrontery, having risen, he will give him as many as he needs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "For every one asking, receives; and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking, it shall be opened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone? And if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Or also if he ask an egg, he will not give him a scorpion."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "If then ye, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children; how much more the Father, he from heaven, will give the Holy Spirit to them asking him? A House Divided ( Matthew 12:22–30 ; Mark 3:20–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it was the demon having come out, the dumb spake; and the crowds wondered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And certain of them said. By Beelzebul ruler of demons he casts out demons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And others, tempting, sought a sign of him from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is rendered desolate; and a house against a house falls."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And if Satan also be divided against himself, how should his kingdom stand? for ye say by Beelzebul I cast out demons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast, out? for this shall they be your judges."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then has the kingdom of God got beforehand to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "When the strong, completely armed, should watch his court-yard, his possessions are in peace:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And when a stronger than he, having come, conquers him, he takes away his complete armor in which he trusted, and distributes his spoils."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "He not being with me is against me: and he not gathering with me scatters. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Matthew 12:43–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "When the unclean spirit comes out from a man, he passes through places wanting water, seeking rest; and not finding, he says, I will return to my house whence I came out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And having come, he finds it swept and set in order."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself; and having entered, they dwell there: and the last things of that man are worse than the first. True Blessedness"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And it was in his speaking these things, a certain woman of the crowd, having lifted up the voice, said to him, in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts. Happy the womb having borne thee, and breasts thou didst suck."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said, Rather, happy they hearing the word of God, and watching it. The Sign of Jonah ( Jonah 3:1–10 ; Matthew 12:38–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And crowds being collected, he began to say, This is an evil generation: it seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall be the Son of man to this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "The queen of the south shall be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, more than Solomon here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "The Ninevite men shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, more than Jonas here. The Lamp of the Body ( Matthew 6:22–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "And none, having lighted a lamp, puts in secret, neither under a bushel, but upon the chandelier, that they coming in should see the light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "The light of the body is the eye; when therefore thine eye be plain, also thy whole body is clear: and when it be evil, also thy body dark."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Take heed therefore lest the light in thee be darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "If therefore thy whole body clear, not having any part dark, the whole shall be clear, as when a lamp enlightens thee with its gleam. Woes to Pharisees and Experts in the Law ( Matthew 23:1–36 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "And in the speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him: and having come in he reclined."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "And the Pharisee having seen, wondered that he was not first washed before dinner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "But of the things being, give alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "Woe to you, Pharisees! for ye love the first seat in assemblies, and greetings in market-places."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as concealed tombs, and men walking above know not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "And a certain of the skilled in the law having answered, said, Teacher, speaking these things, and thou injurest us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "And he said, And woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye load men with loads difficult to carry, and ye yourselves touch not one of the fingers to the load."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "Woe to you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "Surely ye testify and assent to your fathers works: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their tombs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "And for this said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and the sent, and of them shall they kill and drive out:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "Woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye came not in yourselves, and those coming in ye hindered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "And he saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to hold on greatly, and to put questions to him of many things:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "Laying wait for him, and seeking to seize something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Upon which, myriads of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to speak to his disciples first, Keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And there is nothing covered, which shall not be revealed; and secret which shall not be known."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore whatever ye have said in darkness shall be heard in light; and what ye spake to the ear in storehouses shall be proclaimed upon house-tops. Fear God Alone ( Matthew 10:26–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And I say to you, my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these not having anything remaining to do."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "Are not five little sparrows sold for two small coins, and one of them is not forgotten before God?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "But also the hairs of your head were all numbered. Therefore fear not: ye have the preeminence over many little sparrows. Confessing Christ ( Matthew 10:32–33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And I say to you, Every one who should acknowledge in me before men, also the Son of man will acknowledge in him before the messengers of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And he having denied me before men, shall he denied before the messengers of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And every one who shall say a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him: and to him blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be remitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And when they bring you to assemblies, and beginnings, and powers, have no anxiety how or what ye allege for justification, or what ye say:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what ye must say. The Parable of the Rich Fool"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And a certain one 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 judge or distributer over you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God. Do Not Worry ( Matthew 6:25–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Consider the ravens: for they sow not neither do they reap; to them there is not store-house nor store; and God nourishes them: how much more have ye preeminence of the fowls?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And which of you having anxiety can add to his size one cubit?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If then ye cannot do the least, why have ye anxiety for the rest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Consider the white lilies, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin; and I say to you, neither was Solomon in all his glory clothed as one of these."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And if the grass, to day being in the field and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes; how much rather you, ye of little faith?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "And ye, seek ye not what ye eat, or what ye drink, and keep not in anxiety."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "For all these things the nations of the world seek for: and your Father knows that ye have need of these."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "But seek the kingdom of God; and all these shall be added to you. Treasures in Heaven ( Matthew 6:19–21 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "Fear not, little flock; for your Father was contented to give you the kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "For where your treasure is, there also will be your heart. Readiness at Any Hour ( Matthew 24:36–51 ; Mark 13:32–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And if he should come in the second watch, and should come in the third watch, and find so, happy are those servants."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "And be ye therefore ready: for in the time which ye think not the Son of man is coming."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "Happy that servant, which his Lord, having come, shall find so doing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Truly I say to you, that he will set him over 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 strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And that servant having known his lord's will, and not prepared, neither having done his will, shall be skinned with many."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "And he not having known, and having done things worthy of blows, shall be skinned with few. And to every one to whom much was given, shall much be required of him: and with whom they have deposited much, they will ask of him the more. Not Peace but Division ( Micah 7:1–6 ; Matthew 10:34–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "I have come to cast fire into the earth; and what will I if it has been already lighted up!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "And I have an immersion to be immersed with; and how am I pressed together till it should be finished!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "51", "text": "Think ye that I came to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you; but rather division:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "52", "text": "For from now shall five be in one house divided, three against two, and two against three."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "53", "text": "Father shall be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Interpreting the Present Time ( Matthew 16:1–4 ; Mark 8:11–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "54", "text": "And he said to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising from the descents, ye say quickly, A heavy shower of rain is coming; and it is so."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "55", "text": "And when the south wind blowing, ye say, That there will be heat; and it is."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "56", "text": "O hypocrites, ye know to judge the face of the earth and of heaven; and how do ye not judge this time? Reconciling with an Adversary ( Matthew 5:21–26 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "57", "text": "And why also of yourselves judge ye not the just thing?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "58", "text": "For when thou retirest with thine adversary to the ruler, in the way give labor to be released from him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the avenger, and the avenger cast thee into prison."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "59", "text": "I say to thee, thou shouldest not come out thence, even till also thou shouldest give back the last small coin."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And certain were present in that time announcing to him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinful above all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "No, I say to you: but except ye should change the mind, ye shall all likewise perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that these were debtors above all men dwelling in Jerusalem?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "No, I say: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree ( Isaiah 5:1–7 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And he spake this parable: A certain had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it, and found not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And he said to the vine-dresser, Behold, three years I am come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find not: cut it off; wherefore also does it leave the earth unemployed?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And he having answered says to him, Lord, let it go also this year, till I shall dig round it, and cast dung:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Whereas also it might bear fruit: and if not, afterwards thou shalt cut it off. Jesus Heals a Disabled Woman"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And he was teaching in one of the assemblies in the sabbaths."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And, behold, there was a woman having a spirit of weakness eighteen years, and was bent together, and not able wholly to lift up the head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And having seen her, Jesus called to, and said to her, Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy weakness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And he put his hands on her: and immediately she was set upright, and honoured God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And the ruler of the assembly having answered, feeling pain because Jesus cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd, Six days there are in which they ought to work; in those therefore, coming, be ye cured, and not the day of the sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "Then answered the Lord and said, Hypocrite, does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and leading away, give to drink?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And this being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, behold, eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond the day of the sabbath"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And he saying these things, all opposed to him were ashamed: and the crowd rejoiced for all the glorious things done by him. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Matthew 13:31–32 ; Mark 4:30–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "It is like a kernel of mustard, which a man having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew, and became into a great tree; and the fowls of heaven encamped in its young shoots. The Parable of the Leaven ( Matthew 13:33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened. The Narrow Door ( Matthew 7:13–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And he went through cities and towns, teaching, and making his passage to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And a certain said to him, Lord, if few saved? And he said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "From the time when the master of the house should rise up, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us: and having answered, he will say to you, I know not whence ye are:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank before thee, and thou didst teach in our streets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And they shall come from the risings, and the settings, and from north, and south, and they shall recline in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. Lament over Jerusalem ( Matthew 23:37–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "In the same day certain Pharisees came near, saying to him, Come out, and go from thence: for Herod wishes to kill thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And he said to them, Having gone, say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons, and complete cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I am completed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "But I must go to day and to morrow and the following: for it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Behold, your house is left to you a desert: and truly I say to you, That ye should not see me, until it should come when ye say, Praised he coming in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in his coining into the house of a certain of the Pharisees in the sabbath to eat bread, and they were observing him narrowly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, a certain dropsical man was before him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to those skilled in the law and the Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to cure in the sabbath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And they were silent. And having taken, he healed, and loosed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And having answered, he said to them, Whose ass or ox of yours shall fall into a well, and will he not quickly pull it out on the sabbath day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were not able to answer him in turn to these things. The Parable of the Guests"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And he spake a parable to the called, fixing his attention how they chose out the first places at table; saying to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "When thou art called to the nuptials, thou shouldest not recline in the first place at table; lest a more honourable than thou be called by him:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And he having called thee and him, having come, shall say to thee, Give place to this; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take possession of the last place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee before them reclining with thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just. The Parable of the Banquet ( Matthew 22:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And a certain of them having reclined together, having heard these things, said to him, Happy he who shall 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 called many;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the called, Come; for all things are already prepared."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I ask thee, have me pardoned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And another said, I have married wife, and therefore I cannot come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And approaching, that servant announced to his lord these things. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And the servant said, Lord, it has been done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the ways and hedges, and compel to come in, that my house may be filled up."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "For I say to you, That none of those men called shall taste of my supper. The Cost of Discipleship ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 9:57–62 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And great crowds went with him, and having turned he said to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "For which of you, wishing to build a tower, not first, having sat down, calculates the expense, if he have things for completion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "That lest, having set the foundation, and not able to finish, all seeing begin to mock him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "Saying, That this man began to build, and was not able to finish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And if he, yet being far off, having sent an embassy, asks things for peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple. Good Salt ( Matthew 5:13–16 ; Mark 9:49–50 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "Neither for the land, nor is it fitted for the dunghill; they cast it without. He having ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And all publicans and sinful were drawing near him to hear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And he spake this parable to them, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "What man of you, having one hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes for the one lost, till he find it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And having come into the house, he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my lost sheep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance. The Parable of the Lost Coin"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, lights not a lamp, and sweeps the house, and seeks diligently till she should find?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And having found, she calls together female friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me; for I found the drachma which I lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "So, I say to you, joy is in heaven before the messengers of God for one sinful changing the mind. The Parable of the Prodigal Son ( Deuteronomy 21:18–21 )"}
{"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 me the portion of property falling. And he divided to them the property."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And not many days after, having gathered all things, the younger son went abroad into a far off country, and there disposed his property, living in a profligate manner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And having spent all things, a powerful famine was in that country; and he began to be in want."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into the fields to feed swine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And he eagerly desired to fill his belly with the fruits of the horntree which the swine ate: and none gave to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come to himself, he said, Many hired of my father abound in loaves, and I am perishing with hunger!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "And I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And the father said to his servants, Bring out the first robe, and clothe him; and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for the feet:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And having brought the fatted calf, sacrifice, and eating, let us be gladdened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "And his elder son was in the field: and coming, as he drew near the house, he heard a concert of music, and dances."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And having called one of his servants, he inquired what these may be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said to him, That thy brother has come, and thy father has sacrificed the fatted calf; because he received him in good health."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "And he was angry and would not go in; then his father having come out, besought him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And he having answered said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never at any time passed by thy command: and never hast thou given me a kid, that I might be gladdened with my friends."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And when this thy son, devouring thy property with harlots, came, thou hast sacrificed for him the fattened calf."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all mine are thine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And to be gladdened, and to rejoice, was fitting: for this thy brother was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "I have resolved what I will do, that, when I should be removed from the stewardship, they might receive me in their houses."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And having called upon each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said, An hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thou thy book, and having quickly sat down, write fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy book, and write eighty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of injustice; that, when ye fail, they might receive you into lasting tents."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "He faithful in the least, is also faithful in much: and he unjust in the least, is also unjust in much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "If therefore ye were not faithful in the unjust mammon, who shall trust to you the true?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And if ye were not faithful with another, who shall give you your own?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "No servant can serve two lords: for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will hold firmly to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. The Law and the Prophets"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Pharisees heard all these things, being avaricious: and they derided him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "The law and the prophets until John: from then the kingdom of God announces good news, and every one is forced into it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one horn of the law to fall."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "Every one loosing his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery: and every one marrying her having been loosed from the husband commits adultery. The Rich Man and Lazarus ( John 5:39–47 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "And he having called out, said, Father Abraham, pity me, and send Lazarus, that he might dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And besides all these, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed: so that they wishing to pass through thence to you could not; neither could they cross over from thence to us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said, Then I ask thee, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "For I have five brethren; that he might testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if some one from the dead go to them, they will change the mind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither if any rise from the dead, will they be persueded."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And he said to the disciples, It is impossible there come not causes of offence: and woe, through whom they come!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "It is profitable to him if the millstone of an ass were placed about his neck, and he cast into the sea, rather than he should offend one of these little ones."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go. The Power of Faith ( Matthew 17:19–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And the sent said to the Lord, Add faith to us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And which of you having a servant ploughing or feeding, who will say to him having come out of the field, Quickly having come, recline?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup, and, being girded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and after these, thou mayest eat and drink?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "He has no favor to that servant, for he did the things appointed. I think not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done. The Ten Lepers ( 2 Kings 5:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And it was in his going to Jerusalem, and he came through the land of Samaria and Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And he coming to a certain town, ten leprous men met him, who stood far off:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "And they lifted up the voice, saying, Jesus, faster, pity us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And having seen, he said to them, Having gone, show yourselves to the priests. And it was in their retiring they were cleansed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, with a great voice honouring God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And he fell upon the face at his feet, thanking him: and he was a Samaritan."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus having answered said, Were not ten cleansed? and where the nine?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "They were not found returning to give glory to God, except this of another race."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And he said to him, Having risen, go: thy faith has saved thee. The Coming of the Kingdom ( Genesis 19:24–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "Neither shall they say, Behold here or, behold there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And he said to the disciples, The days come when ye shall eagerly desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "And they shall say to you, Behold here, or; behold there: go not away, nor pursue."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "For as lightning, flashing out from that under heaven, shines to that under heaven; so also shall be the Son of man in his day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "And first must he suffer many things, and be disapproved of by this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "According to these shall be the day in which the Son of man is revealed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "In that day, whoever shall be upon the house, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he in the fields, likewise let him not turn back behind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "Remember Lot's wife."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "Whoever should seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose it, shall preserve it alive."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "I say to you, that night shall be two upon one bed; one shall be taken, and the other let go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "35", "text": "Two females shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, and the other let go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "36", "text": "[Verse 36 is wanting (Missing) in most of the Greek copies.]"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "37", "text": "And having answered, they say to him, Where, Lord And he said to them, Where the body, there shall the eagles be gathered together."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And he spake to them a parable, that they must always pray, and not lose courage;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and not occupied about man:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And a widow was in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he would not for a time: and after these he said in himself, And if I fear not God, and am not occupied about man;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "Yet because this widow produces fatigue to me, I will avenge her, lest in the end, coming, she give me a blow under the eyes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, Hear ye what the judge of injustice says."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And shall not God do the avenging of his chosen, crying to him day and night, being slow to anger toward them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, that he will do their avenging swiftly. But the Son of man having come, shall he find faith upon earth The Pharisee and the Tax Collector"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Matthew 19:13–15 ; Mark 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And they also brought babes to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples having seen, censured them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And Jesus having called them, said, Leave the young children to come to me, and hinder them not: for of such is time kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child should not enter into it. The Rich Young Ruler ( Matthew 19:16–30 ; Mark 10:17–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Why sayest thou me good? none good except the one God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Thou knowest the commands, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, Thou shouldest not kill, Thou shouldest not steal, Thou shouldest not bear false testimony, Honour thy father and thy mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said, All these have I watched from my youth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And he having heard these things, was sorely grieved: for he was very rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus having seen him being sorely grieved, said, With how much difficulty shall they having possessions come into the kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "For it is easier for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "And they having heard, said, And who can be saved?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said, The things impossible with men, are possible with God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter said, Behold, we have left all, and followed thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there is none who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for sake of the kingdom of God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "Who should not receive many fold in this time, and in life coming, eternal life. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 20:17–19 ; Mark 10:32–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "And taking the twelve, he said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things written by the prophets shall be completed to the Son of man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "For he shall be delivered to the nations, and be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "And having scourged, they shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And they understood nothing of these things: and this word was hidden from them, and they discerned not the things spoken. Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar ( Matthew 20:29–34 ; Mark 10:46–52 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "And it was in his drawing near to Jericho, a certain blind sat by the way, begging:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "And having heard the multitude passing by, he inquired what this might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "And they announced to him, That Jesus the Nazarite passes by."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "And he cried out, saying, Jesus, son of David, pity me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "And they going before censured him, that he be silent: and he so much the more cried out, O son of David, pity me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "And Jesus having stood, commanded him to be brought to him: and he having drawn near, he asked him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "41", "text": "Saying, What wilt thou I shall do to thee? And he said, Lord, that I might see again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus said to him, See again: thy faith has saved thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "43", "text": "And he immediately saw again, and followed him, honouring God: and all the people having seen, gave praise to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And having come in, he passed through Jericho."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, a man, called Zaccheus by name, and he was chief of the publicans, and he was rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And he sought to see Jesus, who he is; and he could not, from the crowd, for he was small in size."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And having run before, he went up upon an Egyptian fig tree, that he might see him: for he was about to pass through that."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And when he came to the place, having looked up, Jesus saw him, and said to him, Zaccheus, having hastened, come down; for to day must I remain in thine house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And having hasted, he came down, and received him rejoicing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "And all they having seen, murmured, saying, That he entered in to rest with a sinful man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And Zaccheus having stood, said to the Lord, Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have made any false accusation against any one, I give back fourfold."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus said to him, That to day salvation has been to this house, as 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 the lost. The Parable of the Ten Minas ( Matthew 25:14–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And they hearing these things, having added, he spake a parable, for he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that immediately the kingdom of God is about to be rendered visible."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "Then he said, A certain honourable man went into a country far off to take unto himself a kingdom, and to return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And having called his ten servants, he gave them ten coins, and said to them, Attend to business, till I come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We wish not this to reign over us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was in his coming back, having received the kingdom, and he spake to have these servants called to him, to whom he gave the silver, that he might know who had attended to any business."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And the first approached, saying, Lord, thy coin has gained ten coins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And he said to him, Well, good servant: because thou west faithful in the least, be thou having power over ten cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "And the second came saying, Lord, thy coin made five coins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And he said to him, And be thou over five cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And another came saying, Lord, behold, thy coin which I have placed in a napkin:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "For I feared thee, for thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou layedst not down, and thou reapest what thou didst not sow."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And he said to him, Out of thy month will I judge thee, O evil servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I sowed not:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And wherefore gavest thou not my silver to the bankers, and I having come had received it with interest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And to those standing by he said, Take away from him the coin, and give to him having the ten coins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "(And they said to him, Lord, he has ten coins.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "For I say to you, That to every one having shall be given; and from him not having, and what he has shall be taken away from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "But those mine enemies, not having wished me to reign over them, bring hither, and slaughter before me. The Triumphal Entry ( Zechariah 9:9–13 ; Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; John 12:12–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And having said these, he went before, going up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And it was as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount called of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "Having said, Retire ye to the opposite town; in which entering, ye shall find a colt bound, upon which none of men at any time have sat: having loosed, bring him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And if any ask you, Wherefore loose ye? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "And the sent, having departed, found as he said to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And they loosing the colt, his lords said to them, Why loose ye the colt?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "And they said, The Lord has need of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And they brought him to Jesus: and having cast their garments upon the colt, they placed Jesus upon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "And he going, they laid down their garments in the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And he already drawing near to the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples, rejoicing, began to praise God with a great voice for all the powers which they saw;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "Saying, Praised the king coming in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest ones."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And certain of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, Teacher, censure thy disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "And having answered, he said to them, I say to you, that if these should be silent, the stones shall cry out. Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem ( Isaiah 29:1–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And as he drew near, having seen the city, he wept over it,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, That if thou knewest, also thou, and also in this thy day, the things for thy peace! and now have they been hid from thine eyes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "43", "text": "For the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and keep thee together from all sides,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "44", "text": "And they shall level thee with the ground, and thy children in thee; they shall not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the time of thine inspection. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Mark 11:15–19 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "45", "text": "And having come into the temple, he began to cast out them selling and buying in it;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "46", "text": "Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "47", "text": "And he was teaching in the day in the temple. And the chief priests and scribes and the first of the people sought to destroy him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "48", "text": "And they found not what they might do: for all the people hearing hanged on him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in one of those days, he teaching the people in the temple, and announcing good news, there came forth the chief priests, and the scribes, and the more ancient,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And they spake to him, saying, Say to us, by what authority doest thou these? or who is he having given thee this authority?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And having answered he said to them, I will ask you one word; and tell me:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "Was the immersion of John of heaven, or of men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And they reckoned up together to themselves, saying, That if we say, of heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And if we say, of men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded John to be a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And they answered not to know from whence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these. The Parable of the Wicked Tenants ( Matthew 21:33–46 ; Mark 12:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And he began to say to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it to farmers, and went abroad sufficient time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And in time he sent a servant to the farmers, that they give him from the fruit of the vineyard: and the farmers, skinning, sent him out empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And he added to send another servant: and they also having skinned and dishonoured him, sent forth empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And he added to send a third; and also, having wounded, 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 dearly beloved son: perhaps, having seen him, they will change."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And the farmers having seen him, reasoned to themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance be ours."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And having cast him without the vineyard, they killed. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "He shall come and destroy these farmers, and give the vineyard to others. And having heard, they said, It may not be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And having looked upon them, he said, What then is this written, The stone which the builders disapproved of, this has been for the head of the corner?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Every one having fallen upon that stone shall be crushed, and upon whomsoever it should fall, it shall winnow him. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Mark 12:13–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes sought to lay hands upon him in the same hour; and they feared the people: for they knew he spake this parable against them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And they asked him, saying. Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and thou receivest not the face, but teachest in truth the way of God:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "And having perceived their craft, he said to them, Why tempt ye me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "Show me drachma. Whose image and inscription has it? And having answered they said, Caesar's."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And he said to them, Return therefore to Caesar, Caesar's things, and to God the things of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Matthew 22:23–33 ; Mark 12:18–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "And certain of the Sadducees having approached, speaking against there being a rising up, asked him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother die having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore were there seven brethren: and the first having taken a wife, died without children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And the second took the wife, and he died without children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "And the third took her; and likewise also the seven: and they left no children, and died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And after all died the woman also."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "Then in the rising up, whose wife of them is she for seven had her a wife."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus having answered, said to them, The sons of this life marry, and are given in marriage."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "And they having been deemed worthy to obtain that life, and the rising up of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "For neither can they die any more: for they are like to messengers; and are sons of God, being the sons of the rising up."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "And that the dead are raised, Moses made known at the bramble, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, 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 certain of the scribes having answered, said, Teacher, thou speakest well."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "40", "text": "And they dared no more to ask him anything. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Matthew 22:41–46 ; Mark 12:35–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "41", "text": "And he said to them, how say they Christ to be son of David?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "42", "text": "And David himself says in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou from my right hand,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "43", "text": "Even till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "44", "text": "David therefore calls him Lord, and how is be his son? Beware of the Scribes ( Mark 12:38–40 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "45", "text": "And all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "46", "text": "Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "47", "text": "Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And having looked up, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had. Temple Destruction and Other Signs ( Matthew 24:1–8 ; Mark 13:1–8 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And certain speaking of the temple, that it has been arranged with beautiful stones and decorations, he said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "These which ye see, the days shall come, in which stone shall not be left upon stone, which shall not be loosened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore shall these be and what the sign when these should be about to be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And he said, See ye, be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, That I am; and the time has drawn near: therefore go not after them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these must first be; but the end not immediately. Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Mark 13:9–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Then said he to them, Nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And great earthquakes in places, and famines, and scourges shall be; and terrific objects and great signs shall be from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And before all these shall they cast their hands upon you, and drive out, delivering to assemblies, and prisons, being brought before kings and leaders for my name's sake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "And it shall turn out to you for a testimony."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "Set therefore in your hearts, not to practise beforehand to justify yourselves:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And there shall not a hair of your head perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "In your patience possess ye your souls. The Destruction of Jerusalem ( Matthew 24:15–25 ; Mark 13:14–23 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation has drawn near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Then let those in Judea flee to the mountain; and those in the midst of her withdraw; and let those in the countries not go into her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "For these are the days of vengeance, that all things having been written, should be completed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and they shall be made captives in all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by all the nations, till the times of the nations should be completed. The Return of the Son of Man ( Matthew 24:26–31 ; Mark 13:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And signs shall be in the sun, and moon, and stars; and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and commotion resounding."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "Men losing breath for fear and expectation of things coming on the habitable globe: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with much power and glory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "And these things beginning to be, get out of danger, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Matthew 24:32–35 ; Mark 13:28–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "And he spake to them a parable; See the fig tree, and all trees;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "When they should already throw forth, seeing of yourselves ye know that summer is already near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "So also ye, when ye see these being, know that the kingdom of God is near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, even till all things should be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Heaven and earth shall pass away: and my words shall not pass away. Be Watchful for the Day"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "For as a snare shall it come upon all remaining upon the face of all, the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And the days he was teaching in the temple; and the nights, coming out, he lodged in the mount called of Olives."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "And all the people arose early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And the festival of unleavened drew near, called the Pascha."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Matthew 26:14–16 ; Mark 14:10–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And Satan came into Judas called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "And having departed, he conversed with the chief priests and the generals, how he might deliver him to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And they rejoiced, and agreed to give him silver."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he promised, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them apart from the crowd. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Mark 14:12–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And the day of unleavened came, in which must be sacrificed the pascha."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And he sent Peter and John, saying, Having gone, prepare ye for us the pascha, that we might eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And they said to him, Where wilt thou that we should prepare?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And he said to them, Behold, you having come to the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow ye him to the house where he goes in."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the room where I should eat the pascha with my disciples?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And he shall shew you a great upper room spread: there prepare ye."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "And having departed, they found as he said to them; and they prepared the pascha. The Last Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Mark 14:17–26 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "And when it was the hour, he reclined, and the twelve sent with him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "And he said to them, With eager desire have I desired to eat this pascha with you before I suffer:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "For I say to you, no more should I eat of it, till when it should be completed in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "Having taken the cup, and returned thanks, he said, Take this, and divide among yourselves:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "For I say to you, that I drink not of the fruit of the vine, till when the kingdom of God comes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "Having taken the bread, and returned thanks, he brake, and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you: this do ye for my remembrance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "But, behold, the hand of him delivering me up with me at the table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And truly the Son of man goes according to that determined: but woe to that man by whom he is delivered up!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And they began to seek together among themselves, which of them it should be that was about to do this thing. Who Is the Greatest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them; and they exercising power over them are called benefactors."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And ye not so: but let the greater with you be as the younger; and he leading, as he serving."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "For which the greater, he reclining, or he serving? is not he reclining and I am in the midst of you as he serving."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "And ye are they having remained with me in my temptations."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "And I set to you, as my Father set to me, a kingdom;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "That ye might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and might sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Mark 14:27–31 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you, to sift as wheat:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "And I have supplicated for thee that thy faith fail not: and thou, when having turned back, confirm thy brethren."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And he said to him, Lord, with thee am I ready to go, and to prison, and to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "And he said, I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not utter a sound this day, before thou shalt thrice deny knowing me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did ye want any thing? And they said, Nothing,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "Then said he to them, But now, he having a purse, let him take up, and likewise a wallet: and he not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "For I say to you, that this written must yet be finished in me, that, Also was he reckoned with the lawless: for also the things concerning me have an end."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "And they said, Lord, behold, two swords here. And he said to them, It is enough. Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives ( Matthew 26:36–46 ; Mark 14:32–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "And having come out, he went, according to custom, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples followed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "And being at the place, he said to them, Pray ye not to enter into temptation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "And he was removed from them about a stone's cast, and having placed the knees, he prayed,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "And a messenger was seen to him from heaven, strengthening him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "And having risen from prayer, having come to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Matthew 26:47–56 ; Mark 14:43–52 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "47", "text": "And he yet speaking, Behold a crowd, and he called Judas, one of the twelve, came before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "48", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Judas, deliverest thou up the Son of man with a kiss?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "49", "text": "And they about him, having seen that, going to be, said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "50", "text": "And a certain one of them struck a servant of the chief priest, and took away his right ear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "51", "text": "And Jesus having answered said, Allow ye even to this. And having touched his ear, he healed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to the chief priests, and generals of the temple, and the elders, having come to him, Have ye come out, as upon a robber, with sword and sticks?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "53", "text": "I being with you daily in the temple, ye stretched not forth the hands upon me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. Peter Denies Jesus ( Matthew 26:69–75 ; Mark 14:66–72 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "54", "text": "And having taken, they brought him into the house of the chief priest. And Peter followed him far off."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "55", "text": "And having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and they having sat down together, Peter sat down in the midst of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "56", "text": "And a certain young girl having seen him sitting by the light, and looked intently upon him, said, And this was with him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "57", "text": "And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "58", "text": "And after a little another having seen him, said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "59", "text": "And about the space of one hour a certain other assured himself, saying, of a truth this also was with him: for he is a Galilean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "60", "text": "And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, he yet speaking, the cock uttered a sound."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "61", "text": "And the Lord having turned, looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, That before the cock utters a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "62", "text": "And Peter having come forth without wept bitterly. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Isaiah 50:4–11 ; Matthew 27:27–31 ; Mark 15:16–20 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "63", "text": "And the men holding Jesus mocked him, stripping."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "64", "text": "And having covered him, they struck his face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy who it is having struck thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "65", "text": "And many other things, blaspheming, they spake against him. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Mark 14:53–65 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "66", "text": "And when it was day, the council of elders of the people was gathered together, and the chief priests and scribes, and they brought him to their council,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "67", "text": "Saying, Art thou Christ? tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye would not believe:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "68", "text": "And if I ask you, ye would not answer me, or loose me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "69", "text": "From now shall the Son of man be sitting from the right hand of the power of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "70", "text": "And they all said, Art thou therefore the Son of God? And he said to them, Ye say that I am."