{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "A book of the lineage 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 Judah and his brothers;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar; and Pharez begat Hezrom; and Hezrom 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 Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and Jesse begat David, the king; and David begat Solomon, of the wife of Uriah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and Manasseh begat Amon; and Amon begat Josiah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brothers upon the removal to Babylon;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "and, after the removal to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zerubbabel;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "and Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "and Eliud begat Eleazer; and Eleazer 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, Who is called Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the removal to Babylon, fourteen; and from the removal to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations. The Birth of Jesus ( Luke 2:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wishing to make an example of her, purposed privately to divorce her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And, while thinking of these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, \"Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to yourself Mary your wife; for that which was begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus; for He will save His people from their sins.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Now all this has come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through 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, arising from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord directed him, and took to himself his wife;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "and he knew her not, until she brought forth a Son, and he called His name Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the King, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, \"Where is He that is born King of the Jews, For we saw His star in the east, and we came to do Him homage.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And the king Herod, hearing it, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "and having assembled all the high-priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring of them, \"Where the Christ should be born,\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And they said to him, \"In Bethlehem of Judaea;\" for thus it has been written through the prophet:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "\"And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the governors of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a Governor, who shall be shepherd of My people Israel.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Then Herod, having privately called the wise men, ascertained from them exactly the time the star appeared;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and, sending them to Bethlehem, he said, \"Having gone, inquire ye exactly concerning the Child; and, when ye find Him , bring me word, that I, too, having come, may worship Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And they, having heard the king, departed; and, behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till, having come, it stood over where the Child was."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And, seeing the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And, coming into the house, they saw the Child with Mary, His mother; and, falling down, they paid Him homage; and, having opened their treasures, they presented to Him gifts?gold and frankincense and myrrh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And, having been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed by another way into their own country. The Flight to Egypt"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, \"Having risen, take the Child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there till I speak to you; for Herod is about to seek the Child to destroy Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And, arising, he took the Child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and was there till the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, \"Out of Egypt I called My Son.\" Weeping and Great Mourning"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Then Herod, seeing that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly enraged; and, having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he exactly learned from the wise men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "\"A voice in Ramah was heard, weeping and great mourning; Rachel, weeping for her children; and she was not willing to be comforted, because they are not.\" The Return to Nazareth ( Luke 2:39–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And, Herod having died, behold, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream in Egypt, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "\"Arising, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the life of the Child are dead.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And he, having risen, took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "But, hearing that Archelaus was reigning over Juda instead of his father Herod, he feared to go thither; and, having been divinely warned in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "and, coming, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, \"A Nazarene shall He be called.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now in those days comes John, the Immerser, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, \"Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven has drawn near;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah, the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Then were going forth to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round about the Jordan,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "and they were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But, seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, \"Broods of vipers! who warned you to flee from the coming wrath!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Produce, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and think not to say within yourselves, 'As a father we have Abraham;' for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And already the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree, therefore, not bearing good fruit, is cut down, and cast into the fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "\"I, indeed, immerse you in water unto repentance, but He Who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear, He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and will gather His wheat into the granary, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable 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 cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be immersed by him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but he was hindering Him, saying, \"I have need to be immersed by Thee; and dost Thou come to me?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "But Jesus, answering, said to him, \"Suffer it now; for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness.\" Then He suffers Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And, having been immersed, Jesus went up straightway from the water; and, behold, the heavens were opened; and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, coming upon Him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and, behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, \"This is My Son, the beloved, in whom I delighted.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to he tempted by the Devil."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And, having fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterwards hungered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the Tempter, having come near, said to Him, \"If Thou art God's Son, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "But He, answering, said, \"It has been written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the Devil takes Him into the holy city, and placed Him on the pinnacle of the temple,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and says to Him, \"If Thou art a Son of God, cast Thyself down; for it has been written, 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they shall bear Thee up; lest at any time Thou shouldest dash Thy foot against a stone.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"Again it has been written, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Again the Devil takes Him into an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "and he said to Him, \"All these things will I give Thee, if, falling down, Thou wilt worship me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Jesus saith to him, \"Depart, Satan; for it has been written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Then the Devil leaves Him; and, behold, angels came and were ministering to Him. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Mark 1:14–15 ; Luke 4:14–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And, hearing that John was delivered up, He withdrew into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And, having left Nazareth, having come, He dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulon and Naphtali;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Land of Zebulon and land of Naphtali, by way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "The people that were sitting in darkness saw a great Light; and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death Light arose.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, \"Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven 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, walking by the sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And, immediately leaving their nets, they followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And, having gone on thence, He saw other two brothers: James a son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "and they, having immediately left the boat 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 was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And the report of Him went forth into all Syria; and they brought to Him all having ailments, afflicted with manifold diseases and torments, demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics; and He healed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And, seeing the multitudes, He went up into the mountain; and, He having sat down, His disciples came to Him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and, opening His mouth, He taught them, saying, The Beatitudes ( Luke 6:20–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "\"Happy are the poor in spirit; because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "\"Happy are those who mourn: because they shall be comforted,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "\"Happy are the meek: because they shall inherit the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "\"Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: because they shall be filled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "\"Happy are the merciful: because they shall receive mercy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "\"Happy are the pure in heart; because they shall see God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "\"Happy are the peacemakers; because they shall be called sons of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "\"Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake; because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "\"Happy are ye, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Rejoice, and exult; because great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets who were 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; but, if the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, except, when cast without, to be trodden under foot by men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "\"Ye are the light of the world: a city, set upon a hill, cannot he hid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the measure, but on the lamp-stand; and it gives light to all who are in the house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven. The Fulfillment of the Law"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "\"Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For verily I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For I say to you that, unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Anger and Reconciliation ( Luke 12:57–59 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "\"Ye heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not kill; and whosoever kills shall be in danger of the judgment.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever says to his brother Raca shall be in danger of the high-council; and whosoever shall say, O foolish one ! shall be in danger of the Hell of fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "If, therefore, you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way, first be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Verily I say to you, in no wise shall you come out thence, till you pay the last farthing. Adultery"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "\"Ye heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "but I say to you, that every one who looks upon a woman, to lust after her, already committed adultery with her in his heart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "\"And, if your right eye is causing you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Hell."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "\"And, if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body go away into Hell. Divorce ( Luke 16:18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "\"And it was said, 'Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement;'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "but I say to you, that every one who puts away his wife, except on account of fornication, makes her commit adultery: and whosoever marries her when put away commits adultery. Oaths and Vows"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "\"Again ye heard that it was said to the ancients, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord your oaths;\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "but I say to you, Swear not at all; neither by Heaven, because it is God's throne;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "nor by the earth, because it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the Great King's city;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "neither swear by your head, because you can not make one hair white or black."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "But let your speech be, 'Yes, yes;' 'No, no;' and what is more than these is of the evil one . Love Your Enemies ( Luke 6:27–36 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "\"Ye heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "but I say to you, Resist not the evil man ; but whosoever smites you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "and to him who is desirous that you should be sued at the law, and to take your coat, grant your cloak also;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "and whosoever shall impress you to go one mile, go with him two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "Give to him asking you; and from him who wishes to borrow of you turn not away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "\"Ye heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy;'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "but I say to you, Love your enemies; and pray for those who persecute you;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For, if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? do not even the tax-collectors the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "And, if ye salute your brethren only, what more than others do ye? Do not even the gentiles the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "48", "text": "Ye, therefore, shall be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "\"Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise at least ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "When, therefore, you are doing alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "But, when you are doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "that your alms may be in secret; and your Father, Who seeth in secret, will recompense you. The Lord’s Prayer ( Luke 11:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "\"And, when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: verily I say to you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But when you pray, enter into your closet; and, having closed your door, pray to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who seeth in secret will recompense you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "\"And, when praying, use not vain repetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think that for their much speaking they shall be heard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need before ye ask Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Thus, therefore, pray ye: 'Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Give us this day our daily bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And bring us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "\"For, if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "but, if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Proper Fasting"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "\"And, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "But, when fasting, anoint your head, and wash your face,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "that you appear not to men to be fasting, but to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who seeth in secret will recompense you. Treasures in Heaven ( Luke 12:32–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "\"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through, and steal;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where theives do not break 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 lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be full of light;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "but, if your eye be evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light that is in you be darkness, how great the darkness!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "\"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold 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": "Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink; nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Behold the fowls of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye much more valuable than they?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "And who of you, by being anxious, can add to his stature one cubit?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And why are ye anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "but I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "And, if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Be not, therefore, anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink!' or 'What shall we put on?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "For after all these things the nations are seeking; for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "Be not, therefore, anxious for the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is 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 mete, it shall be measured to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "\"And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam in your own eye?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to cast out the mote out of your eye;' and, behold, the beam is in your own eye?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Hypocrite! Cast out first the beam out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "\"Give not that which is holy to the dogs; neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them down with their feet; and, turning, 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 every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask him for bread, will give him a stone?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "Or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in Heaven give good things to those asking Him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "\"All things, therefore, whatsoever ye wish that men should do to you, so do ye also 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 narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "because narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it! A Tree and Its Fruit ( Luke 6:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Beware of false prophets, who, indeed, come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "From their fruits ye shall recognize them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "So every good tree bears good fruit, but the worthless tree bears evil fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "So then, from their fruits ye shall know them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "\"Not every one who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the will of My Father in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by Thy name? and by Thy name cast out demons, and by Thy name do many mighty works,'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye who work iniquity. The House on the Rock ( Luke 6:46–49 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "\"Every one, therefore, who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be likened to a prudent man, who, indeed, built his house upon the rock;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "\"And every one who hears these words of Mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who, indeed, built his house upon the sand:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was its fall.\" The Authority of Jesus"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And it came to pass that, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "for He was teaching them as One having authority, and not as the scribes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when He came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, a leper, coming near, was worshiping Him, saying, \"Lord, if Thou art willing, Thou art able to cleanse me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And, stretching forth His hand, He touched him, saying, \"I am willing. Be cleansed.\" And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus saith to him, \"See that you tell no one: but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer 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, when He entered into Capernaum, there came to Him a centurion, beseeching Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "and saying, \"Lord, my boy has been prostrated in my house, a paralytic, fearfully afflicted.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And He saith to him, \"Having gone, I will heal him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the centurion, answering, said, \"Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof, but only speak in a word, and my boy shall be healed;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers; and I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus, hearing it , wondered, and said to those following Him , \"Verily I say to you, with no one in Israel did I find such faith."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "but the sons of the Kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus said to the centurion, \"Go your way; as you believed, be it done to you.\" And the boy 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, coming into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law prostrate, and sick with fever;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "and He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and was ministering to Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And, when it was evening, they brought to Him many demoniacs; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, \"Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.\" 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 a multitude about Him, gave orders to depart to the other side."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And a scribe, coming near, said to Him, \"Teacher, I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou mayst go.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And Jesus saith to him, \"The foxes have dens; and the birds of the heaven have lodging-places; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And another of the disciples said to Him, \"Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "But Jesus saith to him, \"Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.\" Jesus Calms the Storm ( Mark 4:35–41 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And His disciples followed Him, as He entered into a boat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but He was sleeping."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And, coming to Him , they awoke Him, saying, \"Lord, save; we are perishing!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?\" Then, having arisen, He rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And the men wondered, saying, \"What manner of Man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!\" The Demons and the Pigs ( Mark 5:1–20 ; Luke 8:26–39 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And, when He came to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, there met Him two demoniacs, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass along that way;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "and, behold, they cried out, saying, \"What is there to us and to Thee, O Son of God? Didst Thou come here to torment us before the time?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And the demons were entreating Him, saying, \"If Thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And He said to them, \"Go.\" And, having come out, they went away into the swine; and, behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and died in the waters!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And those feeding them fled; and, going away into the city, they reported all things, and the things relating to the demoniacs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And, behold, all the city came forth to meet Jesus; and, seeing Him, they besought Him , that He would depart from their borders."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And, entering into a boat, He crossed over, and came into His own city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, they were bringing to Him a paralytic laid upon a couch. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, \"Child, be of good courage; your sins are forgiven.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And, behold, some of the scribes said among themselves, \"This Man is blaspheming! \""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \"Why think ye evil in your hearts?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Arise, and walk.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "\"But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins\" (then saith He to the paralytic), \"Arise, and take up your bed, and go to your house.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And, having arisen, he went to his house;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "and, seeing it , the multitudes feared, and glorified God, Who gave such authority to men. Jesus Calls Matthew ( Mark 2:13–17 ; Luke 5:27–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the tax-office, and He saith to him, \"Follow Me.\" And, rising up, he followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And it came to pass, as He was reclining at table in the house, behold, many tax-collectors and sinners, having come, were reclining with Jesus and His disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Pharisees, seeing it , said to His disciples, Why is your Teacher eating with the tax-collectors and sinners?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus, hearing it , said, \"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are ill."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "But, going, learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\" 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, \"Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Thy disciples fast not?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus said to them, \"Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn while the Bridegroom is with them! But there will come days, when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will 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 a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse rent is made.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "\"Neither do they put new wine into old wine-skins; otherwise, indeed, the skins burst, and the wine runs out, and the skins are destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved together.\" The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Mark 5:21–43 ; Luke 8:40–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "While He is speaking these things to them, behold, a ruler, having come to Him , was worshiping Him, saying, \"My daughter just now died; but, coming, lay Thy hand upon her, and she shall live.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus, having risen, was following him, also His disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And, behold, a woman, having a flow of blood twelve years, having come up behind Him , touched the border of His garment;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "for she was saying within herself, \"If I only touch His garment, I shall be made well.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, \"Be of good courage, daughter, your faith has made you well.\" And the woman was made well from that hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus, having come into the house of the ruler, and seeing the flute-players and the multitude making a tumult,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "said, \"Withdraw; for the damsel did not die, but is sleeping.\" And they were laughing at Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "But, when the multitude was put forth, having gone in, He took hold of her hand, and the damsel arose."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And the report of this went forth into all that land. Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute ( Mark 7:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And, as Jesus was passing on thence, two blind men followed Him, crying out, and saying, \"Have mercy on us, O Son of David!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And the blind men came to Him, when He entered into the house; and He saith to them, \"Believe ye that I am able to do this?\" They say to Him, \"Yes, Lord.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "Then He touched their eyes, saying, \"According to your faith be it done to you.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying, \"See that no one know it .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "But they, having gone forth, spread abroad His fame in all that land."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And, as they were going forth, behold, they have brought to Him a dumb man , a demoniac;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "and, the demon having been cast oat, the dumb spake. And the multitudes wondered, saying, \"Never was it so seen in Israel!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "But the Pharisees said, \"By the ruler of the demons He is casting out the demons.\" The Lord of the Harvest ( Luke 10:1–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And, seeing the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Then He saith to His disciples, \"The harvest, indeed, is abundant, but the laborers few;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And, having called to Him His twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax-collector; James the son of Alpaeus, and Thaddeus;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Mark 6:7–13 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, having charged them, saying, \"Go not into any way of the gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "but go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And, while going, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven has come nigh.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Heal the sick; raise the dead; cleanse the lepers; cast oat demons; freely ye received, freely give."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Procure neither gold, nor silver, nor brass, for your girdles;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "nor wallet for your journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer is worthy of his food."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "\"And into whatsoever city or village ye enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till ye go forth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And, as ye are coming into the house, salute it:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "and, if, indeed, the house is 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, whosoever does not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye are going forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust, of your feet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Verily I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah 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 forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; become ye, therefore, as wise as the serpents and as innocent as doves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to high-councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "and before the governors and the kings shall ye be brought for My sake, for a testimony to them and to the gentiles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And, when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "for it is not ye that speak, but, the Spirit of your Father Who speaketh in you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "\"And brother will deliver up brother to death; and father, his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And ye will be hated by all, for My name's sake; but he who endures to the end, the same shall be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "\"And, when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next; for verily I say to you, ye will in no wise finish the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man come!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "\"A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "It is enough for the disciple, that he become as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his house-hold? Fear God Alone ( Luke 12:4–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "Fear them not, therefore; for nothing has been covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "What I am saying to you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, preach on the housetops."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "But the very hairs of your head have all been numbered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Fear not, therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows. Confessing Christ ( Luke 12:8–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "\"Every one, therefore, who shall confess Me before men, him will I also confess before My Father Who is in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "But whosoever denies Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father Who is in Heaven. 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 send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "for I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "and the man's foes will be those of his own house-hold."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "\"He that loves father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he that loves son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And whosoever does not take up his cross, and follow Me, is not worthy of Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "\"He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for My sake shall find it. The Reward of Service"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "\"He that receives you receives Me; and he that receives Me receives Him Who sent Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass that, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, He departed thence to teach and preach in their cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And John, having heard, in the prison, of the works of the Christ, sending by his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "said to Him, \"Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to look for another?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Having gone, report to John what ye are hearing and seeing:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "the blind receive sight, and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have the Gospel proclaimed to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And happy is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in Me.\" Jesus Testifies about John ( Luke 7:24–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And, as these were going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, \"What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "But what went ye out to see? a man in soft raiment ; Behold, those wearing soft raiment are in kings' houses."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "But why did ye go out? to see a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "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": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "\"Verily I say to you, there has not arisen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Immerser; yet he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And from the time of John the Immerser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven is taken by storm, and violent men seize upon it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "and, if ye are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is about to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "He that has ears let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "\"But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who, calling to the others,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "say, 'We piped to you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not lament.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a man gluttonous and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners.' And wisdom was justified by her works.\" Woe to the Unrepentant ( Luke 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Then He began to upbraid the cities in which were done most of His mighty works, because they did not repent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "\"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! because, if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "\"And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted to Heaven? You shall go down to Hades; because, if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Nevertheless, I say to you, that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you!\" Rest for the Weary ( Luke 10:21–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "At that season Jesus, answering, said, \"I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing before Thee!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "\"All things were delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows the Son except the Father; neither does any one fully know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son willeth to reveal Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "\"Come to me, all ye who are laboring and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; because I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "for My yoke is easy, and My burden light.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grain-fields; and His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain, and to eat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "But the Pharisees, seeing it , said to Him, \"Behold, Thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "But He said to them, \"Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those with him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Or did ye not read in the law that, on the sabbath, the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "But I say to you, a greater than the temple is here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And, if ye had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' ye would not have condemned the guiltless;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "for the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.\" Jesus Heals on the Sabbath ( Mark 3:1–6 ; Luke 6:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And, having passed on thence, He came into their synagogue."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And, behold, a man having a withered hand; and they questioned Him, saying, \"Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?\" that they might accuse Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said to them \"What man of you who shall have one sheep; and, if this should fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it, and raise it up?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep! Therefore, it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Then saith He to the man, \"Stretch forth your hand.\" And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole as the other."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "But the Pharisees, having gone out, held a consultation against Him, that they might destroy Him. God’s Chosen Servant"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "But Jesus, knowing it, withdrew thence; and many followed Him, and He healed them all."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And He charged them, that they should not make Him known;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "\"Behold, My servant Whom I chose, My Beloved, in Whom My soul delighted. I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will declare judgment to the gentiles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "He will not strive, nor cry aloud; nor will any one hear His voice in the streets:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "A bruised reed will He not break, and a smoking flax will He not quench, till He send forth judgment unto victory;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And in His name will the gentiles hope.\" A House Divided ( Mark 3:20–27 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Then there was brought to Him a demoniac, blind, and dumb; and He healed him, so that the dumb man spake and saw."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can this be the Son of David?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, \"This Man doth not cast out the demons, except by Beelzebub, prince of the demons.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And, knowing their thoughts, He said to them, \"Every kingdom, divided against itself, is brought to naught; and every city or house, divided against itself, shall not stand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And, if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how, then, shall his kingdom stand"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And, if I by Beelzebub cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "But, if I by the Spirit of God cast out the demons, then the Kingdom of God came upon you unexpectedly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and seize upon his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathers not with Me scatters. The Unpardonable Sin ( Mark 3:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven, neither in this age nor in that which is to come. 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 worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "\"Broods of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being yourselves evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "The good man, out of his good treasure, puts forth good things; and the evil man, out of his evil treasure, puts forth evil things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "And I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account concerning it in the day of judgment;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "for by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.\" The Sign of Jonah ( Luke 11:29–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered Him, saying, \"Teacher, we wish to see a sign from Thee.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And He, answering, said to them, \"An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "For, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "\"The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "\"A queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Luke 11:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "\"But, when the unclean spirit goes out from the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Then it says, 'I will return into my house whence I came out;' and, having come, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and adorned."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "Then it goes and takes along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and, entering in, they dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.\" Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Mark 3:31–35 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "While He was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and His brothers were standing without, seeking to speak to Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "[And one said to Him, \"Behold, Thy mother and Thy brothers are standing without, seeking to speak to Thee.\"]"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "But He, answering, said to him that told Him, \"Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "And stretching forth His hand toward His disciples, He said, \"Behold, My mother and My brothers!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "For whosoever does the will of My Father Who is in Heaven, he is My brother, and sister, and mother.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "On that day Jesus, having gone out of the house, was sitting by the seaside."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And there were gathered to Him great multitudes; so that He, having entered into a boat, sat down, and all the multitudes were standing on the beach."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And He spake to them many things in parables, saying, \"Behold, the sower went forth to sow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And, in his sowing, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds, coming, devoured them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And others fell on the rocky places, where they had not much earth; and straightway they sprang up, because they had not depth of earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And, the sun having risen, they were scorched; and, because they had no root, they withered away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And others fell on the good ground, and were yielding fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "He that has ears let him hear.\" The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Mark 4:10–12 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And the disciples, having come near, said to Him, \"Wherefore dost Thou speak to them in parables?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And He, answering, said to them, \"Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be made to abound; but whosoever has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "On this account, I speak to them in parables; because, seeing, they see not; and, hearing, they hear not, nor understand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And to them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, 'With hearing ye will hear, and will not understand; and, seeing, ye will see, and will not perceive;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "for the heart of this people was made gross, and with their ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "But happy are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "For verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what ye are seeing, and did not see them; and to hear what ye are hearing, and did not hear them . The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Mark 4:13–20 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Hear ye, therefore, the parable of the sower."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "When any one hears the word of the Kingdom, and understands it not, the evil one comes, and snatches away what has been sown in his heart: this is he that was sown by the wayside."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And he that was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and straightway with joy receives it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "yet he has not root in himself, but is only temporary; and, when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, straightway he stumbles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that hears the word; and the anxiety of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "But he that was sown on the good ground, this is he that hears the word and understands it ; who, indeed, bears fruit, and produces, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.\" The Parable of the Weeds"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Another parable He set before them, saying, \"The Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "and, while men were 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 blade sprang up, and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And the servants of the house-holder, corning near, said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Whence, then, has it tares?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to them, 'An enemy did this.' The servants say to him, 'Do you wish, then, that we, going, should gather them up?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "He says, 'No; lest, while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Suffer both to grow together until the harvest. And, in the season of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them into bundles, with the view of burning them; but 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 He set before them, saying, \"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man, having taken, sowed in his field:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "which, indeed, is less than all the seeds; but, when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and roost in its branches.\" The Parable of the Leaven ( Luke 13:20–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Another parable He spake to them: \"The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman, taking, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.\" I Will Open My Mouth in Parables"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "All these things Jesus spake to the multitudes in parables; and, without a parable, He was wont to speak nothing to them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, \"I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.\" The Parable of the Weeds Explained"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Then, leaving the multitudes, He 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, answering, He said, \"He that sows the good seed is the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "The field is the world: and the good seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom; but the tares are the sons of the evil one;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "As, therefore, the tares are gathered up, and are burned with fire, so shall it be in the end of the age."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of the Kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those who do iniquity;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "and they will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear. The Parables of the Treasure and the Pearl"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "\"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "\"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "and, having found one pearl of great price, departing, he has sold all that he had, and bought it. The Parable of the Net"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "\"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net, cast into the sea, and gathering of every kind;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "which, when it was filled having drawn it up again upon the beach, and sitting down, they gathered the good into vessels, but cast away the bad."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "So will it be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth, and will separate the wicked from the midst of the righteous,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "and will cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "\"Did ye understand all these things?\" They say to Him, \"Yes;\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "and He said to them, \"Therefore, every scribe, having been made a disciple to the Kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.\" The Rejection at Nazareth ( Mark 6:1–6 ; Luke 4:16–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "53", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these parables, He departed thence."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "54", "text": "And, coming into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, \"Whence hath this Man this wisdom, and the mighty works?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "55", "text": "Is not This the carpenter's Son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "56", "text": "And His sisters, are they not all with us? Whence, then, hath this Man all these things?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "57", "text": "And they were finding in Him occasion to stumble. And Jesus said to them \"a prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "58", "text": "And He did not perform many mighty works there because of their unbelief."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, and said to his servants,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "\"This is John the Immerser; He arose from the dead; and therefore do the powers work in Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "For Herod, having laid hold of John, bound him, and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "For John said to him, \"It is not lawful for you to have her.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And, wishing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because they were holding him as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "But, on a birthday celebration of Herod, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And she, urged on by her mother, says, \"Give me here upon a plate the head of John the Immerser.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And the king, though grieved, yet , because of the oaths and of those sitting at the table with them, ordered it 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 plate, and given to the damsel; and she brought it to her mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And his disciples, coming, took up the corpse, and buried it; and, coming, they told 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 it , withdrew thence, in a boat, into a desert, apart. And the multitudes, hearing of it , followed Him on foot from the cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus, coming forth, saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion over them, and healed their sick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And, evening coming on, the disciples came to Him, saying, \"The place is desert, and the time already passed by: dismiss the multitudes, that, having gone into the villages, they may buy food for themselves.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "But Jesus said to them, \"They have no need to go away. Give ye them to eat.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And they say to Him, \"We have nothing here except 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 commanded the multitudes to recline on the grass?taking the five loaves and two fishes?looking up into the heaven, He blessed; and, having broken, He gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And those eating were about 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 straightway He constrained the disciples to enter into a boat, and to go before Him to the other side, while He should dismiss the multitudes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And, having dismissed the multitudes, He went up into the mountain, apart, to pray; and, evening coming on, He was there alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And, in the fourth watch of the night, He came to them, walking on the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And the disciples, seeing Him walking on the sea, were troubled, saying, \"It is a ghost!\" And they cried out for fear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "But Jesus straightway spake to them, saying, \"Be of good cheer. It is I; be not afraid.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter, answering Him, said, \"Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come to Thee on the water.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said, \"Come.\" And, going down from the boat, Peter walked upon the water, and came to Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "But, seeing the wind, he was frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, \"Lord, save me!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "And immediately Jesus, stretching forth His hand, took hold of him, and saith to him, \"O you of little faith, why did you doubt?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And, when they went up into the boat, the wind ceased."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And these in the boat worshiped Him, saying, \"Truly Thou art God's Son.\" Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Mark 6:53–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And, passing over, they came upon the land to Gennesaret."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And, recognizing Him, the men of that place sent into all that region round about, and brought to Him all who were sick;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "and they were beseeching Him, that they might only touch the border of His garment; and as many as touched it were made thoroughly well."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Then there come to Jesus, from Jerusalem, Pharisees and scribes, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "\"Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And He, answering, said to them, \"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "But ye say, 'Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That by which you might be profited by me is an offering,'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "shall in no wise honor his father; and ye made void the word of God because of your tradition."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "'This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'\" What Defiles a Man ( Mark 7:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And, having called the multitude near, He said to them, \"Hear, and understand:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth?this defiles the man.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Then, His disciples, coming near, say to Him, \"Knowest Thou that the Pharisees, having heard the saying, were made to stumble?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "But He, answering, said, \"Every plant which My Heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Let them alone; they are blind guides; and if a blind man be guiding a blind man, both will fall into a pit.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And Peter, answering, said to Him, \"Explain to us the parable.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And He said, \"Are ye also even yet without understanding?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "Do ye not perceive that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast forth into the drain?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and these defile the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.\" The Faith of the Canaanite Woman ( Mark 7:24–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And, going forth thence, Jesus withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And, behold, a Canaanitish woman, having come forth out of those borders, cried out, saying, \"Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "But He answered her not a word. And His disciples, coming near, were beseeching Him, saying, \"Send her away; for she is crying after us!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "But He, answering, said, \"I was not sent, except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "But she, coming, was worshiping Him, saying, \"Lord, help me!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And He, answering, 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": "But she said, \"Yes, Lord; for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs falling from the master's table.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "Then Jesus, answering, said to her, \"O woman, great is your faith! be it done to you as you wish.\" And her daughter was healed from that hour. The Feeding of the Four Thousand ( Mark 8:1–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And, departing thence, Jesus came near to the sea of Galilee; and, going up into the mountain, He was sitting there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And there came to Him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others; and they cast them at His feet, and He healed them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "so that the multitudes wondered, seeing the dumb speaking, maimed whole, and lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And Jesus, having called His disciples near, said, \"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And His disciples say to Him, \"Whence should we, in a wilderness, have so many loaves as to satisfy so great a multitude?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus saith to them, \"How many loaves have ye?\" And they said, \"Seven, and a few little fishes.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And, having commanded the multitude to recline on the ground,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "He took the seven loaves and the fishes; giving thanks, He broke, and was giving to the disciples; and the disciples to the multitudes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up what was over of the pieces seven baskets full;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "and those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And, dismissing the multitudes, He went up into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming near, tempting Him , asked Him to show them a sign from the heaven;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "and He, answering, said to them, \"When it is evening, ye say, ' It will be fair, for the heaven is red;'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "and in the morning, 'Today, a tempest; for red is the overcast heaven.' The face of the heaven, indeed, ye know how to discern, but the signs of the times ye can not discern ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.\" And, leaving 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 the disciples, coming to the other aide, forgot to take bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And they were deliberating among themselves, saying, \"We took no bread.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus, knowing it, said, \"Why are ye deliberating among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have no bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Do ye not yet perceive, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up ?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they understood that He did not bid them beware of the leaven of the bread, but of 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 Philippi, was asking His disciples, saying, \"Who do men say that the Son of Man is?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And they said, \"Some say John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And He saith to them, \"But who do ye say that I am?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And Simon Peter, answering, said, \"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to him, \"Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; and whatsoever you shall bind on the earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on the earth shall have been loosed in Heaven.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Then He charged the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Mark 8:31–33 ; Luke 9:21–22 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "From that time began Jesus to show to His disciples, that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and high-priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And Peter, taking Him aside, began to rebuke Him, saying, \" God be merciful to Thee! this shall not be to Thee.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "But, turning, He said to Peter, \"Get behind Me, Satan! you are a stumbling-block to Me; because you are not thinking of 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 one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "for whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his soul for My sake shall find it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "for what will a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul? or what will a man give as an 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 angels, and then will He render to each one according to his work."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "Verily I say to you, there are some of those standing here, who will 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 taketh with Him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "and He was transfigured before them; and His face shone as the sun, and His garments became white as the light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And, behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter, answering, said to Jesus,\" Lord, it is good that we are here. If Thou wilt, I will make here three tents?one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And, behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, \"This is My beloved Son, in Whom I delighted; hear Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And the disciples, hearing it , fell on their face, and were exceedingly afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And Jesus came near, and, touching them, said, \"Arise, and be not afraid.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "And, as they were coming down out of the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, \"Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of Man be raised from among the dead.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And His disciples asked Him, saying, \"Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And He, answering, said, \"Elijah, indeed, comes, and will restore all things;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they recognized him not, but did with him whatsoever they wished: so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "Then the disciples understood that He spake to them concerning John the Immerser. The Boy with a Demon ( Mark 9:14–29 ; Luke 9:37–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when they came to the multitude, there approached Him a man, kneeling to Him, and saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is lunatic, and suffers grievously; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they could not heal him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said, \"O faithless and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you? Bring him here to Me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus rebuked it, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was healed from that hour. The Power of Faith ( Luke 17:5–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "Then the disciples, coming near, said to Jesus privately, \"Why could not we cast it out?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Because of your little faith. For verily I say to you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say to this mountain, 'Remove hence yonder,' and it will be removed, and nothing shall be impossible to you.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "[\"But this kind goes not out, except 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, while they were assembled together in 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 will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.\" And they were grieved exceedingly. The Temple Tax"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "And, when they came into Capernaum, those receiving the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, \"Doth not your Teacher pay the half-shekel?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "He says, \"Yes.\" And Jesus anticipated him as he came into the house, saying, \"What do you think, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tax or tribute? from their sons, or from the aliens?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And, when he said, \"From the aliens,\" Jesus said to him, \"Consequently the sons are free;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "but, that we may not cause them to stumble; having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the fish first coming up; and, opening its mouth, you will find a shekel; taking that, give it to them for Me and you.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time the disciples came near to Jesus, saying, \"Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And, having called a little child to Him, He placed it in the midst of them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "and said, \"Verily I say to you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, he is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And whosoever receives one such little child in My name, receives Me. Temptations and Trespasses ( Mark 9:42–48 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "But whosoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a large millstone be hanged about his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "\"Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity that the stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block comes!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "\"And, if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life maimed or lame, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "\"And, if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the 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 angels in Heaven do always behold the face of My Father Who is in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "[\"For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.\"]"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "\"What think ye? If a hundred sheep belong to a certain man, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountains, and, going, seek the straying one ?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And, if it happen that he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that have not gone astray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "In like manner it is not the will of your Father Who is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. A Brother Who Sins"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "\"And, if your brother sin against you, go show him his fault between you and him alone. If he hear you, you gained your brother;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "but, if he hear you not, take with you yet one or two, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three, every word may be established."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And, if he disregard them, tell it to the assembly; and, if he disregard the assembly also, let him be to you as the gentile and the tax-collector."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Verily, I say to you, whatsoever ye bind upon the earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatsoever ye loose on the earth shall have been 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 shall agree on the earth concerning any matter which ye ask, it shall be done for them by My Father Who is in Heaven;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "for where two or three are gathered together 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, coming near, said to Him, \"Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"I say not to you, 'till seven times,' but till seventy times seven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a king who wished to make a reckoning with his servants."