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "71", "text": "And they said, Why have we yet need of testimony? for we ourselves have heard from his month."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And all the multitude of them having risen, brought him to Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a King."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? And he having answered, said to him, Thou sayest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, I find nothing blameworthy in this man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And they were strong, saying, That he stirs up the people, teaching through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee to here. Jesus before Herod"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And Pilate having heard of Galilee, asked if the man is a Galilean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And having known that he is from Herod's authority, he sent him to Herod, he being in Jerusalem in those days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "And Herod having seen Jesus, rejoiced greatly: for he was wishing a long while since to see him, for hearing many things of him: and he hoped to see some sign done by him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And he asked him in fitting words: and he answered him nothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes stood zealously accusing him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And Herod having set him at nought with his troops, and having mocked, putting about him shining clothing, sent him out to Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And also Pilate and Herod were friends in that day with one another: for they were before being in enmity with each other. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Mark 15:6–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And Pilate having called together the chief priests and rulers and people,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "Said to them, Ye have brought to me this man, as perverting the people: and, behold, I having examined him before you, have found nothing blameworthy in this man, of what things ye bring an accusation against him:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "But neither Herod: for I sent you forth to him; and, behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore, having chastised him, I will release."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "(And he had necessity to loose one at the festival.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "And they cried out with the entire multitude, saying, Take this away, and loose to us Barabbas:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "(Who was for a certain sedition having been in the city, and slaughter, cast into prison.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "Again Pilate called, wishing to loose Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "And they exclaimed, saying, Crucify, crucify him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "And he said to them the third time, For what evil has he done I have found no cause of death in him: therefore, having corrected him, I will loose."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "And they were urgent with great voices, asking for him to be crucified. And their voices and the chief priests overcame."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "And Pilate sanctioned their asking to be done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "And he loosed to them him cast into prison for sedition, and slaughter, which they demanded; and delivered Jesus to their will. The Crucifixion ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "And as they led him away, seizing upon Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they laid the cross upon him, to carry after Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "And a great multitude of people followed him, and of women, and who were lamenting bitterly, and bewailing him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "And having turned towards them Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "For if they do these in the moist tree, what should be in the dry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And two others who were led, evil doers, to be lifted up with him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "And when they came to the place called Kranium, there they crucified him, and the evil doers, truly one from the right, and one from the left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also who with them were deriding, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he is Christ, the chosen of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "And the soldiers also mocked him, approaching, and bringing him vinegar."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "And saying, If thou art king of the Jews, save thyself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "And there was also an inscription written upon him, in letters Greek, Roman, and Hebrew; THIS IS KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "And one of the evil doers hanged, blasphemed him, saying, If thou art Christ, save thyself and us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "40", "text": "And the other having answered, censured him, saying, Shouldest thou not fear God, for thou art in the same judgment?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "41", "text": "And truly we justly; for we receive things worthy of what we have done: and this has done nothing out of place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "42", "text": "And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou shouldest come into thy kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "43", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. The Death of Jesus ( Psalm 31:1–24 ; Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "44", "text": "And it was about the sixth hour, and darkness was upon all the earth till the ninth hour."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "45", "text": "And the sun was darkened, and the covering of the temple was split in the middle."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "46", "text": "And Jesus having cried with a great voice, said, Father, into thy hands will I commit my spirit: and having said these, he expired."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "47", "text": "And the centurion having seen that having been done, honoured God, saying, Surely this man was just."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "48", "text": "And all the crowds having been to this viewing, seeing the things done, striking their breasts, returned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "49", "text": "And all his acquaintance stood afar off, and the women having followed him together from Galilee, seeing these. The Burial of Jesus ( Isaiah 53:9–12 ; Matthew 27:57–61 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "50", "text": "And, behold, a man Joseph by name, being a counsellor; good and just:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "51", "text": "(The same was not set together in the counsel and deed of them;) from Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "52", "text": "The same having come to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "53", "text": "And having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and put it in a tomb cut in stone, where none was ever laid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "54", "text": "And the day was the preparation, and the sabbath shone forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "55", "text": "And the women having followed, which had come to him out of Galilee, saw the tomb, and how his body was laid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "56", "text": "And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumed oils; and truly the sabbath were they at rest according to the command."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And in one of the sabbaths, in the depth of the dawn of day, they came to the tomb, bringing spices which they had prepared, and certain with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And coming in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was in their being perplexed for this, and, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "And they having, been afraid, and bending the face to the earth, they said to them, Why seek ye the living with the dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here, but has risen: remember how he spake to you being yet in Galilee,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "Saying, That the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and be raised up the third day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "And they remembered his words,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "And having returned from the tomb, they announced these things to the eleven, and to all the rest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the rest with them, who said these things to the sent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "And their words appeared before them as idle talk, and they believed them not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "And Peter having risen, ran to the tomb; and having stooped, saw the linen bandages lying alone, and he departed, wondering in himself at what was done. The Road to Emmaus ( Mark 16:12–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "And, behold, two of them were going in the same day to a town being about sixty stadia from Jerusalem, the name of which Emmaus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And they were conversing with one another concerning all things having happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was in their conversing and seeking out together, and Jesus himself, having drawn near, went with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "And their eyes were holden not to know him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "And he said to them, What words these which, walking about, ye discuss with one another, and are of gloomy aspect?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "And one having answered, to whom the name Cleopas, said to him, Sojournest thou alone in Jerusalem, and knowest not the things done in it in these days?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarite, who was a man, a prophet, powerful in work and words before God and all the people:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to the judgment of death, and crucified him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "And we hoped that this is he about to redeem Israel: but also with all these things, to day it brings the third day from which these things were."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And also certain women of ours moved us out of place, having been early at the tomb;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "And not finding his body, they came, saying also to have seen a vision of messengers, who say he is living."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And certain of them with us departed to the tomb, and found so as the women said: and him they saw not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "Must not Christ suffer these things, and enter into his glory?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained clearly to them in all the writings concerning himself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "And they drew near to the town where they were going: and he laid claim to go still further."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us: for it is near eve, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "And it was in his reclining at table with them, having taken bread, he praised, and having broken, bestowed upon them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he was removed from their view."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us, as he spake to us in the way, and as he opened the writings to us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "And having risen the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "Saying, That truly the Lord was risen, and was seen to Simon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "And they recounted the things in the way, and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( John 20:19–23 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "And they speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and he says to them, Peace to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "And they, struck with awe and being afraid, thought to see a spirit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "And he said to them, Why have ye been troubled? and wherefore do reflections come up in your hearts?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "See my hands and my feet, for I am he; feel, and see: for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as ye see me having."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "And having said this, he showed them hands and feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "And yet they not believing from joy, and wondering, he said to them, Have ye any food here?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "And they bestowed upon him part of a broiled fish, and of an honey comb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "And having taken, he ate before them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "And he said to them, These the words which I spake to you, being yet with you, for all things must be completed, written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "Then opened he their understanding, to understand the writings,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "And he said to them, That so has it been written, and so was it necessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "And ye are witnesses of these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "And, behold, I send the solemn promise of my Father upon you: and do ye sit in the city of Jerusalem, till ye be clothed with power from on high. The Ascension ( Mark 16:19–20 ; Acts 1:6–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "And he led them without, even to Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he praised them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "And it was in his praising them, he was separated from them, and carried into heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "52", "text": "And they having worshipped him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "53", "text": "And they were always in the temple, praising and extolling God. Amen."}
{"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": "This was in the beginning with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "All things were by him; and without him out him was not one thing that was."}
{"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 light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not. The Witness of John"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "A man was sent from God, the name to him John."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "This came for testimony, that he might testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "He was not that Light, but that he might testify for the Light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "The Light was true, which enlightens every man coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "He was in the world, and the world was by him, and the world knew him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "He came to his own things, and his own received him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word Became Flesh ( Psalm 84:1–12 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "John testifies for him, and he tried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He coming after me was before me: for he was before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And of his completion we all received, and grace for grace."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared. The Mission of John the Baptist ( Isaiah 40:1–5 ; Matthew 3:1–12 ; Mark 1:1–8 ; Luke 3:1–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that they might ask him, Who art thou?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And he acknowledged, and denied not; and he acknowledged, That I am not the Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they asked, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou a prophet? And he answered, No."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we might give answer to them having sent us. What sayest thou for thyself?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "He said, I the voice of him crying in the desert, Make ye straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And they having been sent were of the Pharisees."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And they asked him, and said to him, Why immersest thou then, if thou art not Christ, neither Elias, neither a prophet?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "John answered them saying, I immerse in water: but he stands the midst of you, whom ye know not;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "This is he coming after me, who was before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loose the strings of his shoes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "These things were in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was immersing. Jesus the Lamb of God ( Matthew 3:13–17 ; Mark 1:9–11 ; Luke 3:21–22 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who was before me: for he was before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And I knew him not: but that he might be manifested to Israel, for this I came immersing in water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And John testified, saying, That I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it remained up on him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And I knew him not: but he having sent me to immerse in water, this said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shouldest see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, this is he immersing in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And I have seen, and testified that this is the Son of God. The First Disciples ( Matthew 4:18–22 ; Mark 1:16–20 ; Luke 5:1–11 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "Again on the morrow John stood, and two of his disciples;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And having looked upon Jesus walking, he says, Behold the Lamb of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "And two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And Jesus having turned, and seen them following, says to them, What seek ye? They said to him, Rabbi, (It says, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "He says to them, Come and see. They came and saw where he remains, and they remained with him that day: and it was about the tenth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "It was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, one of the two having heard of John, and followed him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found Messias, which is, being interpreted, Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus having looked upon him, said, Thou art Simon son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, interpreted, Peter. Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "The morrow Jesus wished to go forth to Galilee, and he finds Philip, and he says to him, Follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus, son of Joseph, him from Nazareth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "And Nathanael said to him, Can any good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, Behold truly an Israelite, in whom is no deceit!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "Nathanael answers and says to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou thou shalt see greater than these."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "And he says to him, Amen, amen, I say to you, From henceforth shall ye see heaven opened, and the messengers of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And the third day was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus was also called, and his disciples, to the wedding."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And wine having failed, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus says to her, What to me and thee, woman mine hour comes not yet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "His mother says to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And six stone water buckets were placed there, according to the purification of the Jews, containing each two or three measures."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus says to them, Fill the water buckets with water. And they filled them even up over."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And he says to them, Draw now, and carry to the superintendent of the feast. And they carried."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And when the superintendent of the feast tasted the wine having been water, and knew not whence it is: (and the servants knew, having drawn the water;) the superintendent calls the bridegroom,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And says to him, Every man sets good wine first; and when they be intoxicated, then inferior: thou hast kept the good wine till now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Mark 11:15–19 ; Luke 19:45–48 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they remained there not many days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the pascha of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and money-changers sitting;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And having made a scourge of ropes, he cast all out of the temple, also sheep, and oxen; and poured out the small coin of money-changers, and overturned the tables;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thine house has eaten me up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Then answered the Jews and said to him, What sign shewest thou, that thou doest these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, Loose this temple, and in three days will I raise it up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "But he spake concerning the temple of his body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them; and they believed the writing, and the word which Jesus spake."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And when he was in Jerusalem at the pascha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus himself trusted not himself to them, for he knew all,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For also 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 of the Pharisees, Nicodemus the name to him, a ruler of the Jews:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "He came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God: for none can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, Amen, amen, I say to thee, Except any one be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born, being an old man? he cannot come in a second time to his mother's belly, and be born."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus says to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, Except any one be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot come into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Thou shouldest not wonder that I said to thee, Ye must be born from above."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "The wind, where it wills, blows, and its voice thou hearest, but thou knowest not whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one having been born of the Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to thee, that what we know, we speak, and what we have seen we testify; and ye receive not our testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "If I spake to you earthly things, and ye believe not, how, if I speak to you heavenly things, will ye believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And none has ascended to heaven, except he having descended from heaven, the Son of man, he being in heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "That every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "He believing in him is not judged: and he not believing has been already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "But he doing the truth comes to the light, that his works might be manifested, that they are wrought in God. John’s Testimony about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "After these Jesus came and his disciples into the Judean land; and there he tarried with them, and immersed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And John was also immersing in Aenon near Salim, for many waters were there: and they came near and were immersed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "For John was not yet cast into prison."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Then was there an investigation of John's disciples with Jesus about purification."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou hast testified, behold, he immerses, and all come to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "John answered and said, No man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Ye yourselves testify to me, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "He having the bride is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy for the bridegroom's voice: therefore this my joy has been completed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "He must increase, and I must be diminished."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "He coming from above is above all, he being of the earth is of earth, and speaks of earth: he coming from heaven is above all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "And what he saw and heard, this be testifies: and none receives his testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "He having received his testimony has fixed a seal that God is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "For he whom God sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "The Father loves the Son, and he has given all things into his hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "He believing in the Son has eternal life: and he not believing the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "(Though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples,)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "He left Judea, and departed again into 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": "Then comes he to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place which Jacob gave to Joseph his son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "A woman of Samaria comes to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "(For his disciples were gone into the city that they might buy food.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Then says the Samaritan woman to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest of me to drink, being a Samaritan woman? for the Jews have no intercourse with the Samaritans."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "The woman says to him, Lord, thou hast no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus answered and said to her, All drinking of this water shall thirst again:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "The woman says to him, Lord, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come here to draw."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus says to her, Retire, call thy husband, and come here."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Thou sayest well, That I have no husband:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "For thou hadst five husbands; and now he whom thou hast is not thy husband: this thou saidst true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "The woman says to him, Lord, I see that thou art a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Our fathers worshipped in this mount; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where they must worship."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, that the hour comes, when neither in this mount, neither in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know: for salvation is of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such worshipping him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "God a Spirit: and they worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "The woman says to him, I know that Messias comes, called Christ: when he should come, he will announce all things to us."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus says to her, I am he speaking to thee. The Disciples Return and Marvel"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And upon this his disciples came, and they wondered that he spake with the woman: yet none said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "The woman then left her water buckets and departed to the city, and says to the men,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "Come, see a man, who told me all which I ever did: is not this Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "Then went they forth out of the city, and came to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And in the mean time the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And he said to them, I have food to eat which ye know not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "Then said the disciples to one another, Has any one brought him to eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And he reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life: that he sowing might rejoice together and he reaping."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "For in this the word is true, That one is sowing, and another reaping."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor. Many Samaritans Believe"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him for the woman's word testifying, That he told me all which I ever did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to remain with them: and he remained there two days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And many more believed on account of his word;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son ( Matthew 8:5–13 ; Luke 7:1–10 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "And after two days he came out thence, and departed to Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honour in his own country."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "45", "text": "When therefore he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all which he did in Jerusalem in the festival: for they also came to the festival."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "46", "text": "Then came Jesus again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain royal one, whose son was sick in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "47", "text": "He, having heard that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went away to him, and asked him that he would go down and heal his son: for he was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "48", "text": "Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye would not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "49", "text": "The royal one says to Him, Lord, go down before my child dies."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus says to him, Go; thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and he went."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "51", "text": "And he already going down, his servants met him, and announced, saying, That thy child lives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "52", "text": "Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was attended to. And they said to him, That yesterday the seventh hour the fever left him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "53", "text": "Then the father knew that in that hour in which Jesus said to him, That thy son lives: and he believed, and his whole house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "54", "text": "This second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "After these was the festival of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And there is in Jerusalem, at the sheep place a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, having five porches."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "In these lay a great multitude of weak, blind, lame, withered, expecting the moving of the water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For a messenger at a time went down into the pool, and troubled the water: then he having first stepped in after the troubling of the water became healthy, by whatever malady a long while since he was laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And a certain man was there, being in weakness thirty-eight years."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus having seen the same lying down, and having known that it was already much time, says to him, Wilt thou be well?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "He being sick answered him, Lord, I have no man, that, when the water was troubled, he might cast me into the pool: and in which I am coming, another steps down before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus says to him, Arise, take up thy couch, and walk."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And quickly the man was well, and he took up his couch, and walked: and the sabbath was in that day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Then said the Jews to him healed, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to take up thy couch."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "He answered them, He having made me well, the same said to me, Lift up thy couch, and walk."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they asked him, Who is the man having said to thee, Lift up thy couch, and walk?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And he healed knew not who he is: for Jesus escaped, a crowd being in the place."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "After these, Jesus finds him in the temple, and he said to him, Behold, thou hast become well: sin no more, lest something worse be to thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "The man departed, and announced to the Jews that it is Jesus having made him well. The Father and the Son"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And therefore the Jews drove out Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these in the sabbath."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus answered, My Father works till now, and I work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, for not only did he loose the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can of himself do nothing, except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he should do, also these does the Son likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all which himself does: and he will show him greater than these, that ye might wonder."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "For as the Father arouses the dead, and makes alive; so also the Son makes alive whom he will."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "That all should honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He honouring not the Son, honours not the Father having sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, That he hearing my word, and believing him having sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment; but has passed from death to life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, That the hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they hearing shall live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And gave him authority also to do judgment, because he is the Son of man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "Wonder not at this: for the hour comes, in which all they in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall go forth;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "They having done good, to rising up of life; and they having done bad, to rising up of judgment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me. Testimonies about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "If I testify of myself, my testimony is not true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "Another is testifying of me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies of me is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Ye have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "But I receive not testimony from man: but these I say that ye might be saved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "He was a burning and manifest light: and ye wished to rejoice for a time in his light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "And I have greater testimony than of John: for the works that the Father gave me that I might finish them, the same works that I do, testify of me, that the Father has sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And the Father having sent me, he has testified of me. Nor have ye at any time heard his voice, or seen his form."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And his word ye have not remaining in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not. The Witness of Scripture ( Luke 16:19–31 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And ye wish not to come to me, that ye might have life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "I receive not glory from man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "I have come in the name of my Father, and ye receive me not: if another should come in his own name, him will ye receive."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father: he accusing you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For if ye had believed Moses, ye had believed me: for he himself wrote of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "And if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "After these Jesus departed beyond the sea of Galilee, of Tiberias."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And a great crowd followed him, for they saw his signs which he did upon the sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus went up into the mount, and sat there with his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And the pascha was near, the festival of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Then Jesus having lifted up the eyes, and seen that a great crowd comes to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these might eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And this he said trying him: for himself knew what he was about to do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should 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 one little boy here, who has five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are these among so many?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus said, Make the men recline. And there was much grass in the place. Then the men reclined, the number about five thousand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, distributed to his disciples, and the disciples to the reclining; and likewise of the small fishes, as many as they wished."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, Gather the fragments remaining over, that nothing should be lost."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Then gathered they, and filled twelve baskets of the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over to them having eaten."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Then the men, having seen the sign which Jesus did, said, That this is truly the prophet coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Then Jesus having known that they were about to come and carry him of forcibly, that they might make him king, departed again to the mount alone. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; Mark 6:45–52 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And when it was evening, his disciples went down to the sea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And having entered into a ship, they came beyond the sea to Capernaum. And already was there darkness, and Jesus had not come to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And the sea, a great wind blowing, arose."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Then having urged forward about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they behold Jesus walking upon the sea, and being near the ship: and they were afraid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "And he says to them, I am; be not afraid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Then they wished to take him into the ship: and the ship was quickly at land to which they retired. Jesus the Bread of Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "The morrow, the crowd standing beyond the sea having seen that no other small vessel was there, except that one into which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus entered not with his disciples into the small vessel, but his disciples departed alone;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "(But also other small vessels came out of Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, the Lord having returned thanks:)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "When the crowd therefore saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also entered into ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And having found them beyond the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when camest thou here?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but for that ye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "Then said they to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye should believe in him whom he has sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "Then said they to him, What sign doest thou, that we might see, and believe thee? what workest thou?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you bread from heaven; but my Father gives you true bread from heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "For the bread of God is he coming down from heaven, and giving life to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "Then said they to him, Lord, always give us this bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "But I said to you, That ye have seen me, and believe not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and he coming to me I will not cast out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "For I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And this is the will of the Father having sent me, that all which he has given me, I should not loose of it, but raise it up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "And this is the will of him having sent me, that every one seeing the Son, and believing in him, should have eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "Then murmured the Jews about him, because he said, I am the bread having come down from heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "And they said, Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? how then says he, That I have come down from heaven?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Murmur not with one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore having heard and learned of the Father, comes to me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "Not that any one has seen the Father, except he being from God, he has seen the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, he believing in me has eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "I am the bread of life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "This is the bread which coming down from heaven, that whoever should eat of it, and he should not die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "Then the Jews contended with one another, saying, How can he give us the flesh to eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, remains in me, and I in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "57", "text": "As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father: also he chewing me, the same also shall live through me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "58", "text": "This is the bread which having come down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and died: he chewing this bread shall live forever. Many Disciples Turn Back ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 9:57–62 ; Luke 14:25–33 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "59", "text": "He said these, teaching in the synagogue, in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "60", "text": "Then many of his disciples, having heard, said, This is a hard word; who can hear it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "61", "text": "And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "62", "text": "If then ye see the Son of man going up where he was before."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "63", "text": "It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "64", "text": "But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they are not believing, and who he is going to deliver him up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "65", "text": "And he said, Therefore have I said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him of my Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "66", "text": "From this many of his disciples went away back, and walked no more with him. Peter’s Confession of Faith ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Mark 8:27–30 ; Luke 9:18–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "67", "text": "Then said Jesus to the twelve, And ye will not go away?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "68", "text": "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "69", "text": "And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, Son of the living God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "70", "text": "Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and of you one is a devil?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "71", "text": "And he spake of Judas Iscariot, of Simon: for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus walked after these in Galilee: for he wished not to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And the festival of the Jews was near, the Pitching of tents."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Then said his brethren to him, Go away thence, and retire to Judea, that also thy disciples might see thy works which thou doest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "For none does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in freedom of speech. If thou do these, make thyself manifest to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For neither believed his brethren in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Then says Jesus to them, My time is not yet present: and your time is always ready."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "The world cannot hate you: but me it hates, for I testify of it, that its works are evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Go ye up to this festival: I go not yet up to the festival; for my time has not yet been completed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And speaking to them these things, he remained in Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And when his brethren went up, then he went up to the festival, not openly, but as in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "Then the Jews sought him in the festival, and said, Where is he."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And much murmuring was for him in the crowds: some truly said, That he is good: and others said, No; but he deceives the crowd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "However none spake of him with freedom of speech, for fear of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And now the festival being in the midst, Jesus went up to the temple, and taught."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Jews wondered, saying, How knows he letters, not having learned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "If any desire to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "He speaking from himself, seeks his own glory: but he seeking the glory of him having sent him, he is true, and no injustice is in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you does the law? Why seek ye to kill me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "The crowd answered and said, Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel for this."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Moses has given you circumcision; (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and in the sabbath ye circumcise a man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "If a man receive circumcision in the sabbath, that the law of Moses be not loosed; rage not at me, because I made a man wholly well on the Sabbath."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Judge not according to sight, but judge just judgment. Is Jesus the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Then said some of the Jerusalemites, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And, behold, he speaks in freedom of speech, and they say nothing to him. Not at any time knew the rulers truly, that this is truly Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "But we know this whence he is: and Christ, when he should come, none knows whence he is."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Then cried Jesus in the temple, teaching, and saying, And ye know me, and ye know whence I am: and I have not come of myself, but he having sent me is true, whom ye know not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "But I know him; for I am from him, and he sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "Then sought they to seize him: and none put the hand upon him, for his hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And many of the crowd believed on him, and said, That Christ, when he should come, will he do more signs than these which he did?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things of him; and the Pharisees and chief priests sent servants that they might seize him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time am I with you, and I retire to him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "And ye shall seek me and shall not find: and where I am, ye cannot come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "Then said the Jews among themselves, Where is he about to go, that we shall not find him? is he not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "What is the word which he spake, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find: and where I am, ye cannot come? Living Water"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "He believing in me, as said the writing, from his belly shall flow rivers of living waters."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "(This spake he of the Spirit which they believing in him were about to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet; for Jesus was not yet honoured.) Division over Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "Then many of the crowd, having heard the word, said, This is truly a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "Others said, This is Christ: and others said, Yet Christ comes not out of Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "Said not the writing, That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was, Christ comes?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "Then was there a division in the crowd on his account."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And some of them wished to seize him; but none put hands upon him. The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "Then came the servants to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why did ye not bring him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "And the servants answered, Never spake man as this man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "Then the Pharisees answered them, Have ye not also been deceived."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "But the crowd, not knowing the law, are cursed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "Nicodemus says to them, (he having come to him by night, being one of them,)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "Our law judges not a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "They answered and said to him, And art thou not of Galilee? Search, and see: for a prophet has not risen out of Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "And each man went to his house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus went to the mount of Olives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And again in the morning he was present in the temple, and all the people came to him; and having sat down, he taught them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "They say to him, Teacher, this woman was taken committing adultery, in the very act."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "In the law Moses commanded us such to be stoned: therefore what sayest thou?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And this said they, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his fingers upon the earth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And when they continued asking him, having lifted up the head, he said to them, Let him faultless among you, first cast a stone at her."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And again having stooped down, he wrote upon the earth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And they having heard, and being convicted by consciousness, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus having lifted up the head, and seen none but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are they accusing thee? has none condemned thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And she said, None, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Jesus the Light of the World ( 1 John 1:5–10 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "Then said the Pharisees to him, Thou testifiest of thyself; thy testimony is not true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them. Though I testify of myself; my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and where I retire; but ye know not whence I came and where I retire."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And if I also judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And also in your law has it been written, that the testimony of two men is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "I am he testifying of myself, and the Father having sent me testifies of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye had known my Father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "These words spake Jesus in the royal treasury, teaching in the temple: and no one seized him; for his hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "Then said Jesus again to them, I retire, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I retire, ye cannot come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Then said the Jews, Will he not kill himself? for he says, Where I retire, ye cannot come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And he said to them, Ye are from below I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "Then said they to him, Who art thou? And Jesus said to them, In the beginning, he which I spake to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "Many things have I to speak and judge of you; but he having sent me is true; and what things I have heard from him these say I to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "They knew not that he spake to them of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, When ye lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am, and I do nothing of myself; but as my Father taught me, these I speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him. The Truth Will Set You Free ( 2 John 1:4–6 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "He speaking these, many believed in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, say I to you, That every one doing sin, is servant of sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And the servant remains not in the house forever; the Son remains forever."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "If the Son make you free, ye shall be truly free."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, for my word has no place in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, If God were your Father, ye had loved me: for I went forth from God, and came; for I have not come of myself, but he sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And because I say the truth, ye believe me not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "He being of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear not, for ye are not of God. Before Abraham Was Born, I Am"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "And I seek not my glory: there is he seeking and judging."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, If any keep my word, he should never see death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "Then said the Jews to him, Now we have known that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any keep my word, he shall never taste of death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "Thou art not greater than our father Abraham, who died; and the prophets died: whom makest thou thyself?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father honouring me; whom ye say, that he is your God:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "And ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he might see my day: and he saw, and rejoiced."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "57", "text": "Then said the Jews to him, Thou hast not yet fifty years, and hast thou seen Abraham."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "58", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was born, I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "59", "text": "Then lifted up they stones that they might cast upon him: and Jesus was hid, and he went forth out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and so he passed by."}
{"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, he, or his parents, that he was born blind?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered, Neither did this sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God might be manifested in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "While I be in the world, I am the light of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Having said these, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay upon the eyes of the blind,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And said to him, Retire, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is interpreted, Sent.) He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "Then the neighbors, and those seeing him before that he was blind, said, Is not this he sitting and begging?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Others said, This is he: and others, That he is like him: he said, That I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Then said they to him, How were thine eyes opened?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "He answered and said, A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Retire to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and having gone and washed, I saw again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "Then said they to him, Where is he? He says I know not. The Pharisees Investigate the Healing"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "They bring him to the Pharisees, him once blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was the sabbath, when Jesus made clay, and opened his eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he saw again. He said to them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "Then said certain of the Pharisees, This man is not from God, for he keeps not the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man do such signs? And a division was among them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "They say to the blind again, What sayest thou of him, for he opened thine eyes? He said, That he is a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "Then the Jews believed not of him that he was blind, and saw again, until they called the parents of him having looked up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom ye say that be was born blind how then does be now see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "But how he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: he has age; ask him: he shall speak for himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "These said his parents, for they feared the Jews: for already had the Jews agreed, that if any should acknowledge him Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore said his parents, That he has age; ask him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Then called they the man of a second time, who was blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "He answered and said, If he be sinful, I know not: one thing I know, that, being blind, now I see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And again said they to him, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "He answered them, I told you already, and ye heard not: why wish ye to hear again? ye wish not also to be his disciples?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this, we know not whence he is."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "The man answered and said to them, For in this is it wonderful, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "And we know that God hears not the sinful: but if any be godly, and do his will, this he hears."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "From forever was it not heard that any opened the eyes of him born blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "If this one were not of God, he could do nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without. Spiritual Blindness"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus heard that they cast him without; and having found him, said to him, Believest thou in the Son of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe in him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Thou hast also seen him, and he speaking with thee, the same 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, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And he coming in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "To him the guard of the door 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": "And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "This proverb spake Jesus to then: and they knew not what things they were which he spake to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, That I am the door of the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and am known by mine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command received I of my Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Then was a division again among the Jews for these words."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And many of them said, He has a demon, and is frenzied; why hear ye him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "Others said, These are not the words of a demon. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind. Jesus at the Feast of Dedication"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And there was the festival of inauguration among the Jerusalemites, and it was winter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you."}
{"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 eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "I and my Father are one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Then again lifted up the Jews stones that they might stone him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus Answered them, Many good works I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye stone me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said; Ye are gods?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "Whom the Father consecrated, and sent into the world, say ye that thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And if I do, though ye believe me not, believe the works: that ye might know, and believe, that the Father in me, and I in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "Then sought they again to take him: and he went out from their hand, John’s Testimony Confirmed"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And again he departed beyond Jordan to the place where John was first immersing; and he remained there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And many came to him, and said, That truly John did no sign: but all which John said of him was true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And many believed in him there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And a certain Lazarus was sick, from Bethany, of the town of Mary And Martha her sister."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "(And Mary was she having anointed the Lord with perfumed oil, and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Then sent the sisters to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus having heard, said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that by it the Son of God be honoured."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "When therefore he heard that he is sick, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "The disciples say to him, Rabbi, now the Jews sought to stone thee; and retirest thou there again?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of the day? If any walk in the day, he stumbles not, for he sees the light of this world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "But if any walk in the night, he stumbles, for light is not in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Then said his disciples, Lord, if he has been set to sleep, he shall be saved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus spake of his death: but these supposed that he speaks of the repose of sleep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Then therefore Jesus said to them with freedom of speech, Lazarus is dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And I rejoice for you, that ye might believe, that I was not there; but let us go to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we might die with him. Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Then Jesus, having come, found him having four days already in the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And many of the Jews were come to them about Martha and Many, that they might console them for their brother."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus comes, met him: and Mary sat in the house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "But now I also know, that whatever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall arise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Martha says to him, I know that he shall rise at the rising up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus said to her, I am the rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And all living and believing in me should never die. Believest thou this?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "She says to him, Yes, Lord: I have believed that thou art Christ, the Son of God, he coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And having said these, she departed and called Mary her sister secretly, having said, The Teacher is come, and calls thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "She, when she heard, arises quickly, and comes to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "Then the Jews being in the house with her, and consoling her, having seen Mary, that she rose quickly and went forth, followed her, saying, That she retires to the tomb, that she might weep there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou wert here, my brother had not died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping having come with her, was heavy in spirit, and troubled himself,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "And said, Where have ye 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 said the Jews, See how he loved him!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "And certain of them said, Could not he having opened the eyes of the blind, have made that this should not die? Jesus Raises Lazarus ( Acts 9:36–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "Then Jesus again being heavy in himself, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was laid upon it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he already smells: for it is the fourth day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Jesus says to her, Said I not to thee, if thou shouldest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "Then took they away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes above, and said, Father, I return thee thanks that thou didst hear me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "And I knew that thou always hearest me: but for the crowd standing round I said, that they might believe that thou didst send me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "And having said these, he cried out with a great voice, Lazarus, come out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "And the dead came out, bound feet and hands with bandages; and his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let him retire. The Plot to Kill Jesus ( Matthew 26:1–5 ; Mark 14:1–2 ; Luke 22:1–2 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "Then many of the Jews, having come to Mary, and seeing what Jesus did, believed in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "But certain of them departed to the Pharisees, and said to them what Jesus did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "Then gathered together the chief priests and Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "If we let him thus go, all will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away also our place and nation."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "And this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "And not for the nation alone, but that also the children of God, scattered, should be gathered into one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "Then from that day they counselled together that they might kill him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus then walked no more with freedom of speech among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "55", "text": "And the Jews' pascha was near: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the pascha, that they might purify themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "56", "text": "Then sought they Jesus, and said with one another, standing in the temple, What seems it to you, that he should not come to the festival."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "57", "text": "And also the chief priests and Pharisees had given a command, that if any know where he is, he should make known, that they might take him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus, six days before the pascha, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus the dead, whom he raised from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Then made they him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of them reclining at table with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Mary having taken a pound of perfumed oil of spikenard, very precious, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs: and the house was filled with the smell of the perfumed oil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, of Simon, being about to deliver him up,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said Jesus, Let her go; for the day of my interment has she kept this."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For the poor have ye always with you; and me ye have not always. The Plot to Kill Lazarus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Then a great crowd of Jews knew that he is there: and they came not for Jesus alone, but that also they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And the chief priests took counsel that they might also kill Lazarus;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "Because many for him retired, and believed in Jesus. The Triumphal Entry ( Zechariah 9:9–13 ; Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; Luke 19:28–40 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "The morrow a great crowd, having come to the festival, having heard that Jesus comes to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to the meeting to him, and cried, Praised he coming in the name of the Lord, King of Israel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having found a small ass, sat upon it; as it is written,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Fear not, O daughter of Sion: behold, thy King comes, sitting upon the foal of an ass."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And these the disciples knew not at first: but when Jesus was honoured, then remembered they that these were written of him, and they did these things to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "The crowd therefore testified which being with him, that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And for this the crowd met him, for they heard he had done this sign."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Ye see that ye aid nothing; behold, the world has departed after him. Jesus Predicts His Death"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And there were certain Greeks of those going up that they might worship in the festival:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "These then came to Philip, him of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Philip comes and says to Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip say to Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come, that the Son of man should be honoured."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, except a kernel of wheat, having fallen into the earth, should die, it remains alone: and if it should die, it brings forth much fruit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "He loving his soul shall lose it; but he hating his soul in this world, shall guard it for life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If any one would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be my servant: and if any one serve me, him will the Father honour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Now has my soul been troubled; and what should I say? O Father, save me from this hour: but for this came I to this hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Father, honour thy name. Then came a voice from heaven, I have also honoured, and will again honour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Then the crowd, having stood and heard, said it was thunder: others said, A messenger has spoken to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus answered and said, This voice has not been for me, but for you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the ruler of this world be cast out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all to myself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "This said he, signifying what death he was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ remains forever: and how sayest thou That the Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have light, lest darkness overtake you: and he walking in darkness knows not where he retires."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye might be the sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and having departed, he was hid from them. Belief and Unbelief"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "And he having done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "That the word of Esaias the prophet might be completed, which he spake, Lord, who believed our report? and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "Therefore they could not believe, for Esaias said again,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart: lest they see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and should turn back, and I should heal them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "These said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "Yet nevertheless also many of the rulers believed in him; but on account of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge, lest they should be excluded from the synagogue:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "For they loved the honour of men more than the honour of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Jesus cried and said, He believing in me, believes not in me, but in him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "And he seeing me, sees him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "I have come a light into the world, that every one believing in me should not remain in darkness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And if any hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "He rejecting me, and not receiving my words, has him judging him: the word which I spake, that shall judge him in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "For I spake not of myself; but the Father having sent me, he gave me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "And I know that his command is life eternal: therefore what I speak, as the Father said to me, so I speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And before the feast of the pascha, Jesus knowing that his hour had come that he should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And supper having been, the devil having already cast into the heart of Judas Iscariot, of Simon, that he should deliver him up;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus knowing that the Father has given all things to him into the hands, and that he came out from God, and retired to God;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "He arises from supper, and lays down the garments; and having taken a linen cloth, he girded himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Then casts he water into a washing vessel, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe with the linen cloth with which he was girded."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And he comes to Simon Peter: and he says to him, Lord, washest thou my feet?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know after these."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Peter says to him, Thou shouldest never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Except I wash thee, thou hast no part with me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not my feet only, but the hands and head."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus says to him, He washed has no need but to have the feet washed, but is wholly clean: and ye are clean, but not all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "For he knew him delivering him up, therefore he said, Ye are not all clean."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "When therefore he washed their feet; and took his garments, going to recline again, he said to them, Knew ye what I have done to you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Ye call one Teacher and Lord: and ye say well; for I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "If therefore, I washed your feet, the Lord and Teacher; ye also ought to wash the feet of one another:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "For I have given you a pattern, as I have done to you, also should ye do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, The servant is not greater than his Lord; neither the sent greater than he having sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "If ye know these, happy are ye if ye do them. Jesus Predicts His Betrayal ( Psalm 41:1–13 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "I say not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the writing might be completed, He chewing bread with me lifted up his heel against me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "From now I say to you, before it shall be, that, when it should be, ye might believe that I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, He receiving whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he receiving me receives him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "These things Jesus having spoken, was troubled in spirit, and he testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "Then looked the disciples one upon another, being perplexed of whom he spake."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And there was one of his disciples reclining on the bosom of Jesus, whom he loved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Then Simon Peter nodded to this one, to inquire who it might be of whom he speaks."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And he reclining upon Jesus' breast says to him, Lord, who is it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answers, This is he to whom I, having dipped a small morsel, shall bestow. And having dipped the small morsel, he gives to Judas Iscariot, of Simon."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And after the small morsel then came Satan into him. Then says Jesus to him, What thou doest, do quickly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And this none of the reclining knew for what he said to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "For some thought, since Judas had the small coffer, that Jesus says to him, Purchase of what we have need for the festival; or, that he might give something to the poor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "He having taken the small morsel went quickly forth: and it was night when he then went forth. Love One Another ( Romans 12:9–13 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus says, Now was the Son of man honoured, and God was honoured in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "If God were honoured in him, also shall God honour him in himself, and quickly shall he honour him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Little children, yet a little am I with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, That where I retire, ye cannot come; and I say to you now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Mark 14:27–31 ; Luke 22:31–38 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where retirest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I retire, thou shalt not be able to follow me now; and afterwards thou shalt follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "Peter says to him, Lord, why can I not follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus answered, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me Truly, truly, I say to thee, The cock shall not utter a sound, till thou deny me thrice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "In my Father's house are many dwellings: and if not, I had said to you. 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, again I come, and I will receive you to myself; that where I am, ye might be also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And where I retire ye know, and the way ye know. The Way, the Truth, and the Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Thomas says to him, Lord, we know not where thou retirest; and how can we 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 by me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "If ye had known me, ye had also known my Father: and from now ye know, and have seen him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Believest thou not that I in the Father, and the Father is in me? the words which I speak to you, I speak not of myself: and the Father remaining in me does the works."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "Believe ye me that I in the Father, and the Father in me: and if not, for these works believe me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, He believing in me, the works which I do shall he do also; and greater than these shall he do; for I go to my Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And whatever ye ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father might be honoured by the Son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "If ye ask anything in my name, I will do. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit ( John 16:5–16 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "If ye love me, keep my commands."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "The Spirit of truth; which the world cannot receive, for it sees it not, neither knows: and ye know it; for it shall remain with you, and shall be in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I will not leave you orphans; I come to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "Yet a little, and the world sees me no more; and ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "In that day shall ye know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "He having my commands, and keeping them, the same is he loving me: and he loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Judas says to him, not Iscariot, Lord, how has it been that thou art about to make thyself manifest to us, and not to the world?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "He not loving me will not keep my words: and the word which ye hear is not of me, but of the Father having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "These have I spoken to you, remaining with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you. Peace I Leave with You"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be timid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "Ye have heard that I said to you, I retire, and I am coming to you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father: for my Father is greater than I."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And now have I told you before it shall be, that when it should be, ye might believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "I will no more speak much with you: for the ruler of this world comes, and has nothing in me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "But that the world might know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, so I do. Arise ye, let us go thence."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me. No Greater Love"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "As the Father loved me, I also loved you: remain in my love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "These things I command you, that ye love one another. The Hatred of the World"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "Remember the word which I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they expelled me, they will also expel you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not sin and now they have no pretext for their sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "He hating me hates my Father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "But that the word written in their law might be completed, That they hated me gratuitously."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And ye also testify, for ye are with me from the beginning."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "These have I spoken, that ye should not be offended."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "But these have I spoken to you, that when the hour should come, ye should remember them, for I said to you. And these I said not to you from the beginning, for I was with you. The Promise of the Holy Spirit ( John 14:15–26 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "But now do I retire to him having sent me; and not one of you asks me, Where dost thou retire."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "But because I have spoken these to you, sorrow has filled your heart."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But I say the truth to you; it is profitable to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Intercessor shall not come to you; and if I go, I will send him to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having come, he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Truly of sin, because they believe not in me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And of justice, because I retire to my Father, and ye see me no more;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And of judgment, for the ruler of this world has been judged."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "He shall honour me: for he shall take of mine, and announce to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "All things which the Father has are mine: therefore said I, he shall take of mine, and announce to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "A little while, and ye see me not: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, and because I retire to the Father. Grief Will Turn to Joy"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Then said of his disciples to one another, What is this which he says to you, A little, and ye see me not: and again, a little, and ye shall see me: and, Because I retire to my Father?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "Then said they, What is this which he says, A little we know not what he says."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "Then knew Jesus that they wished to ask him, and he said to them, For this seek ye with one another that I said, A little while, and ye see me not; and again a little, and ye shall see me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you. Ask in My Name ( Matthew 18:19–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, That whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "In that day shall ye ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "For the Father himself loves you, for ye have loved me, and believed that I came forth from God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "I came forth from 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, See, now thou speakest with freedom of speech, and sayest no proverb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any ask thee: by this we believe that thou earnest forth from God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus answered them, Now do ye believe?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "Behold, the hour comes, and has now come, that ye be scattered, each to his own, and leave me alone: and I am not alone, for the Father is with me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was. Prayer for the Disciples"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "I ask for them: I ask not for the world, but for them thou hast given me: for they are to thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And all my things are thine, and thine mine; and I have been honoured in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "I ask not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "They are not of the world, as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "As thou sentest me into the world, I also sent them into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And for them I render myself holy, that they also be rendered holy in the truth; Prayer for All Believers"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And I ask not for these alone, but also for them believing in me through their word;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "That all might be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that they also be one in us; that the world might believe that thou sentest me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And I, the honour which thou hast given me, have given them; that they might be one, as we are one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "I in them, and thou in me, that they might be perfected in one: and that the world might know that thou sentest me, and lovedst them, as thou lovedst me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "O just Father, the world knew thee not: but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And I made known to them thy name, and I will make known: that the love with which thou lovedst me might be in them, and I in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus having said these, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Kedron, where was a garden, into which he came, he and his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And Judas also knew the place, he delivering him up: for Jesus was many times gathered there with his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Judas, having taken a band and attendants from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lights and torches and weapons."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus then, knowing all coming upon him, having come out, said to them, Whom seek ye."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "They answered him, Jesus the Nazarite. Jesus says to them, I am. And Judas also, he delivering up, was standing with them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "Then, when he said to them, That I am, they went away backward, and fell to the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus the Nazarite."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus answered, I said to you, that I am: if then ye seek me, leave these to retire:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "That the word might be completed which he spake, That whom thou hast given me, I lost none of them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. And the name to the servant was Malchus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "Then said Jesus to Peter, Put thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the band and captain of a thousand and attendants of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And led him away to Annas first; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the chief priest that year."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And Caiaphas was he having counselled the Jews, that it is profitable for one man to be destroyed for the people. Peter’s First Denial ( Matthew 26:69–70 ; Mark 14:66–68 ; Luke 22:54–57 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple: and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and came together with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And Peter stood before the door without. Then went out the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and spake to her guarding the door, and brought in Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Then says the young girl guarding the door to Peter, Art not thou also of this man's disciples? He says, I am not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And the servants and attendants stood, having made a heap of burning coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself. Jesus before the High Priest ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Mark 14:53–65 ; Luke 22:66–71 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "Then the chief priest asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus answered him, I spake with freedom of speech to the world: I always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews were always come together; and I spake nothing in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Why askest thou me? ask those having heard, what I said to them: see, they know what I said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And he having said these things, one of the attendants standing by gave Jesus a blow with a rod, having said, Answerest thou the chief priest so?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered him, If I spake badly, testify of evil: and if well, why strikest thou me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "(Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.) Peter’s Second and Third Denials ( Matthew 26:71–75 ; Mark 14:69–72 ; Luke 22:58–62 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "And Simon Peter was standing, and warming himself. Then said they to him, Art thou not also of his disciples he denied, and said, I am not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "Says one of the chief priest's servants, being of his family whose ear Peter cut off, Saw I not thee in the garden with him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "Then Peter again denied: and quickly the cock uttered a sound. Jesus before Pilate ( Matthew 27:11–14 ; Luke 23:1–5 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Then went Pilate out to them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "They answered and said to him, If he were not injurious, we had not delivered him to thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Then said Pilate to them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. Then said the Jews to him, It is not lawful for us to kill any one:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "That the word of Jesus might be completed which he spake, giving a sign by what death he was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Then came Pilate again into the pretorium, and asked Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered him, of thyself sayest thou this, or did others tell thee of me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "Pilate answered, Much less am I a Jew; thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee to me: What didst thou?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one 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 went he out to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "But a custom is to you, that I loose one to you in the pascha: will ye therefore I should loose to you the King of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "Then cried they all again, saying, Not this, but Barabbas: and Barabbas was a robber."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And the soldiers having twined a crown of thorns, put upon his head, and they put round him a purple robe,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they gave him blows with a rod."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "Then again went out Pilate without, and says to them, See, I lead him to you without, that ye might know that in him I find no fault."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "Then went forth Jesus without, bearing a crown of thorns, and a purple garment. And he says to them, Behold the man!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "When therefore the chief priests and attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them, Take ye him, and crucify; for I find no fault in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, for he made himself the Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "When Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And went into the pretorium again, and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "Then says Pilate to him, Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to loose thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus answered, Thou hast no power against me, if it were not given thee from above: therefore he delivering me to thee has greater sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "From this Pilate sought to loose him: and the Jews cried out, saying, If thou loose this, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Pilate having heard, brought Jesus without, and sat upon the judgment seat, in a place called Paved with ornamental stones; in Hebraic, Gabbatha."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was the preparation of the pascha, and about the sixth hour: and he says to the Jews, Behold your King!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And they cried, Take away, take away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. The Crucifixion ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "Then, therefore, delivered he him to them, that he might be crucified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And they took Jesus, and led away: and bearing his cross he went out into a place called Kranium, which in Hebraic is called Golgotha:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "Where they crucified him, and with him two others, hence and thence, and Jesus in the midst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And Pilate also wrote a title, and put upon the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARITE, KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "Then read many of the Jews this title: for the place was near the city where Jesus was crucified: and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Roman."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, 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": "Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part: and also the coat: and the coat was unsewn through the whole, having been woven from above."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "Then said they to one another, Let us not divide it, but let us draw lots for it, whose it shall be: that the writing might be completed, saying, They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my clothing cast they the lot. Then truly did the soldiers these things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus then having seen the mother, and the disciple standing near, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then says he to the disciple, Behold thy mother And from that hour the disciple took her to his own. The Death of Jesus ( Psalm 22:1–31 ; Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already completed, that the writing might be finished, says, I thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "Then was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, put upon hyssop, and brought near to his mouth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "When Jesus therefore took the vinegar, he said, It has been finished: and having bent the head, he delivered up the spirit. Jesus’ Side Is Pierced ( Zechariah 12:10–14 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "Then the Jews, that the bodies remain not upon the cross in the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for great was the day of that sabbath,) asked Pilate that their legs be broken, and they be taken away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "Then came the soldiers, and truly brake the legs of the first, and of the other crucified with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And upon having come to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they brake not his legs:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "But one of the soldiers with a javelin pricked his side, and quickly came out blood and water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And he having seen has testified, and his testimony is true: and he knows that he says true, that ye might believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "For these were that the writing be completed, A bone of him shall not be broken."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And again another writing says, They shall look on whom they goaded. The Burial of Jesus ( Isaiah 53:9–12 ; Matthew 27:57–61 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "And after these, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, in secret, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might takeaway the body of Jesus: and Pilate conceded. He came then, and took the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And Nicodemus also came, he having come to Jesus at first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "Then took they the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen bandages with spices, as the custom is to the Jews to prepare a body for interment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And in the place where he was crucified, was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was ever laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "There, therefore, on account of the Jews' preparation, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And in one of the sabbaths comes Mary Magdalene in the morning, there yet being darkness, to the tomb, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They took away the Lord from the tomb; and we know not where they laid him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "Peter then came forth, and the other disciple, and they came to the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And they two ran together: and the other disciple ran before, swifter than Peter, and came first to the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And having stood stooping, he sees the linen bandages lying; yet he did not go in."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Then comes Simon Peter following him, and he came into the tomb, and sees the linen bandages lying,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And the napkin, which was upon his head, not lying with the linen bandages, but separately inwrapped in one place."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "Then, therefore, went in also the other disciple, having first come to the tomb, and he saw, and believed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "For not yet knew they the writing, that he must rise from the dead. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( Mark 16:9–11 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "Then went away the disciples again by themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And Mary stood near the tomb weeping without: therefore as she wept, she stood stooping into the tomb,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And sees two messengers in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus was laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And they say to her, Woman, why weepest thou? She says to them, Because they took away my Lord, and I know not where they laid him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And having said these, she was turned back, and sees Jesus standing, and she knew not that it is Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus says to her, Woman, why weepest thou a whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it is the gardener, says to him, Lord, if thou didst bear him away, say where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus says to her, Mary, She having turned, says to him, Rabboni; which is called, Teacher."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus says to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: and go thou to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Mary Magdalene comes announcing to the disciples that she has seen the Lord, and he said these to her. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( Luke 24:36–49 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "Then it being evening, in that one day of the sabbaths, and the doors shut where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And having said this, he showed them his hands, and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "Then said Jesus again to them, Peace to you: as the Father has sent me, I also send you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And having said this, he inspired, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained. Jesus Appears to Thomas"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "And Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "Then said the other disciples to him, We have seen the Lord. And he said to them, Except I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And after eight days again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them: Jesus comes, the doors shut, and said, Peace to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "Then says he to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and see my hands; and bring thy hand, and put into my side: and be not unbelieving, but believing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: happy they not having seen, and having believed. The Purpose of John’s Book"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "Then truly many other signs did Jesus also before his disciples, which are not written in this small book:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things Jesus again manifested himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias and so he made manifest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and they of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "Simon Peter says to them, I retire to fish. They say to him, We also go with thee. They came forth, and went up into the ship quickly; and in that night they caught nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And morning being already come, Jesus stood on the sea-shore: yet the disciples knew not that it is Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Then says Jesus to them, Children, have ye nothing cooked to eat? They answered him, No."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said to them, Cast the net to the right parts of the ship, and ye shall find. Therefore they cast, and were no more able to draw it, from the multitude of fishes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "Then that disciple says, whom Jesus loved, to Peter, It is the Lord. Then Simon Peter having heard that it is the Lord, girded round the upper garment, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the sea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as from two hundred cubits) dragging the net of fishes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus says to them, Bring ye from the little fishes which ye have now caught."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Simon Peter went up, and drew the net upon the earth, full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty-three: and being so many, the net was not split."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus says to them, Come, dine. And none of the disciples dared to inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it is the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Then comes Jesus, and takes bread, and gives them, and fish likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "This already the third time Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having risen from the dead. Jesus and Peter"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to thee, when thou west younger, thou didst gird thyself and walk where thou wouldest; and when thou shalt grow old, thou shalt stretch out thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou wilt not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And this he said, signifying by what death he shall honour God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me. Jesus and the Beloved Disciple"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And Peter having turned back, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also reclined in the supper upon his breast, and said, Lord, who is he delivering thee up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Peter having seen him, says to Jesus, Lord, and what this."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus says to him, If I will him to remain till I come, what to thee? follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "Then went out the word to the brethren, That this disciple dies not: and Jesus said not to him, That he dies not; but, If I will him to remain till I come, what to thee?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "This is the disciple testifying of these, and having written this: and we know that his testimony is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they be written every one, neither do I suppose the world itself will receive the books written. Amen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Truly the first word had I made of all things, O Theophilus, of which Jesus began to do and also to teach,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Till the day having commanded the sent whom he chose through the Holy Spirit, he was taken up:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And, being collected together, he enjoined them not to be separated from Jerusalem, but to wait for the solemn promise of the Father, which ye heard of me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For John truly immersed in water; and ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit not after these many days. The Ascension ( Mark 16:19–20 ; Luke 24:50–53 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Truly they therefore having come together, asked him, saying, Lord, if in this time thou wilt restore the kingdom of Israel?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And he said to them, It is not yours to know the times and occasions, which the Father fixed in his own power."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And having said these, they beholding, he was lifted up; and a cloud received him from their eyes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And as they were looking intently to heaven, he going, behold, two men were standing before them in white raiment;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And they said, Galilean men, why stand ye looking to heaven this Jesus, taken up from you to heaven, so shall he come which manner ye saw him going to heaven. Matthias Replaces Judas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olive, which is near Jerusalem, having the way of a sabbath."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "All these were persevering unanimously in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary mother of Jesus, with his brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And in these days Peter having risen in the midst of the disciples, said, (also the crowd of names together was about an hundred and twenty,)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Men, brethren, this writing must be filled up, which the Holy Spirit spake before by mouth of David concerning Judas, being guide to them having taken Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For he was numbered with us, and obtained the lot of this service."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Truly this therefore purchased a place from the wages of iniquity; and being bent forward, he brake in pieces in the midst, and all his entrails were poured out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And it was known to all dwelling in Jerusalem; so that that place was called in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, The place of blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For it has been written, in the book of Psalms, Let his country-house be a desert, and let none be dwelling in it: and his inspection may another take."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore must there, of these men having come with us in all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and came out among us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Having begun from the immersion of John, unto the day which he was taken up from us, be one of these a witness with you of his rising up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And having prayed, they said, Thou, O Lord, knowing hearts of all, spew forth one of two which thou hast chosen,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "To take the lot of this service and sending forth, from which Judas passed by, to go to his own place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And he gave their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was voted together with the eleven sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And in the day of Pentecost being completed, they were all unanimously in one and the same place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And seen to them were tongues divided as fire, and it sat upon each one of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, circumspect men, from every nation of those under heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And there having been this voice, the multitude came together, and were disturbed, for each one heard them speaking in his own dialect."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And all were affected in mind and wondered, saying to one another, Behold, are not these speaking Galileans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And how hear we each in our own dialect, in which we were born?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near Cyrene, and Romans arriving as strangers, and Jews, and strangers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And all were affected in mind, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What may this mean to be?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And others mocking said, That they are filled with new wine. Peter Addresses the Crowd ( Psalm 16:1–11 ; Joel 2:28–32 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And Peter, having stood with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Men Jews, and all ye dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and hear ye my words:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "For not, as ye suppose, are these intoxicated, (for it is the third hour of the day.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "But this is that spoken by the prophet Joel;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And it shall be in the last days, says God, I pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elder dream dreams:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And also upon my servants and upon my maids in those days will I pour out from my Spirit; and they shall 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 steam of smoke:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and distinguished day of the Lord come:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And it shall be, every one, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Men, Israelites, bear these words; Jesus the Nazarite, a man elected by God for you by powers and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, (as also ye yourselves know:)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death: as it was not possible for him to be holden of it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For David says about him, I saw beforehand the Lord before me always, for he is of my right hand, that I be not moved:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "For this my heart was gladdened, and my tongue was transported with joy; and yet also shall my flesh encamp in hope:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with gladness with thy face."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Men, brethren, it is permitted to speak with freedom of speech to you of the patriarch David, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us even till this day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him, of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit upon his throne:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "Foreknowing, he spake of the rising up of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "This Jesus God raised up, of which all we are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "Therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which ye now see and hear."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "For David ascended not into the heavens: and he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my right hand,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "Even till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "Therefore let all the house of Israel know certainly, that God made him Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified. Three Thousand Believe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "And having heard, they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the sent, What shall we do, men, brethren?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And Peter said to them, Repent, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and ye shall 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 afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "And with many other words he appealed earnestly and besought, saying, Be ye saved from this crooked generation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "Then truly they having gladly received his word were immersed: and in that day were added about three thousand souls. The Fellowship of Believers ( Acts 4:32–37 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "And to every soul was fear: and through the sent were many wonders and signs."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "And all believing were in one and the same place, and had all things common:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "And sold possessions and goods, and divided them to all, as any one had need."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "And in the day persevering unanimously in the temple, and breaking bread in the house, they partook of food with lively joy and simplicity of heart,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "Praising God, and having favor with the whole people. And in the day the Lord added the saved to the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Who having seen Peter and John about going into the temple asked to receive alms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter, having looked intently upon him with John, said, Look upon us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And he fixed his attention upon them, expecting to receive something of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And Peter said, Silver and gold are not to me; but what I have, this I give thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, arise and walk."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And having taken him by the right hand, he raised: and immediately his feet and ankles were rendered firm."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And springing forth he stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and springing, 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": "And they knew him, that this was he sitting for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that having happened to him. Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade ( Deuteronomy 18:15–22 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And the lame healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran to them in the porch called Solomon's, much amazed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And Peter, having seen, answered to the people, men, Israelites, why wonder ye at this? or why look ye intently at us, as by our own power or devotion having made him to walk?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And ye killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead; of whom we are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And by faith of his name, this, whom ye see and know, his name made firm, and faith which by him, gave him this completeness before you all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And now, brethren, I know that ye did in ignorance, as also your rulers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "But God, announced these things beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so completed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And he send Jesus Christ, before proclaimed to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Whom heaven must truly receive till time of restoration of all which God spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets from forever."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "For Moses truly said to the fathers, That a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear according to all whatever he speak to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And it shall be, whoever hears not that prophet, shall be destroyed from the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And all the prophets from Samuel, and those in order, as many as spake, also announced beforehand these days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God set with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all families of earth be praised."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "To you first God, having raised up his child Jesus, sent him praising you, in turning away each from your wickedness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And they speaking to the people, the priests, and commander of the temple, and the Sadducees, resisted them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Being exercised because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the rising up from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And they put hands upon them, and set in guard for the morrow: for it was already evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And many of them having heard the word, believed; and the number of men was about five thousand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And it was on the morrow, their rulers, and elders, and scribes, were gathered together at Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And Annas, chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the lineage of the chief priest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And having set them in the midst, they inquired, In what power, or in what name did ye do this?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "If we are this day examined of the kindness of the sick man, by whom he has been saved;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Be it known to all you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in this he stands before you whole."