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And, when he began to reckon, there was brought to him one debtor of ten thousand talents;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "but, as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "The servant, falling down, therefore, was bowing to him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And, moved with compassion, the lord of that servant released him, and forgave him the debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "But, going forth, that servant found one of his fellow-servants, who was owing him a hundred denaries; and, having laid hold of him , he was choking him, saying, 'Pay, if you are owing anything!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "His fellow-servant, falling down, therefore, was entreating him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore, his fellow-servants, seeing what was done, were exceedingly grieved; and, going, they made known to their lord all that was done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "\"Then, calling him to him , his lord says to him, 'Evil servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you besought me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had mercy on you?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And, being angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all the debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "So also will My Heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not, each one his brother, from your hearts.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass that, when Jesus finished these words, He departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea, beyond the Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And large multitudes followed Him; and He healed them there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying, \"Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And He, answering, said, \"Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God joined together, let not man put asunder.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to Him, \"Why, then, did Moses command to give her a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "He saith to them, \"Moses, in view of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "The disciples say to Him, \"If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "But He said to them, \"Not all can receive this saying, but those to whom it has been given;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "for there are eunuchs who were so born from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.\" Jesus Blesses the Children ( Mark 10:13–16 ; Luke 18:15–17 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Then were brought to Him little children, that He might put His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "But Jesus said, \"Permit the little children?and do not forbid them?to come to Me; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And, having laid His hands on them, He departed 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 near, said to Him, \"Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And He said to him, \"Why do you question Me concerning the good? One is the Good. But, if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "He says to Him, \"Which?\" And Jesus said, \"You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "honor your father and your mother; and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "The young man says to Him, \"I observed all these things; what yet do I lack?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "But the young man, having heard this saying, went away grieved; for he was one who had large possessions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus said to His disciples, \"Verily I say to you, that with difficulty shall a rich man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And the disciples, having heard it, were amazed exceedingly, saying, \"Who, then, can be saved? \""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "But Jesus, looking on them , said to them, \"With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then Peter, answering, said to Him, \"Behold, we left all, and followed Thee; what, then, shall we have?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Verily I say to you, that ye who followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive manifold more and shall inherit eternal life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "But many that are first shall be last, and last first.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "\"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like to a man who was a householder, who went forth early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "and, having agreed with the laborers for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "\"And, going forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "and to them he said, 'Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.' And they went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "\"Again, going forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And about the eleventh hour , going forth, he found others standing, and he says to them, 'Why stand ye here all the day idle?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to him, 'Because no man hired us.' He says to them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "\"And, evening having come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, 'Call the laborers, and pay them the wages, beginning from the last to the first.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "\"And those who were hired about the eleventh hour, coming, received, each, a denary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the first, coming, supposed that they would receive more; and they also received, each, a denary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And, having received it , they murmured against the householder,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "saying, 'These last wrought but one hour, and you made them equal with us, who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "\"But he, answering, said to one of them, 'Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denary?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "Take up your own, and go. But I will to give to the last even as to you:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "So the last shall be first, and the first last. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 10:32–34 ; Luke 18:31–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And, when about to go up to Jerusalem, Jesus took with Him the twelve disciples privately, and on the way He said to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "\"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the high-priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "and will deliver Him up to the gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and, on the third day, He will be raised up \" 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, worshiping and asking something of Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to her, \"What do you wish?\" She says to Him, \"Command, that these my two sons may sit, one on Thy right hand, and one on Thy left, in Thy Kingdom.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "But Jesus, answering, said, \"Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?\" They say to Him, \"We are able.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "He saith to them, \"My cup, indeed, ye shall drink; but to sit on My right hand, and on My left, is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "And the ten, hearing it , were much displeased with the two brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "But Jesus, calling them near, said, \"Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "Not so shall it be among you;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "but whosoever wishes to become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever wishes to be first among you shall be your servant;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, 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, as they were going forth from Jericho, a great multitude followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, two blind men, sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried, saying, \"Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "But the multitude rebuked them, that they should be silent. But they cried the more, \"Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And, standing still, Jesus called them, and said, \"What do you wish that I should do to you?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "They say to Him, \"Lord, that our eyes may be opened.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And, moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and straightway they received sight; and 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 Jesus sent two disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "saying to them, \"Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; having loosed them, lead them to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And, if any one say anything to you, ye shall say, 'The Lord hath need of them;' and straight-way he will send them.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "Now this has come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "\"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and mounted upon an ass, and on a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And the disciples, going and doing as Jesus commanded them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "led the ass and the colt, and put upon them their garments; and He sat thereon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And most of the multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And the multitudes, who were going before Him, and those who were following, were crying, saying, \"Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He Who cometh in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And, when He entered into Jerusalem, all the city was startled, saying, \"Who is this?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And the multitudes said, \"This is the Prophet, Jesus, 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 entered into the temple, and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those selling the doves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "And He saith to them, \"It has been written, 'My house, shall be called a house of prayer; but ye are making 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 healed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And the high-priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things which He did, and the boys who were crying in the temple, and saying, \"Hosanna to the Son of David!\" were much displeased,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "and said to Him, \"Dost Thou hear what these are saying?\" And Jesus saith to them, \"Yes; did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst perfect praise!'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And, leaving them, He went forth out of 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 morning, returning into the city, He hungered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And, seeing one fig tree by the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon except leaves only. And He saith to it, \"No more may fruit come from you forever.\" And immediately the fig tree withered away!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And the disciples, seeing it , wondered, saying, \"How quickly the fig tree withered away!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Verily I say to you, if ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only the withering of the fig tree shall ye accomplish, but, even if ye say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up, and be cast into the sea,' it shall be done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.\" Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Mark 11:27–33 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And, when He came into the temple, the high-priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, saying, \"By what authority art Thou doing these things? And who gave Thee this authority?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said, \"I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell Me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "The immersion of John?whence was it? from Heaven or from men?\" And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, \"If we say, 'From Heaven,' He will say to us, 'Why, then, did ye not believe him?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "But, if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And, answering Jesus, they said, \"We do not know.\" He also said to them, \"Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.\" The Parable of the Two Sons"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "\"But what think ye? A man had two children; and to the first, he said, 'Child, go, work today in the vineyard.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "And he, answering, said, 'I go , sir,' and he went not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And, coming to the second, he spake in like manner; and he, answering, said, 'I am not willing;' but later, repenting, he went."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "Which of the two did the will of the father?\" They say, \"The last.\" Jesus saith to them, \"Verily I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots are going into the Kingdom of God before you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him; but ye, having seen him , did not even repent afterward, that ye might 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. There was a man?a householder?who planted a vineyard, and placed a fence around it, and dug a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And, when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive his fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And the husbandmen, taking his servants, one, indeed, they beat; 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 treated them likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and have his inheritance!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "And, taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "When, therefore, the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husband-men?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "41", "text": "They say to Him, \"He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus saith to them, \"Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made head of a corner; this was from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "43", "text": "\"Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "44", "text": "And he who falls on this stone shall be broken in pieces; but on whomsoever it falls, it will scatter him as dust.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "45", "text": "And the high-priests and Pharisees, having heard His parables, knew that He was speaking concerning them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "46", "text": "And, while seeking to lay hold on Him, they feared the multitudes, since they were holding Him as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus, answering, again spake to them in parables, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "\"The Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a man?a king?who made a marriage feast for his son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And he sent forth his servants to call those who had been invited to the marriage feast, and they were not willing to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "\"Again he sent forth other servants, saying, 'Say to those who have been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fatlings have been slain, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "\"But they, neglecting it , went away; one, indeed, to his own farm, another to his merchandise;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, maltreated and slew them ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "\"And the king was enraged; and, sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "Then he says to his servants, 'The marriage feast, indeed is ready; but those who had been invited were not worthy;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "go, therefore, to the outlets of the highways; and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage feast.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And the servants, going out into the highways, gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "\"And he saw there a man not having on a wedding-garment;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "and he says to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here, not having on a wedding-garment?' And He was speechless."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "Then said the king to the attendants, 'Having bound his feet and hands, cast him forth into the outer darkness:' there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "For many are called, but few chosen.'\" Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Mark 12:13–17 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Then the Pharisees, going, took counsel how they might ensnare Him in speech."}
{"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 carest not for any one; for Thou dost not look into the face of men:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "tell us, therefore, what thinkest Thou: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, \"Why are ye tempting Me, hypocrites?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "Show me the tribute-coin.\" And they brought Him a denary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Whose is this image and inscription?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "They say to Him, \"Caesar's.\" Then saith He to them, \"Render, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And, hearing it, they wondered: and, leaving Him, they went away. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Mark 12:18–27 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "On that day there came to Him Sadducees, those saying there is no resurrection, and questioned Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "saying, \"Teacher, Moses said, 'If any one die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "Now there were with us seven brothers; and the first, marrying, died; and, not having seed, he left his wife to his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "Likewise also the second, and the third, unto the seventh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And after them all, the woman died."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "But Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Ye deceive yourselves, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "for in the resurrection, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in Heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "\"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And the multitudes, hearing Him, were astonished at His teaching. The Greatest Commandment ( Mark 12:28–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "But the Pharisees, hearing that He silenced the Sadducees, were collected together;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "and one of them, a lawyer, asked a question, tempting Him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "\"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "And He said to him, \"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "This is the great and first commandment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "On these two commandments hangs 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 questioned them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "saying, \"What think ye concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He?\" They say to Him, \"David's.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "He saith to them, \"How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit on My right hand, till I put Thy foes beneath Thy feet.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "If, then, David calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "And no one was able to answer Him a word; nor did any one dare from that day to question Him any more."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus spake to the multitude, and to His disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, \"The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And they bind heavy burdens, and lay them upon the shoulders of men; but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "But all their works they do with the view to be seen by men; for they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge their fringes;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "and they love the first place in the feasts, and the front seats in the synagogues,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called by men 'Rabbi.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "But be not ye called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and all ye are brethren."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And call no one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, the Heavenly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither be ye called leaders; because One is your Leader, the Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "But the greater of you shall be your minister."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "\"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for ye do not enter, neither do ye suffer those who are entering in to enter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and, when he is made such , ye make him a son of Hell twofold more than yourselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "\"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whosoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "Fools, and blind! for which is greater?the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "'And whosoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it , is a debtor!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "Ye blind! for which is greater?the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "He, therefore, who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "and he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him dwelling therein;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "and he who swears by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him sitting thereon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "\"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law?the judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; but these it was proper to have done, and those not to have omitted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "Blind guides! straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "\"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but within they are full from extortion and excess!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "Blind Pharisees! cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that its outside also may become clean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "\"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like white-washed sepulchres, which outwardly, indeed, appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "So ye also outwardly, indeed, appear righteous to men; but within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "\"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, and say,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who killed the prophets;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "and fill ye up the measure of your fathers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "Serpents! broods of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of Hell?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "that upon you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "Verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:31–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her! how often did I wish to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her 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 shall in no wise see Me henceforth, till ye shall say, 'Blessed is He That cometh in the name of the Lord!'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus, going out, was departing from the temple; and His disciples came near to show Him the buildings of the temple."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "But, He, answering, said to them, \"See ye not all these things? verily I say to you, there shall in no wise be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And, while He was sitting on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, \"Tell us when shall these things be, and what is the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the age.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Take heed that no one lead you astray;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "for many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "And ye will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled, for these things must come to pass; but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "But all these are a beginning of travail. Witnessing to All Nations ( Mark 13:9–13 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "Then will they deliver you up to tribulation, and will slay you; and ye will be hated by all the nations for My name's sake."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And then will many be caused to stumble, and will deliver up one another, and hate one another;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "and many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "But he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the inhabited earth for a testimony to all the 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": "\"When, therefore, ye see the abomination of the desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that reads understand),"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "then let those in Judaea flee into the mountains;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "let him who is on the house-top not go down to take away the things out of his house;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his garment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "But woe to the women with child, 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 on a sabbath;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "for then will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now; no, nor ever shall be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And, unless those days should be shortened, no flesh could be saved: but, for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Then, if any one shall say to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ!' or 'Here,' believe it not;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "for there will arise false Christs and false prophets; and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "Behold, I have foretold you. 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 say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness;' go not forth; 'Behold, He is in the secret chambers,' believe it not,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "For, as the lightning comes forth from the east, and shines unto the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "Wheresoever the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "\"And, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "and then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then will all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "And He will send forth His angels, with the sound of a great trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Mark 13:28–31 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "\"Now from the fig tree learn the parable; When already its branch becomes tender, and the leaves are putting forth, ye know that the summer is near;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "even so ye, when ye see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "Verily I say to you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things come to pass."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away. Readiness at Any Hour ( Mark 13:32–37 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "For as the days of Noe were , so shall be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "For, as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "Then two men will be in the field; one is carried off, and one is left behind;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "two women will be grinding at the mill, one is carried off, and one is left behind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "Watch ye, therefore, because ye know not in what day your Lord is coming."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "But know this, that, had the householder known at what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "Therefore, be ye also ready; for, in an hour that ye think not, the Son of Man is coming."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "\"Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom his lord set over his household, to give them their food in season?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "Happy is that servant whom his lord, when he comes, shall find so doing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "Verily I say to you, that he will appoint him over all his possessions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "But, if that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying,'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "the lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not expecting him , and in an hour when he knows not,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "\"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened to ten virgins, who, taking their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "And five of them were foolish, and five wise;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "for the foolish, taking their lamps, did not take oil with them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "but the wise took oil in the vessels with their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "Now, the bridegroom tarrying, they all became drowsy, and were sleeping;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "but at midnight a cry has been made, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "\"Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "But the wise answered, saying, 'Perhaps there will not be enough for us and you; go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And, while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ready ones went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "\"And afterward come also the remaining virgins, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "But he, answering, said, 'Verily I say to you, I know you not.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "Watch, therefore, because ye know not the day, nor the hour! The Parable of the Talents ( Luke 19:11–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "\"For it is as when a man, going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "and to one, indeed, he gave five talents; and to another, two; and to another, one?to each according to his own ability; and he went abroad."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "\"Straightway the one receiving the five talents, going, traded with them, and gained five others."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "Likewise he also who received two gained other two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "And he who received one, going away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "And, after a long time, the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And the one who received the five talents, coming near brought other five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents; behold, I gained other five talents.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will set you over many; enter into the joy of your lord.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "\"He also, who received the two talents, coming near, said, 'You delivered to me two talents; behold, I gained other two talents.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things: enter into the joy of your lord.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And he who received the one talent, coming near said, 'Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man; reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "and, being afraid, going away, I hid your talent in the earth: behold, you have your own.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "But his lord, answering, said to him, 'Wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "It behooved you, therefore, to put my money to the bankers; and, at my coming, I would have received my own with interest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "28", "text": "Take from him, therefore, the talent, and give it to him who has the ten talents.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "29", "text": "For, to every one that has, shall be given, and he shall be made to abound; but from him that has not shall be taken away even what he has;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "30", "text": "and cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth! The Sheep and the Goats"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "31", "text": "\"And, when the Son of man cometh in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit on the throne of His glory;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "32", "text": "and there will be gathered before Him all the nations; and He will separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "33", "text": "and He will set the sheep, indeed, on His right hand, but the goats on the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "34", "text": "\"Then will the King say to those on His right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of My Father! inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "35", "text": "for I hungered, and ye gave Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "36", "text": "naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye looked after Me; I was in prison, and ye came to Me.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "37", "text": "\"Then will the righteous answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see Thee hungering, and fed Thee? or thirsting, and gave Thee drink?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "38", "text": "And when did we see Thee a stranger, and took Thee in; or naked, and clothed Thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "39", "text": "And, when did we see Thee sick, or in prison, and came to Thee?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "40", "text": "\"And, answering, the King will say to them, 'Verily I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of My brethren, even the least, ye did it to Me.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "41", "text": "Then will He say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, ye accursed! into the eternal fire which was prepared for the Devil and his angels;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "42", "text": "for I hungered, and ye did not give Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me no drink;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "43", "text": "I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and ye did not look after Me.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "44", "text": "\"Then will they also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see Thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to Thee?'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "45", "text": "\"Then will He answer them, saying, 'Verily I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to Me!'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "46", "text": "\"And these shall go away into age-lasting punishment, but the righteous into age-lasting life.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass when Jesus finished all these words, He said to His disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "\"Ye know that, after two days, the passover takes place, and the Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "Then the high priests and the elders of the people were gathered together into the court of the high priest who was called Caiaphas;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile and kill Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "But they said, \"Not during the feast, lest an uproar might arise 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": "Now, when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "there came to Him a woman having an alabaster cruse of very precious ointment, and poured it down upon His head, while reclining at table."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "And the disciples, seeing it, were much displeased, saying, \"To what purpose is this waste?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "But Jesus, perceiving it , said to them, \"Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for she wrought a good work for Me;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "for the poor ye always have with you; but Me ye have not always."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "For she, in pouring this ointment upon My body, did it with reference to My burial."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "Verily I say to you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in all the world, that also which this woman did shall be spoken of for a memorial 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, the one called Judas Iscariot, going to the high priests,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "said, \"What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver Him up to you?\" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "And from that time he was seeking an opportunity to deliver Him up. Preparing the Passover ( Mark 14:12–16 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "And on the first day of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, \"Where dost Thou wish that we should prepare for Thee to eat the passover?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said, \"Go away into the city to such a one, and say to him, 'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand; with you I observe the passover together with My disciples.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "And the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and 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, evening coming on, He was reclining at table with the twelve;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "and, as they were eating, He said, \"Verily I say to you, one of you will betray Me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "And, being exceedingly grieved, they began to say to Him, each one, \"Is it I, Lord?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "And He, answering, said, \"He who dipped with Me his hand in the dish, the same will betray Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "The Son of Man, indeed, goeth, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It were good for him, if that man had never been born!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "And Judas, who betrayed Him, answering, said, \"Is it I, Rabbi?\" He says to him, \"You said it .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "And, as they were eating, Jesus, taking a loaf and blessing it , broke it , and giving to his disciples, said, \"Take, eat, this is My body.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "And, taking a cup, and offering thanks, He gave to the disciples, saying, \"Drink of it, all ye ;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "for this is My blood of the covenant, which is shed in behalf of many for remission of sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this product of the vine, until 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 praises, they went out into the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Mark 14:27–31 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "Then Jesus saith to them, \"All ye will be made to stumble because of Me this night; for it has been written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "But, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "33", "text": "But Peter, answering, said to Him, \"If all should be made to stumble because of Thee, I will never be made to stumble.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"Verily I say to you, that this night, before a cock crows, you will thrice deny Me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "35", "text": "Peter says to Him, \"Even if I must 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 cometh Jesus with them into a place called Gethsemane, and saith to the disciples, \"Sit ye here, while I, going yonder, pray.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "37", "text": "And, taking with Him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be grieved and to be in distress."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "38", "text": "Then saith He to them, \"My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death! Abide ye here, and watch with Me.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "39", "text": "And, going forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, \"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "40", "text": "And He cometh to the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, \"Were ye thus unable to watch with Me one hour?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "41", "text": "Watch, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "42", "text": "Again, a second time, going away, He prayed, saying, \"My Father, if it is not possible that this cup should pass away except I drink it , Thy will be done,\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "43", "text": "And, coming again, He found them sleeping; for their eyes were heavy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "44", "text": "And, leaving them, going away again, He prayed a third time, saying again the same words."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "45", "text": "Then He cometh to the disciples, and saith to them, \"Sleep on the remaining time, and take your rest. Behold the hour has drawn near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "46", "text": "Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who is betraying Me is at hand.\" The Betrayal of Jesus ( Mark 14:43–52 ; Luke 22:47–53 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "47", "text": "And, while He is yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a large multitude, with swords and clubs, from the high priests and elders of the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "48", "text": "And he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, \"Whomsoever I kiss, He it is; seize Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "49", "text": "And immediately coming to Jesus, he said, \"Hail, Rabbi!\" and kissed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "50", "text": "But Jesus said to him, \"Comrade, do that for which you are present!\" Then, coming near, they laid hands on Jesus, and took Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "51", "text": "And, behold, one of those with Jesus stretching forth his hand, grasped his sword; and, smiting the servant of the high priest, he struck off his ear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "52", "text": "Then saith Jesus to him, \"Return your sword to its place; for all taking a sword will perish by a sword."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "53", "text": "Or do you think that I cannot call upon My Father, and He will place beside Me, even now, more than twelve legions of angels?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "54", "text": "How, then, could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "55", "text": "In that hour Jesus saith to the multitudes, \"Did ye come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to arrest Me? Daily with you, in the temple, I was wont to sit, teaching, and ye seized me not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "56", "text": "But all this has come to pass, that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.\" Then all the disciples, forsaking 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 those who seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "58", "text": "And Peter was following Him afar off to the court of the high priest; and, entering within, he was sitting with the attendants to see the end."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "59", "text": "And the high priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put Him to death;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "60", "text": "and they did not find any , though many false witnesses came forward. But afterward two false witnesses, coming forward,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "61", "text": "said, \"This Man , said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "62", "text": "And the high priest, standing up, said to Him, \"Answerest Thou nothing? What are these testifying against Thee?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "63", "text": "But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to Him, \"I adjure Thee by the living God, that Thou tell us whether Thou art the Christ, the Son of God\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "64", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"You said it: nevertheless I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "65", "text": "Then the high priest rent his garments, saying, \"He blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, ye just now heard the blasphemy!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "66", "text": "What think ye?\" And they, answering, said, \"He is worthy of death.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "67", "text": "Then did they spit in His face, and buffet Him. And others smote Him ,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "68", "text": "saying, \"Prophesy to us, O Christ, who is he that 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 was sitting without, in the court; and a certain maid-servant approached him, saying, \"And you were with Jesus the Galilaean!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "70", "text": "But he denied before them all, saying, \"I know not what you are saying.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "71", "text": "And another maid saw him, when he walked out into the porch, and says to those there, \"This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "72", "text": "And again he denied with an oath, \"I do not know the Man.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "73", "text": "And after a little while, those who stood by, having come, said to Peter, \"Truly you also are one of them; for even your speech makes you manifest.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "74", "text": "Then began he to curse and swear, \"I do not know the Man.\" And straight-way a cock crowed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "75", "text": "And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, saying, \"Before a cock crows, you will thrice deny Me.\" And, going forth without, he wept bitterly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when morning came, all the high priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put Him to death;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "and, binding Him, they led Him away, and delivered Him up to Pilate, the governor. Judas Hangs Himself"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Judas, who betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, repenting, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the high priests and the elders,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "saying, \"I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood.\" But they said, \"What is that to us? You may see to that.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And, throwing the pieces of silver into the temple, he withdrew; and, going away, he hanged himself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And the high priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, \"It is not lawful to cast them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And, taking counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for a burial-place for the strangers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, that field was called \"A field of blood\" until this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, \"And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him Who was priced, Whom some of the sons of Israel priced,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.\" Jesus before Pilate ( Luke 23:1–5 ; John 18:28–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, \"Art Thou the King of the Jews?\" And Jesus said to him, \"You say it.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And, while He was being accused by the high priests and elders, He answered nothing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "Then says Pilate to Him, \"Hearest Thou not how many things they testify against Thee?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "And He did not answer him, not even to one word; so that the governor greatly wondered. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Mark 15:6–11 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "and they then had a noted prisoner called Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, \"Whom do ye desire that I should release to you? Barabbas or Jesus Who is called Christ?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "For he knew that because of envy they delivered Him up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "And, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, \" Have nothing to do with that Righteous One; for I suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "But the high priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes, that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "And the governor, answering, said to them, \"Which of the two do ye desire that I should release to you?\" And they said, Barabbas.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate says to them, \"What, then, shall I do to Jesus Who is called Christ?\" They all say, \"Let Him be crucified.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "But he said, \"Why, what evil did He perform?\" And they were crying out the more, 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 availed nothing, but rather a tumult was being made, taking water, washed his hands before the multitude, saying, \"I am innocent of the blood of this Man . Ye shall see to it .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "And all the people, answering, said, \"His blood be upon us, and upon our children.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "Then he released to them Barabbas; but, having scourged Jesus, he delivered Him up to be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Mark 15:16–20 ; Luke 22:63–65 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the Praetorium, gathered to Him the whole band."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "And, having stripped Him, they put on Him a scarlet robe;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "and, having platted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and, kneeling before Him, they mocked Him, saying, \"Hail, King of the Jews!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "And, having spit on Him, they took the reed, and smote Him on the head;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "and, when they mocked Him, they took off the robe from Him, and put on His own garments, and led Him away to crucify Him. The Crucifixion ( Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "And, coming out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they impressed to bear the cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "And, having come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say \"Place of a skull,\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "they gave Him to drink wine mingled with gall; and, having tasted it , He would not drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And, having crucified Him, they divided His garments among them, casting lots;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "and, sitting down, they watched Him there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And they put over His head His accusation, \"THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "Then are there crucified with Him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And those passing by were reviling Him, wagging their heads,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "and saying, \"Thou Who destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save Thyself: if Thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "Likewise also the high priests, mocking, with the scribes and elders, were saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "\"Others He saved, Himself He cannot save! King of Israel is He! let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on Him!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "He has trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He desireth Him; because He said, 'I am God's Son.'\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "And the robbers, who were crucified with Him, were reproaching Him with the same thing. The Death of Jesus ( Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "45", "text": "And from the sixth hour there came darkness over all the land until the ninth hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "46", "text": "And, about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, \"ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?\" that is, \"My God! My God! Why didst Thou forsake Me?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "47", "text": "And some of those standing there, hearing it , said, \"This One is calling for Elijah."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "48", "text": "And straightway one of them, running and taking a sponge, and filling it with vinegar, and putting it on a reed, was giving Him to drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "49", "text": "But the rest said, \"Let alone! Let us see whether Elijah is coming to save Him!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus, crying again with a loud voice, yielded up His spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "51", "text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two, from top to bottom; and the earth was shaken; and the rocks were rent;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "52", "text": "and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "53", "text": "and, coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city, and appeared to many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "54", "text": "And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, seeing the earthquake, and the things that were taking places were exceedingly frightened, saying, Truly, This was a Son of God!\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "55", "text": "And many women were there, beholding from afar, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "56", "text": "among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. The Burial of Jesus ( Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "57", "text": "And, evening having come, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, whose name was Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "58", "text": "This man, going to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "59", "text": "And, taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "60", "text": "and laid it in his own new tomb, which he hewed out in the rock; and, having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "61", "text": "And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. The Guards at the Tomb"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "62", "text": "And on the morrow which, indeed, is the day after the Preparation, the high priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "63", "text": "saying, Sir, we were reminded that that Deceiver said, while yet living, 'After three days I rise again;'"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "64", "text": "order, therefore, that the sepulchre be made secure until the third day, lest haply His disciples, coming, should steal Him away, and say to the people, 'He was raised from the dead;' and the last error will be worse than the first.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "65", "text": "And Pilate said to them, \"Ye have a guard; go your way, secure it, as ye know how .\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "66", "text": "And, going, they made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone, in connection with the guard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "Now, in the end of sabbaths at the dawning toward the first day of sabbaths, came Mary Magdelene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, there occurred a great commotion; for an angel of the Lord, descending out of Heaven, and coming near, rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And his appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "and, from fear of him, those keeping watch were shaken, and became as dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel, answering, said to the women, \"Fear not; for I know that ye are seeking Jesus Who hath been crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here; for He arose, as He said. Come! see the place where the Lord was lying;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "and, going quickly, say to His disciples, 'He arose from the dead;' and, behold, He is going before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him; behold, I told you.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And, departing quickly from the sepulchre, with fear and great joy, they ran to announce it to His disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "And, behold, Jesus met them, saying, \"Rejoice!\" And they, coming to Him, held His feet, and worshiped Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Jesus saith to them, \"Fear not, go your way, announce to My brethren that they go away into Galilee, and there shall they see Me.\" The Report of the Guards"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And, as they were going, behold, some of the guard going into the city, reported to the high priests all that had happened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And, having gathered together with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave a large sum of silver to the soldiers,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "saying, \"Say ye that His disciples, coming by night, stole Him, while we were sleeping."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "And, if this be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and make you devoid of care,\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And they, taking the silver, did as they were instructed. And this account was spread abroad among the Jews, until this day. The Great Commission ( Mark 16:14–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus appointed them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "and seeing Him, they worshiped Him , but some doubted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus, coming near, spake to them, saying, \"All authority was given to Me in Heaven and on earth:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "going, therefore, disciple ye all the 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 observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you; and, behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of the age.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God's Son."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "As it has been written in Isaiah the prophet, \"Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John came, who was immersing in the wilderness, and preaching the immersion of repentance unto remission of sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And he preached, saying, \"There cometh after me One Who is mightier than I, the latchet of Whose shoes I am not worthy, stooping down, to loose."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I immersed you in water; but He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed by John into the Jordan."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent apart, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And a voice came out of Heaven, saying, \"Thou art My Son, the beloved, in Whom I was well pleased.\" The Temptation and Preaching of Jesus ( Matthew 4:1–17 ; Luke 4:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And straightway the Spirit driveth Him forth into the wilderness."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And He was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts; and the angels were ministering to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And, after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of God,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "and saying, \"The time has been fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God, has come near. Repent ye, and believe in the Gospel.\" The First Disciples ( Matthew 4:18–22 ; Luke 5:1–11 ; John 1:35–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And, passing along by the sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Come after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And straightway, leaving the nets, they followed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And going on a little further, He saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, and those in the ship mending the nets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And straightway He called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the boat, with the hired servants, they went away after Him. Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit ( Luke 4:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath, going into the synagogue, He was teaching."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And they were astonished at His teaching; for He was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And straight-way there was in the synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "saying, \"What is there to us and Thee, Jesus, Nazarene? didst Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee Who Thou art, the Holy One of God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus rebuked it, saying, \"Be silent, and come out of him.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And the unclean spirit, having convulsed him, and having cried with a loud voice, came out of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is this? A new teaching! With authority He commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And the report of Him went out straightway everywhere into the whole region of Galilee round about. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Luke 4:38–41 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "And, straightway coming 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 lying sick with fever, and straightway they tell Him of her;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "and, coming to her, He raised her up, having taken her by the hand; and the fever left her, and she was ministering to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And at evening, when the sun did set, they were bringing to Him all who were sick, and those possessed with demons."}