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "This is the stone set at nought by you building, he having been for the head of the corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And salvation is in no other: for neither is another name given under heaven among men, in which we must be saved. The Name Forbidden"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And seeing the freedom of speech of Peter and John, and comprehending that they are illiterate men, and private individuals, they wondered; and they knew them, that they were with Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And seeing the man healed standing with them, they had nothing to contradict."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And having urged them to depart out of the council, they deliberated with one another,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that truly a known sign has been by them, manifest to all them dwelling in Jerusalem: and we cannot deny."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "But that it be not more and more exposed to the wind among the people, let us threaten them with a threat, to speak no more in this name to any man."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And having called them, they enjoined them universally not to utter neither to teach in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And Peter and John having answered to them, said, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "For we cannot, the things we have seen and heard, not speak."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And they having made additional threats, loosed them, finding nothing how they might chastise them, for sake of the people: for all honoured God for that having been done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For the man was more than forty years, upon whom this sign of healing was done. The Believers’ Prayer ( Psalm 2:1–12 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And having been loosed, they came to their own, and announced to them what the chief priests and elders said."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And they, having heard, lifted up the voice unanimously to God, and said, Sovereign, thou God having made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things which in them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Kings of the earth stood up, and rulers were gathered together upon one and the same, against the Lord, and against his Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "To do what thy hands and thy counsel predestinated to be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And now, Lord, look upon their threats: and give to thy servants, with all freedom of speech to speak thy word,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "In thy stretching out thy hand for healing; and signs and wonders to be for the name of thine holy child Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spake the word of God with freedom of speech. Sharing among Believers ( Acts 2:42–47 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And the heart and soul of the multitude of them believing were one: and not one said any of the things being to him to be his own; but all were common to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And in great power the sent gave back testimony of the rising up of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "For neither was any in want among them: for as many as were possessors of farms or houses, selling, brought the prices of things sold,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And laid down at the feet of the sent: and it was distributed to each as any had need."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "A field being to him having sold, he brought the money and laid at the feet of the sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And great fear was upon the whole church, and upon all having heard these things. The Apostles Heal Many"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And by the bands of the sent were many signs and wonders among the people; (and all were unanimously in Solomon's porch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And of them remaining none dared join them: but the people magnified them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And the believing were the more added to the Lord, multitudes of men and also of women.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "So that the sick were brought into the streets, and laid upon beds and couches, that Peter coming, even the shadow might overshadow certain of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And a multitude also came together of them all around the cities to Jerusalem, bringing the sick, and the molested by unclean spirits: who were all healed. The Apostles Arrested and Freed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And the chief priest having risen, and all they with him, (the sect being of the Sadducees,) they were filled with zeal,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And put their hands upon the sent, and set them in the public keeping."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And a messenger of the Lord by night opened the doors of the prison, and having brought them forth, said,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Go ye, and having stood, speak in the temple all the words of this life."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And having heard, they came in by morning to the temple, and taught. But the chief priest having approached, and they with him, called the council together, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison for them to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And the attendants having come near, found them not in the prison, and having returned, they announced,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Saying, That we truly found the prison shut with all security, and the watch standing without before the doors: and having opened, we found none within. The Apostles before the Sanhedrin"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And when the priest and captain of the temple and chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt of them, what this might be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And a certain one having come near, announced to them, saying, That, behold, the men which ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Then the commander having gone with attendants, brought them, not with force: for they feared the people, lest they might be stoned."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And having brought them, they set in the council: and the chief priest asked them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "Saying, Did we not announce to you by order, not to teach by this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye desire to bring upon us this man's blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew with your own hands, having hung him upon a tree."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "This, God exalted, a Chief and Saviour, with his right hand to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And we are his witnesses of these words; and the Holy Spirit, whom God gave to them obeying him. Gamaliel’s Advice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And having heard, they gnashed the teeth with rage, and consulted to kill them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And a certain Pharisee having risen up in the council, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honoured by all the people, urged to put the sent without a little while."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "And he said to them, Men, Israelites, attend to yourselves on account of these men, what ye are about to do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "For before these days Theudas arose, saying himself to be somebody: which a number of men followed, about four hundred, who was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were destroyed, and were for nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And if it is of God, ye cannot destroy it; lest ye also be found contenders against God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And by him they were persuaded: and having called the sent, having stripped, they enjoined not to speak in the name of Jesus, and loosed them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And every day in the temple, and at the house, they ceased not teaching and announcing the good news, Jesus the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And in those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily service."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And the twelve having called the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing for us, having left the word of God, to serve tables."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And we will persevere in prayer, and the service of the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And the word pleased before all the multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Whom they set before the sent: and having prayed, they put hands upon them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the word of God increased: and the number of disciples was multiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and a great crowd of priests listened to the faith. The Arrest of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And certain of them arose from the synagogue, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrian, and of them from Cilicia and Asia, seeking out with Stephen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And they roused together the people, and elders, and scribes, and having stood against, they seized him, and brought to the council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And set false witnesses, saying, This man ceases not speaking defaming words against this holy place, and the law:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For we have heard him saying; That Jesus the Nazarite shall abolish this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And all they sitting in the council, having looked intently upon him, saw his face as the face of a messenger."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And the chief priest said, Hold these things thus?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye: The God of glory was sent to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Then having come out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran: and thence, after his father died, he transplanted him into this land, in which ye now dwell."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And God spake thus, That his seed shall be dwelling in a strange land; and it shall subjugate them, and inflict evil four hundred years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And the nation which they serve will I judge, said God: and after these shall they go out, and shall serve me in this place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. Joseph Sold into Egypt ( Genesis 37:12–30 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And a famine came upon the whole land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great pressure: and our fathers found no food."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jacob having beard wheat being in Egypt, sent our fathers first."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And in the second time, Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race was manifest to Pharaoh."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And Joseph having sent, called for his father Jacob, and all his kindred, in seventy-five souls. Israel Oppressed in Egypt ( Exodus 1:8–22 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "And they transported him to Sychem and put him in the tomb which Abraham was satisfied with for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor of Sychem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And as the time of the solemn promise drew near, which God aware to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "He having deceived our race by sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fathers, to make their babes cast out, that they should not breed. The Birth and Adoption of Moses ( Exodus 2:1–10 ; Hebrews 11:23–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "In which time Moses was born, and he was shrewd to God, who was nourished up three months in his father's house:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "And he having been exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for a son to herself."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works. The Rejection and Flight of Moses ( Exodus 2:11–22 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And having seen a certain one injured, he defended, and did vengeance for him harassed, having struck the Egyptian,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "And he supposed his brethren to understand that God by his hand gives them salvation: and they understood not."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And the following day he was seen to those contending, and he compelled them to peace, having said, Men, ye are brethren; wherefore injure ye one another?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And he injuring the neighbor repulsed him, having said, Who set thee a ruler and judge over us?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Wilt thou not kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And Moses fled at this word, and he was a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. The Call of Moses ( Exodus 3:1–22 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And Moses having seen, wondered at the sight: and he coming near to observe attentively, the voice of the Lord was to him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "I the God of thy fathers, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses being trembling, dared not observe attentively."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Loose the shoes of thy feet: for the place in which thou standest is holy land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "Having seen, I saw the injury of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to take them away. And now came, I will send thee into Egypt."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "This Moses which they denied, having said, Who set thee ruler and judge? this, God sent, a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the messenger having been seen to him in the bramble."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "This is Moses, having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "This is he having been in the church in the desert with the messenger speaking to him in Mount Sina, and our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us: The Rebellion of Israel ( Exodus 32:1–35 ; Deuteronomy 9:7–29 ; Amos 5:16–27 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "Having said to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has been to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "And they made a calf in those days, and brought up a sacrifice to the image, and rejoiced in the works of their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon. The Tabernacle of the Testimony ( Exodus 40:1–33 ; Hebrews 9:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "The tent of testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as he speaking set to Moses, to make it according to the type which he had seen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "Which also our fathers having received brought in with Jesus in the possession of nations, which God drove out from our fathers' face, even to the days of David;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "Who found grace before God, and asked to find a tent to the God of Jacob."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "And Solomon built for himself a house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "But the Highest dwells not in temples made by hands; as says the prophet,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "Heaven a throne to me, and earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build to me? says the Lord: or what the place of my rest?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "Did not my hand make all these things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not. The Stoning of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "54", "text": "And having heard those, they were sawn through their hearts, and they gnashed the teeth upon him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "55", "text": "And being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked intently to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "56", "text": "And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "57", "text": "And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "58", "text": "And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "59", "text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "60", "text": "And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And Saul was assenting to his murder. And in that day was a great expulsion upon the church in Jerusalem; and all were scattered up and down in the countries of Judea and Samaria, except the sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And circumspect men interred Stephen, and made great lamentation over him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And Saul abused the church, going into houses, and drawing out men and women, delivered to prison. Philip in Samaria"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Truly therefore the dispersed passed through announcing good news the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And Philip having come down to the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the crowds unanimously attended to things spoken by Philip, in their hearing and seeing the signs which he did."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For of many having unclean spirits, crying with a great voice, they came out: and many affected with palsy, and the lame, were healed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And great joy was in that city. Simon the Sorcerer ( Deuteronomy 18:9–14 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And a certain man, Simon by name, was before in the city using magic, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be somebody great:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "To whom attended from little to great, saying, This is the great power of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And they attended to him, because for a sufficient time they were astonished by magics."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And when they believed Philip announcing the good news of the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were immersed, both men and women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Simon also himself believed: and having been immersed, he was persevering with Philip, beholding the signs and great powers having been, they were astonished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And the sent in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "Who, having gone down, prayed for them, that they receive the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "(For not yet was it fallen upon any of them: only they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "Then put they hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "Saying, Give me also this power, that upon whomsoever I put hands, he might receive the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And Peter said to him, May thy silver be for ruin with thee, for thou thoughtest the gift of God to be purchased for money."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "No portion is to thee, nor lot, in this word: for thy heart is not upright before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "For I see thee being in the bile of bitterness, and bond of iniquity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And Simon having answered, said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that nothing which ye have spoken come upon me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "Truly therefore, they having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced good news to many towns of the Samaritans. Philip and the Ethiopian ( Isaiah 53:1–8 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And a messenger of the Lord spake to Philip, saying, Arise, and go at noon in the way going down from Jerusalem to Gaza, (this is desert.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And having risen, he went: and, behold, an Ethiopian man, an eunuch of great power of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come going to worship in Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And he was returning, and sitting in his chariot he read the prophet Esaias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And the Spirit said to Philip, Come near, and be joined to this chariot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Philip running near, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and he said, Truly knowest thou what thou readest?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said, How can I, except somebody guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up to sit with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And the passage of the writing which he read was this, As a sheep for slaughter was he brought; and as a lamb before him shearing it dumb, so he opened not his mouth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "In his humiliation was his judgment taken away: and his generation who shall recount? for his life is taken from the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And the eunuch having answered Philip, said, I pray thee, of whom speaks the prophet this of himself or of some other?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And as they went in the way, they came to some water: and the eunuch said, Behold water; what hinders me to be immersed?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "And Philip said, If thou believest from the whole heart, it is lawful. And having answered, he said, I believe the Son of God to be Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And he ordered the chariot to stand: and both went down into the Water, both Philip and the eunuch: and he immersed him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more: for he went his way rejoicing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he announced the good news to all of the cities, even till he came to Cesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and murder against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the chief priest,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "He asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he find certain men being of the way, and also women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And in going, it was he drawing near to Damascus: and suddenly a light from heaven flashed with lightning around him:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou drivest out: hard for thee to kick against goads."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And he trembling and amazed said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do? And the Lord to him, Arise, and come into the city, and it shall be spoken to thee what thou must do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the men journeying with him stood astonished, hearing the voice truly, and seeing no one."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And Saul was raised up from the earth; and his eyes being opened, he saw no one: and leading him by the hand, they brought him to Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And he was three days not seeing, and he ate not, nor drank. Ananias Baptizes Saul"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And a certain disciple was in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I, Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Lord to him, Having risen, go thou to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and having put hand upon him, so that he might look up and see again."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evils he did to thy holy ones in Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And here has he authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on thy name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For I will show him what he must suffer for my name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And Ananias departed, and came into the house; and having put hands upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, he seen to thee in the way which thou earnest, so that thou mightest look up, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And quickly there fell from his eyes as scales: and he immediately looked up, and having risen, he was immersed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And having taken food, he was strong. And Saul was in Damascus with the disciples certain days. Saul Preaches at Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And quickly in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And all they hearing were affected in mind, and said: Is not this he having laid waste in Jerusalem those calling upon this name, and he has come here for this, that he might bring them having been bound to the chief priests?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And Saul was the more strengthened, and confounded the Jews dwelling in Damascus, demonstrating that this is the Christ. The Escape from Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And when sufficient days were completed, the Jews counselled together to put him to death:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "But this project was known to Saul. And they observed narrowly the gates day, and also night, that they might kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And the disciples having taken him by night, put through the wall, having let down in a wicker basket. Saul in Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And Saul being present in Jerusalem, tried to join himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Barnabas having taken him, brought him to the sent, and recounted to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he spake freely in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And he was with them going in and going out in Jerusalem, and speaking freely in the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And he spake and sought out with the Greeks; but they purposed to kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And the brethren having known, brought him down to Cesarea, and they sent him forth to Tarsus. The Healing of Aeneas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "Then truly the churches through the Whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria, had peace, being built up; and going in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And it was Peter, passing through all, came down also to the holy ones dwelling in Lydda."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And he found there a certain man, Eneas by name, lying upon a bed of eight years, who was affected with palsy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus Christ heals thee; arise, and cover thyself. And he arose quickly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And all dwelling in Lydda and Saron saw him, who turned back to the Lord. The Raising of Tabitha ( John 11:38–44 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And in Joppa was a certain disciple by name Tabitha, which interpreted is called Dorcas: she was full of good works and alms which she did."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And it was in those days, having been sick, she died; and having washed, they laid her in an upper room."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And Lydda being near Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in it, sent to him two men, beseeching not to hesitate to pass through even to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And Peter having put them all without, having set the knees, prayed; and having turned back to the body he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and having seen Peter, sat up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And having given her the hand, he raised her up, and having called the holy ones and the widows, he placed her living before them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And it was known through the whole of Joppa: and many believed upon the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And days sufficient he remained in Joppa with a certain Simon, a currier."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And a certain man was in Cesarea by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italian,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Religious, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying God always."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "He saw in a vision manifestly about the ninth hour of the day a messenger of God having come in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And having looked at him intently, and being afraid, he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms went up for remembrance before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon, who is called Peter:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "He is received as guest with a certain Simon a currier, to whom is a house by the sea: he shall speak to thee what thou must do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And when the messenger speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his servants, and a religious soldier of those persevering with him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And having related all to them, he sent them to Joppa. Peter’s Vision ( Leviticus 11:1–47 ; Deuteronomy 14:1–21 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And the morrow, these traveling, and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And he was hungry, and would have eaten: and these making ready, a deep trance fell upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And this was for thrice: and again was the vessel taken up into heaven. Peter Called to Caesarea"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And as Peter was doubting in himself what the vision might be which he saw, and behold, the man sent from Cornelius having asked for Simon's house, stood at the gate,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And having called, they were inquiring if Simon, surnamed Peter, is received there as a guest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And Peter reflecting concerning the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But thou having risen, come down, and go with them, discussing nothing; for I have sent them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Peter having come down to the men sent from Cornelius to him, said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what the cause for which ye are present?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, and witnessed of by the whole nation of the Jews, received intimation of the divine will by a holy messenger to send for thee to his house, and hear words of thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore having called them in, he received as guests. And on the morrow Peter came forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa came with him. Peter Visits Cornelius"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And the morrow he came to Cesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and friends by relationship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And it was as Peter came in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at his feet, worshipped."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And Peter raised him up, saying, Arise: I am also myself man."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And discoursing with him, he came in, and finds many come together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to them, Ye know that it is violating law for a man a Jew to join himself, or come near to a strange tribe: and God shewed me to call no man common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "And therefore came I without contradiction, having been sent for; therefore I inquire for what word ye sent for me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Cornelius said, From the fourth day till this hour I was fasting; and the ninth hour praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was harkened to, and thine alms remembered before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Therefore send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he is received as guest in the house of Simon the currier by the sea: who, being present, shall speak to thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "From this therefore sent I to thee: and thou didst well being present. Now therefore are all we present before God, to hear all commanded thee of God. Good News for the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter having opened the month; said, of a truth I comprehend that God is no respecter of faces!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "But in every nation he fearing him, and working justice, is acceptable to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, announcing good news, peace through Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "The word ye know, having been through the whole of Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the immersion which John preached;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power; who passed through doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil; for God was with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And ye are witnesses of all which he did in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they killed, having hanged upon wood:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "Him God raised the third day, and gave him to be manifest;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "Not to all people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after his rising from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And he enjoined us to proclaim to the people, and to testify that this is he appointed by God, Judge of the living and the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "To him all the prophets testify, for all believing on him to receive remission of sins through his name. The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit ( Acts 19:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "Peter yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all hearing the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "And believers of the circumcision were affected in mind, as many as came with Peter, that also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "For they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God. Then answered Peter,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "Much less can any hinder water, for these not to be immersed, who received the Holy Spirit as also we?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And he commanded them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. Then asked they him to remain certain days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And the apostles and brethren, those being in Judea, heard that the nations also received the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision discussed with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Saying, That thou camest in to men having uncircumcision, and didst eat With them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter having begun, set forth to them in order, saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "I was in the city Joppa, praying: and in a deep trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descending as a great linen napkin, let down from heaven by four beginnings; and it came even to me:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "Upon which having looked intently, I observed, and saw quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, kill and eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And I said, By no means, Lord: for anything common or unclean never came into my month."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And a voice answered me of a second time from heaven, What God cleansed, profane not."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And this was for thrice: and again all was drawn up into heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And, behold, from this three men stood at the house in which I was, sent from Cesarea to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And the spirit said to me to come with them, discussing nothing. And these six brethren came also with me, and we came to the man's house:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And he announced to us how he saw a messenger in his house, having stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon, surnamed Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Who shall speak words to thee, by which thou shalt be saved and all thy house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as also upon us in the beginning."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And I remembered the word of the Lord, when he said, John truly immersed with water; but ye shall be immersed with the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "If therefore God gave the like gift to them as also to us, having believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; how was I able to hinder God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And having heard these, they were silent, and honoured God, saying, For also God gave the nations repentance to life. The Church at Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore truly those dispersed by the pressure having been on account of Stephen, passed through even to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except the Jews only."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number having believed, turned to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And the word was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem concerning them: and they sent Barnabas to pass through even to Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Who, having been present, and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and besought them all, with purpose of heart, to remain to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a crowd sufficient were added to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And Barnabas came forth to Tarsus, to seek Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it was for a whole year they were assembled together in the churches, and taught a sufficient crowd. And the disciples were Christians by divine intimation first in Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "In these days came down prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And one of them having risen, Agabus by name, signified by the Holy Spirit a great famine was about to be upon the whole habitable globe: which was during Claudius Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And certain of the disciples, as he was able, determined, each of them, to send for service to the brethren dwelling in Judea:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Which also they did, having sent to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And at that time Herod the king laid hands upon to injure certain of the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And he killed 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 added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And having seized, he put him in prison, having delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to watch him; wishing after the pascha to bring him to the people. The Rescue of Peter"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Truly therefore was Peter kept in prison: and prayer was made continually by the church to God for him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And when Herod was about to bring him before, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the watch before the door kept the prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And, behold, the messenger of the Lord stood before, and a light shone in the dwelling: and having struck Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from the hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And the messenger said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy small sandals. And he did so. And he said to him, Put round thy garment, and follow me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And having come out, he followed him; and knew not that it is true that being done by the messenger; and seemed to see a vision."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And Peter being as himself, said, Now know I truly that the Lord sent his messenger, and took me out of the hands of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And being conscious, he came to the house of Mary mother of John, surnamed Mark; where were sufficient assembled, and praying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And Peter having knocked at the door of the gate, a young girl came near to listen, by name Rhoda."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And having known Peter's voice, from joy she opened not the gate, and running, announced Peter to stand before the gate."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And they said to her, Thou art mad. And she was strengthened to have it so. And they said, It is his messenger."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And Peter continued knocking: and having opened, they saw him, and were moved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And having shaken with the hand at them to be silent, he related to them how the Lord brought him out of prison. And he said, Announce these things to James, and the brethren. And having come out, he went to another place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And it being day, not a little trouble was among the soldiers, what was become of Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod having sought him, and not found, having examined the watch, commanded them to be removed. And having come down from Judea to Cesarea, he tarried. The Death of Herod"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And Herod was fighting with violent animosity, with Tyrians and Sidonians: but they came unanimously to him, and having conciliated Blastus, him over the king's bed-chamber, they asked peace; for their country was nourished from the king's."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the people called aloud, The voice of God, and not of man."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And the word of God increased and multiplied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having completed the service, and taken with them John, surnamed Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And certain prophets and teachers were in the church being in Antioch; as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Then having fasted and prayed, and put hands upon them, they let go. On Cyprus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore these truly, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John a servant."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And having passed through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, the name to him Barjesus:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paul, an intelligent man; he having called Barnabas and Saul, sought anxiously to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And Elymas the magician withstood them, (for so was his name interpreted,) seeking to turn the proconsul from the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "And Saul, (also Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, and looking intently upon him, said,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun till the time. And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness; and going about he sought leading by hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the proconsul having seen that done, he believed, being struck with amazement at the teaching of the Lord. In Pisidian Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And having been brought from Paphos, they about Paul came to Perga of Pamphylia: and John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And they having passed from Perga, approached Antioch of Pisidia, and having come into the synagogue on the day of the sabbaths, they sat down."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And after reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if the word of encouragement is in you to the people, speak."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And Paul having risen, and shaken with the hand, said, Men, Israelites, and ye fearing God, hear ye."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in sojourning the land of Egypt, and with high arm brought them out of it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And about forty years time he bare them in the desert."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he gave them to inherit this land by lot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And after these, about four hundred and fifty years he gave judges, even to Samuel the prophet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And thence they desired a king; and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And having removed him, he raised up to them David for king; to whom also having testified, he said, I found David of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who shall do all my desires."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "From the seed of this has God according to promise raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "John having proclaimed before the face of his coming the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And as John completed the course, be said, Whom think ye me to be? I am not. But, behold, he comes after me, whose shoes of the feet I am not worthy to loose."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Men, brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "For they dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, and the voices of the prophets which being read in every sabbath, having judged, they filled up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And having found no cause of death, they desired Pilate to have him slain."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And when they finished all things written concerning him, having taken down from the wood, they put in a tomb."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "And God raised him from the dead:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Who was seen for many days to them having come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And we announce good news to you, the promise made to our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "For this has God completed to us, their children, having raised up Jesus; as it has also been written in the second Psalms, Thou art my Son; to day have I begotten thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "And that he raised him from the dead, no more about to return to corruption, so he said, That I will give you the holy, faithful things of David."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "For also in another, he says, Thou shalt not give thy Holy one to see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "But whom God raised up, he saw no corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that for him remission of sins is announced to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "And from all which ye could not be justified by Moses' law, every one believing in him is justified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "See ye, therefore, that that spoken by the prophets come not upon you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, which ye would not believe if any recount to you. A Light for the Gentiles ( Isaiah 49:1–6 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations besought to have these words spoken in the sabbath between."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "And the synagogue having been dissolved, many of the Jews and strangers worshipping, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "And the next sabbath nearly all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "And the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled with envy, and spake against the things said by Paul, contradicting and defaming."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "For so has the Lord commanded us, I have set thee for a light of the nations, for thee to be for salvation even to the last of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "And the nations having rejoiced, honoured the word of the Lord: and they believed, as many as were drawn out for eternal life."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "And the word of the Lord was conveyed through the whole country."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "And the Jews urged on the worshipping and distinguished women, and the first men of the city, and they raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they cast them out of their bounds,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "And they, having shaken off the cloud of the dust of their feet against them, came into 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 was in Iconium according to the same, went they into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude of the Jews and also of Greeks believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And the unbelieving Jews excited and trained up the souls of the nations against the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore truly they remained a sufficient time speaking freely in the Lord, he testifying to the word of his grace, and giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And the multitude of the city was divided: and some truly were with the Jews, and some with the sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And when there was a violent effort of the nations, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to be insolent, and to stone them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Being conscious, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the country round about:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And there they were announcing the good news. The Visit to Lystra and Derbe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And a certain man in Lystra, not having strength in the feet, sat, being lame from his mother's belly, who had never walked:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "He having heard Paul speaking, who having looked intently upon him, and seen that he has faith to be cured,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Said with a great voice, Stand up upon thy feet upright: And he leaped and walked."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds having seen what Paul did, lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, Gods likened to men came down to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And truly they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he was leader of the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jupiter's priest, being before their city, having brought bulls and crowns to the gates, wished to sacrifice with the crowd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And Barnabas and Paul, the sent, having heard, having rent their garments, rushed in among the crowd, crying out,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Who in past generations suffered all nations to go in their ways."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And surely indeed he left not himself without witness, doing good, having given us rain from heaven, and fruitful times, filling our hearts with food and gladness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And saying these, they scarcely hindered the crowds, not to sacrifice to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and stoned Paul, drew out of the city, supposing him to be dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And the disciples having surrounded him, having risen, he came into the city: and the morrow he came out with Barnabas to Derbe. Strengthening the Disciples"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And having announced that city the good news, and made disciples sufficient, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having chosen them elders in the church, having prayed with fasting, they set them before the Lord, in whom they had believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And thence they sailed away to Antioch, thence were they delivered by the grace of God to the work which they completed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And having arrived, and gathered the church together, they announced what God did with them, and that he opened the door of faith to the nations."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And they tarried there not a little time with the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And certain having come down from Judea taught the brethren, That except ye be circumcised by Moses custom, ye cannot be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Therefore dissension and no small discussion having been to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas to go up, and certain others of them, to the sent and elders in Jerusalem about this question."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "Truly therefore the sent by the church passed through Phenice and Samaria, relating the turning back of the nations: and they made great joy to all the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And having arrived at Jerusalem they were received by the church, and the sent and elders, and they announced what God did with them. The Council at Jerusalem ( Amos 9:11–15 ; Galatians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And certain of them from the sect of the Pharisees having believed, rose up, saying, That they must be circumcised, and to enjoin to keep the law of Moses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And the sent and elders were gathered together to see about this word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And much discussion having been, Peter having risen up, said to them, Men, brethren, ye know that from ancient days God chose among us, through my month for the nations to hear the word of good news, and believe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And God the knower of hearts testified to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, as also us;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And separated nothing between us and also them, by faith having purified their hearts."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "But by grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we believe to be saved, as also they."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And all the multitude were silent, and heard Barnabas and Paul, recounting what signs and wonders God did in the nations through them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And after they were silent, James answered, saying, Men, brethren, hear me:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Simeon related how God first reviewed to take from the nations a people for his name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And with this the words of the prophets agree: as has been written,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "After these will I return, and rebuild the tent of David, having fallen; and its things undermined will I rebuild, and set it upright:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "So that they remaining of men might seek out the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, making all these."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Known to God are all his works from eternity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore I judge, not to molest them, from the nations turning back to God:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "For Moses of ancient generations has them proclaiming him in every city, being read in the synagogues in every sabbath. The Letter to the Gentile Believers"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Then it seemed fitting to the sent and the elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "Having written by their hand thus; The sent and elders and brethren to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia from the nations, health:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Since we heard that certain of us having come out have troubled you with words, destroying your souls, saying, To be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we sent no word:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "It seemed fitting to us, having been unanimous, to send to you chosen men with our dearly beloved Barnabas and Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "Men having delivered up their souls for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "Therefore have we sent Judas and Silas, and these by the word announcing these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "For it seemed fitting to the Holy Spirit, and to us, for no more burden to be put upon you but the necessities of these;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. The Believers at Antioch Rejoice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Truly therefore having been loosed, they came to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they gave up the epistle:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And having read, they rejoiced for the encouraging."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And Judas and Silas, they also being prophets, through much speech consoled the brethren, and supported."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And having made time, they were loosed with peace from the brethren to the sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And it seemed fitting to Silas to wait for him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and announcing good news, with many others, the word of the Lord. Paul’s Second Missionary Journey Begins ( Acts 13:1–3 ; Acts 18:23–28 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Now having turned back, let us review our brethren in every city in which we announced the word of the Lord, how they hold."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Barnabas purposed to take with them John, called Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "But Paul deemed worthy, having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and not having come with them to the work, not to take him with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "Therefore there was an incitement, so that they separated from one another: and Barnabas, having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been delivered to the grace of God by the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, supporting the churches."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And he arrived at Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timothy, son of a certain woman, a faithful Jewess; and of a Greek father:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "Who was testified of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "Him Paul wished to go forth with him; and having taken, he circumcised him, on account of the Jews being in those places: for all knew his father that he was a Greek."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And as they were going through the cities, they delivered them the orders to watch, having been determined by the sent and the elders in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore truly the churches were rendered firm in faith, and abounded in number daily. Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Having come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia: and the Spirit suffered them not."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having passed by Mysia they came down to Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And a vision was seen to Paul by night; A certain man, a Macedonian, was standing, beseeching him, and saying, Having passed to Macedonia, help us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And when he saw the vision, we quickly sought to come out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to announce good news to them. Lydia’s Conversion in Philippi ( Revelation 2:18–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore having been conveyed from Troas, we ran straight forward to Samothracia, and the following day to Neapolis;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And thence to Philippi, which is the first city of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in that city passing certain days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And the day of the sabbaths we came out of the city by the river, where prayer was customary to be; and having sat down, we spake to the women come together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a dealer in purple garments, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to things spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And when she was immersed, and her house, she besought, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having come into my house, remain. And she forced us. Paul and Silas Imprisoned"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And it was we going for prayer, a certain young girl having the spirit of Python met us, who furnished much gain to her lords, prophesying:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "She having followed Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who announce to us the way of salvation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And this did she for many days. And Paul, having been exercised, and having turned back to the spirit, said, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And having brought them to the generals, they said, These the men who cause disturbance to our city, being Jews,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And they announce customs, which it is not lawful for us to receive, nor do, being Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And the crowd set together against them: and the generals having rent their garments, commanded to scourge with rods."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood. The Conversion of the Jailer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, praised God: and the imprisoned heard them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And suddenly was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were let loose."