{"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 He healed many that were sick with many kinds of diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not permit the demons to speak, because they knew Him [to be the Christ]. Jesus Prays and Preaches ( Luke 4:42–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And, having risen very early, by night, He went out into a desert place, and was there praying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And Simon and those with Him followed after Him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "and found Him, and say to Him, \"All are seeking Thee.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Let us go elsewhere into the neighboring towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end I came forth.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And He went into their synagogues, throughout all Galilee, preaching, and casting out the demons. The Leper’s Prayer ( Matthew 8:1–4 ; Luke 5:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And there comes to Him a leper, beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, \"If Thou wilt, Thou canst cleanse me!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus, moved with compassion, and stretching forth His hand, touched him, and saith to him, \"I am willing; be cleansed.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "And straight-way the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And having strictly charged him, He straightway sent him away,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "and saith to him, \"See that you say nothing to any one, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses directed, for a testimony to them.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "But he, going forth, began to publish it much, and to spread abroad the matter; so that He could no more openly enter into a city, but was without in desert places. And they were coming to Him from every quarter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And, having entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that He was in the house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even about the door; and He was speaking the word to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And they come, bringing to Him a paralytic, borne by four."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And not being able to bring him to Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was; and, having broken it up, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus, seeing their faith, saith to the paralytic, \"Child, your sins are forgiven.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "\"Why doth this Man speak thus? He blasphemeth! Who can forgive sins but One, God?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And straightway Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that they so reason within themselves, saith to them, \"Why do ye reason these things in your hearts?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But, that ye may know the Son of Man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (He saith to the paralytic)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And he arose, and, straightway taking up the bed, went forth before them all; so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, \"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 again by the sea; and all the multitude were coming to Him, and He was teaching them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And passing by, He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, \"Follow Me.\" And, rising up, he followed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it comes to pass that He reclines at table in his house, and many tax-collectors and sinners recline with Him and His disciples; for there were many, and they were following Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that He was eating with the sinners and tax-collectors, said to His disciples, \"Why doth He eat with the tax-collectors and sinners?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, hearing it , says to them, \"Those who are well need not a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\" Questions about Fasting ( Matthew 9:14–15 ; Luke 5:33–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to Him, \"Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Thy disciples fast not?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Can the sons of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "but there will come days when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Matthew 9:16–17 ; Luke 5:36–39 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; else the patch takes from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And no one puts new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perishes, and the skins; but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.\" The Lord of the Sabbath ( Matthew 12:1–8 ; Luke 6:1–5 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And it came to pass that He was going on the sabbath through the grainfields; and His disciples began to make a way, plucking the heads of grain."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And the Pharisees said to them, \"Behold, why are they doing on the sabbath that which 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 was hungry, he and those who were with him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "How he entered into the house of God during the high priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the show-bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And He said to them, \"The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "so that the Son of Man is Lord even of the sabbath.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And He entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there, having his hand withered."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And they were watching Him, whether He would heal him on the sabbath; that they might accuse Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And He saith to the man having the withered hand, \"Arise in the midst.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm, to save a life, or to kill?\" But they were silent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And having looked round about on them with anger, and being grieved at the hardness of their heart, He saith to the man, \"Stretch forth your hand.\" And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Pharisees, having gone out, were straightway taking counsel with the Herodians against Him, how 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 with His disciples withdrew to the sea; and a great multitude from Galilee followed Him ; and from Judaea,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and beyond the Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what things He was doing, came to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And He spake to His disciples, that a little boat should wait, on Him, lest they should throng Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "for He had healed many, so that as many as had plagues pressed upon Him, that they might touch Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And the unclean spirits, whensoever they were beholding Him, were falling down before Him, and crying, saying, \"Thou art the Son of God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And He was charging them much, that they should not make Him manifest. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Luke 6:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And He goeth up into the mountain, and called to Himself those whom He wished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And He appointed twelve [whom He also named apostles], that they might be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "and to have authority to cast out demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And to Simon He added the name Peter;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, (and He added to these the name \"Boanerges,\" that is, \"sons of thunder\");"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And He cometh into a house. A House Divided ( Matthew 12:22–30 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And the multitude comes together again, so that they could not even eat bread."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "And, hearing of it, His kinsmen went out to lay hold on Him; for they said, \"He became insane!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, \"He hath Beelzebub, and by the ruler of the demons casteth out the demons.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And, having called them to Him , He said to them in parables, \"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 will not be able to stand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And, if Satan did arise against himself, and was divided, he cannot stand, but has an end."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "But no one is able, after having entered into the house of the strong man, to plunder his goods, except he first bind the strong man; and then will he plunder his house. The Unpardonable Sin ( Matthew 12:31–32 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Verily I say to you, all the sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and the blasphemies whatsoever they blaspheme;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "but whosoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is guilty of an eternal sin;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "because they said, 'He hath an unclean spirit.'\" Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "And His mother and His brothers come; and, standing without, they sent to Him, calling Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "And a multitude was sitting about Him; and they say to Him, \"Behold, Thy mother and Thy brothers without are seeking for Thee.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "And, answering them, He saith, \"Who is My mother, and My brothers?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "And looking around on those who sat about Him, He saith, \"Behold, My mother, and My brothers!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "For whosoever does the will of God, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And again He began to teach by the seaside. And there is gathered to Him a very great multitude, so that He, having entered into a boat, was sitting in the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea on the land."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And He taught them many things in parables, and said to them in His teaching,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "\"Hearken! behold the sower went forth to sow."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And it came to pass, as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And other fell on the rocky ground where it had not much earth; and straightway it sprang up, because of not having depth of earth;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and, when the sun rose, it was scorched; and, because it had no root, it was dried up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell among the thorns; and the thorns sprang up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And others fell into the good ground, and were yielding fruit, springing up and growing; and bore, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And He said, \"He that has ears to hear, let him hear.\" The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Matthew 13:10–17 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And, when He was alone, those who were about Him with the twelve asked Him as to the parables."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said to them, \"To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those without all things are done in parables;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "that, seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and, hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn, and be forgiven.\" The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Matthew 13:18–23 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Know ye not this parable? And how will ye know all the parables?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "The sower sows the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And these are those by the wayside, where the word is sown; and, when they hear, straightway Satan comes, and catches away the word which has been sown in them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And these likewise are those sown upon the rocky places , who, when they hear the word, straightway with joy receive it;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "and they have no root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, straightway they stumble."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And others are those sown among the thorns. These are those who heard the word,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "and the anxieties of the age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.\" The Lesson of the Lamp ( Luke 8:16–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to them, \"Is the lamp brought to be put under the measure, or under the bed! Is it not, that it may be put on the lampstand?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For there is nothing hid, except that it should be manifested; nor was anything made secret, but that it should come to light."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "If any one has ears to hear, let him hear.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said to them, \"Take heed what ye hear. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you; and more will be added."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "For he that has, to him shall be given; and he that has not, from him shall be taken away even what he has.\" 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 the seed upon the earth;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knows not how."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "The earth of itself bears fruit; first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "But, when the fruit permits, straightway he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.\" The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Matthew 13:31–32 ; Luke 13:18–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And He said, \"How shall we liken the Kingdom of God, or in what parable shall we set it forth ?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "It is like to a grain of mustard, which when it is sown upon the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "yet, when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under its shadow.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And with many such parables He spake the word to them, as they were able to hear it ."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "And without a parable He spake not to them; but privately to His disciples He explained all things. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Matthew 8:23–27 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And on that day, when evening came, He saith to them, \"Let us go across to the other side.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And, leaving the multitude, they take Him with them, as He was, in the boat. And other boats were with Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And there arises a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating into the boat, so that the boat was now being filled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And He Himself was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion; and they awake Him, and say to Him, \"Teacher, is it no concern to Thee that we perish?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And, having been roused up, He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, \"Peace! be still!\" 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 fearful? Have ye not yet faith?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, \"Who, then, is This, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And, when He came out of the boat, straightway there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "who had his dwelling in the tombs; and no one could any longer bind him, not even with a chain;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces, and no one had strength to tame him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying, and cutting himself with stones."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And, seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and worshiped Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "and, crying with a loud voice, he says, \"What is there to me and Thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure Thee by God, that Thou torment me not!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "For He said to him, \"Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And He asked him, \"What is your name?\" And he says to Him, \"My name is Legion, because we are many.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And he was beseeching Him much, that He would not send them away out of the country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Now there was there by the mountain a great herd of swine feeding"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And they besought Him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And He permitted them. And, coming out, the unclean spirits entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, about two thousand, and were drowned in the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And those feeding the swine fled, and reported it in the city and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And they come to Jesus, and behold the demoniac sitting, clothed, and having his right mind?the one who had had the legion, and they were afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And those who saw it declared to them how it befell the demoniac, and concerning the swine."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And they began to beseech Him to depart from their borders."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And, as He was entering into the boat, he that had been a demoniac was beseeching Him, that he might be with Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And He did not permit him, but saith to him, \"Go to your house, to your own people, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for you, and how He had mercy on you.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And he went away, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus did for 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 crossed over in the boat again to the other side, a large multitude was gathered to Him; and He was by the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And there comes one of the synagogue-rulers, Jairus by name; and, seeing Him, he falls at His feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "and beseeches Him much, saying, \"My little daughter is extremely ill; I pray that, coming, Thou wilt lay Thy hands upon her, that she may be healed and live.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And He went away with him; and a great multitude was following Him, and they were thronging Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And a woman, having a flow of blood twelve years,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "and having suffered many things under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having been profited nothing, but rather coming into the worse state ,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "having heard the things concerning Jesus, coming in the crowd behind, touched His garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "For she said, \"If I touch even His garments, I shall be healed.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was cured of the plague."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And straight-way Jesus, perceiving in Himself that power had gone forth from Him, turning about in the crowd, said, \"Who touched Me?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And His disciples said to Him, \"Thou seest the multitude thronging Thee, and sayest Thou, 'Who touched Me?'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And He was looking around to see her who did this."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came, and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And He said to her, \"Daughter, your faith has healed you; go in peace, and be well of your ailment.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "While He was yet speaking, they come from the synagogue-ruler's house , saying, \"Your daughter died; why do you trouble the Teacher any further?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "But Jesus, disregarding the word spoken, saith to the synagogue-ruler, \"Fear not, only believe.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And He permitted no one to follow with Him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And they come to the house of the synagogue-ruler; and He beholds a tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And, having entered, He saith to them, \"Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but she is sleeping.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And they were deriding Him. But He, having put them all out, taketh with Him the father of the child, and the mother, and those with Him, and goeth in where the child was."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "And, having taken hold of the child's hand, He saith to her, \"Talitha cumi;\" which is, being interpreted, \"Damsel, (I say to you), arise.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And straight-way the damsel arose, and walked; for she was twelve years old. And straightway they were amazed with great amazement."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "And He charged them much that no one should know this; and He commanded that something should be given her to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And He went forth thence, and cometh into His own country; and His disciples follow Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And, when the sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many, hearing Him , were astonished, saying, \"Whence hath this Man these things?\" And, \"What is the wisdom which is given to This Man?\" And, \"Such mighty works are wrought by His hands!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "\"Is not This the Carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not His sisters here with us?\" And they were finding occasion of stumbling in Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And He could there do no mighty work, except that, laying His hands on a few sick people, He healed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And He marvelled because of their unbelief. And He was going round about the villages, teaching. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Matthew 10:5–15 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And He calleth to Him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two, and was giving them authority over the unclean spirits;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "and He charged them that they should take nothing for the way, except a staff only; no bread, no wallet, no money in their girdle;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "but to go shod with sandals; and He said , put not on two coats."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And He said to them, \"Wheresoever ye enter into a house, there abide, till ye depart thence."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And whatsoever place does not receive you, and they hear you not, going forth thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And, going forth, they preached that men should repent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And they were casting out many demons, and were anointing with oil many sick people , and were healing them. The Beheading of John ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Luke 9:7–9 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And the king Herod heard of Him , (for His name became famous), and he said, \"John the Immerser has risen from the dead; and, because of this, the powers are working in Him.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "But others said, \" It is Elijah.\" And others said, \" It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "But Herod, hearing of Him , said, \" It is he whom I beheaded, John, the same was raised.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "For Herod himself, sending forth, laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison, for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip, his brother, because he married her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "For John said to Herod, \"It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herodias was holding it against him, and was wishing to kill him; and she could not;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "for Herod was fearing John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he was preserving him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "And, an opportune day having come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper for his nobles and for the chief captains, and the chief men of Galilee;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "and the daughter of Herodias herself coming in and dancing, it pleased Herod and those reclining at table with him; and the king said to the damsel, \"Ask of me whatsoever you wish, and I will give it to you.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "And he swore to her, \"Whatsoever you ask of me, I will give it to you, unto half of my kingdom.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "And, having gone out, she 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, coming in straight-way, in haste, to the king, she asked, saying, \"I wish that you would, forthwith, give me on a dish, the head of John the Immerser.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "And, though becoming very sorrowful, the king, because of his oaths, and those reclining with him , would not thwart her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "And the king, straightway sending off one of his guard, gave orders to bring his head; and, departing, he beheaded him in the prison,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "and brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "And, having heard of it, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and placed 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 apostles gather themselves together to Jesus; and they reported to Him all things, whatsoever they did, and whatsoever they taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest yourselves a little.\" For there were many coming and going, and they were not finding opportunity even to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "And they went away in the boat to a desert place apart."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "And the people saw them going on their way, and many knew them , and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and outwent them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "And, coming forth, He saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "And, the hour being already late, His disciples, coming to Him, said, \"The place is desert, and the hour is already late;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "send them away, that, having gone into the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy themselves something to eat.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "But He saith to them, \"Give ye them to eat.\" And they said to Him, \"Going, shall we buy two hundred denaries worth of loaves, and give them to eat?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "But He saith to them, \"How many loaves have ye? go and see.\" And, having ascertained, they say, \"Five, and two fishes.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And He commanded that all should recline by companies on the grass."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and fifties."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "And, taking the five loaves and two fishes, looking up to Heaven, He blessed, and broke up the loaves, and kept giving to the disciples to set before them; and He divided the two fishes among them 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 broken pieces, twelve basketfuls, and from the fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; John 6:16–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "And straightway He constrained His disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He Himself sendeth the multitude away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "And, having taken leave of them, He went away into the mountain to pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "And, when it was evening, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and He was alone on the land."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "And, seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night He cometh to them, walking on the sea; and He wished to pass by them;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "but, seeing Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and they cried out;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "for they all saw Him; and were troubled. But he straight-way talked with them, and saith to them, \"Be of good courage! it is I, be not afraid.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "And He went up to them into the boat; and the wind ceased; and they were exceedingly amazed in themselves:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "for they did not understand concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened. Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Matthew 14:34–36 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "And, crossing over, they came upon the land to Gennesaret, and anchored there."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "And, when they came out of the boat, straightway recognizing Him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "they ran about that whole country, and began to carry about on beds those who were sick, where they were hearing that He was."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "And wheresoever He was entering into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they placed the sick in the marketplaces, and were beseeching Him, that they might touch even the border of His garment; and as many as touched were healed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And there gather together to Him the Pharisees, and some of the scribes, who came from Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "and saw that some of His disciples ate bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands thoroughly, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "and, coming from the marketplace, unless they immerse themselves, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they received to hold; as , immersion of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And the Pharisees and the scribes ask Him, \"Why do not Thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to them, \"Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Having left the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And He said to them, \"Well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may hold your tradition!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "But ye say, 'If a man say to his father or mother, That wherewith you might be profited by me is Corban,' that is, 'an offering to God ,'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye handed down; and many such things ye do.\" What Defiles a Man ( Matthew 15:10–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And, again calling the multitude, He said to them, \"Hear Me, all of you, and understand:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "there is nothing from without the man, that, entering into him, can defile him; but the things proceeding out of the man are those that defile the man.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And, when He entered into the house from the multitude, His disciples asked of Him the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Are ye too thus without understanding? Do ye not perceive that nothing, entering into a man from without, can defile him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "because it goes not into his heart, but into the belly, and passes out into the drain?\" This He said , making all foods clean."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said, \"That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "covetings, wickednesses, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.\" The Faith of the Gentile Woman ( Matthew 15:21–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And, rising up, He went thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and, entering into a house, He wished no one to know it. And He could not be hid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of Him, coming, fell down at His feet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she kept asking Him to cast forth the demon out of her daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And He said to her, \"Suffer the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "But she answered, and says to Him, \"Yes, Lord; even the little dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to her, \"Because of this word go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And, going away into her own house, she found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out. The Deaf and Mute Man ( Matthew 9:27–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And again, going forth out of the borders of Tyre, He came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "And they bring to Him one deaf, and speaking with difficulty; and they beseech Him to lay His hand upon him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And, taking him aside from the multitude privately, He put His fingers into his ears; and, spitting, He touched his tongue;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "and looking up to Heaven, He sighed, and saith to him, \"Ephphatha,\" that is, \"Be opened.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking properly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And He charged them that they should tell no one; but the more He charged them, the more a great deal did they publish it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, \"He hath done all things well: He maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, He called to Him His disciples and saith to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "\"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "and, if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; and some of them are from afar.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And His disciples answered Him, \"Whence will any one be able to satisfy these men with bread, here in a desert 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 commandeth the multitude to sit down on the ground; and, taking the seven loaves, having given thanks, He broke, and was giving to the disciples, to set before them; and they set them before the multitude."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And they had a few small fishes; and, having blessed them, He commanded to set these also before them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And they ate, and were satisfied; and they took up, of the pieces that remained over, seven baskets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And they were about four thousand; and He sent them away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And straightway, entering into the boat 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 discuss with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, tempting Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And, sighing deeply in His spirit, He saith, \"Why does this generation seek a sign? verily I say to you, there shall no sign be given to this generation.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And, leaving them, He again embarked, and departed to the other side. 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 bread; and, except one loaf, they had nothing in the boat with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And He was charging them, saying, \"Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And they were reasoning one with another, \" It is because we have no bread!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And perceiving it , He saith to them, \"Why are ye reasoning because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, nor understand? Have ye your heart hardened?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Having eyes, do ye see not? and, having ears, do ye hear not? And, do ye not remember?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did ye take up?\" They say to Him \"Twelve.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "\"And, when the seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did ye take up?\" And, they said, \"Seven.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to them, \"Do ye not yet understand?\" The Blind Man at Bethsaida"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to Him a blind man, and beseech Him to touch him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And, taking hold of the blind man's hand, He brought him out of the village; and, spitting in his eyes, and putting His hands upon him, He asked him, \"Do you see anything?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And, looking up, he said, \"I behold men, because I see them as trees walking.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "Then again He put His hands on his eyes, and he looked steadily, and was restored, and was seeing all things distinctly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And He sent him away to his house, saying, \"Do not even enter into the village.\" 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 forth, and His disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And, on the way, He asked His disciples, saying to them, \"Who do men say that I am?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And they told Him, saying, 'John the Immerser;' and others, 'Elijah;' but others, 'One of the prophets.'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And He asked them, \"But Who do ye say that I am?\" Peter, answering, says to Him, \"Thou art the Christ.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And He charged them that they should tell no one 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 rejected by the elders, and the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And He spake the saying openly. And Peter took Him, and began to rebuke Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "But He, turning about, and seeing the disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, \"Get behind Me, Satan; because you are not minding 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, calling the multitude to Him with His disciples, He said to them, \"If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "For whosoever would save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his soul for My sake and the Gospel's, shall save it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "Or what could a man give as an exchange for his soul?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For whosoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And He said to them, \"Verily I say to you, there are some of those standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they see the Kingdom of God come with power.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And after six days Jesus taketh with Him Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And His garments became shining, exceedingly white, such as no fuller on the earth can so whiten."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And Peter, answering, says to Jesus, \"Rabbi, it is good that we are here; and let us make three tents; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah;\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "for he knew not what to answer, for they became much afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, \"This is My Son, the Beloved; hear ye Him.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And, suddenly looking around, they no longer saw with themselves any one, except Jesus only."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And, as they were coming down from the mountain, He charged them that they should tell no one what they saw, until the Son of Man should arise from the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they kept the saying to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead could be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were asking Him, saying, \" How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And He said to them, \"Elijah, indeed, comes first, and restores all things; and how it has been written concerning the Son of Man, that He should suffer many things, and be set at naught;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "but I say to you that Elijah has both come, and they did to him whatsoever they wished, 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, coming to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And straightway all the multitude, seeing Him, were greatly amazed; and, running to Him , were saluting Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And He asked them, \"What are ye discussing with them?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And one of the multitude answered Him, \"Teacher, I have brought to Thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "and wheresoever it seizes upon him, it tears him, and he foams, and gnashes his teeth, and pines away. And I spake to Thy disciples, that they should cast it out; and they were not able.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And He, answering, saith to them, \"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, seeing Him, the spirit straightway convulsed him; and, falling upon the ground, he was wallowing, foaming."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And He asked his father, \"How long a time is it since this has befallen him?\" And he said, \"From a child."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And oft-times it cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but, if Thou canst do anything, having compassion on us, help us!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"'If thou canst!' All things are possible to him that believes.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Straight-way the father of the child, crying out, said, \"I believe; help Thou my unbelief!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus, seeing that a multitude was running together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, \"Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter no more into him.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And, having cried out, and convulsed him much, it came out; and he became as one dead; so that many said, \"He died!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "But Jesus, taking hold of his hand, raised him, and he stood up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And, when He came into a house, His disciples asked Him privately, \"Why could not we cast it out?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to them, \"This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer.\" The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 17:22–23 ; Luke 9:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And, going forth thence, they were passing along through Galilee; and He did not wish that any one should know it ."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "For He was teaching His disciples, and said to them, \"The Son of Man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and, having been killed, after three days He will rise again.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "But they were not understanding the saying, 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 they came to Capernaum. And, when He was in the house, He asked them, \" Concerning what were ye reasoning in the way?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "But they were silent; for they disputed with one another in the way, who was the greatest."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And, sitting down, He called the twelve, and saith to them, \"If any one wishes to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And, taking a little child, He set it in the midst of them; and, holding it in His arms, He said to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "\"Whosoever receives one of such little children in My name, receives Me; and whosoever receives Me, receives not Me, but Him Who sent Me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "John said to Him, \"Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in Thy name; and we forbade him, because he was not following us.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "But Jesus said, \"Forbid him not; for there is no one who shall exercise power in My name, and be able quickly to speak evil of Me;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "for he who is not against us is for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "For whosoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. Temptations and Trespasses ( Matthew 18:6–9 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And whosoever shall cause to stumble one of these little ones, who believe, it were better for him, if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And, if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is good for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having the two hands to go into Hell--into the unquenchable fire!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "And, if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is good for you to enter into life lame, rather than having the two feet to be cast into Hell."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "And, if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is good for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into Hell,"}
{"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 every one shall be salted with fire."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "Salt is good; but, if the salt becomes saltless, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And, rising up thence, He cometh into the borders of Judaea, and beyond the Jordan. And multitudes come together to Him again; and, as He was wont, He was teaching them again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees, corning to Him, were asking Him, \"Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife!\" tempting Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And He, answering, said to them, \"What did Moses command you?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And they said, \"Moses permitted to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "But Jesus said to them, \"Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this commandment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "But from the beginning of the creation, 'Male and female made He them.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, [and shall cleave to his wife],"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "and the two shall become one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "What, therefore, God joined together, let not man put asunder.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And in the house the disciples asked Him again concerning this."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "and, if she herself, having put away her husband, marries 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 were bringing little children to Him, that He might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "But Jesus, seeing it, was much displeased, and said to them, \"Permit the little children to come to Me; forbid them not; for to such belongs the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Verily I say to you, whosoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, will in no wise enter therein.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And, taking them in His arms, He was blessing them, placing His hands upon them. The Rich Young Man ( Matthew 19:16–30 ; Luke 18:18–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And, as He was going forth into the way, one, running to Him, and kneeling, was asking Him, \"Good Teacher, what shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus said to Him, \"Why do you call Me good? No one is good, but One?God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "You know the commandments, 'Do not kill,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said to Him, \"Teacher, all these things I observed from my youth.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus, looking on him, loved him, and said to him, \"One thing is wanting to you: go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven, and come, follow Me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "But, becoming gloomy at this saying, he went away grieved; for he was one having great possessions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And, looking around, Jesus saith to His disciples, \"With what difficulty shall those who have riches enter into the Kingdom of God!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus, again answering, saith to them, \"Children, how difficult it is [for those who trust in riches] to enter into the Kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were being exceedingly astonished, saying to Him, \"And who can be saved?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "Jesus, looking upon them, saith, \"With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Peter began to say to Him, \"Behold, we left all, and followed Thee.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus said, \"Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for My sake and the Gospel's sake,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "But many that are 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 going before them. And they were being amazed: and those following Him were being terrified. And, again taking with Him the twelve, He began to tell them the things about to happen to Him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "\"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered up to the high priests, and to the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will deliver Him up to the gentiles;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "and they will mock Him and will spit upon Him, and will scourge Him, and will kill Him; and after three days He will rise again.\" 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 to Him, \"Teacher, we wish that Thou wouldest do for us whatsoever we ask.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "And He said to them, \"What do you wish that I should do for you?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And they said to Him, \"Grant to us that we may sit, one on Thy right hand, and one on Thy left, in Thy Kingdom.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "But Jesus said to them, \"Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And they said to Him, \"We are able.\" And Jesus said to them, \"The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and the immersion with which I am immersed shall ye be immersed;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "but to sit on My right hand, or on My left, is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And the ten, hearing it , began to be much displeased with James and John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus, calling them to Him, saith to them, \"Ye know that those thinking to rule over the gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "but it is not so among you; but whosoever wishes to become great among you shall be your minister;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "and whosoever wishes to be first among you shall be servant of all:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, 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 to Jericho: and, as He was going forth from Jericho, with His disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "And, hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, \"Son of David! Jesus! have mercy on me!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And many were rebuking him, that he should be silent. But he kept crying much more, \"Son of David! have mercy on me!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "49", "text": "And, standing still, Jesus said, \"Call him.\" And they call the blind man, saying to him, \"Be of good cheer; arise, He is calling you!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "50", "text": "And he, casting away his garment, springing up, came to Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "51", "text": "And Jesus, answering him, said, \"What do you wish that I should do for you?\" And the blind man said to Him, \"Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Go your way, your faith has healed you.\" And straightway he received sight, and was following Jesus in the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when they draw nigh to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, He sendeth two of His disciples,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "and saith to them, \"Go into the village that is over against you; and straightway, as ye enter into it, ye will find a colt tied, on which no man ever yet sat: loose him, and bring him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And, if any one say to you, 'Why do ye this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him;' and straight-way he will send him back hither.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door without on the street; and they loose him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And some of those standing there said to them, \"What do ye, loosing the colt?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And they said to them even as Jesus said; and they let them go."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And they bring the colt to Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and He sat on him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And many spread their garments in the way; and others spread branches, having cut them from the fields."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And those going before, and those following, were crying, \"Hosanna! Blessed is He That cometh in the name of the Lord!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the Highest!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And He entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and, having looked around on all things, the hour being late, He went out to 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 on the morrow, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And, seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came, if perhaps He might find something thereon. And, having come to it, He found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And, answering, He said to it, \"May no one eat fruit from you any more forever!\" And His disciples heard it. 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, entering into the temple, He began to cast out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "and He was not permitting that any one should carry a vessel through the temple."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And He was teaching, and said to them, \"Has it not been written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations;' but ye have made it a den of robbers!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the high priests and scribes heard it, and were seeking how they might destroy Him; for they were fearing Him, for all the multitude was astonished at His teaching."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And, whenever it became late, they went forth out of the city. The Withered Fig Tree ( Matthew 21:18–22 ; Mark 11:12–14 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And, passing by the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And Peter, calling to remembrance, says to Him, \"Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which Thou didst curse has withered away!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus, answering, saith to them, \"Have the faith of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Verily I say to you, whosoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says comes to pass; he shall have it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore, I say to you, all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any; that your Father also Who is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "OMITTED TEXT. Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Matthew 21:23–27 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And they come again into Jerusalem. And, as He was walking about in the temple, the high priests and the scribes and the elders come to Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "and said to Him, \"By what authority art Thou doing these things! Or who gave Thee this authority to do these things!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"I will ask you one thing; and answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "The immersion of John, was it from Heaven, or from men? Answer Me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "And they reasoned with themselves, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "\"If we say, 'From Heaven,' He will say, 'Why then did ye not believe him!' But, should we say, 'From men,'\"?they feared the people; for all held John to be a prophet indeed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "And, answering, they say to Jesus, \"We do not know.\" And Jesus saith to them, \"Neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And He began to speak to them in parables, \"A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And, at the season, he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And, taking him, they beat him , and sent him away empty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and dishonored."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others, beating some, and killing some."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "He had yet one, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will pay deference to my son.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "But those husbandmen said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And, taking him , they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "What, therefore, will the lord of the vineyard do! He will come, and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "Did ye never read the Scripture, \"The stone which the builders rejected, the same became the head of a corner;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "this was from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And they were seeking to lay hold of Him; and they feared the multitude; for they knew that He spake the parable against them; and, leaving Him, they went away. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And they send to Him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may entrap Him in speech."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And, coming, they say to Him, \"Teacher, we know that Thou art true, and carest not for any one; for Thou lookest not into the face of men, but in truth teachest the way of God. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Shall we give, or shall we not give?\" But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, \"Why are ye tempting Me? Bring Me a denary, that I may see it.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And they brought it. And He saith to them, \"Whose is this image and inscription?\" And they said to Him, \"Caesar's.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Render to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God.\" And they wondered exceedingly at Him. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Matthew 22:23–33 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And there come to Him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they were asking Him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "\"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If any man's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife; and, dying, left no seed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And the second took her, and died, leaving no seed; and the third likewise."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her as a wife.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Jesus said to them, \" Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye know not the Scriptures, nor the power of God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "For, when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels in Heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "But, concerning the dead, that they are raised, did ye not read in the book of Moses, at the 'Bush,' how God spake to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.\" The Greatest Commandment ( Matthew 22:34–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And one of the scribes, coming near, hearing them discussing together, knowing that He answered them well, asked Him, \"What commandment is first of all?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered, \"The first is, 'Hear, O Israel; the Lord is our God, the Lord is One;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your mind and with all your strength.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "A second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "The scribe said to Him, \"Well, Teacher, Thou didst say truly that He is One, and there is not another beside Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus, seeing that he answered discreetly, said to him, \"You are not far from the Kingdom of God.\" And no one any more dared to question Him. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Matthew 22:41–46 ; Luke 20:41–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said, while teaching in the temple, \"How do the scribes say that the Christ is David's Son?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on My right hand, until I put Thy enemies underneath Thy feet.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "David himself calls Him Lord; and whence is He his Son?\" And the great multitude heard Him gladly. Beware of the Scribes ( Luke 20:45–47 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And in His teaching He said, \"Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes and have salutations in the marketplaces,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at the feasts;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.\" The Widow’s Offering ( Luke 21:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And, haring taken a seat over against the treasury, He was beholding how the multitude cast money into the treasury; and many who were rich cast in much."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And one poor widow, coming, cast in two mites, which is a farthing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "And, calling to Him His disciples, He said to them, \"Verily I say to you, this poor widow cast in more than all who are casting into the treasury;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "for they all did cast in out of their abundance; but she out of her want cast in all that she had?her whole living.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And, as He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples says to Him, \"Teacher, behold, what manner of stones and what manner of buildings!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Do you see these great buildings? There shall not be left here a stone upon a stone, which shall not be thrown down.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And, as He was sitting upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "\"Tell us, when shall these things be? and what is the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus began to say to them, \"Take heed, lest some one lead you astray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "Many will come in My name, saying, 'I am He ', and will lead many astray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And, when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled; these things must come to pass; but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; and there will be famines: these are the beginning of anguish. Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "\"But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to the councils; and in synagogues ye will be beaten; and before governors and kings ye will stand for My sake, for a testimony to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And the Gospel must first be preached to all the nations."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And, when they lead you away, delivering you up, be not anxious beforehand what ye shall speak; but whatsoever is given you in that hour, this speak: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And brother will deliver up brother to death; and the father, the child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And ye will be hated by all for My name's sake; but he that endures 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": "But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand), then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And let him who is on the house not come down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "But woe to those with child and to those giving suck in those days!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And pray that it be not in winter;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "for those days will be a time of tribulation, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And, unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would have been saved; but, for the elect's sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And then, if any one shall say to you, 'Lo, here is the Christ!' or, 'Lo, there!' believe him not;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "for there will arise false Christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "But take heed; 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 tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "and the stars will be falling out of the heavens, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "And then will they see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And then will He send forth the angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the extremity of earth to the extremity of the heaven. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Matthew 24:32–35 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "\"Now from the fig tree learn the parable: when its branch already becomes tender, and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is near;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "so also do ye, when ye see these things coming to pass, know that He is near, at the doors."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Verily I say to you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things be accomplished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass away; but My words will not pass away. Readiness at Any Hour ( Matthew 24:36–51 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "But concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Take heed, watch [and pray]; for ye know not when the time is."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "It is as when a man away from home, having left his house, and having given authority to his servants, to each his work, commanded also the porter to watch."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or in the morning;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "And what I say to you, I say to all, 'Watch.'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Now after two days was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the high priests and the scribes were seeking how, taking Him by guile, they might kill Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "for they said, \"Not during the feast, lest there should 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, while He was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining at table , there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly; and, having broken the cruse, she was pouring it down on His bead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, saying , \"To what purpose has this waste of the ointment been made?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "For this ointment could have been sold for above three hundred denaries, and given to the poor!\" And they were murmuring against her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "But Jesus said, \"Let her alone; why do ye cause her trouble? She wrought a good work on Me;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "for the poor ye always have with you; and whensoever ye will, ye can do them good; but Me ye have not always."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "She did what she could: she anointed My body beforehand for the burial."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And verily I say to you, wheresoever the Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman did shall be spoken of 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 high priests, that he might deliver Him up to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And they, hearing it , rejoiced, and promised to give him money. And he was seeking how he might conveniently deliver Him up. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And, on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they were slaying the passover, His disciples say to Him, \"Where dost Thou wish that we, going, prepare, that Thou mayest eat the passover?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And He sendeth two of His disciples, and saith to them, \"Go your way into the city; and there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And, wheresoever he enters, say ye to the master of the house, 'The Teacher saith, Where is My guest-chamber, where I may eat the passover with My disciples?'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; and there make ready for us.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as He said to them; and they made ready the passover. The Last Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Luke 22:14–23 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And, evening coming on, He cometh with the twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, \"Verily I say to you, one of you will betray Me?one who is eating with Me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "They began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him, one by one, \"Is it I?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said to them, \"It is one of the twelve?he that is dipping with Me in the dish."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "Because the Son of Man is going as it has been written concerning Him; but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It were good for him, if that man had not been born.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And, as they were eating, having taken bread and blessed it, He broke, and gave to them, and said, \"Take ye; this is My body.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And taking a cup, and blessing it , He gave it to them; and they all drank of it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said to them, \"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out in behalf of many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "Verily I say to you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And, having sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus saith to them, \"All ye will be made to stumble; because it has been written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered abroad.'"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "But, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "But Peter said to Him, \"If even all should be made to stumble, yet will not I!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus saith to him, \"Verily I say to you, that you today, in this night, before the cock crows twice, will thrice deny Me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "But he kept saying with great vehemence, \"If I must die with Thee, I will not deny Thee!\" And in like manner also said they all. Jesus Prays at Gethsemane ( Matthew 26:36–46 ; Luke 22:39–46 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And they come to a place the name of which is Gethsemane. And He saith to His disciples, \"Sit ye here, while I pray.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And He taketh with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and to be in distress."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And He saith to them, \"My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, unto death! Abide here, and watch.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And going forward a little, He fell on the ground, and was praying, that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "And He said, \"Abba, Father, all things are possible to Thee; take away this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what Thou wilt.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "And He cometh and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, \"Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to watch one hour?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "Watch, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "And, going away again, He prayed, saying the same thing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "And, returning, He found them again sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they knew not what to answer Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "41", "text": "And He cometh the third time, and saith to them, \"Sleep on the remaining time , and take your rest. It is enough; the hour came; behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "42", "text": "Arise, let us be going. Behold, he that is betraying Me has come 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 straightway, while He yet spake, comes Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the scribes and the elders."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "44", "text": "Now he that was betraying Him gave them a signal, saying, \"Whomsoever I shall kiss, This is He, take Him, and lead Him away securely.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "45", "text": "And, having come, going straightway to Him, he says, \"Rabbi;\" and kissed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "46", "text": "And they laid hands on Him, and took Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "47", "text": "And one of those standing by, having drawn his sword, smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "48", "text": "And Jesus answering, said to them, \"Did ye come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to seize Me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "49", "text": "I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye did not take Me; but this is done that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "50", "text": "And, having left Him, they all fled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "51", "text": "And a certain young man was following with Him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body ; and they lay hold on him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "52", "text": "but, leaving the linen cloth, he fled 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 high priest; and there come together with him all the high priests and the elders and the scribes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "54", "text": "And Peter followed Him afar off, even within into the court of the high priest; and he was sitting with the attendants, and he was warming himself at the light of the fire."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "55", "text": "And the high priests and all the Sanhedrin were seeking for testimony against Jesus, in order to put Him to death; and they were not finding it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "56", "text": "For many were bearing false testimony against Him, and their testimonies were not agreed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "57", "text": "And certain ones, standing up, were bearing false testimony against Him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "58", "text": "\"We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "59", "text": "And not even so did their testimony agree."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "60", "text": "And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, \"Dost Thou answer nothing? What do these testify against Thee?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "61", "text": "But He was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, and says to Him, \"Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said, \"I am; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "63", "text": "And the high priest, rending his clothes, says, \"What further need have we of witnesses?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "64", "text": "Ye heard the blasphemy: what think ye?\" And they all condemned Him to be worthy of death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "65", "text": "And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to buffet Him, and to say to Him, \"Prophesy;\" and the officers received Him with blows of their hands. Peter Denies Jesus ( Matthew 26:69–75 ; Luke 22:54–62 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "66", "text": "And, as Peter was beneath in the court, there comes one of the maids of the high priest;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "67", "text": "and, seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and says, \"You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "68", "text": "But he denied, saying, \"I neither know nor understand what you are saying.\" And he went out into the porch [and the cock crowed]."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "69", "text": "And the maid, seeing him, began again to say to those standing by, This is one of them.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "70", "text": "But he again denied. And, after a little while, those who stood by said to Peter, \"Of a truth you are one of them; for you are a Galilaean.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "71", "text": "But he began to curse, and to swear, \"I know not This Man of Whom ye speak.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "72", "text": "And straightway the second time the cock crowed. And Peter remembered the word, how Jesus said to him, \"Before the cock crows twice, you will deny Me thrice.\" And, having thought thereon , he kept weeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And straightway in the morning the high priests with the elders, and the scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, having held a consultation, binding Jesus, carried Him away, and delivered Him up to Pilate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And Pilate asked Him, \"Art Then the King of the Jews?\" And He, answering, saith to him, \"You say it .\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And the high priests accused Him of many things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate again asked Him, saying, \"Answerest Thou nothing? Behold how many things they accuse Thee of!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "But Jesus no longer made any answer; so that Pilate marvelled. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "Now at the feast he was wont to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was one called Barabbas, bound with the insurgents, who, in the insurrection, had committed murder."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And, coming up, the multitude began to ask him to do as he was wont to do to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And Pilate answered them, saying, \"Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "(For he was coming to understand that because of envy the high priests had delivered Him up)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "But the high priests stirred up the multitude, that he should rather release to them Barabbas. Pilate Delivers Up Jesus ( Matthew 27:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And Pilate, again answering, said to them, \"What, then, shall I do to Him Whom ye call the King of the Jews?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And they cried out again, \"Crucify Him!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And Pilate said to them, \"Why, what evil did He do?\" But they cried out vehemently, \"Crucify Him!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, after having scourged Him, to be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( 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 court, which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And they clothe Him with purple; and, having platted a crown of thorns, they put it on Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "And they began to salute Him, \"Hail King of the Jews!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "And they were smiting His head with a reed, and kept spitting on Him; and, bowing their knees, they were worshiping Him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And, when they mocked Him, they took from Him the purple, and put on Him His own garments. And they lead Him out to crucify Him. The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And they impress one Simon, a Cyrenian, who was passing by, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And they bring Him to the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, \" The place of a skull.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And they were offering Him wine mingled with myrrh: but He did not take it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "And they crucify Him, and divide His garments, casting lots upon them, what each should take."}