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And the jailor being awakened, and having seen the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the imprisoned to have fled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "And Paul called with a great voice, saying, Thou shouldest do no injury to thyself; for we are all here."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "And having asked for a light, he rushed in, and being trembling, fell before Paul and Silas,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "And bringing them out, he said, Lords, what must I do that I might be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "And they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all in his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed out the blows; and was immersed, he and all his, immediately."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "34", "text": "And having brought them up to his house, he set a table before, and rejoiced with the entire household, having believed God. An Official Apology"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "35", "text": "And it being day, the generals sent the bearers of the rod, saying, Loose these men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "36", "text": "And the jailor announced these words to Paul, That the generals have sent that ye be loosed: now therefore having come out, go in peace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "37", "text": "But Paul said to them, Having stripped us publicly not condemned, being Roman men, they cast into prison and now do they cast us out secretly? not so; but having come themselves, let them bring us out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "38", "text": "And the bearer of the rod announced these words to the generals: and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "39", "text": "And having come they besought them, and having brought out, they entreated to come out of the city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "40", "text": "And having come out of prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen the brethren, they encouraged them, and they came forth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "And according to custom to Paul, he went in to them, and upon three sabbaths discussed with them from the writings,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "Opening and setting before, that it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and rise from, the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus, whom I announce to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And certain of them were persuaded, and were assigned by lot to Paul and Silas; and of worshipping Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the first women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And they troubled the crowd and rulers of the city, having heard these."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "And having taken sufficient of Jason, and the rest, they loosed them. The Character of the Bereans"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And the brethren quickly sent out both Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who arriving went away to the synagogue of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore truly many of them believed; and of the distinguished Grecian women, and of men, not few."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "And when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that also in Berea the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating the crowd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And quickly the brethren sent away Paul to go as by the sea: and both Silas and Timothy remained there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And they conveying Paul brought him even to Athens: and having taken a command to Silas and Timothy that now they might come to him most speedily, they departed. Paul in Athens"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And Paul waiting for them among the Athenians, his spirit was excited in him, seeing the city being addicted to idol worship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore truly he discussed in the synagogue with Jews, and those worshipping, and in the assembly in every day with those being present."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And having taken him, they brought upon Mars' hill, saying, Can we know what this new teaching is, spoken by thee?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we wish therefore to know what these things may be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.) Paul’s Address in the Areopagus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And Paul having stood in the midst of Mars' hill, said, Men, Athenians, I see that in all things ye have a superstitious fear of divinity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "God having made the world and all things in it, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made by hands;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "Nor is served by men's hands, standing in need of anything, he giving to all life, and breath, and all things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "To seek the Lord, if perchance indeed they have felt for him, and found, although not being far from each one of us:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "Therefore truly, God having overlooked the times of ignorance, now announces to all men everywhere to repent:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "Wherefore he set a day, in which he is about to judge the habitable globe in justice by the man whom he appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised him from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "And having heard of the rising up of the dead, they treated with mockery; and said, We will hear thee again concerning this."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "And so Paul went forth from the midst of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "And certain men having joined him, believed: among whom also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these Paul having departed from Athens, came to Corinth;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; (for Claudius had ordered all Jews to be separated from Rome:) came to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And because being of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought: for they were by trade tentmakers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he discussed in the synagogue on every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was oppressed in spirit, testifying to the Jews Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And they opposing, and blaspheming, having shaken off the garments violently, he said to them, Your blood upon your head; I clean: from now will I go to the nations."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And having gone away thence, he came to the house of a certain Justus by name, worshipping God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "And Crispus, ruler of the synagogue, believed the Lord with his whole house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptised."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Lord said through a vision by night to Paul, Fear not, but speak, and thou shouldest not be silent:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "For I am with thee, and none shall attack thee to injure thee: for much people are to me in this city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "And he sat a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. Paul before Gallio"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews arose unanimously against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "Saying, This one persuades men to worship God against the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If therefore it were truly any injustice or wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against the word, I should have borne with you:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "But if it is a question of the word, and names, and law, according to you, see ye yourselves; for I will not be judge of these."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And he drave them away from the judgment seat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, ruler of the synagogue, beat before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of these. Paul Returns to Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And Paul arrived at Ephesus, and left those of his: and he having come into the synagogue, discussed with the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "And they asking to remain with them for more time, he acquiesced not;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "But he took leave of them, saying, I must at any rate do the coming festival in Jerusalem: and I will again return to you, God willing. And he was conveyed from Ephesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And having come down to Cesarea having gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch. Paul’s Third Missionary Journey Begins ( Acts 13:1–3 ; Acts 15:36–41 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And having made a certain time, he came out, passing in order the Galatian country and Phrygia, supporting all the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being able in the writings."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and boiling up in the spirit, he spake and taught attentively the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "And he began to speak freely in the synagogue: and Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, took him, and set forth to him the way of God more accurately."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And he wishing to pass through to Achaia, the brethren having encouraged, wrote to the disciples to receive him: who having arrived, profited much them having believed through grace:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "For he mightily refuted the Jews publicly, shewing by the writings Jesus to be Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having passed through the higher parts, came to Ephesus: and having found certain disciples,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "He said to them, Having believed, have ye received the Holy Spirit? And they said to him, But neither heard we if there be a Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said to them, Into what then were ye immersed? And they said, Into John's immersion."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And Paul said, John truly immersed the immersion of repentance, saying to the people, that they should believe on him coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And they having heard, were immersed in 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 spake with tongues, and prophesied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "And all the men were about twelve. Paul Ministers in Ephesus ( Ephesians 1:1–2 ; Revelation 2:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And having come into the synagogue, he spake freely, discoursing for three months, and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And when certain were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, discoursing in the day in the school of a certain Tyrannus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "And this was for two years: so that all dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And God did special powers by Paul's hands:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "So that also upon the sick were brought from his body napkins or aprons, and diseases were removed from them, and evil spirits came out of them. Seven Sons of Sceva"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And certain of the wandering Jews, exorcists, undertook to call over them having evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And there were certain sons of Sceva, a Jew, chief priest, seven doing this."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And the evil spirit having answered, said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And the man leaping upon them in whom the evil spirit was, and having overpowered them, he was strong against them, so that naked and wounded they fled out of the house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "And many of them having believed came, acknowledging and proclaiming their deeds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And sufficient of them having done unnecessary things, having brought books together, burned before all: and computed their prices, and found fifty thousand of silver."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "Thus with might the word of the Lord increased, and was strong. The Riot in Ephesus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "And when these were completed, Paul proposed in spirit, having passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying, That after have been there, I must also see Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And having sent into Macedonia two of them serving him, Timothy, and Erastus, he stopped a season in Asia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And in that time was there no little trouble about the way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making the silver temples of Diana, furnished no little work to artificers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "Whom having collected together and the workmen of such things, he said, Men, ye know that out of this work is our good food."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "And not only this part is in danger to us to come to reproach; but also the temple of the great goddess Diana to be reckoned for nothing, and her greatness also about to be destroyed, whom the whole of Asia and the habitable globe worship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And having heard, and been filled with wrath, they cried, saying, Great the Diana of the Ephesians."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed unanimously into the theatre, having taken away together Gains and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's companions of the journey."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "And Paul wishing to come in to the people, the disciples suffered him not."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And certain also of the chief of Asia, being friends to him, having sent to him, besought not to give himself into the theatre."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "Others truly cried some other things: for the church was confused; and the most knew not for what they had come together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And they forced Alexander out of the crowd, the Jews having put him forward. And Alexander having shaken the hand, wished to justify himself to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "And having known that he is a Jew, there was one voice from all crying for about two hours, Great the Diana of the Ephesians."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And the scribe having calmed the crowd, says, Men, Ephesians, for who is the man that knows not the city of the Ephesians, being temple keeper of the great goddess Diana, and sent by Jove?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "Therefore these things not being refuted, it is necessary for you to be restrained, and to do nothing rash."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "For ye brought these men not sacrilegious, nor blaspheming your goddess."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "If truly therefore Demetrius, and the artificers with him, have a word against any, the court days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them prosecute one another."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "But if ye inquire anything concerning, other things, it shall be explained in a lawful assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "For we are also in danger to be called in question for this day, being no cause for which we shall be able to give back word of this confederation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And having said these, he loosed the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And after the uproar was ceased, Paul having called the disciples, and greeted, he came out to go into Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And having passed through those parts, and having besought them by much speech, he came into Greece."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And having made three months; an insidious plot having been for him by the Jews, being about to sail to Syria, there was a purpose to return through Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And there agreed with him as far as Asia Sopater a Berean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "These having come before awaited us in Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And we sailed forth after the days of unleavened from Philippi, and came to them in Troas up to five days; where we tarried seven days. Eutychus Revived at Troas ( 2 Kings 4:18–37 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And in one of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled together to break bread, Paul conversed with them being about to go forth the morrow; and he continued the word until midnight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And sufficient lights were in the upper room, where they were assembled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And a certain young man by name Eutychus, sitting in the window, borne down by deep sleep, Paul conversing more and more, fell down below from the third story, and was taken up dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul having gone down, fell upon him, and embracing, said, Be not disturbed, for his soul is in him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And having gone up, and broken bread, and tasted, and conversed for a sufficient time, till the light, so he went forth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And they brought the child living, and were not little comforted. From Troas to Miletus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And we having gone before to the ship, sailed to Assos, there being about to take up Paul: for so had he ordered, being about himself to go on foot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And when he joined us at Assos, having taken him up, we came to Mitylene."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And from thence having sailed away, the following day we arrived over against Chios; and the other day we approached to Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, the following day we came to Miletus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "For Paul determined to sail to Ephesus, as it might not be to him to spend the time in Asia: for he hastened, if it were possible to him, to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesians"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And having sent from Miletus to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I embarked for Asia, how I was with you all the time."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "How I concealed nothing of things profitable, not to announce to you, and teach you publicly, and in the houses,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "Testifying to both Jews, and Greeks, repentance towards God, and the faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And now, behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things going to happen to me in it;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And now, behold, I know that all ye shall see my face no more, among whom I passed through, proclaiming the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "Wherefore I testify to you in this day, that I pure from the blood of all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "For I concealed not to announce to you all the counsel of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "For I know this, that there shall come in after my departure grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And of yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to tear away disciples after them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And now I commit you, brethren, to God, and to the word of his grace, being able to build up, and give you inheritance among all the consecrated."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And ye yourselves know, that to my necessities, and to those being with me, these hands served."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "And having said these, having placed his knees, he prayed with them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "And much weeping was from all; and having fallen upon Paul's neck, they kissed him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "Grieving chiefly for the word which he spake, that they are about to see his face no more. And they sent him forward to the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And it was, as we were conducted forth, torn asunder from them, having run straight forward, we came to Coos, and in continuation to Rhodes, and thence to Patara:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And having found a ship passing over to Phenicia, having embarked, we were conducted forth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And having been shown Cyprus, and left it at the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and were conveyed to Tyre: for thither was the ship discharging the lading."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And having found disciples, we remained there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And it was when we accomplished the days, having come out we went; all sending us forward, with wives and children, even to without the city: and having placed the knees upon the seashore, we prayed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And having greeted one another, we embarked in the ship; and these returned to their own."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And we having finished the voyage from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais, and having greeted the brethren, we remained one day with them. Paul Visits Philip the Evangelist"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And the morrow, they about Paul having come out, came to Cesarea: and having come to Philip's house, bearer of good news, being of the seven, we remained with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And to him were four daughters, virgins, prophesying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And we remaining many days, a certain prophet came down from Judea, by name Agabus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And having come to us, and lifted up Paul's girdle, and bound his hands and feet, he said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle, shall the Jews so bind in Jerusalem, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the nations."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And when we heard these things, both we, and the nations, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, The will of the Lord be done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And after these days, having packed up, we went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And there came also with us of disciples from Cesarea, bringing with whom we should be received as guests to a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an ancient disciple. Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And we having come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And having greeted them, he recounted to each one what things God had done among the nations through his service."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And they were taught about thee, that thou teachest apostasy from Moses, all the Jews among the nations, saying, they are not to circumcise children, nor walk in the customs."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "What is it therefore? the multitude must all come together: for they will hear that thou hast come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore do this which we say to thee: Four men are to us having a vow upon them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "Then Paul having taken the men, in the following day having been purified with them, went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification, till an offering be brought for each one of them. Paul Seized at the Temple"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And when the seven days were about completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, embroiled all the crowd, and put hands upon them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "Crying out, Men, Israelites, help: This is the man, teaching all, everywhere, against the people, and the law, and this place: and yet also brought the Greeks into the temple, and has polluted this holy place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian whom they thought that Paul had brought into the temple.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people: and having taken up Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and quickly the doors were shut."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "And seeking to kill him, a rumor went up to the captain of a thousand of the band, that the whole of Jerusalem had been embroiled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "Who having taken out of it the soldiers and centurions, he ran down to them: and they having seen the captain of a thousand and the soldiers, ceased striking Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Then the captain of a thousand, having drawn near, took him, and commanded to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he might be, and what he had done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And other cried what other in the crowd: and not being able to know certainly for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the camp."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And when he was upon the steps, it happened, he was borne by the soldiers for the violence of the crowd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Take him away. Paul Addresses the Crowd"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And being about to be brought into the camp, Paul says to the captain of a thousand, Is it lawful for me to speak anything to thee? and he said, Hast thou knowledge in Greek?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "And Paul said, I am truly a man a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen of no undistinguished city: and I beseech of thee to give way for me to speak to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "And having given way, Paul standing upon the steps, shook with the hand to the people. And being much silence, he spake in the Hebrew dialect, saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "(And having heard that he spake to them in Hebrew dialect, they held more silence: and he says,)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "I am truly a Jew, a man born in Tarsus, of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the exactness of the fathers' law, being zealous of God, as all ye are this day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "Who drove out this way even to death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "As also the chief priest testifies of me, and all the council of elders: and whose letters to the brethren having received, I went to Damascus, going to bring there the bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And it was to me going, and drawing near to Damascus about noon, suddenly much light from heaven flashed around me,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarite, whom thou drivest out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And they being with me truly saw the light, and were terrified; but they heard not 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, go to Damascus; and there shall be told thee of all which has been arranged for thee to do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And when I saw not from the glory of that light, led by the hand of them being with me I came to Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And a certain Ananias, a religious man according to the law, testified of by all the Jews dwelling,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "Having come to me, and stood, said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And the same hour I looked up to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "And he said, The God of our fathers took thee in hand, to know his will, and to see the Just, and hear the voice from his mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "For thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and hast heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "And now what art thou about to do having risen, be immersed and wash away thy sins, having called upon the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And it was to me returning to Jerusalem, and praying in the temple, I was in a deep trance:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "And saw him saying to me, Hasten, and come quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony of me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And I said, Lord, these know that I was imprisoning and skinning in the synagogues them believing on thee:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself was standing by, and assenting to his murder, and watching the garments of them murdering him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee far off to the nations. Paul the Roman Citizen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voices, saying, Take away such a one from the earth: for it is not suitable for him to live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And they vociferating, and casting garments away, and throwing a cloud of dust into the air,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "The captain of a thousand commanded him to be brought to the camp, having spoken to examine him by scourges; that he might know for what cause they exclaimed so against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And as he held him before with thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful to scourge a man a Roman, and uncondemned?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And the centurion having heard, having come near announced to the captain of a thousand, See what thou art about to do: for this man is a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And the captain of a thousand having come near, said to him, Tell me if thou art a Roman. And he said, Yes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "And the captain of a thousand answered, I obtained this citizenship for much capital. And Paul said, And I have been born."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "Then quickly they about to examine him withdrew from him: and the captain of a thousand was afraid, knowing that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "And on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty that why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from bonds, and commanded the chief priests and the whole of their council to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him among them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And Paul, having looked intently to the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived as a citizen in all good conscience to God till this day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike his month."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "Then said Paul to him, God is about to strike thee, thou wall covered with dust: and sittest thou judging me according to law, and commanded me to be struck illegally?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And they standing by said, Revilest thou God's chief priest?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And Paul said, I knew not, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it has been written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And Paul having known that one part is of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, cried in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee: for the hope and rising up of the dead am I judged."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And he having spoken this, there was a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the multitude was divided."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "For truly the Sadducees say there is no rising up, neither messenger, nor spirit: and the Pharisees acknowledge both."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And there was a great cry: and the scribes of the Pharisees' part, having risen, struggled with obstinacy, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but if a spirit or messenger spake to him, we should not contend against God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And there being much dissension, the captain of a thousand, having dreaded lest Paul be torn asunder by them, commanded the army, having gone down, to snatch him from the midst of them, and bring into the camp."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And the following night the Lord, having stood by him, said, Take courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou also testify at Rome. The Plot to Kill Paul ( John 16:1–4 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And there were more than forty having made this conspiracy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "Who having come to the chief priests and elders, said, By an anathema, we anathematized ourselves, to taste of nothing till we kill Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Now therefore do ye exhibit to the captain of a thousand, with the council, so that to-morrow he might bring him down to you, as about to examine more accurately the things concerning him: and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "And Paul's sister's son having heard of the ambuscade, having approached, and come into the camp, announced to Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "And Paul having called one of the centurions, said, Bring this young man to the captain of a thousand; for he has something to announce to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "Then truly having taken him, he brought to the captain of a thousand, and says, Paul, the bound, having called me, asked to bring this young man to thee, having something to say to thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "The captain of a thousand, having taken his hand, and having withdrawn in private, inquired, What is it which thou hast to announce to me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said, That the Jews agreed together to ask thee, so that to-morrow thou mightest bring down Paul to the council, as about to inquire something more accurately about him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore thou shouldest not be persuaded by them: for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him, who anathematized themselves, neither to eat or drink till they should kill him: and now are they prepared, expecting a promise from thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "Truly then the captain of a thousand discharged the young man, having enjoined him, Tell none that thou hast shown these things to me. Paul Sent to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "And having called two certain of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they go to Cesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred having held spears in the right hand, at the third hour of the night;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "And to bring forward cattle to set Paul upon, that they might carry through safely to Felix the leader."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "Having written a letter containing this type."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent leader Felix, health."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them: having stood with an army, I took him away, having learned that he is a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "And wishing to know the cause for which they accused him, I brought him down to this council:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "Whom I found accused of questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or of bonds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "And the plot about to be by the Jews, having been made known to me against the man, for this I sent to thee, having also commanded the accusers to say things against him to thee. Farewell."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "Then truly the soldiers according to that appointed them, having taken up Paul, brought by night to Antipatris."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And the morrow; having suffered the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the camp:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "Who having come into Cesarea and given up the letter to the leader, they also placed Paul before him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And the leader having read, and asked of what province he is, and having understood from Cilicia;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "I will hearken to thee, he said, when also thine accusers should be present. And he commanded him to be watched in Herod's pretorium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who exhibited to the leader against Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "Attaining much peace by thee, and good actions being to this nation by thy foresight altogether and everywhere, we accept, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And that I hinder thee no more, I beseech thee to hear us concisely by thy clemency."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "For having found this man a scourge, and moving sedition to all Jews in the habitable globe, and standing in the first rank of the sect of Nazarites:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "And who attempted to profane the temple: whom we also seized, and wished to judge according to our law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "And Lysias the captain of a thousand, having come with much force, carried away out of our hands,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "Having commanded his accusers to come to thee: by which thou thyself shalt be able, having examined, to know of all these of which we accuse him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Jews also agreed, saying, these things hold so. Paul’s Defense to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul answered, the leader having nodded to him to speak, Knowing from many years thee being judge to this nation, more cheerfully do I justify things concerning myself:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "Thou being able to know that not more than twelve days are to me from which I went up, going to worship in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "And neither in the temple found they me discussing with any, or making a revolt of the crowd, neither in synagogues, nor in the city:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "Nor can they bring me forward for things they now accuse me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And this I confess to thee, that according to the way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things written in the law and the prophets:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "Having hope to God, which they themselves also admit, a rising from the dead about to be, both of just and unjust."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "And after many years I was present, going to do alms to my nation, and offerings."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "In which they found me purified in the temple, not with the crowd, nor with uproar, and certain Jews from Asia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "Who ought to be present to thee, and accuse, if they have anything against me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "Or let these themselves say, if they found any injustice in me, I having stood before the council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "Or of this one voice, which I cried standing with them, That of the rising up of the dead I am judged this day by you. The Verdict Postponed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard these, Felix deferred them, knowing more accurately the things of the way, having said, When Lysias captain of a thousand shall come down, I will examine narrowly things concerning you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "And having appointed a centurion to keep Paul, and to have a setting at liberty, and to hinder none of his own to serve or come to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And after certain days, Felix, having been present with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, sent for Paul and heard him of the faith in Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "Festus therefore having come to the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Cesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "And the chief priest and first of the Jews exhibited to him against Paul, and besought him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "Asking favor against him, that he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambuscade to kill him in the way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "Then truly answered Festus, Paul to be kept in Cesarea, and himself quickly about to go forth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore the able among you, he says, having gone down together, if there be anything in this man, let them accuse him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "And having tarried with them more than ten days, having gone down to Cesarea, on the morrow, having sat upon the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "And he having come, the Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood round about, bringing many and heavy charges against Paul, which they could not prove."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "He justifying himself, That neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned any thing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "And Festus, wishing to render a favor to the Jews, having answered Paul, said, Wilt thou, having gone up to Jerusalem, there be judged by me of these things? Paul Appeals to Caesar"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul said, At Caesar's judgment seat am I standing where I must he judged: I injured the Jews nothing, as thou also knowest better."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "For if truly I act with injustice, and have done anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing of which these accuse me, no one can yield me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "Then Festus, having conversed with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar, to Caesar shalt thou go. Festus Consults Agrippa"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "And certain days having intervened, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Cesarea, having saluted Festus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "And as they tarried there many days, Festus set up to the king the things of Paul, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "About whom, I being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews exhibited, asking judgment against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "To whom I answered, That it is not the custom to Romans to yield up any man to destruction, before that the accused may have the accusers before the face, and take place for defence for the accusation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore, they having come here together, having made no delay, in order having sat upon the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "About whom the accusers, having stood up, brought no charge of what I supposed:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of a certain Jesus, having died, whom Paul declared living."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And I doubting at the question concerting this, said, If he be willing to go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "And Paul having appealed for him to be kept for the determination of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I send him to Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, I wished myself also to hear the man. And he said, Tomorrow thou shalt hear him. Paul before Agrippa and Bernice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore the morrow, Agrippa having come, and Bernice, with much display, and having come into the hall, also with captains of thousands, and men of the city being in eminence, and Festus having commanded, Paul was brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men being present with us, ye behold this, of whom all the multitude of Jews addressed me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out he must no more live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "And I discovering nothing he has done worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Augustus, I judged to send him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "Of whom I have not anything certain to write to the lord. Wherefore I brought him to you, and especially to thee, king Agrippa, so that, examination having been, I should have some thing to write."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "For it seems to me unreasonable sending one in bonds, and not to signify the charges against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul defended himself, having stretched out the hand:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, king Agrippa, I deem myself happy, being about to defend myself to thee this day:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "Especially thee being judge of all the customs among the Jews, and also of the questions: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore truly my manner of life from youth, having been from the beginning in my nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews know:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "Knowing me beforehand, from a former period, if they would testify, that according to the most strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "And now in the hope of the solemn promise having been made to the fathers by God, I stand, being judged,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "To which our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to arrive. For which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "Why is it judged incredible by you, if God raise the dead?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "I therefore truly thought to myself, I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarite."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "Which I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the holy ones I shut up in prison, having received authority from chief priests; and they taken up, I carried down a vote."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "And in all the synagogues, many times punishing them, I compelled to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I drove out even also to cities without."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "In which also going to Damascus with authority, and superintendence from the chief priests,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "The middle of day, I saw in the way, O king, a light from heaven, above the brilliancy of the sun, having shone around me, and those going with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "And we having all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard for thee to kick against goads."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou drivest out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "Taking thee away from people, and nations, to whom I now send thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "But to them in Damascus first, and Jerusalem, and all the country of Judea, and to the nations, announcing to change the mind, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of change of mind."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "For these things, me the Jews, having seized in the temple, attempted to kill with their own hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "Therefore having obtained assistance from God, till this day do I stand, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what both the prophets and Moses spake being about to be:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "That Christ exposed to suffering, that first from the rising of the dead, he is about to announce light to the people, and nations. Festus Interrupts Paul’s Defense"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "And he defending himself by these, Festus said with a great voice, Thou art frenzied, Paul; many letters turn thee to madness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "And he says, I am not frenzied, most excellent Festus; but I speak the words of truth and soundness of mind."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "For the king knows of these, to whom speaking freely I speak: for I am persuaded that none of these are unknown to him; for these were not done in a corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "Believest thou the prophets, king Agrippa? I know that thou believest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "And Agrippa said to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me to be a Christian."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And Paul said, I would pray to God also in little, and in much, not only thee, but also all hearing me this day to become such, of what kind I also am, besides these bonds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And he having said these, the king arose, and the leader, and Bernice, and they sitting with them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "And having withdrawn, they spake to one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, This man could have been loosed, if he had not appealed to Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And when it was determined for us to sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain others bound to a centurion named Julius, of Augustus' band."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "And having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, being about to navigate places in Asia, we were conveyed; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "And another day we were brought down to Sidon. And Julius having treated Paul affectionately, gave him up, having gone to his friends to obtain care."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "And conveyed from thence, we sailed to Cyprus, for the winds were contrary."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And having sailed over the sea by Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra, of Lycia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And there the centurion having found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, placed us upon it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And in many days sailing slowly, and with difficulty having come to Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, to Salmone;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "And, with difficulty sailing by it, we came to a certain place called The fair havens; to which the city Lasea was near."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "And a suitable time having intervened, and sailing being already dangerous, for the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "Saying to them, Men, I see that with violence and much damage, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives, the voyage is about to be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "But the centurion was rather persuaded by the pilot and the shipmaster, than by the things spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And the harbor being not suitable for passing the winter, the greater part took counsel to be conveyed from thence, if perhaps having arrived at Phenice, they may be able to pass the winter; a harbor of Crete, looking to the south west and to the country. The Storm at Sea ( Jonah 1:4–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "And the south wind having blown softly, having thought to have obtained the purpose, hoisting up near, they sailed by Crete."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "And after not much a violent wind struck against it, called Enroclydon."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And the ship having been caught, and not able to resist the wind, yielding we were carried away."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "And having run under a certain island called Clauda, with difficulty were we able to be commanding the boat:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "Which having taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they might fall through into the quicksand, having loosened the vessel, so were they borne away."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "And we being exceedingly tempest tossed, the following day they made a casting of the cargo overboard;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "And the third, working with our bands, we cast out the rigging of the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest impending, finally all hope for us to be saved was removed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "And there being much abstinence from food, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, Truly it was fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not to be conveyed from Crete, and gain this violence and damage."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "And now I advise you to be cheerful: for there shall be no throwing away of soul from you, but of the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "For the messenger of God stood by me in this night, whose I am, and whom I serve,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "Saying, Fear not, Paul; Thou must stand before Caesar: and, behold, God has bestowed on thee as a gift all these sailing with thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore, O men, be cheerful: for I believe God, that so it shall be as he has spoken to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "But we must fall upon a certain island. The Shipwreck"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "And when it was the fourteenth night, we being carried up and down in Adria, at midnight the sailors supposed some country brought near them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms; and having removed a little, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "And fearing lest perhaps we might fall through into rough places, having cast four anchors from the stern, prayed for day to come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having loosened the boat to the sea, for a pretext as about to extend the anchors from the prow,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these should remain in the ship, ye cannot be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "And till it was about to be day, Paul besought all to take food, saying, Awaiting this day the fourteenth day, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "Wherefore I beseech you to take food: for this is for your salvation: for not a hair of the head of one of you shall fall."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "And all being cheerful, these also received food."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And we were, all the souls in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "And satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And when it was day, they knew not the land: and they observed a certain deep bay having a coast, into which they resolved, if able, to push the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "And having in removed the anchors, they let go into the sea, at the same time having let loose the bonds of the rudders, and having lifted up the mizen mast, they held with the blast to the coast."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "And having fallen into a place between two seas, they caused the ship to strike; and truly the prow, fixed firmly, remained undisturbed, but the stern was loosed by force of the waves."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "And the soldiers' counsel was that they kill the prisoners, lest any, having swum away, may escape."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "But the centurion wishing to save Paul, hindered from the resolution; and he commanded those being able to swim, having cast off first, to come to land:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "And the rest, truly some on boards, and some on certain things from the ship. And so it was, all were saved upon the land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And the foreigners bestowed upon us no ordinary kindness: for having lighted a pile of wood, they received us all on account of the impending rain, and for the cold."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And Paul having collected together a multitude of dried sticks, and placed upon the pile of wood, a viper, having come forth out of the heat, seized his hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the foreigners saw the wild beast hanging on his hand, they said to one another, This man is altogether a murderer, whom, saved from the sea, vengeance suffered not to live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "Who truly then, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered nothing evil."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "And they expected him about to be inflamed, or to fall down dead suddenly: and they waiting for much, and seeing nothing extraordinary coming to him, changing their opinions, they said he was a god."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "And with them about that place was landed property to the first of the island, by name Publius; who having received us, lodged us with friendship three days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And it was the father of Publius lay, held fast with fever and dysentery: to whom Paul, having come in and prayed, laid hands upon him, and healed him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "Then this done, the rest having sicknesses in the island, came near, and were cured:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "And they honoured us with many honours; and to us getting under weigh, they set things for need. Paul Arrives in Italy"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And after three months we were conveyed in a ship, having wintered in the island, of Alexandria, marked, Sons of Jove."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And brought down to Syracuse, we tarried yet three days longer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "Whence having come round, we arrived at Rhegium: and after one day the south wind having come up, we came the second day to Puteoli:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "Where having found brethren, we were besought by them to tarry yet seven days longer: and so we came to Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And thence the brethren, having heard of us, came out to our meeting as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom Paul having seen, having returned thanks to God, took courage. Paul Preaches at Rome ( Isaiah 6:1–13 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander of the camp: but to Paul it was permitted to remain by himself with a soldier watching him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "And it was after three days Paul called together them being first of the Jews: and they having come together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I having done nothing against the people, or customs of the fathers, I was delivered in bonds from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "Who, having examined me, wished to loose, for no cause of death was in me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "And the Jews saying against, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; as having nothing to accuse my nation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "For this cause therefore I besought to see you, and to speak: for, for the hope of Israel am I surrounded by this chain."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "21", "text": "And they said to him, We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, nor any of the brethren having been present announced or spoke any evil of thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "22", "text": "And we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest: for truly of this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "23", "text": "And having appointed him a day, many came to him to the lodging; to whom testifying, he set forth the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morn to eve."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "24", "text": "And some truly were persuaded by things spoken, and some disbelieved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "25", "text": "And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "26", "text": "Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "27", "text": "For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "28", "text": "Be it known to you therefore, that salvation of God was sent to the nations, and they shall hear."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "29", "text": "And he having said these things, the Jews departed, having much discussion in themselves."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "30", "text": "And Paul remained two whole years in his own wages, and received all going to him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "31", "text": "Proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom of speech, unimpeded."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "(Which he before promised by his prophets in the holy writings,)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Concerning his Son born of the seed of David according to the flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Determined the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the rising up of the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "By whom we received grace and sending forth, to the obedience of faith in all nations for his name:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "In whom are ye also, the called of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "To all being in Rome, beloved of God, called holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Unashamed of the Gospel"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "First, I return thanks to my God by Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is announced in the whole world."