{"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 written above Him , \"THE KING OF THE JEWS.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And with Him they crucify two robbers; one on His right hand, and one on His left."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And those passing by railed on Him, wagging their beads, and saying, \"Aha! Thou Who destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "save Thyself, coming down from the cross!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "In like manner the high priests, mocking Him among themselves with the scribes, said, \"He saved others; Himself He cannot save!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "Let the Christ, the King of Israel now come down from the cross, that we may see, and believe!\" And those who were crucified with Him were reproaching Him. The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And, the sixth hour having come, there was darkness upon the whole land until the ninth hour."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with aloud voice, \"ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!\" which is, being interpreted, \"My God! My God! why didst Thou forsake Me!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And some of those standing by, hearing it , said, \"Behold, He is calling Elijah!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And one, running and filling a sponge full of vinegar, putting it on a reed, gave it to Him to drink, saying, \"Let alone; let us see whether Elijah is comming to take Him down.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Jesus, uttering a loud cry, expired."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And the centurion, who stood by over against Him, seeing that He so expired, said, \"Truly this Man was a Son of God!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And there were also women, beholding from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "who, when He was in Galilee, were following Him, and ministering to Him; and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem. The Burial of Jesus ( Matthew 27:57–61 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "And, evening having already come, since it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "there came Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable councillor; who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God; and boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "And Pilate wondered, if He had already died; and, calling to him the centurion, he asked him, whether He were already dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "And, having learned it from the centurion, he granted the Corpse to Joseph."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "And he, having brought linen cloth, and having taken Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "And Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Joses, beheld where He was laid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And, the sabbath having past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that, coming, they might anoint Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And, very early on the first day of the sabbaths, they come to the tomb, the sun having risen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And they were saying among themselves, \"Who will roll away the stone for us out of the door of the tomb?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And, looking up, they see that the stone has been rolled back; for it was exceedingly great."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And, entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe; and they were amazed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "But he says to them; \"Be not amazed. Ye are seeking Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified. He arose; He is not here; behold, the place where they laid Him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But go, say to his disciples, and to Peter, that He is going before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him, as He said to you.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And, going out, they fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment seized them. And they said nothing to any one; for they were afraid. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( John 20:10–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And, having risen early on the first day of a sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene from whom He had cast out seven demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "She, going, told it to those who had been with Him, as they were mourning and weeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And they, having heard that he was alive, and was seen by her, disbelieved. Jesus Appears to Two Disciples ( Luke 24:13–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And after these things He appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking, going into the country;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "and they, going away, told it to the rest; neither did they believe them. The Great Commission ( Matthew 28:16–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And afterward He was manifested to the eleven themselves, as they were reclining at table , and upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not those who saw Him after He had risen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, \"Going into all the world, preach the Gospel to the whole creation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "He that believes and is immersed shall be saved; but he that disbelieves shall be condemned."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And these signs shall accompany those having believed: in My name will they cast out demons: they will speak with tongues;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "they will take up serpents; and, if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.\" The Ascension ( Luke 24:50–53 ; Acts 1:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The Lord Jesus, therefore, after He spake to them, was caught up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word through the signs closely following."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Forasmuch as many took in hand to arrange in order a narrative concerning the facts that have been fully confirmed among us,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "even as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "it seemed good to me also, having traced all things accurately from the first, to write to you an orderly account, most noble Theophilus;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "that you may fully know the certainty of the words wherein you were instructed. Gabriel Foretells John’s Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest, Zacharias by name, of the course of Abija; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law blameless."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were far advanced in their days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Now it came to pass, that, while he was doing priestly service in the order of his course before God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "it fell to his lot, according to the custom of the priest's office, having gone into the temple of the Lord, to offer incense;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and all the multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of the incense-offering."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And Zacharias, seeing him , was troubled; and fear fell upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "But the angel said to him, \"Fear not, Zacharias; because your supplication was heard; and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And you will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "for he will be great before the Lord; and he will drink no wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And many of the sons of Israel will he turn to the Lord their God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And Zacharias said to the angel, \"By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in her days.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And the angel, answering, said to him, \"I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak to you, and to proclaim these glad tidings to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And, behold, you shall be silent, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass; because you did not believe my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they were wondering at his tarrying in the temple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And, having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were fulfilled, he departed to his house;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "and, after these days, Elizabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "\"Thus hath the Lord done to me in the days wherein He looked upon me , to take away my reproach among men!\" Gabriel Foretells Jesus’ Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, the name of which was Nazareth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And, the angel, coming in to her, said, \"Hail, highly favored one , the Lord is with you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "But she was troubled at the saying, and was deliberating as to what kind of salutation this might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And the angel said to her, \"Fear not, Mary; for you found favor from God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "He shall be great, and shall be called Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David;"}
{"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 angel, \"How shall this be, since I know not a man?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And the angel, answering, said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; wherefore also the Holy Thing that is begotten shall be called the Son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And, behold, Elizabeth, your kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "because no word from God shall be without power.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And Mary said, \"Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; may it be to me according to your word.\" And the angel departed from her. Mary Visits Elizabeth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And Mary, arising in those days, went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And it came to pass that, as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "and she lifted up her voice, with a loud cry, and said, \"Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "For, behold, as the voice of your salutation came into my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And happy is she who believed, because there shall be a fulfillment of the things spoken to her from the Lord!\" Mary’s Song"}
{"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 exulted in God my Saviour;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "because He looked upon the lowliness of His handmaid; for, behold, from the present time all generations will call me happy;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "because the Mighty One did great things for me; and Holy is His name!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "And His mercy is unto generations and generations to those who fear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "He wrought might with His arm; He scattered men proud in the imagination of their heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "52", "text": "He deposed potentates from thrones, and exalted the lowly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "53", "text": "The hungry He filled with good things, and the rich He sent away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "54", "text": "He succored Israel His servant, to remember mercy,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "55", "text": "(as He spake to our fathers), to Abraham and to his seed forever.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "56", "text": "And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house. The Birth of John the Baptist"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "57", "text": "Now the time was completed for Elizabeth, that she should give birth, and she brought forth a son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "58", "text": "And her neighbors and kindred heard that the Lord was magnifying His mercy together with her; and they rejoiced with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "59", "text": "And it came to pass, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they were calling him Zacharias, after the name of his father."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "60", "text": "And his mother, answering, said; \"No; but he shall be called John.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "61", "text": "And they said to her, \"There is no one of your kindred who is called by this name.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "62", "text": "And they were making signs to his father, what he wished him to be called."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "63", "text": "And, asking for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, \"John is his name.\" And they all marveled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "64", "text": "And his mouth was instantly opened, and his tongue loosed, and he was speaking, blessing God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "65", "text": "And fear came upon all those dwelling around them. And in all the hill country of Judea all these sayings were being much talked of;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "66", "text": "and all who heard laid them up in their heart, saying, \"What, then, shall this child be!\" For, indeed, 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 he prophesied, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "68", "text": "\"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He visited, and wrought redemption for His people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "69", "text": "and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "70", "text": "(as He spake through the mouth of His holy prophets from of old),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "71", "text": "salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "72", "text": "to show mercy towards our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "73", "text": "the oath which He swore to Abraham, our father;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "74", "text": "to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "75", "text": "in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "76", "text": "\"And you also, child, shall be called 'Prophet of the Most High;' for you shall 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": "because of the tender compassions of the mercy of our God, wherein the day-spring from on high shall visit us,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "79", "text": "to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "80", "text": "And the child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Now it came to pass, in those days, that there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the inhabited earth should be enrolled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "(This enrolment first was made, when Quirinius was governor of Syria)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And all were going to be enrolled, each to his own city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "to enrol himself with Mary his betrothed wife, being with child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And it came to pass, while they were there, that the days were fulfilled for her to give birth;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "and she brought forth her Son, the Firstborn, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The Shepherds and the Angels"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were greatly frightened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And the angel said to them, \"Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which, indeed, shall be to all the people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "because there was born to-day, in the city of David, a Saviour, Who is Christ the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And this is the sign to you: ye will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly host, praising God, and saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "\"Glory to God in the highest; and, on earth, peace among men of good will!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it came to pass, when the angels went away from them into Heaven, that the shepherds were saying one to another, \"Let us go over at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord made known to us.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And, making haste, they went, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And, having seen Him , they made known concerning the saying spoken to them about this Child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And all who heard wondered at the things spoken to them by the shepherds."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "But Mary was closely keeping all these sayings, pondering them in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they heard and saw, as it was spoken to them. Jesus Presented at the Temple"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And, when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising Him, His name was called Jesus?which was so called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And, when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought Him up to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "(as it has been written in the law of the Lord?\"Every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord\");"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "and to offer sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.\" The Prophecy of Simeon"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the Consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death, before he should see the Christ of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and, when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, that they might do concerning Him according to the custom of the law,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "he received Him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "\"Now Thou releasest Thy servant in peace, Lord, according to Thy word;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "because my eyes saw Thy Salvation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "Which Thou didst prepare before the face of all peoples;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "a Light for a revelation to the nations, and for a glory of Thy people Israel.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "And His father and mother were wondering at the things spoken concerning Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, \"Behold, This Child is set for the falling and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "(and a sword shall pierce through your own soul); that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.\" The Prophecy of Anna"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, (she was far advanced in days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "and she had been a widow as much as eighty-four years), who departed not from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And, coming up at that very hour, she was making confession to God, and was speaking concerning Him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. The Return to Nazareth ( Matthew 2:19–23 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "And, when they accomplished all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "And the Child was growing, and was becoming strong, 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 used to go annually to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "And, when He became twelve years old, they, going up according to the custom of the feast,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "and having completed the days, as they were returning, the Boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "but, supposing Him to be in the company, they went a day's journey; and they were seeking Him among their kindred and acquaintances;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "and, not finding Him , they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "And it came to pass that, after three days, they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "48", "text": "And, seeing Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, \"Child, why didst Thou treat us thus? Behold, Thy father and I were seeking Thee, sorrowing!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "49", "text": "And He said to them, \"Why were ye seeking Me? Did ye not know that I must be in My Father's business?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "50", "text": "And they understood not the saying that He spake to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "51", "text": "And He went down with them, and came into Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His mother kept all these sayings in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus kept advancing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar?Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "and he came into all the region of the Jordan, preaching the immersion of repentance unto remission of sins;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "as it has been written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, \"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight His paths."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways smooth;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "He was saying, therefore, to the multitudes coming forth to be immersed by him, \"Broods of vipers! who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Produce, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And already the axe also is lying at the root of the trees; every tree, therefore, not producing good fruit, is cut down, and cast into the fire.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And the multitudes were asking him, saying, \"What, then, shall we do?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And he, answering, said to them, \"Let him who has two coats share with him who has none; and let him who has food do likewise.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And there came also tax-collectors to be immersed, and they said to him, \"Teacher, what shall we do?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And he said to them, \"Exact no more than that which has been appointed you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And soldiers also were questioning him, saying, \"And what shall we do?\" And he said to them, \"Do violence to no one, neither accuse any one falsely, and be content with your wages.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And, as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he himself were the Christ,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "John answered, saying to them all, \"I, indeed, immerse you in water; but He is coming, Who is mightier than I?the latchet of Whose sandals I am not worthy to loose?He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Whose fan is in His hand, thoroughly to cleanse His threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into His granary; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore, indeed, exhorting them as to many and various things, he was proclaiming the good news to the people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "but Herod, the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias, the wife of his brother, and concerning all the evils which Herod did,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "added this also to them all, that he 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": "Now it came to pass, when all the people were immersed, that as Jesus also was immersed, and was praying, Heaven was opened,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form, as a dove; and a voice came out of Heaven, \"Thou art My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I delighted.\" The Genealogy of Jesus ( Matthew 1:1–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus Himself, when beginning His ministry , was about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the Son of Joseph, the son of Heli,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "the son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "37", "text": "the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "38", "text": "the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was being led in the Spirit in the wilderness"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and, when they were completed, He hungered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the Devil said to Him, \"If Thou art God's Son, command this stone, that it become bread.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus made answer to him, \"It has been written, 'Not on bread alone shall man live.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And, leading Him up, he showed Him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in a moment of time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Devil said to Him, \"To Thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them; because to me it has been delivered, and to whomsoever I will I give it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "If Thou, therefore, wilt worship before me, it shall all be Thine.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to him, \"It has been written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he led Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, \"If Thou art God's Son, cast Thyself down hence;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "for it has been written, 'He will command His angels concerning you, to keep watch over you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "and on their hands they shall bear you up, lest haply you dash your foot against a stone.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to him, \"It has been said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And, having completed every temptation, the Devil departed from Him until a fitting season. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Matthew 4:12–17 ; Mark 1:14–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and a report went out concerning Him through all the region round about."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. The Rejection at Nazareth ( Matthew 13:53–58 ; Mark 6:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and He went, according to His custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And there was given to Him a book of the prophet Isaiah; and, opening the book, He found the place where it had been written,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "\"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; because He anointed Me to publish good tidings to the poor; He hath sent Me to proclaim release to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away the crushed in freedom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And, having closed the book. He gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And He began to say to them, \"To-day has this Scripture been fulfilled in your ears.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And all were bearing witness to Him, and were wondering at the words of grace which proceeded out of His mouth; and they said, \"Is not this Joseph's Son?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And He said to them, \"Ye will doubtless say to Me this parable, 'Physician, heal Thyself: whatsoever we heard of as done in Capernaum, do also here in Thy own country.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said, \"Verily I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "But of a truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine upon all the land;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "and to no one of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "\"And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and no one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, on hearing these things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "and, rising up, they cast Him forth out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, to throw Him down headlong;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "but He, passing through their midst, was going His way. 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 sabbath;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "and they were astonished at His teaching, because His word was with authority."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "\"Ha! what is there to us and to Thee, Jesus, Nazarene! Didst Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee, Who Thou art, the Holy One of God!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus rebuked it, saying, \"Be silent, and come out from him.\" And the demon, hurling him into the midst, came out from him, having injured him naught."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And amazement came upon all; and they were talking together, one with another, saying, \"What is this word, that with authority and power He commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And there was going forth a report concerning Him into every place of the region round about. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Mark 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And, rising up, He went out of the synagogue into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was afflicted with a great fever; and they besought Him concerning her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And, standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and, immediately rising up, she was ministering to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "And, as the sun was setting, all, as many as had any ailing with divers diseases, brought them to Him; and He, laying His hands on each one of them, was healing them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, \"Thou art the Son of God.\" And, rebuking them, He was not suffering them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ. Jesus Preaches in Judea ( Mark 1:35–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "And, day coming on, going forth, He went into a desert place; and the multitudes were seeking after Him, and came to Him, and were trying to restrain Him from going away from them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "And He said to them, \"It is needful that I proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also; because for this I was sent forth.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Now it came to pass, as the multitude was pressing upon Him, and hearing the word of God, that He was standing by the lake Gennesaret;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and He saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen, having gone out of them, were washing their nets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And, entering into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to put out a little from the land; and, having taken a seat, He was teaching the multitudes out of the boat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And, when He ceased speaking, He said to Simon, \"Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And Simon, answering, said, \"Master, having toiled through the whole night, we took nothing; but at Thy word I will let down the nets.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And, doing this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And they beckoned to their partners in the other boat, to come and help them. And they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And Simon Peter, seeing it , fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, \"Depart from me; because I am a sinful man, O Lord;\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "for astonishment seized him, and all those with him, on account of the draught of the fishes which they took;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "and likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, \"Fear not; henceforth you will catch men.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And, having brought their boats to the land, leaving all, they followed Him. The Leper’s Prayer ( Matthew 8:1–4 ; Mark 1:40–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And it came to pass, while He was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy; and, when he saw Jesus, falling on his face, he besought Him, saying, \"Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And, stretching forth His hand, He touched him, saying, \"I am willing; be made clean.\" And straightway the leprosy departed from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And He charged him to tell no one; but, \"Departing, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But the report concerning Him was going abroad the more; and many multitudes were coming together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And He was wont to retire into the deserts, and pray. Jesus Heals a Paralytic ( Matthew 9:1–8 ; Mark 2:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And it came to pass, on one of the days, that He was teaching; and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present with Him to heal."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And, behold, men bearing on a couch a man who was a paralytic, and they were seeking to bring him in, and place him before Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And, not finding by what means they might bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with the couch, into the midst, before Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And, beholding their faith, He said, \"Man, your sins are forgiven you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, \"Who is This that is speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God only?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But Jesus, perceiving their reasonings, answering, said to them, \"Concerning what are ye reasoning in your hearts?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins (He said to the paralyzed man ), I say to you, arise; and, taking up your couch, go to your house.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And, immediately rising up before them, having taken up that on which he was lying, he departed to his house, glorifying God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "And astonishment seized them all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying, \"We saw 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 things, He went forth, and beheld a tax-collector, Levi by name, sitting at the tax-office; and He said to him, \"Follow Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "And, having forsaken all, rising up, he followed Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And Levi made a great reception for Him in his house; and there was a great multitude of tax-collectors and of others who were reclining at table with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And the Pharisees and their scribes were murmuring against the disciples, saying, \"Why are ye eating and drinking with the tax-collectors and sinners?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners 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, \"The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications; likewise also those of the Pharisees; but Thine are eating and drinking!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "But the days will come; and, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then they will 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 spake also a parable to them: \"No one, rending a piece from a new garment, puts it on an old garment; else both the new will cause a rent, and the piece from the new will not agree with the old."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "\"And no one puts new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "But new wine must be put into fresh skins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And no one, having drunk old wine , wishes new; for he says, 'The old is mellow.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass on a sabbath, that He was going through grainfields; and His disciples were plucking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them with their hands."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "But some of the Pharisees said, \"Why are ye doing that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to them, \"Did ye never read this that David did, when he was hungry, and those with him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "how he entered into the house of God, and taking the showbread, ate, and gave to those with him; which it is not lawful to eat, except for the priests only?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And He said to them, \"The Son of Man is Lord 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 came to pass on another sabbath, that He entered into the synagogue, and taught. And there was a man there, and his right hand was withered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him, whether He would heal on the sabbath: that they might find how to accuse Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "But He knew their thoughts; and He said to the man having the withered hand, \"Arise, and stand forth in the midst.\" And, rising up, he stood."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"I ask you, is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil?to save a soul, or to destroy it ?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And, looking round upon them all, He said to him, \"Stretch forth your hand.\" And he did so, and his hand was restored."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "But they were filled with madness, and were conferring one with another as to what they should do to Jesus. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Mark 3:13–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And it came to pass in those days, that He went out into the mountain to pray; and He was spending the whole night in prayer to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And when it became day, He called His disciples; and, having selected twelve from them, (whom He also called apostles):"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Simon whom He also called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a betrayer; Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Matthew 4:23–25 ; Mark 3:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "and, descending with them, He stood upon a level place; and a large multitude of His disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, were present, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "and those troubled with unclean spirits were being healed;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "and all the multitude were seeking to touch Him; because power was coming forth from Him, and was healing them all. The Beatitudes ( Matthew 5:3–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "And He, lifting up His eyes on His disciples, said, \"Happy, ye poor; because yours is the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "\"Happy, ye who are hungering now; because ye will be filled. \"Happy, ye who are weeping now; because ye shall laugh."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "\"Happy are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from themselves , and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "\"Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is great in Heaven; for, after the same manner, were their fathers wont to do to the prophets. Woes to the Satisfied"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "\"But woe to you that are rich! because ye are receiving your consolation!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "\"Woe to you who are filled now; because ye shall hunger! \"Woe to you who are laughing now; because ye shall mourn and weep!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "\"Woe to you when all men speak well of you; for in this same manner were their fathers wont to do to the false prophets. Love Your Enemies ( Matthew 5:38–48 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "\"But I say to you who hear, love your enemies; do good to those who hate you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "\"To him who smites you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, withhold not your coat also."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "\"Give to every one who asks of you; and of him who takes away your goods, ask them not back."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "\"And as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "\"And, if ye love those who love you, what charm have you? for even the sinners love those who love them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "\"And, if ye do good to those who do good to you, what charm have you? even the sinners do the same."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "\"And, if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what charm have you? even the sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back as much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "\"But love your enemies; and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind to the unthankful and evil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "\"Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judging Others ( Matthew 7:1–6 ; Romans 14:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "\"And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. \"Release, and ye shall be released."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "\"Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will they give into your bosom; for with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And He spake also a parable to them: \"Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "A disciple is not above the teacher; but every one, when perfected, shall be as his teacher."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "\"And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, suffer me to cast out the mote that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! cast first the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote that is in your brother's eye. A Tree and Its Fruit ( Matthew 7:15–23 ; Matthew 12:33–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "\"For there is no good tree that bears corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bears good fruit;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "for each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs of thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "\"The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and the evil, out of the evil treasure brings forth that which is evil; for out of the abundance of the heart does his mouth speak. The House on the Rock ( Matthew 7:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "\"But why do ye call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not the things that I say?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "\"Every one who comes to Me, and hears My words, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "he is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; and, a flood coming, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it; because it was well built."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "But he who heard and did not, is like a man who built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and straightway it collapsed; and the ruin of that house was great.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "After He finished all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered into Capernaum."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, being ill, was about to die."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And, having heard about Jesus, he sent to Him elders of the Jews, asking Him, that, having come, He would thoroughly save his servant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And they, coming to Jesus, were earnestly beseeching Him, saying, \"He is worthy for whom Thou shalt do this;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "for he loves our nation, and he built the synagogue for us.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus was going with them. And now, when He was not far distant from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, \"Lord, trouble not Thyself; for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore, neither thought I myself worthy to come to Thee; but speak with a word, and let my boy 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 one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it .\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And, hearing these things, Jesus marvelled at him; and, turning, He said to the multitude following Him, \"I say to you, not even in Israel did I find such faith!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And those who were sent, having returned to the house, found the servant well. Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And it came to pass soon afterwards that He went to a city called Nain; and there were going with Him His disciples, and a large multitude."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And, as He came near to the gate of the city, behold, also there was being carried out one dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd of the city was with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And, seeing her, the Lord was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, \"Weep not.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And, going forward, He touched the bier; and those bearing it stood still; and He said, \"Young man, I say to you, 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 seized on all; and they were glorifying God, saying, \"A great prophet was raised up among us,\" and \"God did visit His people.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And this report concerning Him went forth in all Judaea, and in all the surrounding country. John’s Inquiry ( Matthew 11:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "And, calling to him two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, \"Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to expect another?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And, coming near to Him, the men said, \"John, the Immerser, sent us to Thee, saying, 'Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to expect another?'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "In that hour He cured many of diseases, and plagues, and evil spirits; and to many blind He bestowed sight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And, answering, He said to them, \"Going your way, announce to John what ye saw and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the Gospel proclaimed to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And happy is he, whosoever shall find no cause of stumbling in Me.\" Jesus Testifies about John ( Matthew 11:7–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And, the messengers of John having gone away, He began to say to the multitudes concerning John, \"What went ye forth into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But what went ye forth to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those clothed in splendid apparel, and living in luxury, are in kingly courts!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "But what went ye forth to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "This is he concerning whom it has been written, 'Behold, I send forth My messenger before Thy face, who will prepare Thy way before Thee.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; but the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And all the people, having heard, and the tax-collectors, justified God, having been immersed with the immersion of John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God as to themselves, not having been immersed by him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "\"To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, who say, 'We piped to you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "For John, the Immerser, has come, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine; and ye say, 'He has a demon.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "The Son of Man has come, eating and drinking; and ye say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a wine-drinker, a Friend of tax-collectors and sinners!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And Wisdom was justified by 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 one of the Pharisees was asking Him to eat with him; and, having entered into the Pharisee's house, He reclined at table ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And, behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and, learning that He was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster cruse of perfume;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "and standing behind at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiped them off with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "But, seeing it, the Pharisee who invited Him, spake in himself, saying, \"This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman this is that is touching Him, because she is a sinner.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said to him, \"Simon, I have something to say to you.\" And he says, \"Teacher, say it .\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "\"There were two debtors to a certain money-lender. The one owed five hundred denaries; and the other, fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "And, they having nothing to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them, therefore, will love him the more?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "Simon, answering, said, \"He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the more.\" And He said to him, \"Rightly did you judge.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And, turning to the woman, He said to Simon, \"Do you behold this woman! I entered into your house, you gave Me no water for My feet; but this woman wet My feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "You gave Me no kiss; but she, from the time I entered, ceased not to kiss My feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "My head with oil you did not anoint; but she anointed My feet with perfume."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "Wherefore, I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; because she loved much; but he , to whom little is forgiven, loves little.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "And He said to her, \"Your sins have been forgiven.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "And those reclining with Him began to say in themselves, \"Who is This That even forgiveth sins!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "And He said to the woman, \"Your faith has saved you; go in peace.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass soon afterwards, that He was passing through by city and village, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God; and the twelve were with Him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "and Joanna wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering to them of their substance. The Parable of the Sower ( Matthew 13:1–23 ; Mark 4:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And, when a large multitude was coming together, and those from city after city were coming to Him, He spake through a parable:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "\"The sower went forth to sow his seed. And in his sowing some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the birds of the heaven devoured it ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And another fell upon the rock; and, springing up, it was withered because of not having moisture."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And another fell amid the thorns; and the thorns growing with it choked it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And another fell into the good ground; and, growing, it produced fruit, a hundredfold.\" Saying these things, He was crying aloud, \"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And His disciples were asking Him, what this parable might 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; but to the rest in parables; that, seeing, they may not see, and, hearing, they may not understand."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And those by the wayside are those who heard; then the Devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart; lest, having believed, they should be saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "\"And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; who, for a season, believe, and in time of temptation fall away."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "\"And that which fell among the thorns, these are those who heard; and, going forth, they are choked with anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bear no fruit to perfection."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "\"And that in the good ground, these are such as, in a good and honest heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bear fruit with patience. The Lesson of the Lamp ( Mark 4:21–25 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "\"And no one, having lighted a lamp, covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a lamp-stand, that those coming in may see the light;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "for nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; nor hidden, that shall not be known, and become manifest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Take heed, therefore, how ye hear; for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, even what he seems to have shall be taken from him.\" Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Mark 3:31–35 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "Now there came to Him His mother and brothers; and they could not get to Him because of the multitude."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And it was reported to Him, \"Thy mother and Thy brothers have been standing without, wishing to see Thee.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And He, answering, said to them, \"My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it .\" Jesus Calms the Storm ( Matthew 8:23–27 ; Mark 4:35–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Now it came to pass on one of the days, that both He and His disciples entered into a boat; and He said to them, \"Let us go over to the other side of the lake.\" And they set forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "But, as they were sailing, He fell asleep. And there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were being filled full of water , and were in peril."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And, coming near, they awoke Him, saying, \"Master, Master, we perish!\" And, having arisen, He rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and it became calm."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, \"Where is your faith?\" And, struck with fear, they marvelled, saying one to another, \"Who, then, is This, that He commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!\" The Demons and the Pigs ( Matthew 8:28–34 ; Mark 5:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And they sailed down into the country of the Gerasenes, which is over against Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And, when He went forth on the land, there met Him a certain man out of the city, who had demons, and for a long time he had worn no clothing; and he abode not in a house, but in the tombs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And, seeing Jesus, he, crying out, fell down before Him, and, with a loud voice, said, \"What is there to me and to Thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beg of Thee, do not torment me!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "For He was commanding the unclean spirit to come out from the man; for many times had it seized him, and he was bound with chains and fetters, kept under guard; and, bursting the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the deserts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus asked him, \"What is your name?\" And he said, \"Legion,\" (because many demons entered into him)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And they were entreating Him, that He would not command them to go away into the abyss."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And there was there a herd of many swine in the mountains; and they besought Him that He would permit them to enter into them. And He permitted them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And those feeding them , seeing what had taken place, fled, and carried the tidings into the city and into the country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And they went out to see what had taken place; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons went out, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and having his right mind; and they were afraid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And those who saw it reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "And the whole multitude of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Him to depart from them; because they were being constrained by great fear. And He, entering into a boat, returned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And the man, from whom the demons had gone forth, was begging Him that he might be with Him; but He sent him away, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "\"Return to your house, and relate how great things God did for you.\" And he departed, publishing through all the city how great things Jesus did for him. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Matthew 9:18–26 ; Mark 5:21–43 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And, as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed Him; for they were all expecting Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "And, behold, there came a man whose name was Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; and, falling down near Jesus' feet, he was beseeching Him to come into his house;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "because he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying! But, as He was going away, the multitudes were thronging."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "And a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who could not be cured,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "coming up behind, touched the border of His garment, and immediately her flow of blood stopped."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And Jesus said, \"Who is it that touched Me?\" And, when all were denying, Peter said, \"Master, the multitudes are thronging Thee, and hard pressing Thee!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "But Jesus said, \"Some one touched Me; for I perceived that power had gone out from Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "And the woman, seeing that she was not concealed, came trembling; and, falling down before Him, reported before all the people for what cause she touched Him, and how she was instantly healed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "And He said to her, \"Daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "While He is yet speaking, there comes one from the ruler of the synagogue, saying, \"Your daughter has died; trouble not the Teacher.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "But Jesus, hearing it , answered him, \"Fear not; only believe; and she shall be made whole!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "And, coming into the house, He permitted no one to enter with Him, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the maiden, and her mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "And they were all weeping, and bewailing her; but He said, \"Weep not; for she did not die, but is sleeping.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "And they were deriding Him, knowing that she died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "But He, taking her by the hand, called, saying, \"Maiden, arise.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "And her spirit returned to her, and she rose up instantly; and He commanded that something should be given to her to eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "And her parents were astonished. But He charged them to tell no one what had taken place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And, having called together the twelve, He gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to heal diseases;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "and He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "and He said to them, \"Take nothing for the journey?neither staff, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; and not to have two coats."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "\"And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide, and thence depart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And as many as do not receive you, going out from that city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And, going forth, they were passing through the several villages, proclaiming the good news, and healing everywhere. Herod Tries to See Jesus ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Mark 6:14–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all the things that were taking place; and he was thoroughly perplexed, because it was said by some that John was raised from the dead;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "and by some that Elijah appeared; and, by others, that a certain ancient prophet arose."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And Herod said, \"John I beheaded; but Who is This concerning Whom I hear such things?\" And he was seeking 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 apostles, having returned, related to Him what they did. And, taking them with Him , He retired privately to a city called Bethsaida."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "But the multitudes, perceiving it , followed Him; and, having welcomed them, He was speaking to them concerning the Kingdom of God, and those having need of cure He healed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And the day began to decline. And the twelve, coming near, said to Him, \"Send away the multitudes; that, going into the villages and country round about, they may lodge and find food; because we are here in a desert place.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "But He said to them, \"Give ye them to eat.\" And they said, \"We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless we, going, should buy food for all this people.\" (For they were about five thousand men)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And He said to His disciples, \"Make them recline in companies of about fifty each.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And they did so, and made them all recline."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And, taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up into Heaven, He blessed them, and broke, and kept giving to the disciples to set before the multitude."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And they ate, and were all filled. And there was taken up that which remained to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets. 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 came to pass, as He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He asked them, saying, \"Who do the multitudes say that I am?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And they, answering, said, 'John the Immerser;' and others, 'Elijah;' and others, 'that a certain prophet of the ancients arose.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said to them, \"But who say ye that I am?\" And Peter, answering, 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 admonished them, commanded them to tell this to no one;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "saying, \"The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and high priests, and scribes; and be killed, and on the third day be raised up.\" 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 wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his soul for My sake, the same shall save it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "For what is a man profited, in having gained the whole world, but having lost or forfeited himself?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "For whosoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when He cometh in His glory, and in that of the Father, and of the holy angels."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will in no wise taste of death, till they 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 came to pass, about eight days after these words, that, taking Peter, and John, and James, He went up into the mountain to pray."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And it came to pass, as He was praying, that the appearance of His countenance was altered, and His raiment became white and dazzling."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, two men were talking with Him, who, indeed, were Moses and Elijah;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "Now Peter and those with him had become heavy with sleep; but, having watched through it , they saw His glory, and the two men who were standing with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And it came to pass, as they were parting from Him, that Peter said to Jesus, \"Master, it is good that we are here; and let us make three tents; one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elijah;\" not knowing what he was saying."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "Now, while he was saying these things, there came a cloud, and it was overshadowing them; and they feared, as they entered into the cloud."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, \"This is My Son, the Chosen; hear ye Him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And, when the voice came, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and told no one, in those days, any of the things which 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 came to pass on the next day, when they came down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And, behold, a man from the multitude cried, saying, \"Teacher, I pray Thee to look upon my son, because he is my only begotten."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And, behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it convulses him with foaming, and with difficulty it departs from him, bruising him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "and I besought Thy disciples to cast it out, but they were not able.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And Jesus answering, said, \"O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring your son here.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And, while he was yet coming, the demon thrust him down, and greatly convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, 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 they were all amazed at the Majesty of God! And while all were marvelling at all the things which He was doing, He 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 hands of men.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "But they did not understand this saying; and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him concerning this saying. The Greatest in the Kingdom ( Matthew 18:1–5 ; Mark 9:33–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "And there entered a reasoning among them, as to which of them should be greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "Now Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their heart, taking a child, placed it by Himself,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "and said to them, \"Whosoever shall receive this child in My name, receives Me; and whosoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for he that is least among you all, the same is great.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "And John, answering, said, \"Master, we saw one casting out demons in Thy name; and we forbade him, because he follows not with us.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Forbid him not: for he who is not against you is for you.\" The Samaritans Reject Jesus"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "51", "text": "And it came to pass, when the days for receiving Him up were being completed, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "52", "text": "and He sent forth messengers before His face; and, journeying onward , they entered into a village of Samaritans, so as to prepare for Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "53", "text": "And they did not receive Him, because His face was as if He were going to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "54", "text": "And, seeing it , His disciples, James and John, said, \"Lord, dost Thou wish that we bid fire come down from heaven, and consume them?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "55", "text": "But, turning, He rebuked them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "56", "text": "And they went on to another village. The Cost of Discipleship ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 14:25–33 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "57", "text": "And, as they were journeying in the way, a certain one said to Him, \"I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou goest.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "58", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"The foxes have dens; and the birds of the heaven lodging-places; but the Son of Man hath not where to recline His head.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "59", "text": "And He said to another, \"Follow Me.\" But he said, \"Lord, permit me, going away, first to bury my father.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "60", "text": "And He said, \"Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but, going, publish abroad the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "61", "text": "And another said, \"I will follow Thee, Lord; but first permit me to bid adieu to those within my house.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"No one, having put his hand to a plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others; and sent them away, two and two, before His face, into every city and place, whither He Himself was about to come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And He said to them, \"The harvest, indeed, is great, but the laborers few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He urge forth laborers into His harvest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Go your ways; behold, I am sending you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals; and salute no one by the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And, if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but, if not, it will return to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And in the same house abide, eating and drinking the things supplied by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "and heal the sick therein, and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God has come near to you.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, going forth into the streets thereof, say,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "'Even the dust from your city, that cleaves to our feet, we wipe off against you; nevertheless, know this, that the Kingdom of God has come nigh.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "I say to you, it will be more tolerable 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 you, Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! because, if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted to Heaven? You shall be thrust down to Hades!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "\"He who hears you hears Me; and he who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects Him Who sent Me.\" The Joyful Return"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventy returned with joy, saying, \"Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Thy name!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said to them, \"I was beholding Satan fallen as lightning out of the heavens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Behold, I have given you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall in any wise harm you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice, because your names have been written in Heaven.\" Jesus’ Prayer of Thanksgiving ( Matthew 11:25–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "In that same hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit, and said, \"I thank Thee, O Father Lord of Heaven and earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes: yea, Father, because it was well-pleasing in Thy sight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "\"All things were delivered up to Me by My Father; and no one knows Who the Son is, but the Father; and Who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son purposeth to reveal Him .\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And, turning to the disciples, He said, privately, \"Happy the eyes that behold what ye are beholding!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "for I say to you, that many prophets and kings desired to see what ye are beholding, and did not see them ; and to hear what ye are hearing, and heard them not.\" The Parable of the Good Samaritan"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, tempting Him, saying, \"Teacher, by doing what 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 do you read?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And he, answering, said, \"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And He said to him, \"You answered right; do this, and you shall live.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, \"And who is my neighbor?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said, \"A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers; who, both stripping him and inflicting blows, went away, leaving him half dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And by chance, a certain priest was going down that way; and, seeing him, he passed by on the opposite side."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And, in like manner, a Levite also, coming to the place, and seeing him , passed by on the opposite side."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "But a certain Samaritan, going on his way, came down to him; and, seeing him , he was moved with compassion;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "and, coming to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and, setting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "And, on the morrow, taking out two denaries, he gave them to the host, and said, 'Take care of him; and whatsoever you expend additional, I, when I return, will repay you.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "Which, therefore, of these three seems to you to have become neighbor of him who fell among the robbers?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And he said, \"He that dealt kindly with him.\" And Jesus said to him, \"Go, and do likewise.\" Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "Now, as they were going on their way, He entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received Him into her house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And she had a sister called Mary, who, also seated at the Lord's feet, was hearing His word."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "But Martha was being distracted about much serving; and, coming up suddenly, she said, \"Lord, carest Thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak to her, therefore, that she assist me!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "But the Lord, answering, said to her, \"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "but of one thing there is need; for Mary chose the good part, which, indeed, shall not be taken away from her.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass, as He was in a certain place praying, that, when He ceased, one 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, 'Father, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Give us day by day our daily bread;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "and forgive us our sins; for we also ourselves forgive every one indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.'\" Ask, Seek, Knock ( Matthew 7:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And He said to them, \"Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "forasmuch as a friend of mine came to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him;'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "and he from within, answering, shall say, 'Trouble me not; already the door has been shut, and my children are with me in the bed; I cannot rise and give you.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, even if he will not, rising up, give to him because of his being his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he, rousing himself, 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 who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask 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 dumb demon. And it came to pass that, when the demon went out, the dumb spake, and the multitudes marvelled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "But some of them said, \"By Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons, He is casting out the demons.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And others, tempting, were seeking of Him a sign from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, \"Every kingdom, divided against itself, is made desolate; and a house divided against a house falls."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And, if Satan also were divided against himself, how would his kingdom stand? because ye say that by Beelzebub I am casting out the demons!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "But, if I, by Beelzebub, cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "But, if I, by the finger of God, cast out the demons, then the Kingdom of God came upon you unexpectedly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "\"When the strong man , fully armed, is guarding his own court, his goods are in peace;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "but, when a stronger than he, coming upon him , overcomes him, he takes away his whole armor upon which he had relied, and distributes his spoils."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who is not gathering with Me is scattering. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Matthew 12:43–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "\"When the unclean spirit goes out from the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest; and, not finding it , it says, 'I will return into my house whence I came out.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And, coming, it finds it swept and decorated."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself; and, entering in, they make their abode there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.\" True Blessedness"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And it came to pass, as He was saying these things, that a certain woman, out of the multitude, lifting up her voice, said to Him, \"Happy the womb that carried Thee, and the breasts which Thou didst suck!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "But He said, \"Yea, rather, happy are those who hear the word of God, and keep it!\" The Sign of Jonah ( Matthew 12:38–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And as the multitudes were gathering together to Him, He began to say, \"This generation is an evil generation: it is seeking a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, except the sign of Jonah."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For, as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "\"The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, something more than Solomon is here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "\"The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, something more than Jonah is here. The Lamp of the Body ( Matthew 6:22–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "\"No one, having lighted a lamp, puts it in a cellar, or under a measure, but on a lamp-stand, that those who enter may see the light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light; but, when it is evil, your body also is dark."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Take heed, therefore, lest the light in you be darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "If, therefore, your whole body be full of light, not having any part dark, it shall be wholly light, as when the lamp, with its bright shining, illuminates you.\" Woes to Pharisees and Experts in the Law ( Matthew 23:1–36 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "Now, as He spake, a Pharisee asks Him to dine with him; and, entering, He reclined at table ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "And the Pharisee, seeing it , marvelled that He was not first immersed before breakfast."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "But the Lord said to him, \"Now ye, the Pharisees, cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Senseless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "But give as alms the things within; and, behold, all things are clean to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "\"But woe to you Pharisees! because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb; but ye pass by judgment and the love of God. Now these things it was needful to do, and not to leave those undone."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "\"Woe to you Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "Woe to you! because ye are as the unobserved tombs; and the men, walking over them, know it not.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "And one of the lawyers, answering, says to Him, \"Teacher, in saying these things, Thou insultest us also!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "And He said, \"Woe to you lawyers, also! because ye burden men with burdens hard to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "\"Woe to you! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "Consequently, ye are witnesses, and consent to the works of your fathers; because they, indeed, killed them, and ye build their tombs ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "On this account also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them will they slay, and some will they persecute;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the founding of the world, may be required of this generation?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the house?yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "\"Woe to you lawyers; because ye took away the Key of Knowledge; ye yourselves entered not in, and those who were entering ye hindered.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "And, when He went forth thence, the scribes and Pharisees began vehemently to press upon Him , and to urge Him to speak concerning many things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "lying in wait for Him, to catch something out of His mouth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "In the meantime, the vast multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread one upon another, He began to say to His disciples, first, \"Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "But nothing has been covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Wherefore, whatsoever ye said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and what ye spake in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. Fear God Alone ( Matthew 10:26–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "\"And I say to you, my friends, be not frightened by those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "but I will show you Whom ye should fear; fear Him Who, after killing, has authority to cast into Hell; yea, I say to you, fear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "\"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? and one of them is not forgotten before God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered; fear not, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Confessing Christ ( Matthew 10:32–33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "\"And I say to you, every one who shall confess Me before men, him will the Son of Man confess before the angels of God;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "but he who denied Me before men shall be denied before the angels 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 forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And, when they bring you in before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say.\" The Parable of the Rich Fool"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And one out of the multitude said to Him, \"Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "But He said to him, \"Man, who appointed Me a judge or a divider over you?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, \"Take heed, and guard yourselves from all covetousness; because one's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And He spake a parable to them, saying, \"A certain rich man's field yielded bountifully;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "and he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have not where to store my fruits?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, 'This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there will I store all my grain and my goods."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "But God said to him, 'Senseless one! this night they require your soul of you; and the things you prepared, whose shall they be?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "So is he who is laying up treasure for himself, and is 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, be not anxious for your soul, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "for the soul is more than the food; and the body, than the clothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "\"Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them! Of how much more value are ye than the birds!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "\"And who of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to his stature?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If, therefore, ye cannot do the least thing, why are ye anxious about the rest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and I say to you, even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed as one of these!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Now, if God so clotheth the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into an oven, how much more shall He clothe you, O ye of little faith!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "And seek ye not what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink; nor be troubled with anxiety;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "for after all these things are the nations of the world seeking; and your Father knoweth that ye need these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "But seek ye His Kingdom, and these things shall be added to you. Treasures in Heaven ( Matthew 6:19–21 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "\"Fear not, little flock; because your Father delighted to give you the Kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Sell what ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses that grow not old, a treasure unfailing in Heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 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 lamps burning;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "and yourselves like men waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may straightway open to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "Happy are those servants, whom their lord, when coming, shall find watching! Verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them recline; and, coming near, he will serve them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And, if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, happy are they!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "But know this, that, if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "Be ye also ready; because at an hour ye think not the Son of Man cometh.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And Peter said, \"Lord, speakest Thou this parable to us, or to all?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And the Lord said, \"Who, then, is the faithful steward, the wise one, whom his lord will appoint over his household to give the portion of food in due season?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "Happy that servant, whom his lord, when he comes, shall find so doing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Of a truth I say to you, that he will appoint him over all his goods."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "the lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not expecting him , and in an hour which he knows not, and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And that servant who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes ;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "but he who knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to whomsoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whomsoever they committed much, of him they will ask the more. Not Peace but Division ( Micah 7:1–6 ; Matthew 10:34–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "\"I came to cast fire on the earth; and what wish I, if it were already kindled?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "But I have an immersion to be immersed with ; and how am I constrained until it be accomplished!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "51", "text": "Think ye that I came to give peace in the earth? I tell you, nay, but rather division."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "52", "text": "For from this time forth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "53", "text": "they will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against the mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against the 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 multitudes also, \"When ye see a cloud rising in the west, straightway ye say 'A shower is coming!' and so it happens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "55", "text": "And, when ye see a south wind blowing, ye say, 'There will be scorching heat!' and it comes to pass."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "56", "text": "Hypocrites! Ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and of the heavens but how is it ye know not how to interpret this time? Reconciling with an Adversary ( Matthew 5:21–26 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "57", "text": "And why even of yourselves do ye not judge what is right?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "58", "text": "For, as you are going with your adversary before the ruler, on the way give diligence to be released from him; lest he draw you to the judge, and the judge shall deliver you to the exactor, and the exactor shall cast you into prison."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "59", "text": "I tell you, you will in no wise come out thence, till you shall pay even the last mite.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And there were some present, at that very season, who reported to Him concerning the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And, answering, He said to them, \"Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "I tell you, nay; but, unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, suppose ye that they were offenders above all the men dwelling in Jerusalem?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "I tell you, nay; but, unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.\" The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And He spake this parable: \"A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And he said to the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it down; why does it also make the land useless?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "But he, answering, says to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, until I dig about it, and cast in fertilizers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "And if, indeed, it bear fruit for the future, well ; but, if not, you shall cut it down.'\" Jesus Heals a Disabled Woman"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And, behold, a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and wholly unable to raise herself up."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus, seeing her, called and said to her, \"Woman, you have been loosed from your infirmity.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and was glorifying God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "But the synagogue-ruler, answering, (being much displeased that Jesus healed her on the sabbath), said to the multitude, \"There are six days in which it behooves us to work; in these, therefore, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath day.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Lord answered him, and said, \"Hypocrites! does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stall; and, leading it away, water it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And was it not right that this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound, lo, eighteen years, should have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And, when He said these things, all those opposing Him were being put to shame, and all the multitude were rejoicing because of all the glorious things which were being 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 grain of mustard seed, which a man, taking, cast into his own garden; and it grew, and became a tree; and the birds of the heaven lodged in its branches.\" 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, taking, hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.\" The Narrow Door ( Matthew 7:13–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And He was journeying through the cities and villages, teaching, and making His way to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And a certain one said, \" Are there few who are saved?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said to them, \"Strive to enter in through the narrow door; because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "When the Householder rises and shuts the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us!' and He, answering, shall say to you, 'I know you not, whence ye are;'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "then ye will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Thy presence, and Thou didst teach in our streets.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And He will say, 'I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of unrighteousness.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust forth without."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And they will come from the east and west, and from the north and south, and shall recline at table in the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "And, behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.\" Lament over Jerusalem ( Matthew 23:37–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "In that very hour, there came certain Pharisees, saying to Him, \"Go out, and journey hence; because Herod is wishing to kill Thee.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And He said to them, \"Going your way, tell this fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons, and perfect cures, to-day and to-morrow; and on the third day I am made perfect."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "But yet I must go on My way to-day, and to-morrow, and the following day ; because it is not possible that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her; how often I wished to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is abandoned to you!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "But I say to you, ye shall in no wise see Me, until ye shall say, 'Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass, when He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And, behold, there was before Him a certain man who had the dropsy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And, answering, Jesus spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, \"Is it lawful on the sabbath to heal or not?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "But they were silent. And, taking hold of him , He healed him, and let him go;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "and He said to them, \"Who of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a well, and he will not straight-way draw him up on a sabbath day?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were not able to return an answer to these things. The Parable of the Guests"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And He spake a parable to those who were bidden, when He observed how they were choosing out the first seats; saying to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "\"When you are bidden by any one to a marriage feast, sit not on the first seat, lest possibly a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "and he who bade you and him, coming, shall say to you, 'Give place to this man;' and then you shall, with shame, begin to occupy the lowest place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "But, when you are invited, going, sit in the lowest place, that, when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher;' then you will have glory in the presence of all who are reclining at table with you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "because every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And He said to him also who had invited him, \"When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, nor your kindred, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "but, when you make a feast, call the poor, maimed, lame, blind;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "and happy shall you be; because they have not wherewith to recompense you; for recompense will be made to you in the resurrection of the righteous.\" The Parable of the Banquet ( Matthew 22:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And one of those reclining with Him , hearing these things, said to Him, \"happy is he who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "But He said to him, \"A certain man was making a great supper, and invited many."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And he sent forth his servant, at the hour of the supper, to say to those invited, 'Come; because all things are now ready.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "\"And they all, with one consent , began to make excuse. The first said to him, 'I bought a field, and I must go out to see it; I pray you, have me excused.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And another said, 'I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to prove them; I pray you, have me excused.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And another said, 'I married a wife; and, therefore, I cannot come.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "\"And, coming near, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then the householder, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in here the poor, and maimed, and blind, and lame.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And the servant said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and still there is room.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And the lord said to the servant, 'Go forth into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "for I say to you, that no one of those men who have been invited 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": "Now there were journeying with Him great multitudes; and, turning, He said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "\"If any one comes to Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not, first, sitting down, calculate the expense, whether he has enough for its completion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "lest, perhaps, having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish it , all who behold begin to mock him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "\"Or what king, going on to engage another king in war, does not, sitting down, first take counsel, whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And, if not by any means, while he is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he asks conditions of peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "\"So, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own goods, cannot be My disciple. Good Salt ( Matthew 5:13–16 ; Mark 9:49–50 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Salt, therefore, is good; but if even the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "It is fit neither for the land nor for manure: they throw it without. He that has ears to hear, let him hear!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Now all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And both the scribes and the Pharisees were murmuring, saying, \"This Man receiveth sinners and eateth with them!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And He spake to them this parable, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "\"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, does not leave behind the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost one, until he finds it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And, finding it , he places it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "and, coming to his house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep, which was lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "I say to you, that so there will be joy in Heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance. The Parable of the Lost Coin"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "\"Or what woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently, till she finds it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And, having found it, she calls together her female friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me; because I found the piece which I lost!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "So, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.\" The Parable of the Prodigal Son"}
{"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 said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me.' And he divided to them his living."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And, not many days after, gathering all things together, the younger son went abroad into a far country, and there wasted his estate, living riotously."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when he spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And, going his way, he attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And he was longing to be filled with the pods which the swine were eating; and no one was giving to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "But, coming to himself, he said, 'How many hired servants of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I am perishing here with hunger!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Arising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I sinned against Heaven, and before you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And, arising, he came to his father. But, while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion; and, running, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And the son said to the father, 'Father, I sinned against Heaven, and before you; no longer am I worthy to be called your son!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly bring forth a robe, the best, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "and bring ye the fatted calf, kill it ; and, eating, let us be merry;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "because this my son was dead, and came to life again; had been lost, and was found.' And they began to be merry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "\"Now his elder son was in a field; and as, in coming, he drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And, calling to him one of the young men, he inquired of him, what these things might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said to him, 'Your brother has come; and your father killed the fatted calf, because he received him in sound health.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "But he was angry, and was not willing to go in; but his father, coming out, kept entreating him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "But he, answering, said to his father, 'Behold, so many years do I serve you; and, at no time, did I transgress a command of yours; and you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "But, when your son?this one who devoured your living with harlots?came, you killed for him the fatted calf!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to him, 'Child, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "But it was meet to make merry, and rejoice; because this your brother was dead, and came to life again; and had been lost, and was found.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And He said also to His disciples, \"There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused to him as squandering his goods."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And, calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear of you? Render the account of your stewardship; for you can be no longer steward.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the steward said in himself, 'What shall I do? because my lord takes away the stewardship from me! To dig, I have not strength; to beg, I am ashamed!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "I resolved what to do; that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And, calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my lord?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your accounts, and, sitting down, quickly write, Fifty.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "After that he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He says to him, 'Take your accounts, and write, Four score.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness, because he acted prudently; because the sons of this age are more prudent toward their own generation, than the sons of light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting tabernacles."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous in much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "If, therefore, ye were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And, if ye were not faithful in that which is another's, who will give to you your own?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "No domestic can serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold 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, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were openly mocking Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, \"Ye are those who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "\"The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is proclaimed, and every one presses into it by force!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "\"Every one who puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband, commits adultery. The Rich Man and Lazarus ( John 5:39–47 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "\"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, had been laid at his gate, full of sores,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "and desiring to be fed with the crumbs falling from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "and in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "And, crying, he said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; because I am in anguish in this flame!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that, in your lifetime, you received in full your good things, and Lazarus, likewise, evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And, in all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed; so that those wishing to cross from hence to you cannot; nor do they pass from thence to us.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said, 'I pray you, therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "for I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "But Abraham says, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "But he said, 'Nay, father Abraham; but, if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "But he said to him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rose from the dead.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And He said to His disciples, \"It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe to him through whom they come!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "It were profitable for him, if a millstone were placed about his neck, and he thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and, if he repents, forgive him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And, if he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times turns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him.\" The Power of Faith ( Matthew 17:19–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And the apostles said to the Lord, \"Increase our faith.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, \"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "But who is there of you, having a servant plowing, or tending sheep, that will say to him, having come in from the field, 'Coming straightway, recline at table ;'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "and will not rather say to him, 'Make ready wherewith I may sup; and, having girded yourself, serve me, until I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "Does he thank the servant, because he did the things that were commanded?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "So also ye, when ye do all the things that were commanded you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done what it was our duty to do.' The Ten Lepers"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And it came to pass, when He was journeying to Jerusalem, that He was passing through the midst of Samaria and Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And, as He was entering into a certain village, there met Him ten leprous men, who stood afar off;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "and they lifted up their voice, saying, \"Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when He saw them, He said to them, \"Going your way , show yourselves to the priests.\" And it came to pass that, as they went, they were cleansed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And one of them, seeing that he was cleansed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "and fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him; and he was a Samaritan."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus, answering, said, \"Were not the ten cleansed? Where are the nine?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "Were none found, returning to give glory to God, except this stranger?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And He said to him, \"Arising, go on your way; your faith has made you whole.\" The Coming of the Kingdom"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And being asked by the Pharisees, when the Kingdom of God is coming, He answered them, and said, \"The Kingdom of God comes not with observation;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "nor will they say, 'Lo, here!' or, 'Lo, there!' for, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And He said to the disciples, \"There will come days, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye will not see it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "And they will say to you, 'Lo, there!' or \"Lo, here!' go not away, nor follow after them ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "For, as the lightning, flashing out of one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall be the Son of Man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "But first He must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "\"And, as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "Likewise, also, as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "but on the day on which Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "after the same manner shall it be in the day the Son of Man is revealed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "\"In that day let him who shall be on the housetop and his goods in the house not come down to take them away: and let him who is in the field likewise not return back."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "Remember Lot's wife."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "Whosoever shall seek to gain his soul shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose it, will preserve it ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "I say to you, in that night there will be two men on one bed; the one will be taken, and the other will be left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "35", "text": "There will be two women grinding together; the one will be taken, and the other will be left.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "36", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "37", "text": "And, answering, they say to Him, \"Where, Lord?\" and He said to them, \"Where the body is , there will the eagles also be gathered together.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And He spake a parable to them, to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, \"There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, nor regarded man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And there was a widow in that city; and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Avenge me of my adversary.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he would not for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor regard man;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "yet, because this widow occasions me trouble, I will avenge her, lest, by her persistent coming, she wear me out.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, \"Hear what the judge of unrighteousness says."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And will not God avenge His elect, who are crying to Him day and night, and He is long suffering over them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, will the Son of Man, when He cometh, find the faith on the earth?\" The Pharisee and the Tax Collector"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And He spake also this parable to some who had trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "The Pharisee, having taken his stand, was praying these things with himself: 'God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-collector!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "I fast twice on the Sabbath; I give a tenth of all that I acquire.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "\"But the tax-collector, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was smiting his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "I say to you, this man went down justified to his house, rather than the other; because every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted.\" Jesus Blesses the Children ( Matthew 19:13–15 ; Mark 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And they were bringing to Him their babes, also, that He might touch them; but the disciples, seeing it, were rebuking them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "But Jesus called them to Him , saying, \"Suffer the little children to come to Me, and forbid them not; for to such belongs the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Verily I say to you, whosoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.\" 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, by doing what shall I inherit eternal life?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Why do you call Me good? No one is good, but One?God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "You know the commandments, 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not kill,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said, \"All these I observed from my youth.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus, hearing it said to him, \"Yet one thing is lacking to you; sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven, and come, follow Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And, when he heard these things, he became very sorrowful; for he was exceedingly rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus, seeing him, said, \"With what difficulty do those having riches enter into the Kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "for it is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "And those hearing it said, \"And who can be saved?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "But He said, \"The things impossible with men are possible with God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter said, \"Behold, having left our possessions, we followed Thee.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to them, \"Verily I say to you there is no one who left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children for the sake of the Kingdom of God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the coming age 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 aside, He said to them, \"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and all the things, written through the prophets respecting the Son of Man, will be accomplished;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "for He will be delivered up to the gentiles, and will be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "and they will scourge Him, and kill Him; and, on the third day, He will rise again.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And they understood none of these things; and this saying was hidden from them, and they were not understanding the things being said. Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar ( Matthew 20:29–34 ; Mark 10:46–52 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "And it came to pass, when He was drawing near to Jericho, that a certain blind man was sitting by the wayside, begging."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "And, hearing a multitude passing along, he was inquiring what this might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "And they told him, that Jesus the Nazarene was passing by."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "And he cried, saying, \"Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "And those going before were rebuking him, that he should be silent; but he kept crying out much more, \"Son of David, have mercy on me!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "And Jesus, standing still, commanded that he be brought to Him; and, when he drew near, He asked him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "41", "text": "\"What do you wish that I should do for you?\" And he said, \"Lord, that I may receive sight.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Receive sight; your faith has made you whole.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "43", "text": "And instantly he received sight, and was following Him, glorifying God. And all the people, seeing it , gave praise to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And, having entered, He was passing through Jericho;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "and, behold, a man, called by name Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax-collector; and he was rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And he was seeking to see Jesus, Who He was; and was not able on account of the multitude; because he was small in stature."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And, running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see Him; because He was about to pass along that way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And, when He came to the place, Jesus, looking up, said to him, \"Zacchaeus, hastening, come down; for to-day I must abide in your house.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And, hastening, he came down, and received Him joyfully."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "And, seeing it , they were all murmuring, saying, \"He went in to be guest with a sinful man!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And, standing, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, \"Behold, the half of my goods, Lord, I give to the poor; and, if I wrongfully exacted anything from any one, I restore four-fold.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"To-day salvation came to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost.\" The Parable of the Ten Minas ( Matthew 25:14–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And, as they were hearing these things, adding, He spake a parable, because He was nigh to Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was about immediately to appear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "He said, therefore, \"A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And, calling ten servants of his, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, 'Do business till I come.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "But his citizens were hating him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, 'We do not wish this man to be king over us.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And it came to pass, when he came back, having received the kingdom, that he commanded the servants to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they accomplished in business."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "\"And the first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your pound gained ten pounds.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "And the second came, saying, 'Lord, your pound gained five pounds.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And he said also to this man, 'Be thou also over five cities.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And the other came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your pound which I had lying away in a napkin;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "for I feared you, because you are a harsh man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "He says to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, O evil servant! You knew that I am a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping where I did not sow;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "and wherefore did you not put my money in bank; and I, at my coming, would have exacted it with interest.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And he said to those standing by, 'Take away from him the pound, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And they said, 'Lord, he has ten pounds.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "'I say to you that to every one who has shall be given; but from him who has not shall be taken away even that which he has."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "But, these my enemies, who did not wish me to be king over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'\" The Triumphal Entry ( Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; John 12:12–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And, having said these things, He was journeying on before, going up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And it came to pass that, as He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "saying, \"Go your way into the village over against you , in which as ye are entering, ye will find a colt tied, on which no man ever sat; and, having loosed him, bring him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And, if any one ask you, 'Why do ye loose him?' thus shall ye say, 'Because the Lord hath need of him.'\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "And those sent, having gone away, found even as He said to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And, as they were loosing the colt, his owners said to them, \"Why loose ye the colt?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "And they said, The Lord hath need of him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And they led him to Jesus; and, having thrown their garments upon the colt, they sat Jesus thereon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "And, as He was going forward, they were spreading their garments in the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And, as He was already drawing nigh to the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples, rejoicing, began to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they saw;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "saying, \"Blessed is the King Who is coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven, and glory in the highest!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to Him, \"Teacher, rebuke Thy disciples!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "And, answering, He said, \"I tell you that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!\" Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And, when He came near, seeing the city, He wept over it,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "saying, \"If you knew, in this your day?even you?the things pertaining to peace! but just now were they hid from your eyes!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "43", "text": "Because the days will come upon you, when your enemies will cast a rampart about you, and compass you round, and hem you in on all sides;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "44", "text": "and they will dash you to the ground, and your children within you; and shall not leave in you a stone upon a stone; because you knew not the season of your visitation.\" 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 entered into the temple, He began to cast out those who sold;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "46", "text": "saying to them, \"It has been written, 'And My house shall be a house of prayer;' but ye made it a den of robbers.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "47", "text": "And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the high priests and the scribes and the chief men of the people were seeking to destroy Him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "48", "text": "and they were not finding anything they could do; for the people were all hanging upon Him, listening."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass, on one of the days, as He was teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming the Gospel, that there came upon Him the high priests and the scribes with the elders,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "and spake, saying to Him, \"Tell us by what authority Thou art doing these things, or who gave Thee this authority?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And, answering, He said to them, \"I, too, will ask you a question; and tell Me:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "The immersion of John, was it from Heaven, or of men?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And they reasoned together with themselves, saying, \"If we say, 'From Heaven,' He will say, 'Why did ye not believe him?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "and if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And they answered that they knew not whence it was ;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "and Jesus said to them, \"Neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.\" 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 speak to the people this parable: \"A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And, at the season, he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen, beating him , sent him away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "\"And he seat still another servant: and him also, having beaten and dishonored, they sent away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "\"And he sent still a third; and they, having wounded this one, 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 son, the beloved; perhaps they will reverence him.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "\"But, seeing him, the husbandmen were reasoning one with another, saying, 'This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And, having thrust him forth out of the vineyard, they slew him . What, therefore, will the lord of the vineyard do to them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others.\" And, having heard it , they said, \"May it not be!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And He, looking upon them, said, \"What, then, is this that has been written? 'A stone which the builders rejected, the same became a head of the corner.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "'Every one who falls on that stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust!' Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Mark 12:13–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "And the scribes and the high priests sought to lay hands on Him in that very hour; and they feared the people; for they knew that He spake the parable against them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And, watching Him , they sent forth spies, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of His speech, so as to deliver Him up to the rule and the authority of the governor."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And they asked Him, saying, \"Teacher, we know that Thou sayest and teachest rightly, and regardest no person, but teachest the way of God in truth."}
{"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": "But, perceiving their craftiness, He said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "\"Show Me a denary. Whose image and inscription has it ?\" And, answering; they said, \"Caesar's.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, \"Then, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were not able to lay hold of any saying of His before the people; and, marvelling 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 some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, coming near, asked Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "saying, \"Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If any one's brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "There were, therefore, seven brothers; and the first, taking a wife, died childless."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And the second, and the third, took her;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "and, in like manner also, the seven left no children, and died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "At last the woman also died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of them does the woman become? for the seven had her as wife.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said to them, \"The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the resurrection from 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 equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the 'Bush,' when he calls the Lord 'The God of Abraham the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "Now He is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "39", "text": "And some of the scribes, answering, said, \"Teacher, Thou spakest well;\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "40", "text": "for no longer were they daring to question Him. 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 that the Christ is David's Son?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "42", "text": "For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "43", "text": "until I make Thy enemies a footstool of Thy feet.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "44", "text": "David, therefore, calls Him Lord; and how is He his Son?\" Beware of the Scribes ( Mark 12:38–40 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "45", "text": "And, while all the people were hearing, He said to the disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "46", "text": "\"Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at feasts;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "47", "text": "who devour the houses of widows; and, for a pretense, make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And, looking up, He saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And He saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And He said, \"Truly I say to you, this poor widow cast in more than they all;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "for all these, out of their superabundance, cast into the gifts; but she, out of her poverty, cast in all the living that she had.\" Temple Destruction and Other Signs ( Matthew 24:1–8 ; Mark 13:1–8 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And, as some were speaking about the temple, \"With what beautiful stones and offerings it has been adorned,\" He said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "\"As to these things which ye are looking upon, the days will come, in which there will not be left here a stone upon a stone, which will not be thrown down.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And they asked Him, saying, \"Teacher, when, therefore, will these things be, and what is the sign, when all these things are about to come to pass?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And He said, \"Take heed that ye be not led astray; for many will come in My name, saying, 'I am He ,' and, 'The season has drawn near!' Go not after them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And, when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified; for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not straight-way.\" Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Mark 13:9–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Then He said to them, \"Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "and there will be great earthquakes, and, in various places, famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And, before all these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up into the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for My name's sake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "It shall result to you for a testimony."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "Settle it , therefore, in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "for I will give you a mouth, and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or gainsay."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "But ye will be delivered up even by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends; and they will put some of you to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And ye will be hated by all for My name's sake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And a hair of your head shall in no wise 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": "\"But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed by armies, then know that her desolation has drawn near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Then let those in Judaea flee into the mountains; and let those in the midst of it depart; and let not those in the country enter therein;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "because these are days of vengeance, that all the things written may be fulfilled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "Woe to the women with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath to this people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led away captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by gentiles, until the times of the gentiles are fulfilled. The Return of the Son of Man ( Matthew 24:26–31 ; Mark 13:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And there will be signs in sun, and moon, and stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity for the roaring of the sea and billows;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "men fainting for fear and for expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And then will they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "And, when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption is drawing 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 a parable to them: \"Behold the fig tree and all the trees;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "when they now shoot forth, beholding it, ye know of yourselves that already the summer is near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "So also ye, when ye see these things coming to pass, know that the Kingdom of God is near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "Verily I say to you, this generation will in no wise pass away, till all come to pass."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass away; but My words shall in no wise pass away. Be Watchful for the Day"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "\"But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony and drunkenness, and anxieties pertaining to life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "for so it will come upon all those dwelling upon the face of all the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "But watch ye at every season, praying that ye may have full strength to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And He was, during the days, in the temple, teaching; and, during the nights, going forth, He was wont to lodge in the mount which is called Olives."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "And all the people were coming to Him early in the morning, in the temple, to hear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was drawing near;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "and the high priests and scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were fearing the people. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Matthew 26:14–16 ; Mark 14:10–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "and, departing, he consulted with the high priests and captains, how he might deliver Him up to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he agreed, and was seeking an opportunity to deliver Him up to them, in the absence of a multitude. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Mark 14:12–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And He sent Peter and John, saying, \"Going forth, make ready for us the passover, that we may eat.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And they said to Him, \"Where dost Thou wish that we make ready?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And He said to them, \"Behold, when ye have entered into the city, there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house into which he enters."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to you, 'Where is the guest-chamber, where I may eat the passover with My disciples?'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And he will show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "And, going away, they found as He had said to them; and they made ready the passover. 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 the hour came, He reclined at table , and His apostles with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, \"With desire I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "for I say to you, I will in no wise eat it, until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And, having taken a cup, and giving thanks, He said, \"Take this, and share it among yourselves;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "for I say to you, that I will in no wise drink, henceforth, of the product of the vine, until the Kingdom of God shall come.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And, taking bread, and giving thanks, He broke, and gave to them, saying, \"This is My body, which is given for you; this do in remembrance of Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And the cup, in like manner, after supper, saying \"this cup is the new covenant in My blood, which, in your behalf, is being poured out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "But, behold, the hand of him who is betraying Me is with Me on the table;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "because the Son of Man, indeed, is going according as it has been determined; but woe to that man through whom He is betrayed!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And they began to inquire together among themselves, which of them it was, who was about to perpetrate this thing. Who Is the Greatest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "And there arose also a contention among them as to which of them seemed to be greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "But He said to them, \"The kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over them; and those having authority over them are called 'Benefactors.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "But ye are not so; but let the greater among you become as the younger, and he who leads as he who serves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "For who is greater, he who reclines at table , or he who serves? Is not he who reclines? But I am in the midst of you as One Who serveth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "But ye are they who have remained with Me in my temptations;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "and I appoint to you, as My Father appointed to Me, a Kingdom,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "that ye may eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom; and ye shall sit on 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": "\"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked for you, to sift you as the wheat;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "but I prayed for you, that your faith fail not; and, when once you have turned again, establish your brethren.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And he said to Him, \"Lord, I am ready to go with Thee, both to prison and to death.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "And He said, \"I tell you, Peter, a cock will not crow to-day, until you thrice deny that you know Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "And He said to them, \"When I sent you forth without purse, and wallet, and sandals, did ye lack anything?\" And they said, \"Nothing.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "And He said to them, \"But now let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a wallet; and let him who has not a sword sell his garment, and buy one ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "For I say to you, that that which has been written must be accomplished in Me, 'And He was reckoned with lawless ones;' for that which relates to Me has an end.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "And they said, \"Lord, behold, here are two swords.\" 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, going out, He went, according to His custom, to the mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "and, having come to the place, He said to them, \"Pray, that ye enter not into temptation.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "And He was parted from them about a stone's throw; and, kneeling down, He prayed,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "saying, \"Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Thine, be done.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "And there appeared to Him an angel from Heaven, strengthening Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "And, being in an agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became, as it were, large drops of blood falling down upon the ground!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "And, arising from prayer, and coming to the disciples, He found them sleeping for grief,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "and said to them, \"Why are ye sleeping? Rising up, pray, that ye enter not 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": "While He was yet speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them; and he drew near to Jesus to kiss Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "48", "text": "And Jesus said to him, \"Judas, do ye betray the Son of Man with a kiss?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "49", "text": "And those about Him, seeing what was about to follow, said, \"Lord, shall we smite with the sword?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "50", "text": "And a certain one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his right ear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "51", "text": "But Jesus, answering, said, \"Suffer ye thus far.\" And, touching the ear, He healed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to the high priests and captains of the temple and elders, who came up against Him, \"Did ye come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "53", "text": "When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against 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, seizing Him, they led Him away, and brought Him into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following afar off."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "55", "text": "And, they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "56", "text": "And a certain maid, seeing him sitting by the light, and looking intently at him, said, \"This man also was with Him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "57", "text": "But he denied, saying, \"I do not know Him, woman.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "58", "text": "And, after a little while, another, seeing him, said, \"You also are one of them.\" But Peter said, \"Man, I am not.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "59", "text": "And, about one hour having intervened, a certain other was confidently insisting, saying, \"Of a truth this one also was with Him; for he also is a Galilaean.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "60", "text": "But Peter said, \"Man, I know not what you are saying.\" And immediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crowed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "61", "text": "And, turning, the Lord looked upon Peter: and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He said to him, \"Before a cock shall crow to-day, you will thrice deny Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "62", "text": "And, going forth without, he wept bitterly. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Matthew 27:27–31 ; Mark 15:16–20 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "63", "text": "And the men who were holding Jesus were mocking Him, beating Him ;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "64", "text": "and, blindfolding Him, they were questioning Him, saying, \"Prophesy who he is that smote Thee.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "65", "text": "And many other things they said against Him, reviling 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 eldership of the people was gathered together, both high priests and scribes; and they led Him away into their Sanhedrin, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "67", "text": "\"If Thou art the Christ, tell us.\" But He said to them, \"If I tell you, ye will not believe."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "68", "text": "And, if I question you, ye will not answer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "69", "text": "But henceforth the Son of Man will be seated at 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 do we still have need of testimony? for we ourselves heard from His own mouth!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led Him before Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And they began to accuse Him, saying, \"We found This Man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ a King!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "And Pilate asked Him, saying, \"Art Thou the King of the Jews?\" And He, answering, said to him, \"You say it .\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate said to the high priests and to the multitudes, \"I find no fault in This Man.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "But they were the more urgent, saying, \"He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even to this place.\" Jesus before Herod"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "But Pilate, hearing it , asked if the Man were a Galilaean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And, learning that He was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him up to Herod, who also was in Jerusalem in these days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "Now Herod, seeing Jesus, rejoiced exceedingly; for he was wishing for a long time to see Him, because he had heard concerning Him; and he was hoping to see some sign wrought by Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And he kept questioning Him in many words; but He answered him nothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And the high priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And Herod with his soldiers, having set Him at naught, and having mocked Him, having thrown over Him a gorgeous robe, sent Him back to Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other on that day; for before they were at enmity between themselves. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Mark 15:6–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And Pilate, calling together the high priests and the rulers and the people,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "said to them, \"Ye brought to me This Man as One perverting the people and, behold, I, having examined Him before you, found no fault in This Man regarding those things of which ye accuse Him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "no, nor yet Herod; for he sent Him hack to us; and, behold, nothing worthy of death has been done by Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Chastising Him , therefore, I will release Him\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "But they cried out again with all the multitude, saying, \"Away with Him! and release to us Barabbas!\"?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "one who, indeed, because of a certain insurrection made in the city, and of murder, was cast into prison."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "And again Pilate called to them, wishing to release Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "But they kept calling out, saying, \"Crucify, crucify Him!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "But he said to them the third time, \"Why, what evil did This Man do? I found in Him nothing worthy of death. Chastising Him, therefore, I will release Him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "But they were urgent, with loud voices, asking that He might be crucified. And their voices prevailed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "And Pilate gave judgment that their request should be executed;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "and he released him who, because of insurrection and murder, had been cast into prison, for whom they were asking; but he delivered up Jesus to their will. The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "And, when they led Him away, laying hold of one Simon a Cyrenian, coming from the country, they laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "And there was following Him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented Him"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "But, turning 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 will say, 'Happy the barren, and the wombs which bore not, and breasts that gave not suck.'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "Then will they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us;' and to the hills, 'Cover us;'"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "for, if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And there were being led two others also, malefactors, with Him to be put to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "And, when they came to the place that is called \" The Skull,\" there they crucified Him, and the malefactors; one on the right hand, and the other on the left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said, \"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do!\" And, dividing His garments among them , they cast lots."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also were scoffing at Him, saying, \"He saved others; let Him save Himself! if This is the Christ of God, the Chosen!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "And the soldiers also were mocking Him, coming near, and offering Him vinegar,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "and saying, \"If Thou art the King of the Jews, save Thyself!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "And there was also an inscription over Him, \"THE KING OF THE JEWS, THIS!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "And one of the suspended malefactors kept reviling Him, saying, \"Art not Thou the Christ? Save Thyself and us!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "40", "text": "But the other, answering and rebuking him, said, \"Do you not fear God, seeing that you are in the same condemnation?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "41", "text": "and we, indeed, righteously; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds: but This Man did nothing amiss.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "42", "text": "And he said, \"Jesus, remember me, when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "43", "text": "And He said to him, \"Verily I say to you, \"To-day you shall be with Me in Paradise.\" The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "44", "text": "And it was already about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "45", "text": "the sun's light failing. And the veil of the temple was rent in the midst."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "46", "text": "And, crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, \"Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit.\" And, having said this, He expired."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "47", "text": "And the centurion, beholding what took place, glorified God, saying, \"Truly This was a righteous Man!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "48", "text": "And all the multitudes, coming together to this sight, viewing the things that took place, were returning, smiting their breasts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "49", "text": "And all those acquainted with Him stood afar off, and the women who followed with Him from Galilee, seeing these things. The Burial of Jesus ( 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, who was a councillor, a good and righteous man"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "51", "text": "(the same had not consented to their plan and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the Kingdom of God:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "52", "text": "the same, going to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "53", "text": "And, taking it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed Him in a tomb, hewn in a stone, where no one was yet laid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "54", "text": "And it was a day of Preparation, and a sabbath was approaching."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "55", "text": "And the women who had accompanied Him out of Galilee, following after, beheld the tomb, and how His body was laid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "56", "text": "And, returning, they prepared spices and perfumes; and, on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "But, on the first day of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they prepared."}