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If in any way I shall be prospered on my way in the will of God to come to you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For I long to see you, That I might impart to you some spiritual grace, in order for you to be firm;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And this is, to be comforted together in you by the faith in one another both of you and of me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Both to Greeks, and foreigners; both to wise and unwise, I am debtor."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "So that for my part being zealous, also to you that in Rome, to announce the good news."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to all believing; both to the Jew first, and the Greek."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith. God’s Wrath against Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore that known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested to them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "Who changed the truth of God into a falsehood, and reverenced and served the creation above him creating, who is praised forever. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon them doing such things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And thinkest thou this, O man, judging them doing such things, and doing the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dost thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who will give back to each according to his works:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But glory, and honour, and peace, to every one working good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For there is no distinction of persons with God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "(For not hearers of the law just with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For when nations, not having the things of the law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having the law, are law to themselves:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Which show the work of the law Written in their hearts, their consciousness testifying together, and between one another thoughts accusing or also excusing;)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "In the day when God shall judge the concealed things of men according to my good news by Jesus Christ. The Jews and the Law"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Behold, thou art named a Jew, and restest upon the law, and boastest thyself in God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And knowest the will, and triest things differing, being sounded out of the law;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore teaching another, teachest thou not thyself proclaiming not to steal, stealest thou?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Speaking not to commit adultery, committest thou adultery? abhorring images, committest thou sacrilege?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Thou who boastest in the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "For the name of God by you is blasphemed in the nations, as it has been written."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore if uncircumcision watch the justification of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And shall not uncircumcision by nature, completing the law, judge thee, which by letter and circumcision a transgressor of the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "For he in appearance, is not a Jew; neither circumcision, in appearance in the flesh:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "But he in concealment, a Jew; and circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose approbation not of man, but of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "What then the superiority of the Jew or what the advantage of circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Much according to every manner: for truly first were they trusted with the oracles of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For what if some disbelieved? their unbelief will not leave inactive the faith of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And if our injustice shall recommend the justice of God, what shall we say God not unjust bringing in anger? (I speak as man)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "It may not be: for how shall God judge the world."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For if the truth of God in my lying abounded to his glory; why yet am I judged as sinful?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just. There Is No One Righteous ( Psalm 14:1–7 ; Psalm 53:1–6 ; Isaiah 59:1–17 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "What advantage therefore have we? Not in any way: for we before accused both Jews and Greeks, all to be under sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "There is none understanding, there is none seeking God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Whose mouth is full of cursing and harshness:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Their feet active to pour out blood:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Bruising and grievous toil in their ways:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And the way of peace they knew not:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "The fear of God is not before their eyes."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin. Righteousness through Faith in Christ ( Philippians 3:1–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "For the manifestation of his justice now in time: for him to be just, and justifying him of the faith of Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "We reckon then man to be justified by faith without the works of the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "Or only the God of the Jews? and not also of the nations? Yes, also of the nations:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "Since one God, who will justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision by faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And father of circumcision to them not of circumcision only, but also to them, walking in order in the tracks of the uncircumcision, of the faith of our father Abraham. Abraham Receives the Promise ( Genesis 15:8–21 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And it was not written for him alone, that it was reckoned to him;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "But also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to them believing upon him having raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And hope shames not; for the love of God has been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given us. Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly ( John 3:1–21 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For scarcely for the just will any one die: yet for the good perhaps some also would venture to die."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Much more then, justified now in his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And not only, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation. Death in Adam, Life in Christ ( Genesis 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace might abound."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For if grown together we have been in the likeness of his death, but also shall we be of the resurrection:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For he having died was justified from sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And if we died with Christ, we believe we shall also live with him:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Knowing that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more power over him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For he who died, died to sin once: but he who lives, lives to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For sin shall not rule over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. The Wages of Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace It may not be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. God’s Law Is Holy"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And the command was found to me which for life, this for death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good. Struggling with Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking 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 me from the law of sin and death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And they being in the flesh cannot please God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And if Christ in you, truly the body dead by sin; and the Spirit life by justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you. Heirs with Christ"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together. Future Glory ( 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And not only, but also they having the first fruits of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption as a son, the redemption of our body."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And likewise also the Spirit takes hold together, and assists our weaknesses: for what we would pray for as we ought, we know not, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And he searching hearts knows what the thought of the Spirit, for according to God he supplicates for the holy ones. God Works in All Things ( Ephesians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us. More than Conquerors ( Psalm 44:1–26 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen. God’s Sovereign Choice ( Genesis 25:19–28 ; Malachi 1:1–5 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And not as that the word of God has fallen through. For not they all of Israel, they which of Israel:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Neither that the seed of Abraham, are all children: but, In Isaac shall the seed be called to thee."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For this the word of solemn promise, According to this time will I come, and there shall be a son to Sarah."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And not only; but also Rebecca, having coition of one, Isaac our father;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "(For not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that according to choice the purpose of God might remain, not of works, but of him calling;)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "What then shall we say is injustice with God? It may not be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "Surely then, not of him willing, nor of him running, but of God commiserating."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "Thou wilt then say to me, Why does he yet blame For who has withstood his will?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hast thou made me so."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction:"}
{"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 before prepared for glory."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Whom he also called us, not only from the Jews, but also of the nations?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "For finishing and cutting short the word in justice: for the Lord will make the word cut short upon the earth."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, as Sodom had we been, and as Gomorrha had we been likened. Israel’s Unbelief"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, truly my heart's delight and prayer to God for Israel is for salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "For Christ the end of the law for justice to every one believing."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "For Moses writes the justice of the law, That the man having done these things shall live in them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And the justice of faith says thus, Thou shouldest not say in thy heart, Who shall go up to heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Or, Who shall go down to the abyss? (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "For if thou confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "For with the heart is believed for justice: and with the mouth is confessed for salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "For the writing says, Every one believing upon him shall not be ashamed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For no distinction is of the Jew and also of the Greek: for the same Lord of all being rich to all calling upon him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "For every one whoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "How then shall they call upon whom they believed not? and how shall they believe whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without him proclaiming?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And how shall they proclaim, except they be sent? as has been written, How beautiful the feet of them announcing good news, peace, of them announcing good things!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "But not all listened to the good news. For Esaias says, Lord, who believed our report?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore faith, from the report, and report by the word of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "But I say, Have they not heard? Surely, in all the earth went out their sound, and their words to the end of the habitable globe."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will make you jealous of not a nation, and by a shortsighted nation will I anger you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And Esaias is very confident, and says, I was found of them not seeking me; I was manifested to them not asking for me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "(As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always. The Ingrafting of the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "(For I speak to you the nations, inasmuch as truly I am the sent of the nations, I highly value my service:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And if the first fruit holy, also the mixture: and if the root holy, also the young shoots."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Act not proudly to the young shoots. And if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "For if God spared not the young shoots according to nature, how will he either spare thee."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold then the goodness and severity of God: truly upon the fallen, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou continue in goodness: otherwise shalt thou also be cut off."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "For if thou according to nature wert cut out of the wild olive tree, and against nature wert grafted into the cultivated olive tree: how much more these, according to nature, shall be grafted into their own olive tree. All Israel Will Be Saved"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "For I will not ye should not know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be wise with yourselves; for hardness from part has been to Israel, till the filling up of the nations come in."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And so all Israel shall be saved: as has been written, The Deliverer shall come out of Sion, and turn away profanation from Jacob."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And this the covenant to them with me, when I take away their sins."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Truly concerning the good news, enemies for you: and concerning the selection, beloved for the fathers."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "For the favors and calling of God not causing repentance."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For as also ye, when ye were disobedient to God, but now ye have been commiserated by the unbelief of these:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "So they now also were disobedient, by your mercy that they also be commiserated."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "For God shut them all up together in unbelief, that he might commiserate all. A Hymn of Praise ( Isaiah 40:9–31 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! His judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Or who first gave to him, and it shall be given back to him?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "For of him, and by him, and to him, all things: to him the glory forever Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "So we, the many, are one body in Christ, and the members for one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness. Love, Zeal, Hope, Hospitality ( John 13:31–35 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Rejoicing in hope; holding out under pressure; persevering in prayer;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Participating in the necessities of the holy ones; pursuing hospitality. Forgiveness ( Matthew 18:21–35 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "To rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with the weeping."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Giving hack evil for evil to none. Providing good things before all men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "If possible of you, living peaceably with all men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore necessity to be placed under, not only for anger, but also for consciousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "For this also pay ye taxes: for they are workmen of God, persevering in this same."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour. Love Fulfills the Law ( Leviticus 19:9–18 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Owe ye nothing to none, except to love one another: for he loving another has completed the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet; and if any other command in this word it is summed up, in it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Love works no evil to the neighbor: love therefore the completion of the law. The Day Is Near"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Him being weak in faith receive ye, not to judgments of conversations."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "One truly believes to eat all things: and he being weak eats vegetables."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Let not him eating despise him not eating: and let not him not eating judge him eating: for God has received him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "Who art thou judging another's servant? to his own lord he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand: for God is powerful to make him stand."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "For one truly judges day above day: and one judges every day. Let each one be perfectly certain in his own mind."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "He minding the day, minds to the Lord; and he not minding the day, to the Lord he minds not. He eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he not eating, to the Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For whether we live, to the Lord we live: and whether we die, to the Lord we die: therefore whether we live, and whether we die, we are of the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "For, for this Christ also died, and also arose, and returned again to life, that he might also reign over the dead and the living."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So therefore shall each of us give word for himself to God. The Law of Love ( Ezekiel 14:1–11 ; 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore let not your good be defamed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "For he in these serving Christ, pleasing to God, and acceptable to men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Thou has faith; have to thyself before God. Happy he judging not himself in what he proves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And he being judged if he eat, has been condemned for not of faith; and everything not of faith is sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "For Christ also pleased not himself, but as has been written, The reproaches of them reproaching thee fell upon me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And may the God of patience and his consolation give you to mind the same in one another according to Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "That unanimously in one mouth ye should glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ the Servant of Jews and Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore receive ye one another, as also Christ received us to the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And I say Jesus Christ has become the servant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And the nations to glorify God for mercies; as has been written, For this will I acknowledge to thee in the nations; and I will play on, the harp to thy name."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And again he says, Rejoice, ye nations, with his people."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and land him all ye people."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And again Esaias says, The root shall be of Jesse, and he having risen to rule over the nations; upon him shall the nations hope."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul the Minister to the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And I am persuaded my brethren, and I myself for you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, tilled with all knowledge, being able also to remind one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And I wrote to you more boldly, brethren, from part as reminding you, by the grace given me by God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "For me to be the, workman of Jesus Christ to the nations, offering in sacrifice the good news of God, that the bringing forward of the nations be acceptable, consecrated in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "I have therefore boasting in Christ Jesus the things toward God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Wherefore also I was hindered in many things from coming to you. Paul’s Travel Plans ( 1 Corinthians 16:5–9 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And now having no more place in these climes, and having an anxious desire to come to you from many years."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Whenever I go into Spain, I will come to you, for I hope passing through to see you: and by you to be sent forward there, if first from part I might be filled with you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "And now I go to Jerusalem serving the holy ones."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore having completed this, and sealed to them this fruit, I will come away by you to Spain."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the completion of the praise of the good news of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by love of the Spirit, to fight together with me in prayers for me to God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "That I might be saved from the unbelieving in Judea; and that my service for Jerusalem be acceptable to the holy ones;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "That in joy I might come to you by the will of God, and rest with you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And the God of peace with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "Embrace Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "Who for my soul have laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And the church in their house. Embrace my beloved Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "Embrace Mary, who wearied for us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Embrace Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are distinguished among the sent, who also have been in Christ before me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "Embrace ye Amplias my beloved in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Embrace Urban, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Embrace Apelles acceptable in Christ. Embrace them of Aristobulus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Embrace Herodion my kinsman. Embrace them of Narcissus, them being in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Embrace Tryphen a and Tryphosa, wearied in the Lord. Embrace Persis the beloved, who was much wearied in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Embrace Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Embrace Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Embrace Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy ones with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "Embrace one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ embrace you. Avoid Divisions ( Titus 3:9–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "For your obedience has come to all. Therefore I rejoice for you: and I wish you truly to be wise to good, and pure to evil."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And the God of peace will rub together Satan under your feet swiftly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Colossians 4:7–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "Timotheus my helper, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, embrace you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "I Tertius embrace you, having written the epistle in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "Gains my guest, and of the whole church, embraces you. Erastus steward of the city embraces you, and Quartus the brother."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen. Doxology ( Jude 1:24–25 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "To the only wise God, by Jesus Christ, to whom glory forever. Amen."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, called, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To the church of God being in Corinth, to the consecrated in Christ Jesus, to the Called holy ones, with all 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. Thanksgiving ( Philippians 1:3–11 ; Colossians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I return thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "That in every thing we were enriched in him, in all the word, and all knowledge;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "As the testimony of Jesus Christ was made firm in you:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "So that ye are not wanting in any grace; awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Who also shall make you firm even to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "God faithful, by whom we were called to the communion of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Unity in the Church ( Psalm 133:1–3 ; Ephesians 4:1–16 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And this I say, that each of you says, I truly am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you? or in Paul's name were ye immersed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I thank God that I immersed none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Lest any should say that in my name I have immersed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And I immersed also the house of Stephanas: besides, I know not if I immersed any other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void. The Message of the Cross"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us 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 put away the understanding of the intelligent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "For the foolish thing of God is wiser than men; and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. Wisdom from God"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "That no flesh might boast before him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For I judged not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremor, was with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "That your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Spiritual Wisdom ( Ephesians 1:15–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For who of men knows the things of men except the spirit of man in him? so also the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For who knew the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him And we have the mind of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And he planting and he watering are one: and each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God. Christ Our Foundation ( Isaiah 28:14–22 ; Ephesians 2:19–22 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For none is able to lay another foundation above that laid, which is Jesus the Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And if any one build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stalks;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire. God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom ( Romans 12:1–8 ; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore let none boast 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 things present, or about to be; all are yours;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And ye of Christ; and Christ of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And to me it is the least that I be judged by you, or by man's day: but neither do I judge myself."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now. Paul’s Fatherly Warning"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore sent I Timotheus to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will come to you swiftly, if the Lord will, and I shall know not the word of those puffed up, but the power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "For the kingdom of God not in word, but in power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth. Expel the Immoral Brother"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Know ye not that we shall judge messengers? also not only things pertaining to the cares of life?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore truly, if ye have judgments pertaining to the cares of life, set them counted as nothing in the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But brother with brother is judged, and this by the unbelieving."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "But ye treat ill, and defraud, and that the brethren. Members of Christ"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And God also raised up the Lord, and us will he also raise up by his power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And he joined to the Lord is one spirit. The Temple of the Holy Spirit ( Romans 12:1–8 ; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And of what ye wrote to me: good for a man not to touch a woman."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And this I say according to indulgence, not according to order."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "For I will all men to be as also myself. But each has his own favor of God, the one truly thus, and the other thus."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain also as I."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save the husband or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save the wife? Live Your Calling"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "Except as God divided to each, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "Whoever was called circumcised? let him not be drawn to himself. Whoever was called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commands of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "Each in the calling which he was called, in this let him remain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "Ye were bought for a price; be ye not servants of men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Each, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God. The Unmarried and Widowed"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "I think therefore this to be good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be thus."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a release. Hast thou been loosed from a wife seek thou not a wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And they weeping, as not weeping; and they rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and they buying, as not possessing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And they using this world, as not using; for the form of this world passes away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "But I will you to be free from care. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "So that he marrying does well; and he not marrying does better."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And if any one thinks to know anything, as yet he has known nothing as he ought to know."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And if any one love God, the same is known of him.)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For also though they are called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon the earth, (for there are many gods, and many lords,)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "But to us one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things, and we by him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "For if any one see thee having knowledge reclining in the idol's temple, shall not his consciousness, being weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices to idols;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And shall the weak brother be destroyed upon thy knowledge, for whom Christ died?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And so sinning against the brethren, and striking their weak consciousness, ye sin against Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "If to others I am not sent, but surely I am to you: for the seal of my sending are ye in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "My justification to them examining me is this,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "have we not power to eat and to drink?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news. Paul the Servant to All"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And this I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it. Run Your Race to Win"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And were all immersed into Moses in the cloud, and in the sea;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And they all ate the same spiritual food."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and 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 there fell in one day twenty-three thousand."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear. Flee from Idolatry ( Exodus 20:22–26 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore, my beloved, do ye flee from idolatry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "As to the wise speak I; judge ye what I say."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "That, one bread, one body, we are many: for we all partake of one bread."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "See ye Israel according to the flesh: are not they eating the sacrifices mutual participators of the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "Do we emulate the Lord? are we stronger than he? All to God’s Glory ( 1 Peter 4:1–11 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Let none seek his own, but each another's."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "For of the Lord the earth, and its fulness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And if any one of the unbelieving call you, and ye wish to go; every thing set before you, eat, interrogating nothing through consciousness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And if any one say to you, This is sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for him making it known, and consciousness: for of the Lord the earth, and its fulness:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And if I partake by grace, why am I defamed for what I give thanks?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And be ye not molesters to the Jews, and the Greeks, and to the church of God:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "Every man praying or prophesying, having on the head, shames his head."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "Judge in yourselves: is it suitable for a woman to pray to God uncovered?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for the hair has been given her for a cloak."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. Sharing in the Lord’s Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Mark 14:17–26 ; Luke 22:14–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And this announcing I approve not, that not for the better come ye together, but for the worse."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore ye coming together upon the same, it is not to eat the Lord's supper."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye announce the Lord's death till he come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And let a man try himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For this many among you weak and sick, and enough are asleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Therefore, my brethren, coming together to eat, succeed one another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And concerning spiritual things, brethren, I wish you not to be ignorant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Wherefore I make known to you, that none speaking in the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema: and none can say Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And there are distinctions of favors, and the same Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And there are distinctions of performances, and it is the same God performing all things in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For truly to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And to another faith in the same Spirit; and to another graces of healings in the same Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And to another performances of powers; and to another discriminations of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And all these works one and the same Spirit, dividing to each his own things as be will. The Body of Christ"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "For also in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or free; and we have all been given to drink into 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 say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And if the ear say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "If the whole body an eye, where the hearing If the whole hearing, where the smelling?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And now has God set the members each one of them in the body, as he would."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And if all were one member, where the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And now truly many members, and one body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But much rather the members of the body, seeming to be weak, are necessary:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer together; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together. The Greater Gifts"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And ye are the body of Christ, and members by parts."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Not all sent: not all prophets: not all teachers: not all powers:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "All have not the favors of healing: not all speaking with tongues: not all interpret accurately."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "And be emulous of the better favors: and yet I shew you a way according to eminence."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we know by parts, and we prophesy by parts."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And now remains faith, hope, love, these three; and the greater of these, love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "For he speaking in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God: (for none hears; and in the spirit he speaks mysteries.)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And he prophesying speaks to men for building the house, and entreaty, and encouragement."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And he speaking in a tongue builds himself; and he prophesying builds the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And I will ye all to speak with tongues, and rather that ye prophesy; for greater he prophesying, than he speaking with tongues, unless he interpret accurately, that the church receive building up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "So also ye, except by the tongue ye give an evident word, how shall the speaking be known? for ye shall be speaking into the air."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "If perchance, such kind of voices be in the world, and none of them speechless."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore he speaking in a tongue, let, him pray that he might interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, and my mind is unfruitful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "What therefore is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind: I will play on the harp in the spirit, and I will play also on the harp in the mind."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "When if thou praise in the spirit, how shall he filling the place of the private individual say Amen at thy thanksgiving) since he knows not what thou sayest."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "For thou truly givest thanks well, but the other is not built up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I thank my God, speaking in tongues more than you all:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "It has been written in the law, That in other tongues and in other lips will I speak to this people; and not so will they hear me, says the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "So that tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving: and the gift of prophecy, not to the unbelieving, but to the believing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "If therefore the whole church come together upon the same, and all speak with tongues, and the private individual, or unbelieving, come in, will they not say that ye are enraged?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And so the hidden things of his heart are made manifest; and so having fallen upon the face, he will worship God, proclaiming that God is truly with you. Orderly Worship"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore, what is it brethren when ye come together, every one of you has a Psalms, has teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretatior. Let all things be for the building of the house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "Whether any speak in a tongue, by two, or the most by three, and in part; and let one interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And let the prophets speak two or three, and let others decide."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And if to another sitting by it be revealed, let the first be silent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "For ye are all able to prophesy one by one, that all might learn, and all might be encouraged."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And the spirits of the prophets are subjected to the prophets."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "For God is not of unsteadiness, but of peace, as in all the churches of the holy ones."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And if they will learn anything, let them ask their own husbands in the house; for it is shameful for women to speak in the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "Or came out the word of God from you or did it arrive to you only?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "And if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "Therefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy, and hinder not to speak in tongues."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "Let all things be becomingly and according to order."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And I make known to you, brethren, the good news which I announced to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stood;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "For I delivered to you among the first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the writings;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the writings."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "Then was he seen by above five hundred brethren once for all; of whom the most remain till now, and some also are laid to rest."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Then was he seen by James; then by all the sent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And last of all exactly as an abortive, was he also seen by me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "For I am the least of the sent, who am not fit to be called sent, for I drove out the church of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Whether therefore I or they, so we proclaim, and so ye believed. The Resurrection of the Dead"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And if Christ is proclaimed that he arose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no rising up of the dead?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And if there is no rising up of the dead, neither has Christ risen:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And we are also found false witnesses of God; for we testified for God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if therefore the dead are not raised."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Then they also having died in Christ perished."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If in this life only we have been hoping in Christ, we are more to be compassionated than all men. The Order of Resurrection"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And now Was Christ raised from the dead, he was the first fruits of those having died."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "For since by man death, also by man the rising up of the dead."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And each in his own order: the first fruit Christ; then they of Christ in his arrival."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Then the end, when he should deliver up the kingdom to God, and the Father; when he should leave unemployed every beginning and every authority and power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "For he must reign, till he put all enemies under his feet."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "The last enemy, death, is left unemployed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "For he subjected all things under his feet. And when he said that all things have been subjected, it is manifest that without him having subjected all things to him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "And when all things be subjected to him, then also shall the Son himself be subjected to him having made all things subject to him, that God might be all things in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And why are we in peril every hour?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "In the day I die by: your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion. The Resurrection Body"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body going to be, but the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat, or some of the rest:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And God gives it a body as he would, and to each of the seed its own body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but truly one the glory of the celestial, and another that of the terrestrial."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "The first man of earth, made of earth: the second man the Lord from heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "48", "text": "As the made of earth, such also the made of earth: and as the celestial, such also the celestial."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "49", "text": "And as we have borne the image of the made of earth, we shall also bear the image of the celestial. Where, O Death, Is Your Victory? ( Hosea 13:9–14 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "50", "text": "And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "51", "text": "Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "52", "text": "In an atom, in the twinkling of the eye, in the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "53", "text": "For this corrupted must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "54", "text": "And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "55", "text": "Where thine, death, the sting? where thine, hades, the victory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "56", "text": "And the sting of death sin; and the power of sin the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "57", "text": "And grace to God, giving us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "58", "text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And concerning the collection for the holy ones, as I appointed to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "According to one day of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, treasuring up that which he is prospered in, that when I come there be no collections."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And when I be present, whom ye approve by letters, these will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And if it be suitable for me also to go, they shall go with me. Paul’s Travel Plans ( Romans 15:23–33 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And I will come to you, when I pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And perhaps with you I shall abide, or also pass the winter, that ye might send me forward wherever I go."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "For I will not see you now in coming forward; but I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And I will remain in Ephesus even till Pentecost."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "For a door has stood open to me, great and effective, and many opposed. Timothy and Apollos ( Philippians 2:19–30 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And if Timotheus come, see ye that he be with you fearlessly: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore no one should despise him: and send ye him forward in peace, that he might come to me: for I expect him with the brethren."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren: and the will was not altogether that he should come now; and he will come when he should have leisure. Concluding Exhortations"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Watch ye, stand in the faith, be manly, be strengthened."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Let all things be in love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they arranged themselves for service to the holy ones,)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "That also ye be subjected to such, and to every one cooperating, and to the wearied."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and: that they have filled up your necessity."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For they refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore observe ye such. Signature and Final Greetings ( Colossians 4:15–18 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church at their house, greet you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with a holy kiss."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "The greeting of Paul by my hand."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "If any love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ with you:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "My love with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones 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. The God of All Comfort"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us. Paul’s Change of Plans"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that ye might have a second grace;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia, to come to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And he making us firm with you in Christ, and having anointed us, is God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Who also having sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions. Triumph in Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And we have such confidence through Christ to God:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive. The Glory of the New Covenant ( Exodus 34:10–35 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "How shall not rather the service of the Spirit be in glory?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For if that left unemployed by glory, much more that remaining in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore having such hope, we use much freedom of speech:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant remains not uncovered; for in Christ it is left unemployed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And whenever it turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord, there freedom."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Treasure in Jars of Clay ( Romans 6:1–14 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "So that death is truly energetic in us, and life in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "(For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad. Ambassadors for Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but to him having died for them, and having risen."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we know no more."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "In purity, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Our month stands open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged. Do Not Be Unequally Yoked"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And what conformity to Christ with Belial? and what part to the believing with the unbelieving?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "I rejoice that I place confidence in you in everything."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God given in the churches of Macedonia;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For according to power, I testify, and above power chosen voluntarily;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Praying us with much entreaty that we receive the grace and participation of the service for saints."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "For not that ease to others, and pressure to you:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "As has been written, He to whom much, was not in excess; and he to whom little, was not diminished. Titus Commended ( Titus 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "For truly he received the entreaty; and being more earnest, he went forth voluntarily to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And we sent with him the brother whose approbation in the good news through all the churches;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveler with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "Prepared for this, lest any blame us in this abundance served by us:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "Providing good things beforehand, not only before the Lord, but also before men."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "Whether for Titus, my companion and co-worker to you: or our brethren, the sent of the churches, the glory of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore the manifestations of your love, and of your boasting for us, shew ye to them, and to the face of the churches."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "(As has been written, He scattered; he gave to the poor: his justice remains forever."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And by their prayer for you, longing for you through the exceeding grace of God upon you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And grace to God for his indescribable gift."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "For walking in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Lest I seem as terrifying you by epistles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And we boast not of things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure divided to us, to reach even also to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "But he boasting, let him boast in the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "For I reckon myself to be nothing greatly inferior to the sent."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works. Paul’s Suffering and Service ( Colossians 1:24–29 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Since many boast according to the flesh, I shall also boast."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "For ye bear with the mad willingly, being wise."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye bear, if any reduce you to bondage, if any devour, if any receive, if any be lifted up, if any skin you on the face."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows, he being praised forever, that I lie not."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "In Damascus king Aretas' governor watched the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "That he was carried off into paradise, and heard words not to be told, which it was not permitted man to speak. Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Of such a one will I boast: and of myself I will not boast, except in my weakness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Surely the signs of one sent was wrought in you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and powers."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And let it be, I overloaded you not: but being dexterous, I took you by contrivance."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Not any of whom I have sent to you have I by him taken advantage of you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "I called for Titus, and sent with a brother. Has Titus taken advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "This third I come to you. By mouth of two witnesses, and three, shall every word be established."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Since seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who to you is no weak, but has power in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And I hope that ye shall know that we are not untried."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And I pray to God that ye do nothing evil; not that we appear tried, but that ye do good, and we be as untried."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For we are not able anything against the truth, but for the truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Greet ye one another in a holy kiss."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "All the holy ones greet you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, sent, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, having raised him from the dead;)"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "And with me all the brethren, to the churches of Galatia:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "To whom the glory for the time of times. Amen. No Other Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Which is not another; except some are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "As we said before, also now say I again, If any announce to you good news above what ye received, let him be anathema. Paul Preaches the Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "But I make known to you, brethren, the good news announced by me that it is not according to man."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them sent before me; but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Then after three years I came up to Jerusalem to examine Peter, and remained with him fifteen days."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And other of the sect I saw not, except James the Lord's brother."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And what I write to you, behold, before God, that I lie not."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Then came I to the regions of Syria and Cilicia;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And was unknown by face to the churches of Judea there in Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And only they had heard, That he then driving us out, now announces the good news, the faith which he then felt the absence of."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And they glorified God in me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Then after fourteen years, again went I up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken together Titus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And I went up according to revelation, and placed before them the good news which I proclaim in the nations, but apart to them highly esteemed, lest I run in vain, or ran."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "But neither Titus, with me, being a Greek, was forced to be circumcised:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "To whom we yielded in subjection, not for an hour; that the truth of the good news might remain with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of uncircumcision, as Peter of circumcision;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Only that we remember the poor; and this same was I forward to do. Paul Confronts Cephas"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to the face, for he was to be rebuked."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For before certain came from James, he ate with the nations: and when they came, he drew down, and separated himself, being afraid of them of the circumcision."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "We by nature Jews, and not sinners from the nations,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And it; seeking to be justified in Christ, we were found also ourselves sinners, is Christ therefore the servant of sin? It may not be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For if what I destroy, these I build again, I unite myself with the transgressor."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For I through the law died to the law, that. I might live to God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "This only wish I to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Suffered ye so many things in vain? if yet also in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "He therefore furnishing you the Spirit, and working the powers in you, is it from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham. Christ Has Redeemed Us"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And the law is not of faith: but, The man having done them shall live in them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "That the praise of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. The Purpose of the Law ( Romans 7:1–6 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Brethren, I speak according to man; Although a man's covenant, having been confirmed, none annuls, or orders an addition."