{"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, entering, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And it came to pass, while they were perplexed about this, behold, also two men stood near them in dazzling apparel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "And, as they became afraid, and were bowing their faces to the earth, they said to them, \"Why are ye seeking the Living among the dead?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here, but was raised. Remember how He spake to you, being yet in Galilee,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "saying, \"The Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again,\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "And they remembered His words;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "and, returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joana, and Mary the mother of James; and the rest of the women with them were telling these things to the apostles."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "And these words appeared in their view as idle talk; and they were disbelieving them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "But Peter, rising up, ran to the tomb; and, stooping down to look in, he sees the linen bandages alone, and he departed to his home , wondering at what had happened. The Road to Emmaus ( Mark 16:12–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "And, behold, two of them that very day were journeying to a village, the name of which was Emmaus, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And they were conversing with each other concerning all these things that had happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "And it came to pass, while they were conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus Himself, drawing near, was journeying with them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "but their eyes were holden that they should not recognize Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "And He said to them, \"What words are these which ye are exchanging one with another, as ye walk?\" And they stood still, with sad faces."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "And one of them, Cleopas by name, said to Him, \"Art Thou only a Stranger in Jerusalem, and knowest not the things that came to pass there in these days?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "And He said to them, \"What things?\" And they said to Him, \"The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Prophet, mighty in deed and word, before God and all the people:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "and how the high priests and our rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and crucified Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "But we were hoping that it was He Who was about to redeem Israel; yea, indeed, and besides all these things, it is now the third day since these things came to pass."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "Moreover, also, certain women of our company astonished us, having been early at the tomb;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "and, not finding His body, they came, saying that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that He was alive!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And some of those with us went away to the tomb, and found it even so as the women said; but Him they saw not.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, \"O inconsiderate and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets spake!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things, and enter into His glory?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "And, beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He thoroughly interpreted to them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning Himself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "And they drew near to the village whither they were going; and He acted as if He would go further."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "And they constrained Him, saying, \"Abide with us; because it is toward evening, and the day has already declined.\" And He went in to abide with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "And it came to pass, as He was reclining at table with them, that, taking the bread, He blessed it ; and, breaking, He was giving to them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "and their eyes were opened, and they clearly recognized Him; and He vanished from them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "And they said one to another, \"Was not our heart burning within us, as He was talking with us in the way, as He was opening the Scriptures to us!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "And, rising up that same hour, they returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together, and those with them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "saying, \"Truly the Lord arose, and appeared to Simon.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "And they were narrating the things that transpired in the way, and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( John 20:19–23 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "Now, as they were telling these things, He Himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, \"Peace be to you!\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "But, being terrified and frightened, they were supposing that they were beholding a spirit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "And He said to them, \"Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do questionings arise in your heart?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me, and see; because a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as ye behold Me having.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "And, saying this, He showed them His hands and His feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "And, while they still disbelieved for joy, and marvelled, He said to them, \"Have ye here anything to eat?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "and, taking it, He ate before them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "And He said to them, \"These are My words which I spake to you, while being yet with you: that all things must be fulfilled, that have been written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms, concerning Me.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "Then He opened their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "and He said to them, \"Thus it has been written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "Ye are witnesses of these things,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "And, behold, I send forth the promise of My Father upon you; but abide ye in the city, until 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 as far as to Bethany; and, lifting up His hands, He blessed them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "And it came to pass that, while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was borne up into Heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "52", "text": "And they, worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "53", "text": "and were continually in the temple, blessing God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "The same was in the beginning with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "All things were made through Him, and apart from Him was not even one thing made that has been made."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "In Him was Life; and the Life was the light of men."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. The Witness of John"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "The same came for a testimony, that he might testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "He was not the Light; but he came, that he might testify concerning the Light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "He was the true Light That lighteth every man coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world knew Him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "He came to His own possessions , and those who were His own received Him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those believing in His name;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word Became Flesh"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld His glory?glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "John testifies concerning Him, and has cried, saying, \"This was He of Whom I said, 'He That cometh after me hath become before me, because He was before me;'\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "because out of His fulness we all received, and grace for grace:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He declared Him. The Mission of John the Baptist ( 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 forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, \"Who are you?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, \"I am not the Christ.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they asked him, \"What then? Are you Elijah?\" And he says, \"I am not.\" \"Are you the prophet?\" And he answered, \"No.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "They said therefore, to him, \"Who are you? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say concerning yourself?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "He said, \"'I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,'\" as said Isaiah the prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And they had been sent from among the Pharisees."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And they asked him, and said to him, \"Why, then, do you immerse, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "John answered them, saying, \"I immerse in water: in your midst standeth One Whom ye know not?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "the One coming after me, the latchet of Whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "These things were done in Bethany beyond the 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": "On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, \"Behold, the Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the world!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "This is He of Whom I said, 'After me cometh a Man Who hath become before me, because 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 cause I came immersing in water.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And John testified, saying, \"I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of Heaven, and He abode upon Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And I knew Him not; but He who sent me to immerse in water, He said to me, 'Upon Whomsoever you shall see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him, the Same is He Who immerseth in the Holy Spirit.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And I have seen, and have 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 was standing, and two of his disciples;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "and, looking upon Jesus as He was walking, says, \"Behold, the Lamb of God!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And Jesus, turning and beholding them following, saith to them, \"What are ye seeking?\" They said to Him, \"Rabbi,\" (which, being translated, means Teacher), \"where abidest Thou?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "He saith to them, \"Come and ye shall see.\" They came, therefore, and saw where He was abiding, and they abode with Him that day: it was about the tenth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from 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 the Messiah,\" (which, being translated, is Christ)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "He led him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said, \"You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas,\" (which is translated Peter). Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "On the morrow, He wished to go forth into Galilee; and He findeth Philip, and saith to him, \"Follow Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, \"We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote?Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?\" Philip says to him, \"Come and see.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and He saith to him, \"Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "Nathanael says to Him, \"Whence knowest Thou me?\" Jesus answered, and said to him, \"Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "Nathaniel answered 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 you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "And He saith to him, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, ye shall see Heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And, on the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the marriage."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And, wine having fallen short, the mother of Jesus says to Him, \"They have no wine.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And He saith to her, \"Woman, what is it to Me and to you? My hour has not yet come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "His mother says to the servants, \"Whatsoever He saith to you, do.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the Jews' manner of purifying, containing, each, two or three firkins."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus saith to them, \"Fill the waterpots with water.\" And they filled them up to the brim."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And He saith to them, \"Draw out now, and bear to the ruler of the feast.\" And they bore it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calls the bridegroom,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and says to him, \"Every man sets on the good wine first; and, when they become drunken, the worse. You have kept the good wine until now!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "This beginning of His signs Jesus wrought 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, Himself, and His mother, and brothers, and His disciples; and there they abode not many days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the passover of the Jews was near; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And, having made a scourge of cords, He drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "and to those selling doves, He said, \"Take these things hence! make not My Father's house a house of merchandise!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "His disciples remembered that it had been written, \"Zeal for Thy house will eat Me up,\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "The Jews, therefore, answered and said to Him, \"What sign dost Thou show to us, seeing that Thou doest these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, \"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "The Jews, therefore, said, \"In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "But He was speaking about the temple of His body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "When, therefore, He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word that Jesus spake."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And, when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on His name, beholding His signs which He was doing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "But Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "and had no need that any one should testify concerning man; for He Himself knew what was in man,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, \"Rabbi, we know that Thou hast come, as a Teacher, from God; for no one can do the signs which Thou art doing, unless God be with Him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered, and said to him, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, unless one be born anew, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Nicodemus says to Him, \"How can a man he born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and he born?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus answered, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, unless one be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "That which has been born of the flesh is flesh: and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Marvel not that I said to you, ye must be born anew."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "The Spirit breatheth where He willeth; and you hear His voice, but know not whence He cometh, or whither He goeth: so is every one who has 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, \"Are you a teacher of Israel, and understand not these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, We speak that which We know, and testify to that which We have seen; and ye receive not Our testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "If I told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how will ye believe, if I tell you Heavenly things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And no one has ascended into Heaven, but He Who descended out of Heaven?the Son of Man [Who is in Heaven]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "that every one who believes in Him may have eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes on Him should not perish, but have eternal life;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "for God sent not His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world may be saved through Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "He that believes on Him is not judged; he that believes not has been judged already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And this is the judgment, that the Light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their works were evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For every one that practices evil hates the Light, and comes not to the Light, lest his works should be reproved;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "but he that does the truth comes to the Light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.\" John’s Testimony about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "After these things came Jesus and His disciples into the land of Judaea; and there He was tarrying with them, and immersing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And John also was immersing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there; and they were coming and being immersed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "For John had not yet been cast into prison."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "There arose, therefore, a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And they came to John, and said to him, \"Rabbi, He Who was with you beyond the Jordan, to Whom you have borne testimony, behold, He is immersing, and all are coming to Him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "John answered and said, \"A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from Heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Ye yourselves bear me testimony, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but that I have been sent before Him.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bride-groom who stands and hears him greatly rejoices because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy, therefore, has been made full."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "He must increase, but I must decrease."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "He That cometh from above is above all; he that is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; He that cometh from Heaven is above all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "What He hath seen, and what He heard, of this He bears testimony; and no man receives His testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "He that received His testimony did set his seal to it , that God is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "For He Whom God sent speaketh the words of God; for He giveth not the Spirit by measure."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "(although Jesus Himself did not immerse, but His disciples),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was necessary that He should go through Samaria."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, \"Give Me to drink.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, \"How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?\" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered and said to her, \"If you knew the Gift of God, and Who it is, That saith to you 'Give Me to drink,' you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "She says to Him, \"Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence, therefore, hast Thou the living water"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank of it, and his sons, and his cattle?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus answered and said to her, \"Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "but whosoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "The woman saith to Him, \"Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come all the way hither to draw.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "He saith to her, \"Go, call your husband, and come hither.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "The woman answered and said, \"I have no husband.\" Jesus saith to her, \"Well did you say, 'I have no husband;'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband: this you have said truly.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "The woman says to Him, \"Sir, I perceive that Thou art a Prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when ye will, neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, because salvation is from the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for, indeed, the Father seeketh such to be His worshipers."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "God is a spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "The woman says to Him, \"I know that Messiah is coming, Who is called Christ; when He cometh, He will tell us all things.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"I who speak to you am He .\" The Disciples Return and Marvel"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And upon this came His disciples: and they were wondering that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, \"What seekest Thou?\" or, \"Why talkest Thou with her?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "The woman, therefore, left her waterjar, and went away into the city, and says to the men,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "\"Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "They went forth out of the city, and were coming to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "In the meantime the disciples were entreating Him, saying, \"Rabbi, eat.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "But He said to them, \"I have food to eat that ye know not of.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "The disciples, therefore, said to one another, \"Has any one brought Him anything to eat?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus saith to them, \"My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and the harvest is coming?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and view the fields, because they are white for harvest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "For in this is the saying true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor; others have labored, and ye entered into their labor.\" Many Samaritans Believe"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him because of the word of the woman, who testified, \"He told me all that ever I did.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "When, therefore, the Samaritans came to Him, they kept asking Him to abide with them: and He abode there two days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And many more believed because of His word;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "and they said to the woman, \"Now we no longer believe because of your saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that This is, in truth, the Savior 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 the two days, He went forth thence into Galilee;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "for Jesus Himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "45", "text": "When, therefore, He came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received Him, having seen all that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "46", "text": "He came, therefore, again into Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "47", "text": "This man, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to Him, and was asking Him, that He would come down, and heal his son, for he was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "48", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to him, \"Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "49", "text": "The nobleman says to Him, \"Sir, Come down, before my child die!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"Go your way; your son lives.\" The man believed the word that Jesus spake to him, and went his way."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "51", "text": "And, as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son was living."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "52", "text": "He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to mend. They said, therefore, to him, \"Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "53", "text": "The father, therefore, knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, \"Your son lives;\" and he himself believed, and his whole house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "54", "text": "This again is a second sign that Jesus did, after having come out of Judaea into Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Now there is in Jerusalem, by the sheep-gate, a pool, which is called, in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "In these were lying a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "for an angel of the Lord went down at a certain period into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever, therefore, first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was healed of whatsoever disease he had]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And a certain man was there, who had been for thirty-eight years in his infirmity."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus, seeing this man lying, and knowing that already for a long time he had been thus , saith to him, \"Do you wish to be made well?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "The sick man answered Him, \"Sir, I have no one, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but, while I am coming, another goes down before me!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"Rise, take up your bed, and walk.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And straightway the man became well, and took up his bed, and was walking. And it was the sabbath on that day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "The Jews, therefore, said to him who had been cured, \"It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "But he answered them, \"He Who made me well, the Same said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "They asked him, \"Who is the Man That said to you, 'Take up your bed, and walk?'\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And he who was healed knew not Who it was; for Jesus withdrew, a multitude being in the place."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple. And He said to him, \"Behold, you have been made well; sin no more, lest something worse befall you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well. The Father and the Son"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And, on this account, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the sabbath."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "But He answered them, \"My Father worketh even until now, and I work.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For this cause, therefore, the Jews were seeking the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus, therefore, answered and said to them, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father doing; for whatsoever things He doeth, these also, in like manner, the Son doeth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth Him all things which He Himself doeth; and greater works than these will He show Him, that ye may marvel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "For, as the Father raiseth the dead, and maketh them alive; so also the Son maketh alive whom He willeth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "For neither doth the Father judge any one, but all judgment He hath given to the Son;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father Who sent Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "\"Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hears My word, and believes Him Who sent Me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "For, as the Father hath life in Himself, so also He gave to the Son to have life in Himself;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "Marvel not at this; because there is an hour coming, in which all who are in their tombs shall hear His voice,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "and come forth; those who did good, to the resurrection of life; but those who practiced evil, to the resurrection of judgment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "I can of Myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous; because I seek not My Own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me. Testimonies about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "If I testify concerning Myself, My testimony is not true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "There is Another Who testifieth concerning Me; and I know that the testimony which He testifieth concerning 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 the testimony I receive is not from man; but these things I say, that ye may be saved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "He was a lamp that was burning and shining; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "But I have a testimony greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given Me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing testify concerning Me, that the Father hath sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And the Father Who sent Me, He hath testified concerning Me. Ye have neither at any time heard His voice, nor seen His form."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And ye have not His word abiding in you; because Whom He sent, Him ye believe not. The Witness of Scripture ( Luke 16:19–31 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "Ye search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and these are they that testify concerning Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "and ye are not willing to come to Me, that ye may have life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "I receive not glory from men."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "I have come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and the glory which is from God only ye seek not?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom ye have set your hope."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For, if ye were believing Moses, ye would believe Me; for he wrote concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "But, if ye believe not his writings, how will ye believe My words?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things Jesus went away, beyond the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And a great multitude was following Him, because they were beholding the signs which He was doing on the sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus went up into the mountain, and was sitting there with His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus, therefore, lifting up His eyes, and seeing that a great multitude is coming to Him, saith to Philip, \"Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And this He said, proving him; for He Himself knew what He was about to do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Philip answered Him, \"Two hundred denaries worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "One of His disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "\"There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but what are these among so many?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus said, \"Make the men recline.\" Now there was much grass in the place. The men, therefore, reclined, in number about five thousand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus, therefore, took the loaves; and, having given thanks, He distributed to those reclining; and likewise of the fishes as much as they wished."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And, when they were filled, He saith to His disciples, \"Gather up the pieces that remain over, that nothing be lost.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over to those who had eaten."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "The men, therefore, seeing the sign that He did, said, \"This, truly, is the Prophet Who cometh into the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus, therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take Him by force, to make Him King, withdrew again into the mountain, Himself alone. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; Mark 6:45–52 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And, when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "and, entering into a boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum; and it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And, a strong wind blowing, the sea was being much raised."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Having rowed, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "But He saith to them, \"It is I; be not afraid.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "They were willing, therefore, to receive Him into the boat; and straightway the boat was at the land whither they were going. Jesus the Bread of Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except one, and that Jesus, entered not with His disciples into the boat, but His disciples went away alone"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "(yet there came boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given thanks):"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "when, therefore, the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And, having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, \"Rabbi, when camest Thou hither?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answered them and said, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, ye seek Me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you; for Him God the Father sealed.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "They said, therefore, \"What must we do, that we may 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 believe on Him Whom He sent.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "They said, therefore, to Him, \"What sign doest Thou, then, that we may see, and believe Thee? What doest Thou?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it has been written, 'He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.'\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to them, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread out of Heaven;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "for the Bread of God is He Who cometh down out of Heaven, and giveth life to the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "They said, therefore, to Him, \"Lord, evermore give us this bread.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus said to them, \"I am the Bread of Life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes on Me shall never thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "But I said to you, that ye have even seen Me, and do not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "All that the Father giveth to Me shall come to Me; and him who comes to Me I will in no wise cast out;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "because I have come down from Heaven, not to do My Own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that of all that He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "For this is the will of My Father, that every one who beholds the Son, and believes on Him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "The Jews, therefore, were murmuring concerning Him, because He said, \"I am the Bread that came down out of Heaven.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "And they said, \"Is not this Jesus, the Son of Joseph, Whose father and mother we know? How doth He now say, 'I have come down out of Heaven'?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "Jesus answered, and said to them, \"Murmur not among yourselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "No one can come to Me, unless the Father Who sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "It has been written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught of God.' Every one who heard from the Father, and learned, comes to Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "Not that any one has seen the Father, save Him Who is from God, He hath seen the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes 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 the manna in the wilderness, and died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "This is the Bread That cometh down out of Heaven, that one may eat thereof, and not die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "I am the Living Bread That came down out of Heaven: if any one eat of This Bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the Bread That I will give him is My flesh, for the life of the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "The Jews, therefore, were wrangling with one another, saying, \"How can This Man give us His flesh to eat?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to them, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, unless 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 that eats My flesh, and drinks 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 true food, and My blood is true drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "He that eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, abides in Me, and I in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "57", "text": "As the Living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father; so he, also, who eats Me, shall live because of Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "58", "text": "This is the Bread That came down out of Heaven. Not as the fathers ate, and died: he that eats 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": "These things He said in the synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "60", "text": "Many, therefore, of His disciples, having heard this , said, \"This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "61", "text": "But Jesus, knowing in Himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, \"Does this cause you to stumble?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "62", "text": "What , then, if ye behold the Son of Man ascending where He was before?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "63", "text": "It is the Spirit That giveth life; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "64", "text": "But there are some of you who do not believe.\" For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that believed not, and who it was that would betray Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "65", "text": "And He said, \"For this cause I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been given to him of the Father.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "66", "text": "From this time many of His disciples went 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": "Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, \"Do ye also wish to go away?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "68", "text": "Simon Peter answered Him, \"Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "69", "text": "And we have believed and know, that Thou art the Holy One of God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "70", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "71", "text": "But He was speaking of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot; for he was about to betray Him, being one of the twelve."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee: for He was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "His brethren, therefore, said to Him, \"Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that Thy disciples also may behold Thy works that Thou doest;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "for no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to he known openly. If Thou doest these things, manifest Thyself to the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For even His brethren did not believe on Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus, therefore, saith to them, \"My time is not yet present; but your time is always ready."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Go ye up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because My time has not yet been fulfilled.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And, having said these things to them, He abode in Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "But, when His brethren went up to the feast, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "The Jews, therefore, were seeking Him at the feast, and said, \"Where is He?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And there was much murmuring about Him among the multitudes: some were saying, \"He is a good Man;\" others were saying, \"Nay, but He is misleading the multitude.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "No one, however, was speaking openly concerning Him, for fear of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "But, it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and was teaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "The Jews, therefore, were marveling, saying, \"How knoweth This Man letters, having never learned!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus, therefore, answered them, and said, \"My teaching is not Mine, but His Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "If any one wills to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He Who seeketh the glory of Him Who sent Him the Same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you does the law. Why are ye seeking to kill Me?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "The multitude answered, \"Thou hast a demon: who is seeking to kill you!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus answered, and said to them, \"I did one work, and ye all marvel because of this."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, that the law of Moses be not broken, are ye angry with Me, because I made a whole man well on the sabbath?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.\" Is Jesus the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Some, therefore, of those of Jerusalem said, \"Is not This He Whom they are seeking to kill?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And, behold, He is speaking openly, and they say nothing to Him! Did the rulers ever truly know that This is the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "But as to This Man we know whence He is; but, when the Christ cometh, no one knows whence He is.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus, therefore, cried in the temple, teaching and saying, \"Ye both know Me, and know whence I am; and I have not come of Myself; but He Who sent Me is true, Whom ye know not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "I know Him; because I am from Him, and He sent Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "They were seeking, therefore, to seize Him; and no one laid his hand upon Him, because His hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "But of the multitude many believed on Him, and said, \"When the Christ shall come, will He do more signs than those which This Man did?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning Him; and the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said, \"Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to Him Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "Ye will seek Me, and will not find Me; and, where I am, ye cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, \"Where is This Man about to go, that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "What is this word that He said, 'Ye will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, ye cannot come?'\" Living Water"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "Now, on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood, and cried, saying, \"If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "He that believes on Me, as the Scripture said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "But this He spake concerning the Spirit, Whom those who believed on Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given , because Jesus was not yet glorified. Division over Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "Some of the multitude, therefore, having heard these words, said, \"Truly This is the Prophet;\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "others said, \"This is the Christ;\" but some said, \"What? doth the Christ come out of Nazareth?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "Did not the Scriptures say, that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "A division, therefore, arose in the multitude because of Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And some of them were wishing to seize Him; but no one laid hands on Him. The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "The officers, therefore, came to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, \"Why did ye not bring Him?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "The officers answered, \"Never did man speak thus!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "The Pharisees; therefore, answered them, \"Have ye also been led astray?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "Did any one of the rulers believe on Him, or of the Pharisees?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "But this multitude, who know not the law, are accursed.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "Nicodemus says to them (he who came to Him before, being one of them),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "\"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hear from him, and know what he does?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "They answered, and said to him, \"Are you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee arises no prophet.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "[And each one went to his house;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "but Jesus went to the mount of Olives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and, having sat down, He was teaching them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman taken in adultery; and, having placed her in the midst,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "they say to Him, \"Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such; what, therefore, dost Thou say?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "This they said, trying Him, that they might have whereof to accuse Him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with His finger on the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And, as they continued asking Him, He, having raised Himself up, said to them, \"Let the sinless one among you first cast a stone at her.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And, again stooping down, He was writing with His finger on the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And they, having heard it , were going out, one by one, from the eldest to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus, having lifted Himself up, said to her, \"Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "She said, \"No one, Lord.\" And Jesus said to her, \"Neither do I condemn you; go your way; henceforth 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 that follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the Light of life.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "The Pharisees, therefore, said to Him, \"Thou testifiest concerning Thyself; Thy testimony is not true.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, \"Even if I do testify concerning Myself, My testimony is true; because I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I came, or whither I go."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "But, even if I judge, My judgment is true; because I am not alone, but I and the Father Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And in your law also it has been written, 'The testimony of two men is true.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "I am One Who testify concerning Myself; and the Father, Who sent Me, testifieth concerning Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "They said, therefore, to Him, \"Where is Thy Father?\" Jesus answered, \"Ye know neither Me, nor My Father. If ye knew Me, ye would know My Father also.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "These words He spake in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "He said, therefore, again to them, \"I go away, and ye will seek Me, and will die in your sins. Whither I go, ye cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "The Jews, therefore, said, \"Will He kill Himself?\" because He said, \"Whither I go, ye cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And He said to them, \"Ye are from beneath; 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 will die in your sins; for, unless ye believe that I am He , ye will die in your sins.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "They said, therefore, to Him, \"Who art Thou?\" Jesus said to them, \"Even that which I am saying to you from the beginning."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. But He Who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "They perceived not that He was speaking to them of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said, \"When ye lift up the Son of Man, then will ye know that I am He ; and, of Myself, I do nothing, but, as the Father taught Me, I speak these things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And He Who sent Me is with Me. He hath not left Me alone; because I am always doing the things that please Him.\" The Truth Will Set You Free ( 2 John 1:4–6 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "As He spake these things, many believed on Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to those Jews who had believed on Him, \"If ye abide in My word, ye are truly My disciples;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "They answered Him, \"We are Abraham's seed, and to no one have we at any time been in bondage; how sayest Thou, 'Ye shall be made free?'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave of sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And the slave abides not in the house forever; the son abides forever."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, ye will be free indeed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; and ye, therefore, do the things which ye heard from your father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "They answered and said to Him, \"Our father is Abraham.\" Jesus saith to them, \"If ye are children of Abraham, ye are doing the works of Abraham."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "But now ye are seeking to kill Me, a Man Who hath told you the truth, which I heard from My Father: this Abraham did not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "Ye do the works of your father.\" They say to Him, \"We were not born of fornication; we have one Father?God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus said to them, \"If God were your Father, ye would love Me; for I came forth, and have come from, God; for neither have I come of Myself, but He sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "Why do ye not understand My speech? it is because ye cannot hear My word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And, because I speak the truth, ye believe Me not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "Who of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "He that is of God hears the words of God; on this account, ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.\" Before Abraham Was Born, I Am"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "The Jews answered 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 honor My Father, and ye dishonor Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "But I seek not My own glory: there is One Who seeketh and judgeth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, if any one keeps My word, he shall never see death.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "The Jews said to Him, \"Now we know that Thou hast a demon! Abraham and the prophets died; and Thou sayest, 'If any one keeps My word, he shall never taste of death!'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "Art Thou 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 glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father Who glorifieth Me, of 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 should say, I know Him not, I shall be a liar like you. But I know Him, and I keep His word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see My day; and he saw it, and was glad.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "57", "text": "The Jews, therefore, said to Him, \"Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "58", "text": "Jesus said to them, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham existed, I am.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "59", "text": "They took up stones, therefore, to cast at Him; but Jesus was concealed, and went out of the temple."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And, passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And His disciples asked Him, saying, \"Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered, \"Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "We must work the works of Him Who sent Me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Having thus spoken, He spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "and said to him, \"Go, wash in the pool of Siloam\" (which is interpreted, Sent). He went, therefore, and washed, and came seeing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "The neighbors, therefore, and those formerly beholding him, that he was a beggar, said, \"Is not this he that sits and begs?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Some said, \"This is he;\" others said , \"No, but he is like him;\" he said, \"I am he .\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "They said, therefore, to him, \"How then were your eyes opened?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "He answered, \"The Man Who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam, and wash;' having gone, therefore, and washed, I received sight.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And they said to him, \"Where is He?\" He says, I know not.\" The Pharisees Investigate the Healing"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "They bring to the Pharisees him who was once blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was a sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and anointed his eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Again, therefore, the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. And he said to them, \"He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and see.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "Some of the Pharisees, therefore, said, \"This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the sabbath.\" Others said, \"How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?\" And there was a division among them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "They say, therefore, to the blind man again, \"What do you say about Him, seeing that He opened your eyes?\" And he said, \"He is a Prophet.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him, that he was blind, and received sight, until they called the parents of him who received sight,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "and asked them, \"Is this your son, who ye say, was born blind? How, then, does he now see?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "His parents, therefore, answered 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 do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "These things said his parents, because they were fearing the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that, if any one should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "On this account, his parents said, \"He is of age; ask him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore, they called a second time the man who was blind, and said to him, \"Give glory to God: we know that this Man is a sinner.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "He, therefore, answered, \"Whether He is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, though I was blind, now I see.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "They said, therefore, to him, \"What did He do to you? how did He open your eyes?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "He answered them, \"I told you already, and ye did not hear; why do ye wish to hear it again? Do ye also wish to become His disciples?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And they reviled him, and said, \"You are His disciple; but we are disciples of Moses."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "We know that God hath spoken to Moses; but, as to this Man, we know not whence He is.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "The man answered and said to them, \"Why, in this is the wonder, that ye do not know whence He is, and He opened my eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "We know that God heareth not sinners; but, if any one is a worshiper of God, and does His will, him He heareth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "From remotest antiquity, it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us!\" And they cast him out. Spiritual Blindness"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus heard that they cast him out; and, finding him, He said, \"Do you believe on the Son of God?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And He answered, and said, \"And Who is He, Lord, that I may believe on Him?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"You have both seen Him, and it is He Who is talking with you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And he said, \"Lord, I believe.\" And he worshiped Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Jesus said, \"For judgment came I into the world; that those who see not may see, and that those who see may become blind.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, \"Are we also blind?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "Jesus said to them, \"If ye were blind, ye would have no sin; but now ye say, 'We see,' your sin abides.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "\"Verily, verily, I say to you, he that enters not through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "But he that enters through the door is shepherd of the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "When he drives out all his own, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him; because they know his voice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "But a stranger they will in no wise follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "This parable spake Jesus to them; but they understood not what things they were which He spake to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to them again, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, 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 did not hear them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "I am the door; through Me if any one enter, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and find pasture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "The thief comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came, that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his soul for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "The hireling, who also is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees (and the wolf seizes them, and scatters them );"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "I am the Good Shepherd; and I know My own, and My own know Me,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down My soul for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and they shall become one flock, one Shepherd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "On this account My Father loveth Me, because I lay down My soul, that I may take it again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "There arose again a division among the Jews because of these words."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And many of them said, \"He hath a demon, and is mad; why do ye hear Him?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "Others said, \"These are not the sayings of a demoniac. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?\" Jesus at the Feast of Dedication"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "Then occurred the feast of dedication in Jerusalem; and it was winter;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "The Jews, therefore, came round about Him, and said to Him, \"How long dost Thou hold us in suspense? If Thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"I told you, and ye did not believe: the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of My hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "My Father, Who hath given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "I and the Father are One.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "The Jews took up stones again to stone Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"Many good works did I show you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "The Jews answered Him, \"For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because, Thou, being a Man, makest Thyself God!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"Has it not been 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 Scripture cannot be broken),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "say ye of Him Whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 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": "but, if I do them , even though ye believe not Me, believe the works; that ye may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "They were seeking, therefore, again to seize Him; and He went forth out of their hands. John’s Testimony Confirmed"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And He went away again beyond the Jordan unto the place where John was at first immersing; and there He abode."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And many came to Him, and said, \"John, indeed, did no sign, but all things, whatsoever John spake concerning this Man, were true.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And many believed on Him there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now a certain one was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "The sisters, therefore, sent to Him, saying, \"Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus, hearing it , said, \"This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "Now Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "When, therefore, He heard that he was sick, He then abode two days in the place where He was."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Then, after this, He saith to the disciples, \"Let us go into Judaea again.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "The disciples say to Him, \"Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone Thee; and art Thou going there again?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus answered, \"Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "but, if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "These things He spake; and after this He saith to them, \"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going to awake him out of sleep.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "The disciples, therefore, said to Him, \"Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death; but they thought He spake of taking rest in sleep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Then, therefore, Jesus said to them plainly, \"Lazarus died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And I am glad, for your sakes, (in order that ye may believe), that I was not there. But let us go to him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Thomas, who is called Dydimus, said, therefore, to His fellow-disciples, \"Let us also go, that we may die with Him.\" Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus, therefore, having come, found that he had already been four days in the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs distant."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, met Him; but Mary was sitting in the house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Martha, therefore, said to Jesus, \"Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "and now I know that, whatsoever Thou shalt ask of God, God will give Thee.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Your brother shall rise again.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Martha says to Him, \"I know that he will rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus said to her, \"I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "and whosoever lives and believes on Me shall never die. Do you believe this?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "She says to Him, \"Yea, Lord; I have believed that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God, He Who was to come into the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And, saying this, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, \"The Teacher is present, and calleth for you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And she, when she heard it , arose quickly, and went to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "(Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "The Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, seeing Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb, to weep there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, \"Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, groaned in the spirit, and troubled Himself;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "and He 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": "The Jews, therefore, said, \"Behold, how He was loving him!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "And some of them said, \"Could not This Man, Who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not die?\" Jesus Raises Lazarus ( Acts 9:36–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus, therefore, again groaning in Himself, cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "Jesus saith, \"Take ye away the stone.\" The sister of the deceased, Martha, says to Him, \"Lord, already he is decaying; for he has been dead four days.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Did I not say to you that, if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, \"Father, I thank Thee, because Thou didst hear Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "And I knew that Thou always hearest Me; but, because of the multitude standing around, I said it , that they may believe that Thou didst send Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "And, having spoken these words, He cried with a loud voice, \"Lazarus, come forth!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "He that was dead came forth, bound feet and hands with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, \"Loose him, and let him go.\" The Plot to Kill Jesus ( Matthew 26:1–5 ; Mark 14:1–2 ; Luke 22:1–2 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "Many, therefore, of the Jews who came to Mary and beheld what He did, believed on Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "but some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "The high priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, \"What are we doing? because This Man is doing many signs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "If we let Him thus alone, all will believe on Him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and our nation."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said, \"Ye know nothing at all;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "nor do ye consider that it is expedient for you, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole 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 that nation;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "and not for that nation only, but that He might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "From that day, therefore, they took counsel, that they might put Him to death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus, therefore, was no longer openly walking about among the Jews; but He went away thence into the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there He abode with the disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "55", "text": "Now the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "56", "text": "They were, therefore, seeking for Jesus, and were saying one with another, while standing in the temple, \"What think ye? That He will not come to the feast?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "57", "text": "Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where He was, he should show it , that they might seize Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "They, therefore, made Him a supper there; and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was about to betray Him, says,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "\"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said this, not because he cared about the poor; but because he was a thief; and, having the money-box, he was wont to carry what was put therein ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said, \"Suffer her to keep it for the day of My burial;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "for the poor ye always have with you, but Me ye have not always.\" The Plot to Kill Lazarus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "The great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "But the high priests consulted, that they might slay Lazarus also;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "because, on his account, many of the Jews were going away, and were believing on Jesus. The Triumphal Entry ( Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; Luke 19:28–40 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, having heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, \"Hosanna! blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it; as it has been written,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming upon an ass colt.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him, and that they did these things to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "The multitude, therefore, that was with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was bearing testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "On this account also, the multitude met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "The Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, \"Ye see that ye are effecting nothing! Behold, the world went away after Him!\" Jesus Predicts His Death"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And there were some Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "These, therefore, came to Philip?who was from Bethsaida of Galilee?and were asking Him, saying, \"Sir, we wish to see Jesus.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus answereth them, saying, \"The hour has come, that the Son of Man should be glorified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, dies, it abides alone; but, if it dies, it bears much fruit,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "He who loves his soul loses it; and he who hates his soul in this world will keep it unto life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If any one serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am there will also My servant be. If anyone serve Me, him will My Father honor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour. But for this cause came I to this hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Father, glorify Thy Name!\" There came, therefore, a voice out of Heaven, \"I both glorified it, and will glorify it again.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "The multitude, therefore, who stood by and heard it , said that it had thundered; others said, \"An angel has spoken to Him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus answered and said, \"This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Now is the judgment of this world: now will the Prince 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 men to Myself.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "But this He said, signifying by what manner of death He was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "The multitude, therefore, answered Him, \"We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth 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": "Jesus, therefore, said to them, \"Yet a little while is the Light among you. Walk while ye have the Light, lest darkness overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not where he is going."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "While ye have the Light, believe on the Light, that ye may become sons of Light\" These things spake Jesus, and, going away, He was hidden from them. Belief and Unbelief"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "But, though He had done so many signs before them, they were not believing on Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, 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": "On this account they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "\"He hath blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory; and he spake of Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "Yet, however, even from among the rulers, many believed on Him; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not confess Him , lest they should be put out of the synagogue;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "for they loved the glory of men, rather than the glory of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "And Jesus cried, and said, \"He who believes on Me, believes not on Me, but on Him Who sent Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "and he that beholds Me, beholds Him Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "I have come a light into the world, that every one who believes on Me may not abide in the darkness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And, if any one hears My words, and keeps them not, I do not judge him; for I came, not to judge the world, but to save the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "He who rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "For I spake not from Myself; but the Father, Who sent Me, Himself hath given Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "And I know that His commandment is life eternal. What things, therefore, I speak, even as My Father hath told Me, so I speak.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Now, before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour came that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And, supper being in progress, the Devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son , to betray Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "knowing that the Father gave all things into His hands, and that He came forth from God, and was going to God,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "He riseth from the supper, and layeth aside His garments; and, taking a towel, He girded Himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Then He poureth water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "He cometh, therefore, to Simon Peter. He says to Him, \"Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus answered, and said to him, \"What I am doing you know not now; but you shall know hereafter.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Peter says to Him, \"Thou shalt never wash my feet!\" Jesus answered him, \"If I wash you not, you have no part with Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Simon Peter says to Him, \"Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"He who has bathed has no need, except to wash his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all;\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "for He knew him who would betray Him; on this account, He said, \"Ye are not all clean.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "When, therefore, He washed their feet, and took His garments, and reclined again, He said to them, \"Do ye know what I have done to you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Ye call Me 'The Teacher,' and 'The Lord;' and ye say well; for so I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "If, therefore, I, 'The Lord,' and 'The Teacher,' washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "for I gave you an example, that, as I did to you, ye also should do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor one who is sent greater than he who sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "If ye know these things, happy are ye, if ye do them. Jesus Predicts His Betrayal"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "I speak not concerning all of you: I know whom I chose; but, that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He that eats My bread lifted up his heel against Me.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "From this time, I tell you before it comes to pass; that, when it comes to pass, ye may believe that I am He ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, he who receives whomsoever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, \"Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "The disciples were looking one on another, doubting about whom He was speaking."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Simon Peter, therefore, beckons to this one, and says to him, \"Tell us who it is about whom He is speaking.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "He, leaning back as he was on the breast of Jesus, says to Him, \"Lord, who is it?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus, therefore, answereth, \"He it is for whom I shall dip the morsel, and give it to him.\" Having, therefore, dipped the morsel, He taketh and giveth it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Jesus, therefore, saith to him, \"What you do, do quickly.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And no one of those reclining knew for what purpose He spake this to him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "for some thought, because Judas had the money-bag, that Jesus said to him, \"Buy what we need for the feast,\" or that he should give something to the poor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "He, therefore, having received the morsel, went out straightway; and it was night. Love One Another ( Romans 12:9–13 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "When, therefore, he went out, Jesus saith, \"Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And God will glorify Him in Himself, and will straightway glorify Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek Me; and, as I said to the Jews, 'Whither I go ye cannot come;' so now I say to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; even as I loved you, that ye love one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "By this shall all know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to 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 art Thou going?\" Jesus answered, \"Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow Me later.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "Peter says to Him, \"Why can I not follow Thee even now? I will lay down my soul for Thee.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus answered, \"Will you lay down your soul for Me? Verily, verily, I say to you, a cock shall not crow, till you thrice deny Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "\"Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "In My Father's house are many abiding-places; otherwise, I would have told you; because I am going to prepare a place for you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And, if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again, and will receive you to Myself; that, where I am, ye may be also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And, whither I am going, ye know the way.\" The Way, the Truth, and the Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Thomas says to Him, \"Lord, we know not whither Thou art going; how do we know the way?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "If ye knew Me, ye would know My Father also; from henceforth ye know Him, 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 saith to him, \"So long a time am I with you, and you do not know Me, Philip! He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how say you, 'Show us the Father?'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I say to you, I speak not from Myself; but the Father, abiding in Me, doeth His works."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; or, else, believe Me because of the works themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit ( John 16:5–16 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "\"If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "and I will ask of the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may be with you forever;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "the Spirit of truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it beholds Him not, neither knows Him: ye know Him, because He abideth with you, and will be in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "Yet a little while, and the world beholds Me no more; but ye behold Me; because I live, ye shall live also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "In that day ye will know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "He who has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me; and he that loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Judas, not Iscariot, says to Him, \"Lord, what has happened, that Thou art about to manifest Thyself to us, and not to the world?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered, and said to him, \"If any one loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "He who loves Me not, keeps not My words; and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "\"These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I told you. Peace I Leave with You"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "\"Peace I leave for you; My own peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled; neither let it be fearful."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "Ye heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If ye loved Me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And now I have told you before it comes to pass; that, when it comes to pass, ye may believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "I will no more speak much with you; for the Prince of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "but, that the world may know that I love the Father, and, as the Father commanded Me, so I do, Arise, let us go hence.\""}
{"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 that bears not fruit, He taketh it away: and every one that bears fruit, He cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, unless ye abide in Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because, apart from Me, ye can do nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "Unless one abides in Me, he was cast forth as a branch, and withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "In this was My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and become My disciples. No Greater Love"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "Even as the Father loved Me, I also loved you; abide in My love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "These things have I spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "This is My commandment, that ye love one another, even as I loved you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his soul for his friends."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Ye are My friends, if ye do what I command you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "No longer do I call you slaves; because the slave knows not what his lord is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I made known to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "Ye did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "These things I command you, that ye may love one another. The Hatred of the World"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated Me before it hated you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account the world hates you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "Remember the word which I spake to you, 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "But all these things will they do to you for My name's sake; because they know not Him Who sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "\"Had I not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "He who hates Me hates My Father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Had I not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "but this they do , that the word may be fulfilled, which has been written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "\"When the Advocate shall come, Whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, Who proceedeth from the Father, He will testify concerning Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "and ye also testify, because ye are with Me from the beginning.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "\"These things have I spoken to you, that ye be not made to stumble."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, an hour is coming, that every one who kills you will think that he is offering service to God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "But these things I have spoken to you, that, when their hour shall come, ye may remember them, that I told you. And these things I said not to you from the beginning, because I was with you. The Promise of the Holy Spirit ( John 14:15–26 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And now I go to Him Who sent Me; and no one of you asks Me, 'Whither goest Thou?'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "But, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away; for, if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but, if I go, I will send Him to you,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And, having come, He will convict the world respecting sin, and righteousness, and judgment:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "respecting sin, because they believe not on Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "respecting righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye no longer behold Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "and respecting judgment, because 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 are not able to hear them now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "But, when He, the Spirit of truth, shall come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak from Himself; but whatsoever He heareth He will speak; and He will declare to you things to come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "He will glorify Me; because He will take of Mine, and will declare it to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine; on this account, I said, that He taketh of Mine, and will declare it to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "A little while, and ye no longer behold Me; and again a little while, and ye will see Me.\" Grief Will Turn to Joy"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Some of His disciples, therefore, said to one another, \"What is this that He saith to us, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not; and again a little while, and ye will see Me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "They said, therefore, \"What is this that He saith, 'A little while?' ?we know not what He saith!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus knew that they wished to ask Him, and He said to them, \"Do ye inquire among yourselves about this that I said, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not, and again a little while, and ye will see Me!'"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: ye will be made sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her hour came; but, when she bears the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will 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 will ask nothing of Me: verily, verily, I say to you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in My name."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Hitherto ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "\"These things have I spoken to you in proverbs. An hour is coming, when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will tell you plainly of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "In that day ye shall 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 loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father."}
{"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, \"Lo, now Thou talkest plainly, and speakest no proverb:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "now we know that Thou knowest all things; and hast no need that any one should ask Thee: by this we believe that Thou didst come forth from God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus answered them, \"Do ye now believe?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "Behold, an hour is coming, and has come, that ye should be scattered, each to his own, and leave Me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "These things have I spoken to you, that in Me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus spake these things; and, lifting up His eyes to Heaven, said, \"Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "even as Thou gavest Him authority over all flesh, that to all Whom Thou hast given Him He should give eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "I glorified Thee on the earth; having completed the work which Thou hast given Me to do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And, now, Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own Self, with the glory 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 whom Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine they were; and Thou gavest 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 gavest Me are from Thee;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "because the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them, and they received them , and knew truly that I came forth from Thee, and believed that Thou didst send Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast given Me; because they are Thine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep, in Thine Own name, those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as we are ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "While I was with them, I was keeping, in Thy name, those Whom Thou hast given Me; and I guarded them, and no one of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "But now I come to Thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "I have given them Thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil one ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also sent them into the world;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "and in their behalf I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. Prayer for All Believers"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And I do not pray for these only, but for those also who believe on Me through their word;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "that they may all be one, even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And the glory which Thou hast given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovedst them, even as Thou didst love Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "Father, as to what Thou hast given Me, I desire that they also maybe with Me, where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; because Thou didst love Me before the founding of a world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "O righteous Father! and 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 will make it known; that the love with which Thou lovedst Me may be in them, and I in them.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "Having spoken these things, Jesus went forth with His disciples beyond the winter-brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which He entered Himself and His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And Judas also, who betrayed Him, knew the place; because Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "Judas, therefore, having received the band of soldiers and officers from the high priests and the Pharisees, comes thither with lanterns, and torches, and weapons."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon Him, went forth, and saith to them, \"Whom seek ye?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "They answered Him, \"Jesus, the Nazarene.\" Jesus saith to them, \"I am He .\" And Judas also, who betrayed Him, was standing with them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "When, therefore, He said to them, \"I am He ,\" they went backward, and fell to the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "Again, therefore, He asked them, \"Whom seek ye?\" And they said, \"Jesus, the Nazarene.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus answered, \"I told you that I am He ; if, therefore, ye are seeking Me, permit these to go their way;\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "that the word might be fulfilled, which He spake, \"Of those whom Thou hast given Me, I lost none.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, \"Put up the sword into the sheathe. The cup which the Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "So the band, and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus, and bound Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die 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 and another disciple were following Jesus. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "But Peter was standing at the door without. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spake to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "The maiden door-keeper, therefore, says to Peter, Are you also one of this Man's disciples?\" He says, \"I am not.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And the servants and the officers were standing there , having made a fire of coals (because it was cold), and were warming themselves; and Peter also was with them, standing 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": "The high priest, therefore, asked Jesus concerning His disciples, and concerning His teaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus answered, \"I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble together; and in secret I spake nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard, what I spake to them; behold, they know the things which I said.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And, when He had said this, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a blow with a rod, saying, \"Dost Thou answer the high priest thus!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered him, \"If I spake evil, testify concerning the evil; but, if well, why do you beat Me?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "Annas, therefore, sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high 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. They said, therefore, to him, \"Are you also one of His disciples?\" He denied, and said, \"I am not.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, says, \"Did not I see you in the garden with Him?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "Again, therefore, Peter denied; and straightway a cock crowed. Jesus before Pilate ( Matthew 27:11–14 ; Luke 23:1–5 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "They led Jesus, therefore, from Caiaphas into the Praetorium; and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Pilate, therefore, went out to them, and says, \"What accusation do ye bring against this Man?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "They answered and said to him, \"If this Man were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Pilate, therefore, said to them, \"Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law.\" The Jews said to him, \"It is not lawful for us to kill anyone:\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "that the word of Jesus might he fulfilled, which He spake, signifying by what manner of death He was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Pilate, therefore, entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said to Him, \"Art Thou the King of the Jews?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered, \"Do you say this of yourself, or did others tell you concerning Me?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "Pilate answered, \"Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the high priests delivered Thee up to me: what didst Thou do?\""}
{"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 would fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from hence.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "Pilate, therefore, said to Him, \"Art Thou, then, a King?\" Jesus answered, \"You say that I am a King. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears My voice.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "Pilate says to Him, \"What is truth?\" And, having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, \"I find no crime in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover. Do ye wish, therefore, that I release to you the King of the Jews?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "They cried out, therefore, again, saying, \"Not this Man, but Barabbas!\" Now 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 platted a crown of thorns, placed it upon his head, and put on Him a purple robe;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "and they kept coming to Him, and saying, \"Hail, King of the Jews!\" And they were giving Him blows with a rod."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate went out again, and says to them, \"Behold, I bring Him out to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in Him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus, therefore, came forth without, wearing the thorn-crown, and the purple robe. And he says to them, \"Behold, the Man!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "When, therefore, the high priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out, \"Crucify! crucify!\" Pilate says to them, \"Take ye Him, and crucify Him ; for I find not a crime in Him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "The Jews, therefore, answered him, \"We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "When, therefore, Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "and he entered again into the Praetorium, and says to Jesus, \"Whence art Thou?\" But Jesus gave him no answer."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "Pilate, therefore, says to Him, \"Dost Thou not speak to me? Knowest Thou not that I have authority to release Thee, and have authority to crucify Thee?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus answered him, \"You would have no authority against Me, unless it were given to you from above; on this account, he who delivered Me up to you has greater sin.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "In consequence of this, Pilate was seeking to release Him; but the Jews cried out, saying, \"If you release this Man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Pilate, therefore, having heard these words, led Jesus without, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called the \"Pavement,\" but, in Hebrew, \"Gabbatha.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, \"Behold, your King!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "They, therefore, cried out, \"Away with Him! away with Him! Crucify Him!\" Pilate says to them, \"Shall I crucify your King?\" The high priests answered, We have no king but Caesar!\" The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "Then, therefore, he delivered Him up to them to be crucified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "They took Jesus, therefore; and, bearing the cross for Himself, He went forth into the place called \"Place of a Skull,\" which, in Hebrew, is called \"Golgotha;\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, \"JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "This title, therefore, many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "The high priests of the Jews, therefore, said to Pilate, \"Write not, 'The King of the Jews,' but that He said, I am King of the Jews.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate answered, \"What I have written, I have written.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "The soldiers, therefore, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part; and also the coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "They said, therefore, one to another, \"Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, 'They divided My garments among themselves, and upon My vesture did they cast lots.'\" The soldiers, therefore, did these things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "But there were standing by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus, therefore, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, saith to His mother, \"Woman, behold your Son!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then saith He to the disciple, \"Behold, your mother!\" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home . The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "After these things Jesus, knowing that all things have now been finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, \"I thirst.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "There was set there a vessel full of vinegar; so, putting a sponge full of vinegar on hyssop, they bore it to His mouth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "When, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, He said, \"It has been finished;\" and, bowing His head, He delivered up His spirit. Jesus’ Side Is Pierced"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "The Jews, therefore, (since it was the Preparation), that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for the day of that sabbath was great), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "The soldiers, therefore, came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "but, when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was already dead, they broke not His legs;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and straightway there came out blood and water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also may believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "For these things came to pass, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, \"A bone of Him shall not be broken.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And again another Scripture says, \"They shall look on Him Whom they pierced.\" The Burial of Jesus ( Matthew 27:57–61 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. He came, therefore, and took away His body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to Him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of Jews is to bury."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "There, therefore, on account of the Preparation of the Jews (because the tomb was near), they laid Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "Now on the first day of the sabbaths Mary Magdelene comes early in the morning while it was yet dark to the tomb, and sees the stone taken out of the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "She runs, therefore, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, \"They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they laid Him!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "Peter, therefore, went forth, and the other disciple, and they were going to the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And the two were running together; and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "and, having stooped to look within , he beholds the linen cloths lying; yet he went not within."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Simon Peter, therefore, also comes, following him, and he went into the tomb; and beholds the linen cloths lying,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "and the napkin that was on His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "Then went in, therefore, the other disciple also, who came first to the tomb; and he saw, and believed;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( Mark 16:9–11 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "The disciples, therefore, went away again to their own home."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "But Mary was standing without by the tomb, weeping. So, as she was weeping, she stooped to look into the tomb;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "and she beholds two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And they say to her, \"Woman, why are you weeping?\" 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": "Having said these things, she turned back, and beholds Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?\" She, supposing Him to be the gardener, says to Him, \"Sir, if thou didst bear Him away, tell me where thou didst lay Him, and I will take Him away!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Mary!\" Turning, she says to Him, in Hebrew, \"Rabboni!\" (which is to say, Teacher)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus saith to her, \"Touch Me not; for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren, and say to them, \"I ascend to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Mary Magdalene comes, proclaiming to the disciples, \"I have seen the Lord,\" and that He spake these things to her. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( Luke 24:36–49 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "When, therefore, it was evening, on that day, the first day of sabbaths; and, when, through fear of the Jews, the doors were shut, where the disciples were; Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, \"Peace be to you!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And, having said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples, therefore, rejoiced, when they saw the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus, therefore, said to them again, \"Peace be to you! As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And, having said this, He breathed upon them, and said to them, \"Receive ye the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.\" Jesus Appears to Thomas"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "The other disciples, therefore, said to him, \"We have seen the Lord!\" But he said to them, \"Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and press my hand into His side, I will not believe.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And, after eight days, again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, \"Peace be to you!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "Then He saith to Thomas, \"Reach hither your finger, and see My hands; and reach hither your hand, and press it into My side; and be not faithless, but believing.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Thomas answered and said to Him, \"My Lord and my God!\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"Because you have seen Me, you believe: happy are those who did not see, and yet believed.\" The Purpose of John’s Book"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "Many other signs, therefore, did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which have not been written in this book;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "but these have been written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life in His name."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things Jesus manifested Himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and He manifested Himself in this manner."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "Simon Peter says to them, \"I am going away to fish.\" They say to him, We also are coming with you.\" They went forth, and entered into a boat; and in that night they caught nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "But, morning now coming on, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus, therefore, saith to them, \"Little children, have ye anything to eat?\" They answered Him, \"No.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to there, \"Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and ye shall find.\" They cast it , therefore; and no longer were they able to draw it, for the multitude of the fishes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus loved, says to Peter, \"It is the Lord!\" Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his outer garment (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits distant), dragging the net full of fishes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "When, therefore, they went out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish lying thereon, and bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus saith to them, \"Bring of the fishes which ye just now caught.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Simon Peter, therefore, went aboard, and drew the net to the land, full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and, though there were so many, the net was not rent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "Jesus saith to them, \"Come, take breakfast.\" And not one of the disciples was daring to inquire of Him,\" Who art Thou?\" knowing that it was the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth to them, and the fish likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead. Jesus and Peter"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "So, when they breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, \"Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?\" He says to Him, \"Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I fondly love Thee.\" He saith to him, \"Feed My lambs.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "He saith to him again a second time, \"Simon, son of John, do you love Me?\" He says to Him, \"Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I fondly love Thee.\" He saith to him, \"Feed My sheep.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "He saith to him the third time, \"Simon, son of John, do you fondly love Me?\" Peter was grieved, because He said to him the third time \"Do you fondly love Me?\" and he said to Him, \"Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I do fondly love Thee.\" Jesus saith to him, \"Feed My sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "Verily, verily, I say to you, when you were young, you were wont to gird yourself, and to walk wheresoever you wished; but, when you become old, you will stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you, and carry you whither you wish not.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "Now this He spake, signifying by what manner of death he would glorify God. And, having spoken this, He saith to him, \"Follow Me.\" Jesus and the Beloved Disciple"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "Peter, turning about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also at the Supper leaned back on Jesus' breast, and said, \"Lord, who is he that betrays Thee?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Peter therefore, seeing him, says to Jesus, \"Lord, and what will this man do ?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus saith to him, \"If I wish him to remain till I come, what is it to you? follow Me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "This saying, therefore, went forth among the brethren, that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus did not say to him, that he should not die, but, \"If I wish him to remain till I come, what is it to you?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "This is the disciple who testifies concerning these things, and wrote these things; 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, indeed, were they written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books that would be written."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The first narrative I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "until the day in which He was taken up, after having given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He chose;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "to whom He also presented Himself alive, after He suffered, by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking the things concerning the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And, being assembled together with them , He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which said He , \"Ye heard from Me;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "because John, indeed, immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.\" The Ascension ( Mark 16:19–20 ; Luke 24:50–53 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "They, therefore, having come together, were asking Him, saying, \"Lord, dost Thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "He said to them, \"It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father placed in His own authority;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and to the utmost limit of the earth.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And, having said these things, while they were beholding, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him from their sight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And, as they were gazing intently into the heaven, while He was ascending, behold, also two men stood by them in white apparel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "who also said, \"Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into the heaven? This Jesus, Who was taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him ascending into Heaven.\" Matthias Replaces Judas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they returned to Jerusalem from a mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And, when they entered, they went up into the upper-room, where they were abiding; both Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "These all were continuing with one accord in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And, in these days, Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (and there was a multitude of persons together, about a hundred and twenty),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "\"Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake beforehand, through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "because he was numbered among us, and obtained the portion of this ministry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This man, therefore, acquired a field with the reward of unrighteousness; and, falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "and it became known to all those dwelling at Jerusalem; so that place was called, in their own language, Akeldama, that is, 'Field of blood.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For it has been written in a book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation become desolate, and let no one dwell in it.' And, 'His charge, let another take.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "\"It is needful, therefore, that one of these men?who accompanied us all the time that the Lord went in and out among us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "beginning from the immersion of John, until the day on which He was taken up from us?should become a witness, with us, of His resurrection.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And, praying, they said, \"Thou, Lord, Who knowest the hearts of all men, show which of these two Thou didst choose,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled they were all together in one place;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "and suddenly there came out of Heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And there appeared to them tongues, as of fire, distributed among them ; 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 with other tongues, even as the Spirit was giving them to declare."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and, when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were greatly surprised, because each one heard them speaking in his own language."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And they were amazed, and wondered, saying, \"Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And how do we hear, each in our own language in which we were born;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea, and also Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Cretans, and Arabians?we hear them speaking in our own languages the wonderful works of God?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And they were all amazed, and perplexed, saying one to another, \"What does this mean?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And others, mocking, said, \"They have been filled with new wine!\" Peter Addresses the Crowd"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and declared to them, \"Men of Judaea, and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and give ear to my words;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "'And it shall be in the last days', saith God, 'I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "yea, and on My servants and on My handmaidens in those days will I pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will show wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath?blood, and fire, and vapor 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 notable day of the Lord come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And it shall be, that every one who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "\"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited from God to you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "This Man, delivered up by the settled counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, having fastened to the cross, through the hand of lawless ones, did slay:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death; because it was not possible that He should be held by it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For David says concerning Him, 'I beheld the Lord in my presence continually; because He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore, my heart was glad, and my tongue greatly rejoiced; moreover my flesh also shall abide in hope:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "because Thou wilt not leave My soul behind unto Hades; neither wilt Thou give Thy Holy One to see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "Thou didst make known to Me the ways of life; Thou wilt make Me full of gladness with Thy presence.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "\"Brethren! It is permitted to speak to you freely concerning the patriarch David, that he both died, and was buried; and his tomb is among us till this day;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "being, therefore, a prophet, and knowing that with an oath God swore to him, that out of the fruit of his loins One should sit on his throne;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "he, foreseeing it , spake concerning the resurrection of Christ, that neither was He left behind unto Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "\"This Jesus God raised up; of which fact we all are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "Being, therefore, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He was pouring forth this which ye both see and hear."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "For David did not ascend into Heaven; but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "till I make Thy foes a footstool for Thy feet.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "\"Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God made Him both Lord and Christ?This Jesus Whom ye crucified.\" Three Thousand Believe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "And, hearing this, they were pricked in the heart, and said to Peter, and the rest of the apostles, \"Brethren! what shall we do?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And Peter said to them, \"Repent, and be immersed each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, unto remission of your 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 those afar off?as many as the Lord our God shall call to Him .\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "Also with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, \"Be saved from this perverse generation!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "Those, therefore, who gladly received his word, were immersed; and there were added to them on that day about three thousand souls; The Fellowship of Believers ( Acts 4:32–37 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "and they were constantly attending the teaching of the apostles and the fellowship, and the breaking of bread, and the prayers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "And fear was coming upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were coming to pass through the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "And all who believed were together, and were holding all things common;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "and they were selling their possessions and goods, and were distributing them to all, according as any one had need."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at their homes, were partaking of food in gladness and singleness of heart;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to them daily those who were being saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer?the ninth hour ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was being carried along, whom they were wont to lay daily at the gate of the temple?which was called \"Beautiful\"?to ask alms of those entering the temple;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, was asking to receive an alms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter, fixing his eyes upon him, with John, said, \"Look on us.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And he was giving heed to them, expecting to receive something from them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "But Peter said, \"Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, this I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And, seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and instantly his feet and ankles were strengthened;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "and, leaping forth, he stood, and was walking about; and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And all the people saw him walking about, and praising God;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "and they were recognizing him, that this was he who was wont to sit for alms, at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him. Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And, as he was holding Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch, which is called Solomon's, greatly astonished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And Peter, seeing it , spake to the people, \"Men of Israel, why do ye wonder at this? Or why look ye so intently on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Child Jesus, Whom ye, indeed, delivered up, and denied before Pilate's face, when he gave judgment to release Him ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked that a man?a murderer?be granted to you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "and the Prince of life ye killed; Whom God raised from the dead?of which fact we are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And His name, by the faith of His name, gave strength to this man, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is through Him gave him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "\"And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it , as did also your rulers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "but God thus fulfilled what He before announced through the mouth of all His prophets, that His Christ should suffer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Repent ye, therefore, and turn, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "and that He may send forth Christ Jesus who had been before appointed for you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Whom Heaven must retain, until the times of restoration of all things of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the beginning."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Moses, indeed, said, 'A prophet will the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren, as He did me; to Him shall ye hearken in all things, whatsoever He shall say to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And it shall be, that every soul that will not hearken to that Prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spake, also foretold these days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "To you first, God, having raised up His Child, sent Him forth, blessing you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "But, as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "being greatly troubled because of their teaching the people, and declaring in Jesus the resurrection from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody till the next day; for it was now evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men became about five thousand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And it came to pass, the next day, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And, having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, \"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,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "if we are this day examined in regard to a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this person has been made whole;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, Whom ye crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, in Him does this man stand here before you well!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "This is the Stone That was set at naught by you, the builders, Which was made into a head of a corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And in no one else is there salvation; for neither is there any other name under Heaven, that has been given among men, in Which we must be saved.\" The Name Forbidden"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Now, beholding the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and ignorant men, they were wondering; they also were recognizing them, that they had been with Jesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "and, seeing the man who had been healed, standing with them, they had nothing to say against it ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "But, having ordered them to go aside out of the Sanhedrin, they were conferring one with another,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "saying, \"What shall we do to these men? for, indeed, that a notable sign has been done through them is manifest to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "but, that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak no more to any man in This Name.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And, having called them they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach, in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "But Peter and John, answering, said to them, \"Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you, rather than to God, judge ye;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And they, when they had further threatened them, released them, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people; because all were glorifying God for what had taken place;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "for the man, on whom this sign of healing had been done, was more than forty years old. The Believers’ Prayer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And, being released, they went to their own friends , and reported all that the high priests and the elders said to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And they, having heard it , lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, \"Lord, Thou Who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Who, through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David, Thy servant, didst say, 'Why did the gentiles rage, and the peoples premeditate empty things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "The kings of the earth did set themselves in array; and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord, and against His Christ.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "For, of a truth, there were gathered together in this city, against Thy Holy Child Jesus, Whom Thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and peoples of Israel?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel predetermined to come to pass."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings; and grant to Thy servants to speak Thy word with all boldness,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "by stretching forth Thy hand for healing; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Thy Holy Child Jesus.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And, when they had prayed, the place in which they had assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with boldness. Sharing among Believers ( Acts 2:42–47 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And the heart and soul of the multitude of those who believed were one; and not even one was saying that any of the things belonging to him was his own, but they had all things common."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And, with great power, were the apostles giving forth their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; and great grace also was upon them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "For neither was any one among them in want; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses, selling them , were bringing the prices of the things sold,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "and were laying them , at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was being made according as any one had need."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is interpreted, \"Son of Consolation\"), a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "owning a field, having sold it , brought the money, and laid it at the feet of the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and kept back part of the price, his wife also knowing it; and, bringing a certain part, he laid it at the apostles' feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "But Peter said, \"Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart, that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "While remaining, did it not remain your own? and, when sold, did it not continue in your own authority? Why did you conceive in your heart this thing? You did not lie to men, but to God.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And Ananias, hearing these words, falling down, expired; and great fear came upon all who heard it ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "but the young men, rising up, wrapped him round; and, bearing him out, buried him ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Now it came to pass about three hours after, that his wife also, not knowing what had happened, came in;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "and Peter made answer to her, \"Tell me, if ye sold the place for so much?\" And she said, \"Yes, for so much.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "But Peter said to her, \"Why is it that it was agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And she immediately fell at his feet, and expired; and, coming in, the young men found her dead; and, carrying her forth, they buried her by her husband."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And great fear came upon the whole assembly, and upon all who heard these things. The Apostles Heal Many"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "But of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them; but the people were magnifying them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "(and the more were believers being added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "so that they even carried forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, in order that, as Peter might pass by, his shadow at least might overshadow some one of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And the multitude of the cities round about were coming together to Jerusalem, bearing the sick, and those harassed by unclean spirits ?who, indeed, were being healed, every one. The Apostles Arrested and Freed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And the high priest, rising up, and all those with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in a public prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "But an angel of the Lord, by night, opened the prison doors; and, having led them out, said,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "\"Go, and, standing, speak in the temple, to the people, all the words of this life.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And, having heard this , they entered at dawn, into the temple, and were teaching. And the high priest, having come, and those with him, called together the Sanhedrin, and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison-house to have them brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But the officers, having come, did not find them in the prison, and, returning, they told,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "saying, \"The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the prison-keepers standing at the doors; but, having opened, we found no one within.\" The Apostles before the Sanhedrin"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Now, when both the captain of the temple and the high priests heard these words, they were thoroughly perplexed concerning them, what this might become."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "But a certain one, coming near, told them, \"Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Then the captain, having gone away with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "and, having brought them, they set them before the Sanhedrin. And the high priest asked them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "saying, \"We strictly charged you not to teach in This Name; and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! and intend to bring upon us the blood of This Man!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "But Peter and the apostles, answering, said, \"It is proper to obey God rather than men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, Whom ye slew, having suspended Him on a tree:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "This One God exalted as a Prince and Savior, with His right hand, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And we are witnesses of these things; also the Holy Spirit, Whom God gave to those who obey Him.\" Gamaliel’s Advice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And they, hearing it , were being convulsed with rage, and were taking counsel to slay them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "But a certain one, having risen up in the council?a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people?ordered to put the men without a little while."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "And he said to them, \"Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves with regard to these men, what ye are about to do;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "for before these days arose Theudas, alleging that he himself was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were disbanded, and came to nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "After this arose Judas, the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away people after him; he also perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And now I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for, if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "but, if it be of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest perhaps ye be found even fighting against God.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And to him they assented; and calling the apostles to them, beating them , they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "They, therefore, were going from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they were accounted worthy to suffer dishonor in behalf of The Name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And every day, in the temple, and at their homes, they ceased not teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Now in these days, when the disciples were being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to them , said, \"It is not proper that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "but look ye out, brethren, from among yourselves, seven well-attested men, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "but we will devote ourselves steadfastly to prayer and to the ministry of the word.