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And I say this, the covenant confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, having been after four hundred and thirty years, does not annul, to neglect the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For if of the law the inheritance, no more of promise: and God has favored Abraham by promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And a mediator is not of one, and God is one."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And before faith came, we were guarded under the law, shut up to faith about to be revealed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "And faith having come, we are no more under a preceptor. Sons through Faith in Christ"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "For as many of you as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male and female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "And if ye of Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And I say, for as long time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, being lord of all;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ. Paul’s Concern for the Galatians"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "But then truly, not having known God, ye were in a servile condition to them not being gods by nature."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Ye observe narrowly days, and months, and times, and years."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Be ye as I, for I also as you, brethren, I pray you: ye injured me nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And ye know that through weakness of the flesh I announced the good news to you before."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Have I then been your enemy, speaking truth to you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And I would be present with you now, and change my voice; for I am perplexed about you. Hagar and Sarah ( Genesis 21:9–21 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "But Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "For it has been written, Be cheered, O barren, bearing not; break out and cry, she travailing not: for many more the children of the desolate than she having a husband."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "But as then he born according to the flesh drove out him according to the Spirit, so also now."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "But what says the writing? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the bondmaid, but of the free."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For we in spirit by faith expect the hope of justice."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Ye were running well; who hindered you not to obey the truth?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "The confidence not from him calling you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "A little leaven leavens the whole mixture."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "I have trusted to you in the Lord, that ye will have nothing different in mind; and he troubling you shall bear judgment, whoever he be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And I, brethren, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I. yet driven out? therefore the offence of the cross is left unemployed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "I would also they shall be cut off who having risen up against you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "For all the law is completed in one word, in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And if ye bite and devour one another, see ye that ye be not laid waste by one another. Walking by the Spirit ( Ezekiel 36:16–38 ; Romans 8:9–11 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Meekness, temperance: against such is no law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Bear one another's burdens, and so fill up the law of Christ:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And let each try his own work, and then in himself alone will he have boasting, and not in another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For each shall bear his own load."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Let him being taught the word participate with him teaching in all good things."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith. Final Warnings and Blessings"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "See ye how large letters I wrote to you with mine own hand."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "As many as: wish to have an agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should be driven out for the cross of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision but a new creation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And as many as walk by this model, place upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "For the rest let none cause me fatigues: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with your spirit, brethren. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the holy ones being in Ephesus, and to the 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, Spiritual Blessings ( Romans 8:28–34 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "In which he abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory. Spiritual Wisdom ( 1 Corinthians 2:6–16 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For this, I also, having heard the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the holy,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Cease not returning thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And what the surpassing greatness of his power to us believing, according to the action of the might of his strength,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Which he performed in Christ, having raised him from the dead, and he sat on his right hand in the heavenlies,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And placed all things under his, feet, and gave him head over all things to the church,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Which is his body, the completion of him completing all things in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And ye being dead in faults and in sins;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And raised together, and seated together in heavenlies in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Not of works, lest any one should boast."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. One in Christ ( Philippians 2:1–4 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "That ye were in that time without Christ alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And now in Christ Jesus ye who then being far off have become near in the blood of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For he is our peace, having made both one, and having loosed the middle partition wall of the enclosure;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the enmity in it:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come, he announced good news, peace to you afar off, and to those near."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For by him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Christ Our Cornerstone ( Isaiah 28:14–22 ; 1 Corinthians 3:10–15 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow citizens of the holy, and the household of God;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "In whom all the building fitted together increases into a holy temple in the Lord:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "In whom also ye are builded together for the dwelling of God in the Spirit."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "For this, I Paul, the imprisoned of Christ Jesus for you the nations,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding 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 has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "According to the purpose of times immemorial which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "In whom we have freedom of speech and access with confidence by his faith."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory. Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Of whom all the family in the heavens and upon earth is named,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And to him being able to do above all things more abundantly above what we ask or think, according to the power being energetic in us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "To him the glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations of the times of times. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "One body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "One Lord, one faith, one immersion,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "One God and Father of all, who over all, and through all, and in you all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore he says, Having ascended into height, he made captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "(And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.)"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love. New Life in Christ ( Colossians 3:1–17 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And ye have not so learned Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "Neither give place to the accuser."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Be ye not therefore partakers with them. Children of Light"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth;)"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Trying what is pleasing to the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Making purchase of time, for the days are evil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father; Wives and Husbands ( Song of Solomon 1:1–17 ; 1 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;)"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord. Serving with Honor ( Colossians 3:22–25 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "With affection serving the Lord, and not men."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him. The Full Armor of God"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And fastened under the feet in preparation of the good news of peace;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Over all, having taken the shield of faith, in which ye shall be able to quench all the inflamed darts of evil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And take ye the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak. Final Greetings ( Philippians 4:21–23 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "And that ye also might know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus will make all things known to you, the dearly beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "Whom I sent to you for this same, that ye might know the things concerning us, and he might comfort your hearts."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "Grace with all loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibleness. Amen."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving and Prayer ( 1 Corinthians 1:4–9 ; Colossians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For your mutual participation in the good news from the first day until now;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Paul’s Trials Advance the Gospel ( James 1:2–12 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. To Live Is Christ"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For me to live is Christ, and to die gain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And to tarry yet longer in the flesh is more necessary for you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you. Worthy of the Gospel"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And terrified in nothing by them being hostile to you: which to them is truly an indication of destruction, and to you of salvation, and this from God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "Having the same struggle which ye saw in me, and now hear in me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others. The Mind of Christ ( Isaiah 52:13–15 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father. Lights in the World ( Matthew 5:13–16 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And do ye also rejoice at the same, and rejoice together with me. Timothy and Epaphroditus ( 1 Corinthians 16:10–12 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy quickly to you, that I also be courageous, having known the things concerning you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For I have none having a like soul, who naturally will have care for the things concerning you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And ye know his proof, that, as a child to a father, he served with me in the good news."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Him therefore I truly hope to send, whenever I shall see from it the things concerning me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And I have trusted in the Lord that I myself also shall come quickly."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow-soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me is not slothful, and to you safe."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Look out for dogs, look out for evil workmen, look out for the incision."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Circumcision done the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. Pressing on toward the Goal"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Not that I have already attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same. Citizenship in Heaven"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "I beseech Euodias, and I beseech Syntyche, to think the same in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And I also ask thee, worthy yoke fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Rejoice in the Lord always: again say I, Do ye rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Let your fitness be known to all men. The Lord is near."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you. The Generosity of the Philippians ( 2 Corinthians 8:1–15 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "But ye did well, participating together in my pressure."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And God will fill up all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And to God and our Father the glory for the times of times. Amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Greet ye every one holy in Christ Jesus. The brethren with me greet you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "All the holy greet you, and chiefly they from Caesar's house."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving and Prayer ( 1 Corinthians 1:4–9 ; Philippians 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We return 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 your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "He also having manifested to us your love in the Spirit."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins: The Supremacy of the Son ( Hebrews 1:1–14 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And he is before all, and all things have been established by him."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant; Paul’s Suffering for the Church ( 2 Corinthians 11:16–33 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ. Alive with Christ ( Ephesians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "(Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Christian Households ( Ephesians 6:1–4 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged. Serving with Honor ( Ephesians 6:5–9 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "That I might manifest, as is fitting for me to speak."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "In wisdom walk toward them without, purchasing the time."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Romans 16:21–23 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "All things concerning me shall Tychicus make known to you, a dearly beloved brother, and a faithful servant and fellowservant in the Lord:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Whom I sent to you for this same, that he might know the things concerning you, and comfort your hearts;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Aristarchus my fellowcaptive greets you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (for whom ye received commands: if he come to you, receive him;)"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus, called Justus, they being of the circumcision. These only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, which were a consolation to me."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For I bear testimony to him, that he has much zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Luke, the dearly beloved physician, greets you, and Demas. Signature and Final Instructions ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Greet the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The greeting of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace 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 return thanks to God always for you all, making remembrance of you in our prayers continually;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end. Paul’s Longing to Visit"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye are our glory and joy."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. Timothy’s Encouraging Report"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing. The Return of the Lord"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore comfort ye one another with these words."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do. Christian Living"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Rejoice always."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Pray continually."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Quench not the Spirit."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Set not prophecies at nought."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Try all things; hold the good."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Keep away from all appearance of evil. Final Blessings and Instructions"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Faithful he calling you, who also will do."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Brethren, pray for us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Greet all the brethren in a holy kiss."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "I bind you by oath, for the epistle to be read to all the holy brethren."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 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 return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: Christ’s Coming"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "(A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Even though just with God to return pressure to them pressing you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured 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": "And we ask you, brethren, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our assembling together to him,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And now ye know the withholding for him to be revealed in his time."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity. Stand Firm"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, also our Father, having loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope in grace,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Comfort your hearts, and support you in every good word and work."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. A Warning against Idleness"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother. Signature and Final Greetings ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; Colossians 4:15–18 )"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And the Lord of peace himself give to you peace for all in every manner. The Lord with you all."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "The greeting of Paul with my hand, which is the sign in every epistle: so I write."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To Timothy, genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. Correcting False Teachers ( Titus 1:10–16 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "(And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And we know the law good, if any use it lawfully;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For fornicators, unchaste, manstealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "According to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted. God’s Grace to Paul"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, having strengthened me, for he deemed me faithful, having set me in the service;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And to the King of times, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, honour and glory for the times of times. Amen.)"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "I will therefore men shall pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without anger and reasoning. Instructions to Women"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And likewise the women in well arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For Adam was first formed, then Eve."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And he must also have good testimony from them without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser. Qualifications for Deacons ( Acts 6:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus. The Mystery of Godliness"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "These I write to thee, hoping to come to thee quickly:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "For it is consecrated by the word of God and entreaty. A Good Servant of Jesus Christ"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou hast closely followed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Proclaim and teach these things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Till I come, hold to reading loud, to entreaty, to doctrine."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine; remain in them: for doing this, and thou shalt save thyself, and them hearing thee."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. Honoring True Widows ( Ruth 1:1–5 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Honour widows, truly widows."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And she living luxuriously is dead, living."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Having judgment, for they put away the first faith."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "For already have some turned aside after Satan."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows. Honoring Elders"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear. A Charge to Timothy"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Put hands swiftly upon none, nor participate in others' sins: keep thyself pure."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Likewise also the good works of some are manifest; and having these otherwise, it cannot be hid."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech. Reject False Doctrines"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such. Godliness with Contentment"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But devotion with contentment is great gain."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains. Fight the Good Fight"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen. A Charge to the Rich ( Proverbs 23:1–5 ; James 5:1–6 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "To do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, qualified for participation;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life. Guard the Faith"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Which some proclaiming have missed their aim concerning the faith. Grace with thee. Amen."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To Timothy, dearly beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Faithfulness under Persecution ( Matthew 10:16–25 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I have grace to God, whom I serve from the forefathers in pure consciousness, as I have continual remembrance concerning thee in my prayers night and day;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Desiring earnestly to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Receiving the report of unfeigned faith in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "By which I remind thee of the cause to light up the favor of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day. Holding to Sound Teaching"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for many times he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my perplexity:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "But, being in Rome, he sought me very diligently, and found."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "(May, the Lord give to him to find mercy of the Lord in that day:) and in how many things he served in Ephesus, thou knowest better."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Thou therefore suffer ill treatment, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The farmer toiling must first participate in the fruits."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Observe what I say; for may the Lord give to thee understanding in all things."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "In which I suffer ill treatment, to bonds, as an evil doer; but the word of God has not been bound."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Faithful the word: For if we died together, we shall also live together:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "If we endure, we shall also reign together: if we deny, he will also deny us:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "If we believe not, he remains faithful: he cannot deny himself. The Lord’s Approved Workman"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And this word as a gangrene, will have an eating ulcer: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Who concerning the truth missed their aim, saying the rising up has already been; and they subvert the faith of some."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Truly the firm foundation of God has stood, having this seal, The Lord knows them being his. And, Let every one naming the name of Christ remove from iniquity."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "If therefore any cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honour, consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was. All Scripture Is God-Breathed ( Hebrews 4:12–16 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And thou hast closely followed my doctrine, mode of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And all wishing to live devotedly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And evil men and impostors shall proceed to worse, deceiving, and being deceived."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And remain thou in what things thou hast learned and hast been convinced of, knowing of whom thou hast learned;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsuffering and teaching."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance. Personal Concerns"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Be earnest to come to me quickly."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Luke alone is with me. Having taken Mark, bring with thyself: for he is useful for the service."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Tychicus I sent to Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "The cloak which I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring, and the books, chiefly the parchments."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Alexander the coppersmith showed me much evil: (may the Lord give back to him according to his works:)"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Whom watch thou also; for he greatly withstood our words. The Lord Remains Faithful"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; Philippians 4:21–23 )"}
{"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: and Trophimus I left in Miletum sick."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Be earnest to come before winter Eubulus greets thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "The Lord Jesus Christ with thy Spirit. Grace with you. Amen."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, servant of God, and sent of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the acknowledgment of the truth according to devotion;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;)"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Appointing Elders on Crete ( 1 Timothy 3:1–7 ; 1 Peter 5:1–4 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing. Correcting False Teachers ( 1 Timothy 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And do thou speak what becomes sound doctrine:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things. God’s Grace Brings Salvation"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Expecting the blessed hope, and appearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people, zealous of good works."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "These things speak, and beseech, and reprove with all order. Let none despise thee."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the kindness and philanthropy of our Saviour God was made evident,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Which he poured out upon us richly by Jesus Christ our Saviour;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "That justified by his grace, we might be heirs according to the hope of eternal life."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Faithful the word, and I wish for thee to be assured of these things, that they having believed God might turn their thoughts to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable to men. Avoid Divisions ( Romans 16:17–20 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "A man, a heretic after one and the second admonition, reject;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Knowing such to be turned back, and he sins, being self-condemned. Final Remarks and Greetings"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, be earnest to come to me at Nicopolis: for there have I chosen to pass the winter."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Send forward zealously Zenas pertaining to the law, and Apollos, that nothing fail them."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "All they with me greet thee. Greet them loving us in the faith. Grace with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "PAUL, imprisoned of Jesus Christ, Timothy the brother, to Philemon, dearly beloved, and cooperating,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "And to the dearly beloved Apphia, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the church in thy house:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon’s Faith and Love"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I thank my God, always making remembrance of thee in my prayers,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast to the Lord Jesus, and to all the holy;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For we have much grace and consolation upon thy love, for the bowels of the holy are refreshed by thee, brother. Paul’s Appeal for Onesimus"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, having much freedom of speech in Christ to enjoin thee what concerns thee,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "By love I beseech rather, being such as Paul an aged man, and now also the imprisoned of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I beseech thee for my child whom I begat in my bonds, Onesimus."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Once unprofitable to thee, but now more profitable to thee and to me:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Whom I sent back: and thou him, that is, my bowels, receive again:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Whom I was wishing to retain to myself, that for thee he might serve me in the bonds of the good news:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "But without thy judgment I would do nothing; that good might not be as according to necessity, but according to free will."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For perhaps therefore he was separated for a time, that thou mightest receive him forever;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "No more as a servant, but above a servant, a dearly beloved brother, especially to me, and how much rather to thee, also in the flesh, and in the Lord?"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "If therefore thou hold me a participator, receive him in addition as me."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And if he injured thee any, or is indebted, charge this to me."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "I Paul wrote with my hand, I will pay back: that I say not to thee, for thou owest thyself to me also in addition."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Yea, brother, may I be profited by thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt do above what I say to thee."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And at the same time also prepare for me a reception as a guest: for I hope that by your prayers I shall be given as a favor to you. Additional Greetings"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Epaphras greets thee, my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my co-workers."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with your spirit. Amen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For to which of the angels once said he, Thou art my Son, I have this day begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for Father, and he shall be to me for Son?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And truly to the angels of God he says, Who making his angels spirits, and his workmen flames of fire."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And, Thou, at the beginning, Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "These shall be destroyed; but thou remainest; and they all as a garment shall grow old;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And to which of the angels has he once said, Sit on my right hand, till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "God confirming the testimony, together with signs and wonders, and various powers, and partitions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will. Jesus like His Brothers"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For not to the angels has he subjected the habitable globe about to be, of which we speak."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And somewhere a certain one testified, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him? or the son of man, that thou reviewest him?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Thou didst render him some little while less than angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst place him over the work of thine hands:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For it became him, for whom all things, and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the chief of their salvation by sufferings."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, I will announce thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church will I praise thee."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For certainly he lays not hold of angels; but of the seed of Abraham he lays hold."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, observe the sent and Chief Priest of our assent, Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Faithful to him having made him, as also Moses in his whole house."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For every house is built by somebody; and he having built all things, God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And truly Moses faithful in his whole house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things to be spoken;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end. Do Not Harden Your Hearts ( Psalm 95:1–11 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.) The Peril of Unbelief"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And we see they could not come in through unbelief."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let us therefore fear, lest a solemn promise being left to come into his rest, any of you should seem to have failed."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For if Jesus had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken of another day after these things."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Therefore a celebration of a sabbath remains to the people of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief. The Living Word ( 2 Timothy 3:10–17 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And there is no creation invisible before him: and all things naked and exposed, neck and face to view, to the eyes of him with whom to us is the word."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Having therefore a great chief priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold firmly the assent."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Being able to moderate the passions to the ignorant, and deceived; since he also is surrounded with weakness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And for this he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to bring in for sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And not any takes this honour to himself; but the called of God, as also Aaron."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "So also Christ honoured not himself, to become chief priest; but he having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And also in another he says, Thou a priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Although being a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And being perfected, he became to all them lending a willing ear to him the origin of eternal salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Addressed by God the chief priest according to the order of Melchisedec. Milk and Solid Food ( 1 Corinthians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And this will we do, if God even permit."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And we have been persuaded of you, dearly beloved, of better things, and connected with salvation, if we also thus speak."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsuffering. God’s Unchangeable Promise"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For God promising to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, sware by himself,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Saying, Truly will I praise thee, and multiplying will I multiply thee."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And so, having endured long, he gained the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Which we have as an anchor of the soul, unshaken and firm, and entering into that further within the veil."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "Where the forerunner, Jesus, went in for us, according to the order of Melchisedec, being a high priest forever."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Without father, without mother, of unknown origin, neither having beginning of days, nor end of life; and likened to the Son of God;) remains a priest perpetually."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And behold how great this one, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave the tenth of the first fruits."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And without all controversy the less is praised of the better."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And here truly dying men receive tenths; but there he, bearing witness that he lives."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And as the word says, through Abraham, also Levi, receiving tenths, has paid a tenth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For yet was he in his father's loins, when Melchisedec met him. A Superior Priesthood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If truly therefore completion were by the Levitical priesthood, (for the people received legislation by it,) what further need according to the order of Melchisedec for another priest to be raised, and not according to the order of Aaron?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "For the priesthood being transferred, of necessity also is a transposition of law."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "For he of whom these things are said partook of another tribe, of which none held to the altar."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For it is manifest that our Lord has sprung out of Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing of the priesthood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And it is yet more abundantly manifest: that according to the resemblance of Melchisedec has another priest risen,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Who according to the law of a fleshly command was not born, but according to the power of an indestructible life."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "For he testifies, Thou a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For there is truly an annulling of the command going before by its weakness and unprofitableness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "(For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And as much as not without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "According to this, Jesus has become security of a better covenant."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And he, because he remains forever, has an inviolable priesthood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Who has no necessity according to the day, as the chief priests, before to bring up sacrifices for their own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having brought up himself."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "For the law establishes men chief priests having weakness; but the word of the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath, after the law, the Son, having been perfected forever."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And the summary to the things spoken: We have such a chief priest, who sat on the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "A workman of holy things, and of the true tent, which the Lord pitched, and not man."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For every chief priest is appointed to bring in gifts and sacrifices also: wherefore it is necessary also for this to have something which he might bring."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "For if truly he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests bringing in gifts according to the law;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "Who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was given an intimation of the divine will, being about to complete the tent: for, See, says he, thou make all things according to the type shewed thee in the mount. The New Covenant ( Jeremiah 31:26–40 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And now he has attained a more distinguished office, in how much also he is mediator of a better covenant, which was legislated upon better promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For if that first was faultless, then place was not to be sought for the second."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "For rebuking them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will complete for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "In saying new, he has made the first old. And that made old and becoming weak is near destruction."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And after the second veil, the tent called Holy of Holies;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Having the golden censer, and ark of the covenant surrounded on all sides with gold, in which was the golden urn having the manna, and Aaron's rod having budded, and the tables of the covenant;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And above it the cherubs of glory overshadowing the propitiatory; of which it is not now to speak in turn."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And these thus prepared, truly to the first tent the priests always came in, to complete the divine services."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And into the second the chief priest alone once a year, not without blood, which he brings near for himself, and the errors of the people:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "This the Holy Spirit designating, the way of the holies had not yet been made manifest, the first tent yet having a standing:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment. Redemption through His Blood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And for this he is mediator of a new covenant, that death having been, for redemption of the transgressions for the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For where a will, the necessity for the death of him having willed to be brought forward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For a will is firm by the dead: since it has no power when he having willed lives."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "Wherefore neither was the first consecrated without blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For every command spoken according to law by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and he-goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and also the book, and he sprinkled all the people,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Saying, This the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And also the tent, and all the vessels of the service, he poured all over likewise with blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And almost all things are purified according to the law with blood; and without blood-letting there is no remission."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "Neither that he should offer himself many times, as the chief priest comes in to the holy places yearly with blood pertaining to others;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "But in these, a reminding of sins yearly."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "For the blood of bulls and he-goats cannot take away sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And with whole burnt offering for sin wast thou not contented."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said I, Behold, I am here (in the head of the book it was written of me,) O God, to do thy will."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Farther back, saying, That sacrifice and bringing in and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou wouldest not, neither wert contented with; which are brought in according to law;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Then he said, Behold, I am here to do, O God, thy will. He takes away the first, that he might set up the second."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "In which will we are consecrated by the bringing in of the body of Jesus Christ once."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And truly every priest has stood daily, serving and bringing in many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "But this, having brought in one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "As to the rest, awaiting till his enemies be put a footstool of his feet."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For by one offering has he perfected forever the consecrated."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And also the Holy Spirit testifies to us: for after having said before,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "This the covenant which I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws upon their heart, and upon their minds will I write them;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And where remission of these, no more bringing in for sin. A Call to Persevere ( Jude 1:17–23 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "A way publicly declared and living, which he consecrated to us, through the veil, that is, his flesh;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And a great priest over the house of God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts be sprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "We should hold the assent of hope not bending; (for faithful he having promised;)"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And we should observe one another for the incitement of love and good works:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom to some; but beseeching: and by so much the more, inasmuch as ye see the day drawing near."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy, having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "This, truly, being exposed to public view both by reproaches and pressures; and this, having been partakers of those thus overturned."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "Throw not away therefore your freedom of speech, which has great payment of reward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "For yet a little while only, he coming will come, and will not tarry."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And faith is the foundation of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "For by this were the elders testified of."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light. The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah ( Genesis 4–9 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice. The Faith of Abraham and Sarah ( Genesis 15–22 ; Romans 4:1–12 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "By faith Sara also herself received power for the laying down of seed, and brought forth during the time of age, for she deemed him faithful having promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "For they saying such things show clearly that they seek a country."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "To whom it was spoken, That in Isaac shall seed be called to thee:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Reckoning that God was also able to raise from the dead; whence he also received him in a parable. The Faith of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph ( Genesis 27–50 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "By faith concerning things about to be, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons; and worshipped, upon the extremity of his rod."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "By faith Joseph, dying, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel: and charged concerning his bones. The Faith of Moses ( Exodus 2–15 ; Acts 7:20–22 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "By faith Moses, born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw a shrewd child; and they were not afraid of the edict of the king."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be reckoned the son of Pharaoh's daughter;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the king's wrath: for, as seeing the invisible, he was strong."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "By faith he has kept the pascha, and the pouring out of blood, lest he destroying the first born should touch them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians having tried were swallowed down. The Faith of Many ( Joshua–Malachi )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been surrounded for seven days."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with the unbelieving, having received the spies with peace."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "And what more do I say? for the time will fail me recounting of Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthae; David also, and Samuel, and the prophets:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls. God Disciplines His Sons"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Ye have not yet resisted until blood, fighting against sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore set upright the relaxed hands, and palsied knees;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And make straight wheel-ruts to your feet, lest the lame thing turned aside; and it should rather be healed. A Call to Holiness ( 1 Peter 1:13–21 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of eating sold his primogeniture."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears. An Unshakable Kingdom ( Exodus 20:18–21 ; Deuteronomy 5:22–33 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which they, having heard, implored that the word be not put before them:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And so dreadful was that being made to appear, Moses said, I am terrified and trembling:)"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the just perfected,"}
{"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 Abel."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And the Yet once more, makes manifest the transferring the things shaken, as of things made, that the things not being shaken might remain."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "For also our God is a consuming fire."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let brotherly love remain."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Christ’s Unchanging Nature"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "So that being confident, we say, The Lord aiding me, and I will not fear what man will do to me."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day the same, and for ever."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "We have an altar, of which they serving the tent have no power to eat."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "For of whom the blood of the living ones is brought for sin into the holies by the chief priest, the bodies of these are burned without the camp."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore also Jesus, that he might consecrate the people by his own blood, suffered without the camp."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be. Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And I beseech the more abundantly to do this, that I might the more speedily be restored to you. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And I beseech you, brethren, hold up the word of entreaty: for I also sent to you in a few words."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "Ye know the brother Timothy having been set at liberty; with whom, if he come more speedily, I shall see you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Greet all them guiding you, and all the holy."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "They from Italy greet you. Grace with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health. Rejoicing in Trials ( Philippians 1:12–20 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And let the humble brother boast in his elevation:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him. Good and Perfect Gifts"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures. Hearing and Doing"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For man's anger works not the justice of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And do they not defame the good name called upon you?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "If yet ye complete the royal law according to the writing, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And if ye make distinction of faces, ye work sin, being convicted under the law as transgressors."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For whoever shall keep the whole law, and stumble in one, has become bound of all."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For he having said, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, said also, Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou commit not adultery, and dost kill, thou hast become a transgressor of the law."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "So speak ye, and so do, as about to be judged by the law of liberty."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment. Faith and Works ( Galatians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: and the evil spirits believe, and shudder."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they should yield to us; and we lead their whole body."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water. The Wisdom from Above"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Drawing Near to God"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another. Do Not Boast about Tomorrow ( Proverbs 27:1 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore to him knowing to do good, and not doing, to him it is sin."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Ye have led a luxurious life upon the earth, and have rioted in luxury; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not. Patience in Suffering ( Job 1:1–5 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment. The Prayer of Faith"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Does any suffer among you? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him play on the harp."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not 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 shot forth her fruit. Restoring a Sinner"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Peter, sent of Jesus Christ, to the chosen strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied. A Living Hope"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep. A Call to Holiness ( Hebrews 12:14–17 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God. The Enduring Word ( Isaiah 40:6–8 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And the word of the Lord remains forever. And this is the word having announced good news to you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "If ye have tasted that the Lord is good."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "To whom approaching, a living stone, truly disapproved of by men, and chosen by God, highly valued,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection. Submission to Authorities ( Romans 13:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God. Christ’s Example of Suffering ( Isaiah 53:1–8 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Having beheld in fear your pure turning back."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "(As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off. Turning from Evil"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Let him bend away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow it."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good? Suffering for Righteousness"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers subjected to him."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;)"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Who shall return the word to him holding in readiness to judge the living and the dead."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Being hospitable to one another without murmurings."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen. Suffering as Christians"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And if the just one with difficulty be saved, where shall the irreligious and sinful appear."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And the chief Shepherd having been manifested, ye shall be attired with an unfading crown of glory. Cast Your Cares on Him"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "The chosen together in Babylon, greet you; also Marcus my son."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Greet one another in a kiss of love. Peace to all you which in Christ Jesus. Amen."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, Partakers of the Divine Nature"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though having known, and being supported in the present truth."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And I deem just, in as far as I am in this tent, to arouse you by putting in mind;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Knowing that the laying aside of my tent is swift; as also our Lord Jesus Christ manifested to me."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And I shall also be earnest for you always to have, after my exit, this putting in mind to be done. Eyewitnesses of His Majesty ( Matthew 17:1–13 ; Mark 9:1–13 ; Luke 9:28–36 )"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For having received from God the Father honour and glory, and such a voice brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And this voice brought from heaven we heard, being with him in the holy mountain."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Knowing this first, that every prophecy of the writing is not of private solution."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "(And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And just Lot, being harassed by the licentiousness of the lawless for the turning back, he delivered:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "(For the just one in seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, from day to day tried the just soul with lawless works;)"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Where angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not defaming judgment against them to the Lord."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And he had reprehension for his own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking in man's voice impeded the insanity of the prophet."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now this, dearly beloved, the second epistle I write to you; in which I awaken your pure mind by putting in remembrance:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And now the heavens and the earth, by the same word are stored up, being kept for fire to the day of judgment and of the perdition of irreligious men. The Day of the Lord ( Zephaniah 1:7–18 ; Malachi 4:1–6 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 )"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is longsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a loud noise, and the elements, suffering from excessive heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burned down."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Expecting and seeking earnestly the presence of the day of God, during which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements going to be burned are melted away?"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But we expect new heavens and a new earth, according to promise, in which dwells justice. Final Exhortations"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And the longsuffering of our Lord deem ye salvation; as also our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "As also in all the epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also the rest of the writings, to their own perdition."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "What was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our own hands felt, concerning the word of life;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "(And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and we testify, and announce to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "What we have seen and heard we announce to you, that ye also might have communion with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And these we write to you, that your joy might be filled up. Walking in the Light ( John 8:12–29 )"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If we 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 write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "He saying he remains in him ought, as he walked about, so also he to walk about. A New Commandment"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Brethren, I write no new command to you, but an old command which ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word which ye heard from the beginning."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "He saying he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness even until now."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "I write to you, little children, for your sins are let go for his name."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil. Do Not Love the World"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever. Beware of Antichrists"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who is a liar if not he denying that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, denying the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Every one denying the Son, neither has the Father: he acknowledging the Son, has also the Father. Remain in Christ"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "What therefore ye have heard from the beginning, let remain in you. If it remain in you what ye heard from the beginning, ye also shall remain in the Son, and in the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And this is the promise which he promised us, eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "These I wrote to you concerning them deceiving you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he be manifested, we might have freedom of speech, that we be not shamed from him in his presence."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Every one doing sin also does lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And ye know that he was manifested that he might let go our sins; and in him is no sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "He doing sin is of the accuser; for the accuser sins from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that he might loose the works of the accuser."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Every one born of God does not sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, for he has been born of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother. Love One Another ( John 13:31–35 ; Romans 12:9–13 )"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Be not amazed, my brethren, if the world hate you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no manslayer has eternal life remaining in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And in this we know that we are of the truth, and we will yield our hearts before him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For if our heart condemn us, for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Dearly beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have freedom of speech towards God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And this is his command, That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us command."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And he keeping his commands remains in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit he gave us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Love Comes from God"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "He not loving knows not God; for God is love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "In this we know that we remain in him, and he in us, for he has given us of his Spirit."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his. Son a Saviour of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "In this has love been completed with us, that we might have freedom of speech in the day of judgment: for as he is, so are we in this world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "We should love him, for he first loved us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And this command have we from him, That he loving God love his brother also."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving him having begotten, loves him also begotten 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 his commands."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commands: and his commands are not heavy."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Who is he conquering the world, if not he believing that Jesus is the Son of God?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "This is he having come by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water alone, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is testifying, for the Spirit is truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For three are testifying (in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And three are testifying in the earth,) the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three are for one. God’s Testimony about His Son"}
{"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": "He believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself: he not believing God has made him a liar; for he has not believed the testimony which God has testified of his Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "He having the Son has life; and he not having the Son of God has not life. Effective Prayer"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have eternal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and sinning will give him life to them sinning not to death. There is a sin to death: I say not of that, that he should ask."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "All injustice is sin: and there is a sin not to death. The True God"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in evil."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Little children, watch yourselves from idols. Amen."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder to the chosen mistress in truth; (and not I only, but also all and to her children, whom I love they having known the truth;)"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "For the truth remaining in us, and shall be with us forever."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "There shall be with you grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth, and love. Walking in the Truth ( John 8:30–47 )"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I was greatly rejoiced that I found of thy children walking about in the truth, as we received a command from the Father."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And now I entreat thee, mistress, not as writing a new command, but what we had from the beginning, that we should love one another."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And this is love, that we walk about according to his commands. This is the command, That as ye heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. Beware of Deceivers"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For many cheats come into the world, they not acknowledging Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the cheat and antichrist."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Every one passing by, and not remaining in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He remaining in the teaching of Christ, the same also has the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If there come any to you, and bring not this teaching, receive ye him not into the household, and to rejoice tell him not:"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For he telling him to rejoice, partakes of his evil works. Conclusion ( 3 John 1:13–14 )"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Having many things to write to you, I was not willing by paper and ink: but I hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to month, that our joy might be filled up."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "The children of thy chosen sister greet thee. Amen."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder to the dearly beloved Gains, whom I love in truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Dearly beloved, I pray above all things that thou succeed and be in good health, as thy soul succeeds."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "For I was greatly rejoiced, the brethren coming and testifying to thy truth, as thou walkest about in the truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I have no joy greater than these that I hear my children walking in truth. Gaius Commended for Hospitality"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Dearly beloved, thou doest faithfully whatever thou dost work for the brethren, and for strangers;"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Who testified to thy love before the church: thou shalt do well, having sent them forward worthily of God."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For, for his name went they forth, receiving nothing from the nations."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore ought we to receive such, that we might be workers together in the truth. Diotrephes and Demetrius"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, seeking the superiority over them, receives us not."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Dearly beloved, imitate not evil, but good. He doing good is of God: and he doing evil has not seen God."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "It has been testified to Demetrius by all, and by the truth itself: and we also testify; and know that our testimony is true. Conclusion ( 2 John 1:12–13 )"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "I have many things to write, but I will not by ink and pen write to thee:"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And I hope presently to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the consecrated in God the Father, and the kept in Jesus Christ, the called:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. God’s Judgment on the Ungodly ( 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And I wish to remind you, ye having once known this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed them not having believed."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "As Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, debauched in like manner to these, and having gone away after other flesh, are set before a sample of eternal fire, enduring punishment."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "But Michael the archangel, when fighting with the accuser, discussed concerning the body of Moses, dared not to bring the judgment of defamation, but said, May the Lord censure thee."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And these truly what things they know not they defame: and what things naturally, as irrational animals, they know, in these they corrupt themselves."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And also of these prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage. A Call to Persevere ( Hebrews 10:19–39 ; 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And ye, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the sent of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For they said to you that in the last time shall be deceivers, going according to the eager desires of their impieties."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "These are they separating themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And ye, dearly beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And truly compassionate some, discriminating:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And some save in fear, snatching out of the fire; hating also the coat stained from the flesh. Doxology ( Romans 16:25–27 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And to him able to watch yourselves from falling, and to place blameless before his glory with transport of joy,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "To the only wise God our Saviour, glory and majesty, and strength and power, also for now and for all times. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must be with speed; and he signified having sent by his angel to his servant John:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Who bare witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, as much as he saw."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Happy he reading, and they hearing the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it, for the time is near. John Greets the Seven Churches"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John to the seven churches which in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from him who being, and who was, and who coming; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And he made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him the glory and strength for the times of times."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they who goaded him: and all the tribes of the earth shall lament on account of him. Yes, Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who being, and who was, and who coming, the Omnipotent Ruler. John’s Vision on Patmos"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I John, and your brother, and partaker in pressure, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, I was in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I was in the Spirit In the day pertaining to the Lord, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I turned back to see the voice which spake with me. And having turned back, I saw seven gold chandeliers;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And in the midst of the seven chandeliers one like to the Son of man, dressed in a garment descending to the feet, and girded at the breast with a golden girdle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And his head and hairs white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And his feet as brass of Lebanon, as refined by fire in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he put his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid; I am the first and the last:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And he living, and I was dead; and, behold, I am living for the times of times, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Write the things thou hast seen, and which are, and which are about to be after these things;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "I know thy works, and thy fatigue, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked: and thou hast tried them saying they are sent, and are not, and thou Last found them liars:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And thou hast borne, and thou hast patience, and for my name hast thou been wearied, and thou hast not been broken by toil."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But I have against thee, for thou hast let go thy first love."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore remember whence thou hast fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But this hast thou, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God. To the Church in Smyrna"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And to the messenger of the church of the Smyrnians write; Thus says the first and the last, who was dead and he lived;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death. To the Church in Pergamum"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And to the messenger to the calling out in Pergamos write: Thus says he having the sharp two-mouthed sword;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan: and thou holdest my name, and hast not denied my faith, and in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness, who was slain with you, where Satan dwells."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So also hast thou them holding the teaching of the Nicolaitanes, which I hate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Repent; and if not, I come to thee swiftly, and will wage war with them with the sword of my mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving. To the Church in Thyatira ( Acts 16:11–15 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And to the messenger of the church among the Thyatirians write; Thus says the Son of God, having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like the brass of Lebanon;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "I know thy works, and love, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last more than the first."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication; and she repented not."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them committing adultery with her into great pressure, except they repent of their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And say to you, and to the rest among the Thyatirians, as many as have not this teaching, and who know not the burden of Satan, as they say; I will cast no other burden upon you."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "But what ye have, hold ye until I come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And he conquering, and keeping my works till the end, I will give him power over the nations:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen-ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And I will give him the morning star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: Thus says he having the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Thou hast a few names also in Sardis which stained not their garments; and they shall walk about with me in white things: for they are worthy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "He conquering, the same shall be surrounded in white garments; and I will not wipe out his name from the book of life, but I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his messengers."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the Church in Philadelphia"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write; Thus says the holy, the true, he having the key of David, he opening, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but they lie; behold, I will make them that they come and worship before thy feet, and they should know that I have loved thee."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For thou didst keep the word of my patience, and I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, about to come upon the whole habitable globe, to try them dwelling upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Behold, I come swiftly: hold what thou hast, that none take thy crown."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the Church in Laodicea ( Colossians 2:1–5 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "I, if as many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be emulous therefore, and repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "He conquering, will I give to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I saw, and, behold, a door opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me; saying, Come up here, and I will show thee what things must be after these."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And instantly I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And he sitting was like the vision to a jasper stone and a sardine; and a rainbow round about the throne, like the vision to an emerald."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And round about the throne twenty-four thrones; and sitting upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders, surrounded with white garments; and they had golden crowns upon their heads. Worship of the Creator"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And from the throne go forth lightnings, and thunders, and voices: and seven torches of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And before the throne a sea of glass like crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first living creature like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature having the face as a man, and the fourth living creature like a spreading eagle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And the four living creatures, one by itself, had six wings together round about; and within full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who was, and who being, and who coming."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him sitting on the throne, and to him living forever and ever,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "The twenty-four elders will fall before him sitting on the throne, and will worship him living forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they are, and they were created."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw upon the right hand of him sitting upon the throne, a book written within and behind, sealed with seven seals."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And none was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look upon it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And I wept much, that none was found worthy to open and to read the hook, neither to look upon it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw, and, behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And he came and took the book from the right hand of him sitting upon the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each harps, and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the holy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open its seals: for thou wert slain, and didst purchase us to God by thy blood from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And madest us kings and priests to our God: and we shall reign upon the earth. The Lamb Exalted"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw, and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders: and their number was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and praise."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And every creature which is in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth, and upon the sea, which are, and all things in them, heard I saying, To him sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, praise, and honour, and glory, and strength, for the times of times."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell and worshipped him living for the times of times."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as the voice of thunder, Come and see."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw and behold a white horse: and he sitting upon him having a bow; and a crown was given to him: and he went forth conquering, and that he might conquer. The Second Seal: War"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come and see."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And another horse came forth fiery red: and it was given to him sitting upon him to take peace from the earth, and that they should slaughter one another: and a great sword was given to him. The Third Seal: Famine"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a black horse, and he sitting upon him having a balance in his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a drachma, and three measures of barley for a drachma; and thou shouldest not injure the oil and the wine. The Fourth Seal: Death"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come and see."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And I saw, and behold a pale horse: and he sitting above him the name to him Death, and Hades follows with him. And power was given to them to kill upon the fourth of the earth, with sword, and by famine, and by death, and by wild beasts of the earth. The Fifth Seal: The Martyrs"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of the slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they cried with a great voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood of them dwelling upon earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And to each were given white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till also their fellowservants be filled up, about to be killed, as also they. The Sixth Seal: Terror"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great shaking; and the sun was black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, shaken by a great wind."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And the heaven was separated as a book turned round; and every mount and isle were moved from their places."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the rich, and the captains of thousands, and the powerful, and every servant, and every one free, hid themselves in caves and in rocks of the mountains;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "For the great day of his wrath has come; and who can stand?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind blow not upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw another angel having come from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to injure the earth and the sea,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Saying, Injure not the earth, neither the sea, neither the trees, until we should seal the servants of God upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard the number of the sealed: an hundred and forty-four thousand sealed of all the tribes of the sons of Israel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand sealed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Of the tribe of Aser twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Nepthalim twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Manasses twelve thousand sealed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand sealed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Of the tribe of Zabulon twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed. Praise from the Great Multitude"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which none could number it, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, having put round white robes, and palm trees 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 round about the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, Amen: praise, and glory, and wisdom, and gratitude, and honour, and power, and strength, to our God for ever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he sitting upon the throne will dwell among them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "For the Lamb in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall guide them to living fountains of water: and God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about half an hour."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw the seven angels who stood before God; and seven trumpets were given to them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And another angel came and was placed by the altar, having a golden censer; and many perfumes were given him, that he might give to the prayers of the holy upon the golden altar before the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And the smoke of the perfumes went up, with the prayers of the holy, from the angel's hand before God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast into the earth: and there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake. The First Four Trumpets"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the seven angels having the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound the trumpets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first angel sounded the trumpet, and there were hail and fire mingled with blood, and it was cast into the earth: and a third of the trees were burned down, and all green grass was burned down."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the second angel sounded the trumpet, and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third of the sea was blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And the third of the creatures which in the sea, died, those having souls; and the third of the ships were destroyed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as a torch, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third of the waters is into wormwood; and many of men died of the waters, for they were rendered bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, and the third of the sun was stricken, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars; that a third of them might be darkened, and the day shone not, a third of it, and the night likewise."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And I saw, and heard one angel flying in the midst of heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, to them dwelling upon earth from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels, about to sound the trumpet!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was said to them that they should not injure the grass of the earth, neither any green, nor any tree; except the men only which have not the seal of God upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tortured five months: and their torture as the torture of a scorpion, when he should strike a man."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And they had coats of mail, as coats of mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they have tails as scorpions, and goads were in their tails: and their power to injure men five months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss, the name to him in Hebrew Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "One woe has passed; behold, there come two woes more after these. The Sixth Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels bound in the great river Euphrates."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And the four angels were loosed, prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, that they might kill the third of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And the number of troops of cavalry, two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard their number."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them sitting upon them, having fiery coats of mail, and of deep purple, and sulphurous: and the horses' heads as lions' heads; and out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke and sulphur."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "By these three were the third of men killed, from fire, and from smoke, and from brimstone, coming forth out of their mouths."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For their powers are in their month, and in their tails: for their tails like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And the rest of men who were not killed by these blows, neither repented of the works of their hands, that they should not worship evil spirits, and images of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood: which neither can see, neither hear, neither walk:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And they repented not of their slaughters, nor of their charms, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another strong angel coming down from heaven, surrounded with a cloud: and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And he had in his hand a small book opened: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the earth,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And he cried with a great voice, as a lion roars: and when he cried, the seven thunders spake their voices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Seal what the seven thunders spake, and thou mayest not write these."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel which I saw standing upon the sea and upon earth lifted up his hand to heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And sware by him living for ever and ever, who created the heaven, and all in it, and earth, and all things in it, and the sea, and all in it, that time shall be no more:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he should be about to sound the trumpet, and the mystery of God should be finished, as he announced the good news to his servants the prophets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And the voice which I heard from heaven again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the little book opened in the hand of the angel having stood upon the sea and upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And I came forth to the angel, saying to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take, and eat it up; and it shall render thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth shall it be sweet as honey."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And I took the small book from the angel's hand, and I was eating it; and in my mouth was as honey, sweet: and when I ate it, my belly was bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he says to me, Thou must again prophesy to peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And a reed was given me like rod: and the messenger stood, saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them worshipping in it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And the court-yard that without the temple throw out, and thou mayest not measure it: for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, surrounded with sackcloth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "These are the two olive trees, and the two chandeliers which having stood before the God of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And if any would injure them, fire goes forth out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any would injure them, so must he be put to death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "These have power to shut up heaven, that the rain should not wet in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every blow, as often as they wish. The Witnesses Killed and Raised"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And when they should finish their testimony, the wild beast coming up out of the abyss shall wage war with them, and shall conquer them, and kill them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And their slain bodies upon the spacious way of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And they from the people and tongues and nations shall see their slain bodies three days and a half, and they shall not suffer their slain bodies to be put into tombs."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And they dwelling upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and shall be gladdened, and shall send gifts to one another; for these two prophets tortured them dwelling upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God came upon 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 heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And in that hour was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell, and there were slain in the shaking seven thousand names of men: and the rest were terrified, and they gave glory to the God of heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "The second woe passed away; behold, the third woe comes swiftly. The Seventh Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And the twenty four elders, which before God sitting upon their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Saying, We return thanks to thee, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who being, and who was, and who coming; for thou hast taken thy great power, and reigned."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the holy, and to them fearing thy name, the small and great; and to destroy them destroying the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and shakings, and great hail."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman surrounded by 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 in the womb she cries, having the pains of childbirth, and making trial to bring forth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And another sign was seen in heaven; and behold a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And his tail draws the third of the stars of heaven, and he cast them into the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman about to bring forth, that when she should bring forth he might devour her child."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And she brought forth a son, a male, who is about to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her child was snatched up to God, and his throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And the woman fled into the desert where she has a place prepared from God, that they might nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days. The War in Heaven"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And war was in heaven; and Michael and his angels waged war against the dragon; and the dragon waged war and his angels,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And were not strong; nor was place more found for them in heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their souls till death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For this rejoice, ye heavens, and they dwelling in them. Woe to them inhabiting the earth and the sea! for the devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time. The Woman Persecuted"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he drove out the woman who brought forth the male."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly to the desert, to her place, where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And the serpent cast after the woman water out of his mouth as a river, that he might make her torn 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 down the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went out to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw coming up from the sea a wild beast, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And the wild beast which I saw was like a panther, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And I saw one of his heads as slaughtered to death; and his deathblow was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the wild beast: and they worshipped the wild beast, saying, Who like the beast? who shall be able to war with him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tent, and them dwelling in heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And it was given him to make war with the holy, and to conquer them: and power was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "If any have an ear, let him hear."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "If any bring together to captivity he shall proceed into captivity: if any shall kill with sword, he shall be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faith of the holy. The Beast from the Earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw another wild beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And all the powers of the first beast he does before him, and he makes the earth and all dwelling in it that they should worship the first wild beast, whose death-blow was healed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And he does great signs, that also he might make fire come down from heaven to the earth before men,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was given him to give spirit to the image of the wild beast, that the image of the wild beast might speak, and might make as many as should not worship the image of the wild beast that they be killed. The Mark of the Beast"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And he makes all, small and great, and rich and poor, and free and servants, that he should give them a stamp upon their right hand, or upon their foreheads:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And that no one could buy or sell, except he having the stamp, or the name of the wild beast, or the number of his name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Here is wisdom. Let him having intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number Six hundred and sixty-six."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw, and, behold, a Lamb standing upon mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder: and I heard the voice of harp players playing on their harps:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And they sing as a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and none could learn the song, except the hundred forty-four thousand, purchased from the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And guile was not found in their mouth: for they are blameless before the throne of God. The Three Angels and Babylon’s Fall"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the lasting good news to announce to them dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Saying with a great voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come: and worship ye him having made the heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And another angel followed, saying, She fell, Babylon fell, the great city, for all nations has she given to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And the third angel followed them, saying with a great voice, If any worship the wild beast and his image, and receive the stamp upon his forehead, or upon his hand,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever: and they have no rest day and night, those worshipping the wild beast and his image, and if any receive the stamp of his name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Here is the patience of the holy: here they keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Happy the dead who dying in the Lord from henceforth: Yes, says the Spirit, that they might cease from their fatigues; and their works follow with them. The Harvest of the Earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And I saw, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud he sitting like the 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 went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And he sitting upon the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And another angel came forth out of the temple which in heaven, the same also having a sharp sickle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And another angel came forth from the altar, having power over fire; and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and harvest the grapes of the vineyard of the earth; for her grapes were fully ripe."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and harvested the earth's vineyard, and cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And the winepress was trodden under foot without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the horses' bridles, from sixteen hundred stadia."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful, seven angels having the seven last blows; for in them was the wrath of God finished."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw as a sea made of glass mingled with fire: and they conquering from the wild beast, and from his image, and from his stamp, and from the number of his name, standing upon the sea made of glass, having harps of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy justices were made manifest. Preparation for Judgment"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And after these things I saw, and behold, the temple of the tent of testimony was opened in heaven:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And the seven angels came forth out of the temple, having the seven blows, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and being girded about the breasts with golden girdles."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, living forever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and none could come into the temple, till the seven blows of the seven angels were finished."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saving to the seven angels, Go forward, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God in the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And the first went forth, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and a bad and evil sore was upon the men having the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the second angel poured out his vial into the sea; and it was blood as of a dead body: and every living soul died in the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And the third angel poured out his vial into the rivers, and into the fountains of waters; and it was blood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Just, O Lord, art thou, who being, and who was, and who wilt be, for thou didst judge these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "For they poured out the blood of the holy, and of the prophets, and thou didst give them blood to drink; for they are worthy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard another from the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, true and just thy judgments."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and it was given him to parch up men with fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And men were parched up with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, having power over these blows: and they repented not to give him glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings of the risings of the sun might be prepared."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the wild beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "For they are the spirits of demons, doing signs, to go out upon all the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable globe, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Omnipotent Ruler."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And he gathered them together in a place called in Hebrew Armageddon. The Seventh Bowl of Wrath"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and a great voice went out from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great shaking, such as was not since the time men were upon earth, such a great shaking."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And the great city was in three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the wrath of his anger."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And every island fled, and the mountains were not found."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And great hail, as the weight of a talent, comes down from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God for the blow of the hail; for its blow is exceedingly great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And one of the seven angels having the seven vials, came and spake with me, saying to me, Come; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot sitting upon many waters:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And he brought me away in the spirit into the desert: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet wild beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And the woman surrounded with purple and scarlet, and covered with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurity of her harlotry:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. The Mystery Explained"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And the angel said to me, Why didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the wild beast lifting her up, having seven heads and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "The wild beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up from the abyss, and go forward to perdition: and they dwelling upon the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the wild beast that was, and is not, although he is."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "Here 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: five fell, and one is; the other has not yet come; and when he should come, he must remain a little."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And the wild beast which was, and is not, and this is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes forward into perdition."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which took not yet the kingdom; but take power as kings one hour with the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "These have one purpose, and their power and authority will they transmit to the wild beast. The Victory of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "These will wage war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they with him called, and chosen, and faithful."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the wild beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and they shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "For God gave to their hearts to do his purpose, and to do one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast, till the words of God be fulfilled."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, having kingdom over the kings of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was enlightened from his glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And he cried with a great, strong voice, saying, She fell, Babylon the great fell, and became the dwelling of devils, and the prison of every unclean spirit, and the prison of every unclean and detested bird."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "For of the wrath of the wine of her fornication have all nations drunk, and the kings of the earth were debauched with her, and the wholesale merchants of the earth were rich from the power of her luxury."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "For her sins were followed even to heaven, and God remembered her injustices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double things according to her works: in the cup in which she mixed, mix to her double."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore in one day shall her blows come, death, and grief, and famine; and she shall be burned down in fire: for strong the Lord God judging her. Lament over Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And weep for her, and lament over her, shall the kings of the earth having been debauched with her, and having led an insolent life, when they see the smoke of her burning,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Standing from far off for fear of her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment came."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And the harvest fruit of the eager desire of thy soul departed from thee, and all fat and brilliant things departed from thee, and thou shouldest find them no more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "The wholesale merchants of these things, having been rich from her, shall stand from far off for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And saying, Woe, woe, the great city, surrounded with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! for in one hour was so great riches laid waste."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And every pilot, and all the crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from far off,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What like the great city!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And they cast earth upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all having ships in the sea were rich by her value! for in one hour was she rendered a desert."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and the holy sent, and the prophets; for God judged your judgment of her. The Doom of Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And one strong angel lifted up a stone as a great millstone, and cast into the sea, saying, Thus with excitement shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and be found no more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And the voice of harp players, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters, should be heard in thee no more; and every artist of every art be found no more in thee; and the voice of the millstone should be heard no more in thee;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And the light of the lamp no more should shine in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, should no more be beard in thee: for thy wholesale merchants were leaders of the earth: for with thy charms were all nations led astray."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the holy, and of all those slain upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things I heard the great voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, to the Lord our God:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "For true and just his judgments: for he judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her harlotry, and he avenged the blood of his servants from her hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And the second time they said, Alleluia. And her smoke goes up for ever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell and worshipped God sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And a voice from the throne came out, saying, Praise our God, all his servants, and they fearing him, also small and great. The Marriage of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard as the voice of the vast multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of powerful thunders, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, reigned."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "Let us rejoice, and be transported with joy, and let us give glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb came, and his wife prepared herself."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And it was given her that she put on fine linen, pure and shining: for fine linen is the justification of the holy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to me, Write, Happy they called to the marriage supper 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 before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See, not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren having the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The Rider on the White Horse"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he sitting upon him called Faithful and True, and in justice he judges and makes war."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "And his eyes as a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems; having a name written, which no one knows, except himself."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And surrounded with a garment dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And the armies in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And he has upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds flying in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves to the supper of the great God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "That ye might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses, and of them sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and servants, and of small and great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And I saw the wild beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to war with him sitting upon the horse, and with his army."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "And the rest were killed by the sword of him sitting upon the horse, coming out of his mouth: and all birds were satiated from their flesh."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed a little time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given them: and the souls of them beheaded with an axe for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who worshipped not the wild beast, nor his image, and took not the stamp upon their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And the rest of the dead returned not again to life even till the thousand years be finished. This the first rising up."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Happy and holy he having a part in the first rising up: over these has the second death no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years. Satan Cast into the Lake of Fire"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And when the thousand years should be finished, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And he shall go forth to deceive the nations that in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for war: whose number as the sand of the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and they surrounded the camp of the holy, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the devil deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where are the wild beast and false prophet, and they shall be tortured day and night for ever and ever. Judgment before the Great White Throne"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw a great white throne, and him sitting upon it, from the face of whom the earth and the heaven fled; and there was found no place for them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is of life: and the dead were judged from the things written in the books, according to their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one 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."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And if any was not found 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 passed away; and the sea was no more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said to me, It has been. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him thirsting of the fountain of the water of life gratuitously."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "He conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be son to me."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death, The New Jerusalem"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And there came to me one of the seven angels having the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And he brought me away in the spirit upon a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Having the glory of God: and her luminary like a most precious stone, as jasper stone, shining like crystal;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and the names inscribed, which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "From the sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And he speaking with me had a golden reed that he might measure the city, and her gates, and her wall."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And the city lies quadrangular, and her length is so large, such also the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, at twelve thousand stadia. Her length, breadth, and height are equal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And he measured her wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is the angel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And the interior construction of her wall was a jasper: and the city pure gold, like pure crystal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "The fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a sardius; the seventh, a chrysolyte; the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a hyacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And the twelve gates twelve pearls; each one of the gates was of one pearl: and the broad way of the city pure gold, as transparent amber."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And a temple saw I not in her: for the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, is the temple and the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in her: for the glory of God enlightened her, and her light the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And the nations of the saved shall walk about in her light: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into her."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And her gates should not be shut by day: for no night shall be there."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into her."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And he showed me the pure river of the water of life, shining as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And there shall be no more curse: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his servants shall serve him:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "And they shall see his face; and his name upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And night shall not be there; and they have no need of a lamp, and the light of the sun; for the Lord God shall enlighten them: and they shall reign for ever and ever. Jesus Is Coming"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said to me, These words faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show to his servants what must be with speed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "Behold, I come quickly: happy he keeping the words of the prophecy of this book."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I John seeing these things, and hearing. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel pointing out to me these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to me, See, not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them keeping the words of the prophecy of this book; worship God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And he says to me, Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this book: for the time is near."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "He being unjust, let him be unjust yet: and he being filthy, let him be filthy yet: and the just, let him do justice yet: and the holy, let him be holy yet."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And behold, I come swiftly; and my reward with me, to give back to each as shall be his work."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "Happy they doing his commands, that their power shall be in the tree of life, and they might come in at the gates to the city."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "I Jesus sent mine angel to testify these things to you, to the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the shining and morning star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him hearing say, Come. And let him thirsting come. And let him wishing, take the water of life freely. Nothing May Be Added or Removed"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, If any add to these things, God will add to him the blows written in this book:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "He testifying says, Yes, I come swiftly. Amen. Yes, come, Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."}