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And the saying was pleasing to the multitude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the word of God was increasing, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was being multiplied exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith. The Arrest of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But there arose some of those who were of the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Then they suborned men, who said, \"We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the Scribes; and, coming upon him , they seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrin,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "and set up false witnesses, who said, \"This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place, and the law;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "for we have heard him say, that This Jesus, the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin, gazing intently at him, saw his face as it were an angel's face."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And the high priest said, \"Are these things so?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "But he said, \"Brethren and fathers, the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "and said to him, 'Go forth from your country, and from your kindred, and came into the land which I will show you,'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Then, having come forth out of the land of the Chaldaeans, he dwelt in Haran; and, from thence, after his father died, He removed him into this land, in which ye now dwell;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth; and He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his Seed after him, when he had no child."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And God spake thus; that his seed would be a sojourner in a foreign land; and they would bring it into servitude, and ill-use it four hundred years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "'And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge,' said God; 'and, after these things, shall they come forth, and they shall serve Me in this place.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And He gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. Joseph Sold into Egypt"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "\"Now there came a famine upon the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers were not finding sustenance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "But Jacob, having heard that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "and, at the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's race became known to Pharaoh."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And Joseph, sending, called for Jacob his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. Israel Oppressed in Egypt"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "and they were removed to Shechem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Emmor, in Shechem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "But, as the time of the promise which God promised to Abraham was drawing nigh, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "until there arose another king in Egypt, who knew not Joseph."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "The same, dealing craftily with our race, ill-treated our fathers, in causing their children to be cast out, that they might not be preserved alive. The Birth and Adoption of Moses ( Hebrews 11:23–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "In which season Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was nourished three months in the house of his father;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "but, when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him as her own son."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works. The Rejection and Flight of Moses"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "But, when his fortieth year was being completed, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And, seeing a certain one wrongly treated, he defended him , and avenged him that was oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "And he was supposing that his brethren understood that God, through his hand, would give them deliverance; but they understood not."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "On the following day, also, he appeared to them while they were fighting and he was urging them to peace, saying, 'Men, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Do you wish to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. The Call of Moses"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And, forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him, in the wilderness of mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And Moses, seeing it , wondered at the sight; and, as he drew near to observe it , there came a voice of the Lord,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' And Moses, becoming terrified, was not daring to examine it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And the Lord said to him, 'Loose the sandals from your feet; for the place on which you have been standing is holy ground."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "Surely, I saw the affliction of My people in Egypt, and heard their groaning; and I came down to rescue them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "This Moses whom they denied, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' him hath God sent as both ruler and redeemer, with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "This man led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A Prophet will God raise up for you of your brethren, as He did me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spake to him on mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us: The Rebellion of Israel"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "to whom our fathers wished not to become obedient, but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back again to Egypt;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "But God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it has been written in a book of the prophets, 'Did ye offer to Me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan?the figures which ye made to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.' The Tabernacle of the Testimony ( Hebrews 9:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "\"Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as He, directed, Who spake to Moses, that he should make it according to the model which he had seen;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "which also our fathers, having received in succession, brought in with Joshua, in taking possession of the nations which God thrust out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "who found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find 'A habitation for the God of Jacob.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "But Solomon built a house for Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "Yet the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as says the prophet,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "'Heaven is My throne; and the earth is the footstool of My feet: what manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord, Or what is 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 do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did , so do ye."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who declared beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One?of Whom just now ye became the betrayers and murderers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "who, indeed, received the law as the ministrations of angels, and did not keep it .\" The Stoning of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "54", "text": "Now, while hearing these things, they were being cut to their hearts, and were gnashing their teeth over him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "55", "text": "But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking intently into Heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "56", "text": "and he said, \"Behold I see Heaven opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "57", "text": "But, crying out with a loud voice, they closed their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "58", "text": "and, having thrust him forth outside of the city, they kept stoning him ! And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "59", "text": "And they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, \"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "60", "text": "And, kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, \"Lord, lay not this sin to them!\" And, having said this, he fell asleep."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And Saul was approving of his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the countries of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison. Philip in Samaria"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Those, therefore, who were dispersed, went about, proclaiming the good tidings of the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And Philip, having come down to the city of Samaria, preached to them the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the multitudes, with one accord, were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the things which he was doing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For unclean spirits came forth from many of those possessing them, crying with a loud voice; and many paralyzed and lame persons were healed;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "and there was much joy in that city. Simon the Sorcerer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But a certain man, Simon by name, was in the city before, using sorcery, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, affirming himself to be some great one;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "to whom all were giving heed, from small to great, saying, \"This man is the power of God, which is called Great.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with his sorceries."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "But, when they believed Philip proclaiming the glad tidings concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being immersed, both men and women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Simon also himself believed; and, having been immersed, he was adhering closely to Philip; and, beholding the signs and great miracles being done, he was amazed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Now the apostles in Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "who, indeed, having come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "for as yet He had fallen upon no one of them, but they had only been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Now Simon, seeing that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "saying, \"Give me also this authority, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "But Peter said to him, \"Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God with money!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "You have no part nor lot in this matter; for your heart is not right before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Repent, therefore, of this your wickedness, and entreat the Lord, if, perhaps, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "for I see that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And Simon answered and said, \"Pray ye to the Lord in my behalf, that none of the things which ye have spoken may come upon me.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "They, therefore, having fully testified and spoken the word of the Lord, were returning to Jerusalem, and preaching the Gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. Philip and the Ethiopian"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "But an angel of the Lord spake to Philip, saying, \"Arise, and go toward the south, on the way that leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza:\" this is a wilderness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And, having arisen, he went on; and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a state-officer of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "he was also returning, and, sitting on his chariot, was reading the prophet Isaiah."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And the Spirit said to Philip, \"Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Philip, having run near, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, \"Do you, then, understand what you are reading?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "But he said, \"How, in fact, were I able, unless some one should guide me?\" And he besought Philip, having come up, to sit with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: \"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "In His humiliation, His judgment was taken away; His generation who shall declare? because His life is being taken away from the earth.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, \"I pray you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself, or of someone else?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And Philip, opening his mouth, and, beginning from this Scripture, proclaimed to him the good news of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And, as they were journeying along the way, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch says, \"Behold, here is water; what hinders me from being immersed?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "[And Philip said, \"If you believe with all your heart, you may.\" And he answered and said, \"I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.\"]"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And he commanded the chariot to stand still; and they 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 caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more; for he was going on his way rejoicing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And Philip was found at Azotus; and, passing through, he was publishing the good news to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, going to the high priest,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "asked from him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that, if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And, as he was journeying, it came to pass, that he was drawing nigh to Damascus; and suddenly there flashed around him a light from Heaven;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "and, having fallen upon the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, \"Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And he said, \"Who art Thou, Lord?\" And He said , \"I am Jesus Whom you are persecuting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "But arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the men who were journeying with him were standing speechless; hearing, indeed, the voice, but beholding no one."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And Saul arose from the earth; and, his eyes being opened, he beheld nothing; but, taking him by the hand, they led him into Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And he was three days without seeing; and he neither ate, nor drank. Ananias Baptizes Saul"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, \"Ananias?\" And he said, \"Behold, I am here , Lord!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Lord said to him, \"Arise, go to the street that is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus; for, behold, he is praying;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "and in a vision he saw a man, Ananias by name, coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive sight.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And Ananias answered, \"Lord, I heard from many concerning this man, how many evils he did to Thy saints in Jerusalem;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "and here he has authority from the high priests to bind all those calling on Thy name.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "But the Lord said to him, \"Go your way; because this man is to Me a chosen vessel to bear My name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "for I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And Ananias went away, and entered into the house; and, laying his hands on him, said, \"Brother Saul, the Lord hath sent me? even Jesus, Who appeared to you in the way in which you were coming, sent me, that you may receive sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "and straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received sight; and, arising, he was immersed; and, having taken food, he was strengthened."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And he was with the disciples in Damascus some days; Saul Preaches at Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "and straightway in the synagogues he was preaching Jesus, that He is the Son of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And all who heard were astonished, and said, \"Is not this he who destroyed, in Jerusalem, those calling upon this name, and had come here for this purpose , that he might bring them bound to the high priests?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "But Saul was being more empowered, and was confounding the Jews who were dwelling in Damascus; proving that this is the Christ. The Escape from Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And, when many days were completed, the Jews took counsel together to kill him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "but their plot became known to Saul. And they were watching the gates also, both day and night, that they might kill him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "but the disciples, taking him by night, let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. Saul in Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "Now, having come to Jerusalem, he was trying to join himself to the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "But Barnabas, taking him, brought him to the apostles, and narrated to them how he saw the Lord in the way, and that He spake to him; and how, in Damascus, he spake boldly in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And he was with them, going in and going out at Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "preaching boldly in the name of the Lord; and he was speaking and disputing with the Helenists; but they were attempting to kill him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "but the brethren, learning it , brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. The Healing of Aeneas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "The assembly, therefore, throughout the whole of Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, was having peace, being built up; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, was being multiplied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And it came to pass that Peter, going through all parts , came down also to the saints who were dwelling at Lydda."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, for eight years lying prostrate on a couch, who was paralyzed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter said to him, \"Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth you; arise, and make your bed.\" And straightway he arose."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And all who were dwelling in Lydda and in Sharon saw him; and they turned to the Lord. The Raising of Tabitha ( John 11:38–44 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple, Tabitha by name, (which being translated means Dorcas): this woman was full of good works and alms which she was accustomed to do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And it came to pass in those days that she, having become sick, died; and, having washed her , they laid her in an upper chamber."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And, Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent to him two men, entreating him , \"Delay not to come to us!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Peter, having arisen, went with them; whom, having come, they led up into the upper chamber; and there stood by him all the widows, weeping and showing coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "But Peter, having put them all forth, and bowing his knees, prayed; and, turning to the body, he said, \"Tabitha, arise!\" And she opened her eyes; and, seeing Peter, she sat up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And, having given her his hand, he raised her up; and, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And it became known throughout all Joppa; and many believed on the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And it came to pass that he abode many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "New a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of a band, called the Italian band ?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "devout, and fearing God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God continually?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "saw in a vision manifestly, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, \"Cornelius!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And he, looking intently on him, and becoming much afraid, said, \"What is it, lord?\" And he said to him, \"Your prayers and alms went up for a memorial before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And now send men to Joppa, and fetch one Simon, who is surnamed Peter;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "the same is guest with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And, when the angel who was talking to him departed, having called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those attending him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "and, having recounted all things to them , he sent them to Joppa. Peter’s Vision"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Now, on the morrow, as they were journeying, and coming near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and, while they were making ready, there came upon him a trance;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "in which were all the four-footed beasts, and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And there came a voice to him, \"Arising, Peter, kill and eat.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "But Peter said, \"By no means, Lord! because never at any time did I eat anything common or unclean.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And a voice came to him again, a second time, \"What God cleansed, count not common.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "Now this happened three times, and straightway the vessel was taken up into heaven. Peter Called to Caesarea"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Now, as Peter was much perplexed in himself as to what the vision which he saw might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "and, calling, were inquiring whether Simon who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And, while Peter was earnestly considering the vision, the Spirit said to him, \"Behold, three men are seeking you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But, arising, go down, and journey with them, nothing doubting; because I have sent them.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Peter, going down to the men, said, \"Behold, I am he whom ye are seeking; what is the cause for which ye are present?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And they said, \"Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and one fearing God, well reported of also by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them . And, on the morrow, arising, he went with them; and some of the brethren from Joppa went with him. Peter Visits Cornelius"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And on the following day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was expecting them, having called together his kinsmen and near friends."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And when it came to pass that Peter entered, Cornelius, meeting him, and falling at his feet, worshipped him ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "But Peter raised him up, saying, \"Stand up! I myself also am a man.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And, while talking with him, he entered, and finds many who had come together;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "and he says to them, \"Ye know that it is unlawful for a Jew to join himself with, or come to, one of another race; and yet God showed me that I should call no man common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Wherefore, also, having been sent for, I came without gainsaying. I ask, therefore, with what intent ye sent for me.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Cornelius said, \"Four days ago, until this hour, I was praying during the ninth hour in my house; and, behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "and says, 'Cornelius, your prayer was heard, and your alms were remembered before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; the same is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "At once, therefore, I sent to you; and you did well, in coming. Now, therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things that have been commanded you by the Lord.\" Good News for the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter, opening his mouth, said, \"Of a truth, I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "but, in every nation, he who fears Him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "He sent the word to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the glad tidings of peace through Jesus Christ, (He is Lord of all):"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "Ye know the word that came throughout all Judaea, after the immersion which John preached; even Jesus of Nazareth,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power; Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil; because God was with Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; Whom they also slew, hanging Him on a tree."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become manifest;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God?to us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to fully testify that it is He Who hath been ordained by God Judge of the living and dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "To Him all the prophets testify, that through His Name every one who believes on Him receives remission of sins.\" The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit ( Acts 19:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those hearing the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "And those of the circumcision who believed, as many as came with Peter, were amazed, because that upon the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "for they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "\"Can any one forbid the water, that these should not be immersed, who, indeed, received the Holy Spirit as well as we?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And He commanded that they should be immersed in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain some days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the apostles, and the brethren who were in Judaea, heard that the gentiles also received the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And, when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "saying, that he went in to men holding uncircumcision, and ate with them!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "But Peter, beginning at the first , was explaining it to them in order, saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "\"I was in the city of Joppa, praying: and, in a trance, I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending, as a large sheet, let down out of the heaven by four corners; and it came close to me:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "into which gazing intently, I was considering, and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the birds of the heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard also a voice, saying to me, 'Arising, Peter, kill and eat.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "But I said, 'By no means, Lord; because a common or an unclean thing never entered into my mouth!'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "But a voice answered a second time out of the heaven, 'What God cleansed, make not common.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And this took place thrice: and all were drawn up again into the heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And, behold, immediately there stood three men at the house in which we were, having been sent to me from Caesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren also went with me; and we entered into the man's house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And he told us how he saw the angel in his house, standing and saying, 'Send to Joppa, and call for Simon who is surnamed Peter,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "who will speak to you words, by which you shall be saved, and all your house.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And, as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us at the beginning;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "and I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John, indeed, immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "If, therefore, God gave them the like gift, as to us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And, having heard these things, they were silent, and glorified God, saying, \"Then, to the gentiles also God gave repentance unto life.\" The Church at Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Those, therefore, who were dispersed by reason of the tribulation that arose about Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews only."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, indeed, having come to Antioch, were speaking to the Greeks also, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number who believed turned to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And the report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and was exhorting all that, with purpose of heart, they should cleave to the Lord;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith; and a great multitude was added to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And he departed to Tarsus to seek for Saul;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "and, having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass that, even for a whole year, they met together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude; and that the disciples got the name \"Christian\" first in Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "and one of them?Agabus by name?standing up, signified through the Spirit that there was about to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth; which, indeed, happened under Claudius."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And the disciples, according as any one of them was being prospered, determined, each of them, to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judaea;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "which also they did, sending it to the elders through the hands of Barnabas and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Now about that time Herod the king put forth his bands to harm some of the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "and, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And then were the days of unleavened bread."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And, having seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending, after the passover, to bring him up to the people. The Rescue of Peter"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And, when Herod was about to bring him forth, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains; and guards before the door were keeping the prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And, behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him , and a light shined in the cell; and, smiting the side of Peter, he raised him up, saying, \"Rise up quickly!\" And his chains fell off from his hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And the angel said to him, \"Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals.\" And he did so. And he says to him, \"Cast your garment around you, and follow me.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And, going forth, he was following him ; and he knew not that it was true, which was being done by the angel, but was thinking that he saw a vision."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And, having passed the first and second watch; they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and, going out, they passed on through one street, and straightway the angel departed from him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And Peter, having come to himself, said, \"Now I know truly that the Lord sent forth His angel, and delivered me out of Herod's hand, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And, having considered it , he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is surnamed Mark; where many were gathered together and were praying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And, when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came near to answer, Rhoda by name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And, recognizing the voice of Peter, she opened not the gate for joy; but, running in, she told them that Peter was standing before the gate."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And they said to her, \"You are mad!\" But she kept confidently affirming that it was so. And they said, \"It is his angel\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "But Peter continued knocking; and, opening, they saw him, and were amazed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "But, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, he declared to them, how the Lord brought him forth out of the prison. And he Said, \"Declare these things to James, and to the brethren.\" And, going forth, he went to another place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And, when it became day, there was no small commotion among the soldiers, as to what, consequently, became of Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod, having sought for him, and not finding him , having examined the guards, ordered that they be led away to death . And, going down from Judaea to Caesarea, he tarried there . The Death of Herod"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "Now he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians; and they came with one accord to him; and, having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was being maintained by that of the king."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And, on a set day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and seating himself on the judgment seat, made a speech to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the people were shouting, \" It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "But the word of God was growing, and multiplying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And Barnabus and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled their ministry, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there , prophets and teachers; both Barnabas and Symeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And, while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, \"Separate now to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid hands on them, they sent them away. On Cyprus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "They, therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down into Seleucia; and thence they sailed away to Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And, having arrived in Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they had John also as an attendant."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And, having gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; the same having called for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "but Elymas, the sorcerer (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looking intently upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "said, \"O full of all guile, and all villainy, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you; and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.\" And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and, going about, he was seeking some to lead him by the hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the proconsul, seeing what had taken place, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. In Pisidian Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Now setting sail from Paphos, Paul's company came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John, withdrawing from them, returned to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and, entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, \"Brethren, if there is among you any word of exhortation for the people, speak.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And Paul, standing up, and beckoning with his hand, said, \"Men of Israel, and ye who fear God, hearken!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "The God of this people Israel chose our fathers; and He exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt; and, with a high arm, He led them forth out of it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And for about the time of forty years He bore them as a nursing father in the wilderness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And, having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed by lot their land to them for about four hundred and fifty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And after these things He gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And afterward they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul, a son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "and, having removed him, He raised up for them David to be their king; to whom bearing testimony, He said, 'I found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "From the seed of this one, God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "John having first preached, before His coming, the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And, as John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do ye suppose me to be? I am not He . But, behold, there cometh One after me, the sandals of Whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation was sent forth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing Him, nor the voices of the prophets which are being read every sabbath, fulfilled them, in having condemned Him ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "and, though finding not one cause of death, they asked of Pilate that He should be slain."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And, when they fulfilled all things that were written concerning Him, having taken Him down from the tree, they laid Him in a tomb."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "But God raised Him from the dead;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Who was seen, during many days, by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem; who, indeed, are now His witnesses to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And we declare to you good tidings of the promise made to the fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "that God hath fulfilled this for our children, having raised up Jesus; as it has been written in the second Psalm, 'Thou art My Son! To-day have I begotten Thee!'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "And that He raised Him up from the dead no more to return to corruption, He hath thus spoken, 'I will give to you the holy and faithful promises of David.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Wherefore, in another place, He saith, 'Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "For David, indeed, having served his own generation according to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "but He Whom God raised up did not see corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Be it known to you, brethren, that through This One is proclaimed to you forgiveness of sins;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "and in Him every one who believes is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you , which is spoken in the prophets,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "'Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; because I do a work in your days?a work which ye will by no means believe, though one should fully declare it to you.' A Light for the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "And, as they were going out, they kept beseeching him that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "And, the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, indeed, speaking to them, were persuading them to continue in the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "And, on the next sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "But the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, blaspheming."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "Speaking boldly, both Paul and Barnabas said, \"It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Inasmuch as ye thrust it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "for so hath the Lord commanded us, 'I have set Thee for a Light of the gentiles, that Thou mayest be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth.'\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "And the gentiles, having heard it , were rejoicing, and glorifying the word of God; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "And the word of the Lord was being spread abroad through that whole country."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "But the Jews urged on the devout and reputable women, and the principal men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "and they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "And the disciples were being filled with joy and the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Now it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the gentiles against the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "A long time, therefore, they tarried there , speaking boldly in the Lord, Who testified to the word of His grace, by granting signs and wonders to be done through their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "But the multitude of the city was divided; and some, indeed, held with the Jews, and some with the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "But, when a hostile movement was made, both of the gentiles and Jews with their rulers, to maltreat and stone them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "they, becoming aware it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "and there they were proclaiming the Good News. The Visit to Lystra and Derbe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And at Lystra there was sitting a certain man, impotent in his feet; lame from his mother's womb, who never walked."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "The same was hearing Paul speaking, who, looking intently on him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "said with a loud voice, \"Stand up on your feet, erect!\" And he leaped up, and was walking about."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the multitudes, seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice in the language of Lycaonia, saying, \"The gods, made like to men, came down to us!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And they were calling Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he was the chief speaker."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And the priest of Jupiter whose temple was before the city, having brought oxen and garlands to the gates, together with the multitudes, was wishing to offer sacrifice."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "But the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, hearing of it , having rent their garments, leaped forth among the multitude, crying out,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "and saying, \"Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming to you glad tidings, that ye should turn from these vanities to the living God, Who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Who, in the past generations, suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "and yet He left not Himself without witness, doing good, giving you rains from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And, saying these things, they with difficulty restrained the multitude from offering sacrifice to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and, having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they drew him outside the city, supposing him to have died."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "But, the disciples having surrounded him, rising up, he entered into the city; and, on the following day, he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. Strengthening the Disciples"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And, having proclaimed the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And, having appointed elders for them in every assembly; and, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord on Whom they had believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And, having gone through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "and, having spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "and thence they sailed to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they accomplished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And, having arrived, and having gathered together the assembly, they were rehearsing as many things as God did with them, and that He opened to the gentiles a door of faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And they abode there not a little time with the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And some, coming down from Judaea, were teaching the brethren, \"Unless ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And, when Paul and Barnabas had no little dissension and discussion with them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders, concerning this question."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "They, therefore, having been sent forward by the assembly, went through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the gentiles; and they were causing great joy to all the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And, having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the assembly and apostles and elders; and they rehearsed as many things as God wrought with them. The Council at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "But there rose up some from the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, saying, \"It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And the apostles and the elders were assembled together to see about this matter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And, much discussion having arisen, Peter, standing up, said to them, \"Brethren, ye well know that, from early days, God made choice among you, that through my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And the heart-knowing God bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as to us:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "and He made no distinction between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "Now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were strong enough to bear?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as also they.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And all the multitude kept silence: and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul, recounting what signs and wonders God wrought among the gentiles through them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And, after they were silent, James answered, saying, \"Brethren, hear me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Simeon declared how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it has been written,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "'After these things I will return; and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; and the ruins thereof will I build again; and I will set it up;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, even all the gentiles upon whom My name has been called,'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "saith the Lord, Who maketh these things known from of old."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, I judge that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "for Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those preaching him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.\" The Letter to the Gentile Believers"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with the whole assembly, to send men, chosen from themselves, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas who is surnamed Barsabas, and Silas?leading men among the brethren;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "having written through their hand thus: \"The apostles, and the elders, brethren, to the brethren from the gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Forasmuch as we heard that some from among us troubled you with words, unsettling your souls?to whom we gave no directions;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, having chosen men, to send to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "men who have given up their souls in behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas; themselves also reporting the same things to you by word of mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "that ye abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.\" The Believers at Antioch Rejoice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "So they being dismissed came down to Antioch; and, having assembled the multitude, they delivered the letter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And, having read it , they rejoiced at the consolation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And Judas and Silas, themselves also being prophets, exhorted the brethren in many words, and confirmed them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And, having spent a time there , they were sent away with peace from the brethren to those who had sent them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming, with many others also, the good tidings of 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 some days, Paul said to Barnabas, \"Turning about, let us visit the brethren in every city, in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Barnabas was desiring to take with them John also, who was called Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "But Paul was not thinking it proper to take him with them, who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted one from the other; and Barnabas, taking with him Mark, sailed away to Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And Paul, haring chosen Silas, went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And he came down also to Derbe and to Lystra. And, behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, son of a believing Jewish woman, but of a Grecian father;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "who was well reported of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "this one Paul wished to go forth with him; and, taking him, he circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And, as they were journeying through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "So the assemblies were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily. Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "and, having come over against Mysia, they were trying to go on into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "and, passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And a vision appeared to Paul by night: a certain man of Macedonia was standing, and beseeching him, saying, \"Crossing over into Macedonia, help us!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And, when he saw the vision, straightway we sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the Good News to them. Lydia’s Conversion in Philippi ( Revelation 2:18–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we ran in a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "and thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of the district of Macedonia, a colony. And we were tarrying in this city certain days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And, on the sabbath day, we went forth without the gate by a river, where we were supposing there was a place of prayer; and, sitting down, we were speaking to the women who had assembled together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And, when she was immersed, and her household, she besought us , saying, \"If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, abide there .\" And she constrained us. Paul and Silas Imprisoned"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And it came to pass, as we were on our way to the place of prayer, that a certain damsel, having a spirit of divination, met us; who, indeed, was bringing to her masters much gain by sooth-saying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "The same, following after Paul and us, kept crying, saying, \"These men are servants of the Most High God; who, indeed, declare to you a way of salvation.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And this she was doing for many days. But Paul, having been troubled, and turning, said to the spirit, \"I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out from her.\" And it came out that very hour!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, laying hold on Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market-place before the rulers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "and, leading them forward to the magistrates, they said, \"These men, being Jews, are greatly disturbing our city;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "and are declaring customs, which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates, having torn off their garments, were giving orders to beat them with rods;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "and, having laid upon them many stripes, they thrust them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. The Conversion of the Jailer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "And about midnight Paul and Silas, while engaged in prayer, were singing praise to God; and the prisoners were listening to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were loosed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And the jailer, being aroused from sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, \"Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "And, calling for a light, he sprang in, and, being in fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "and, having brought them out, he said, \"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "And they said, \"Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "And they spake to him the word of the Lord with all that were in his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "And, having taken them with him, at that hour of the night he washed their stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "34", "text": "and, bringing them up into his house, he placed a table near them ; and he rejoiced greatly with all his house, having believed in God. An Official Apology"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "35", "text": "And, when it was day, the magistrates sent forth the serjeants, saying, \"Release these men.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "36", "text": "And the jailer reported these words to Paul, \"The magistrates have sent that ye be released; now, therefore, going forth, go on your way in peace.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "37", "text": "But Paul said to them \"Having beaten us in public, uncondemned, being Romans, they cast us into prison; and now are they casting us out secretly? Nay, verily; but, coming themselves, let them lead us out.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "38", "text": "And the serjeants reported these words to the magistrates; and they were afraid, when they heard that they were Romans;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "39", "text": "and, coming, they besought them; and, leading them forth, they kept asking them to go away from the city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "40", "text": "And, coming out from the prison, they entered into the house of Lidia; and, seeing the brethren, they comforted them , and departed."}
{"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 Paul's custom, he went in to them; and for three sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "opening and setting forth that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that \"This Jesus Whom I am proclaiming to you, is the Christ.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And some of them were persuaded, and cast in their lot with Paul and Silas; also, of the devout Greeks, a great number; and, of the principal women, not a few."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "But the Jews, moved with jealousy, and taking to themselves certain evil men of the rabble, and gathering a multitude, were setting the city in an uproar; and, assaulting the house of Jason, they were seeking them to lead them , forth to the populace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "But, not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, shouting, \"These who turned the inhabited earth upside down are present here also;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "whom Jason has received; and these all are acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that \"There is Another King?Jesus!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And they troubled the multitude and the city-rulers, hearing these things;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "and, having taken security from Jason and the rest, they released them. The Character of the Bereans"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "But the brethren straightway sent away both Paul and Silas by night to Beraea; who, indeed, having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "Many, of them, therefore, believed; also, of the reputable Grecian women, and of men, not a few."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "But, when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Beraea the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there also, stirring up and troubling the multitudes,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And then straightway the brethren sent away Paul to journey as far as to the sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there still."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "But those conducting Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a command to Silas and Timothy, that they should come to him as soon as possible, they departed. Paul in Athens"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And, while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him, observing that the city was full of idols."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "So, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were encountering him. And some said, \"What would this babbler wish to say?\" And others said , He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods;\" because he proclaimed the good tidings of Jesus and the resurrection."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And, laying hold of him, they led him upon Mars Hill, saying, \"May we know what this new teaching is, that is being spoken by you!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "for you bring to our ears certain strange things; we wish, therefore, to know what these things mean.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "Now all Athenians and the sojourning foreigners were wont to spend their leisure in nothing else, than either to tell or to hear something new. Paul’s Address in the Areopagus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And Paul, having taken his stand in the midst of Mars Hill, said, \"Men of Athens, in all respects I observe that ye are more than usually regardful of the deities;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "for, passing through, and considering your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What, therefore, in ignorance ye worship, this I declare to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "The God Who made the world and all things therein, The Same being Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "nor is ministered to by human hands, as if needing anything; Himself giving to all life, and breath, and all things;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "and He made of one every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "that they should seek God, if, perhaps, they might feel after Him, and find Him , although, in truth, He is not far from each one of us;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His offspring.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "\"Being, therefore, God's offspring, we ought not to suppose that the God-head is like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by man's art and device!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "God, therefore, having overlooked the time of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "inasmuch as He appointed a day in which He intendeth to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness, by a Man Whom He appointed, having given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "And, hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking; but others said, \"We will hear you concerning this yet again.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "Thus Paul went forth out of their midst."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "But certain men, joining themselves to him, believed; among whom also were Dionysius?the Areopagite?and a woman, Damaris by name, and others with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And, finding a certain Jew, Aquila by name, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart out of Rome), he came to them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "and, because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they labored; for by occupation they were tent-makers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, and was persuading Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And, when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being constrained by the word, fully testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "But, when they resisted, and blasphemed, he, shaking out his garments, said to them, \"Your blood be upon your own head! I am pure! Henceforth I will go to the gentiles.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And, departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man , Titus Justus by name, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house: and many of the Corinthians, having heard, were believing, and being immersed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Lord said to Paul, through a vision by night, \"Fear not, but speak, and be not silent;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "because I am with you, and no one shall set on you to harm you; because I have much people in this city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. Paul before Gallio"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "But, when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul, and brought him to the judgment-seat,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "saying, \"This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, \"If, indeed, it were some wrong or wicked villainy, O Jews, with reason had I borne with you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "but, if they are questions about a word, and names, and your own law, ye yourselves shall see to it . I am not disposed to be a judge of such matters.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And he drove them from the judgment-seat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "But they all, having laid hold upon Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, were beating him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio was caring for none of these things. Paul Returns to Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And Paul, abiding after this yet many days with the brethren, having taken leave of them , was sailing away to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shaven his head in Cenchrea; for he had a vow."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And they came down to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself, entering into the synagogue, reasoned with the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "And, though they asked him to remain a longer time with them, he consented not;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "but, taking leave of them , and saying, \"I will return to you again, God willing,\" he sailed from Ephesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "and, landing at Cesarea, going up and saluting the assembly, 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 spent some time there, he departed, going through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a learned man, came down to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "The same had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and, being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the immersion of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "The same also began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But Priscilla and Aquila, having heard him, took him to themselves , and expounded to him the way of God more accurately."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And, when he was disposed to passover into Achaia, the brethren, encouraging him , wrote to the disciples to receive him; who, having come, helped much those who had believed through grace;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "for powerfully was he refuting the Jews publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it came to pass, while Apollos was in Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "and he said to them, \"Did ye receive the Holy Spirit, after having believed?\" And they said to him, \"Nay, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And he said, \"Into what, then, were ye immersed?\" And they said, \"Into John's immersion.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And Paul said, \"John immersed with an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him coming after him; that is, on Jesus.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And, having heard this , they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "and, Paul having laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they were speaking with tongues, and prophesying."}
{"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, entering into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "But, when some were hardening themselves and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he, withdrawing from them, separated the disciples; reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "And this continued for two years; so that all those dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And God kept performing special miracles through the hands of Paul;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "So that there were even carried from his body to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out. Seven Sons of Sceva"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "But some also of the wandering Jews, exorcists, attempted to name over those having evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, \"I adjure you by the Jesus Whom Paul preaches.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "Now there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest, who did this."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, \"Jesus I know, and Paul I understand; but who are ye?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And the man in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and, overcoming them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who were dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "Many also of those who had believed were coming, confessing, and declaring their practices."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "A considerable number, moreover, of those who had practiced the curious arts, having brought together the books, were burning them in the presence of all; and they counted the prices of them, and found them fifty thousand pieces of silver."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed. The Riot in Ephesus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Now, when these things were ended, Paul purposed in his spirit, after passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem; saying, \"After I have been there, I must see Rome also.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And, having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself remained for a time in Asia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And about that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "For a certain one, Demetrius by name, a silver-smith, making silver shrines of Diana, was bringing to the artisans no small business;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "gathering whom together, and the workmen of like occupation, be said, \"Men, ye know that out of this business we have our wealth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "And ye perceive and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, turned away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods that are made with hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "And not only is there danger to us that this branch of our business will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be reckoned of no account, and also her magnificence will be destroyed, whom all Asia and the inhabited earth worship.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And, hearing this, and becoming full of wrath, they were crying aloud, saying, \"Great is Diana of the Ephesians!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And the city was filled with the confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus?Macedonians?fellow-travelers of Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "And, Paul purposing to enter in unto the people, the disciples were not permitting him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And some also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sending to him, were beseeching him not to venture himself into the theater."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly had become confused, and the greater part knew not for what cause they had come together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And they brought Alexander out of the crowd, the Jews thrusting him forward. And Alexander, waving his hand, wished to make defense to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "But, when they perceived that he was a Jew, one voice arose from all, crying aloud for about two hours, \"Great is Diana of the Ephesians!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "But the town-clerk, having quieted the multitude, says, \"Men of Ephesus, who, indeed, of men is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image that fell down from Jupiter?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "These things, therefore, being incontrovertible, it is needful that ye be quiet, and do nothing rash."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "For ye brought hither these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "If, indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artisans with him have a matter against any one, court-days are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "But, if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be determined in the lawful assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "For, indeed, we are in danger of being accused of riot respecting this day, there existing no cause for it , and regarding which we will be unable to give an account of this concourse.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And, having thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And, after the tumult ceased, Paul, having sent for the disciples, and exhorted them , taking leave of them , departed to go into Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And, having gone through those parts and exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "and, having spent three months there , a plot being laid for him by the Jews, as he was about to sail into Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And there accompanied him Sopater, son of Pyrrhus, a Beraean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Galas of Derbe, and, Timothy; and, of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And these, having gone before, were waiting for us at Troas;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "and we sailed away from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them to Troas in five days; where we tarried seven days. Eutychus Revived at Troas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And on the first day of the sabbaths, we having come together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them (being about to depart on the morrow), and continued the discourse until midnight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And there were many lamps in the upper room, where we were assembled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And a certain young man, Eutychus by name, seated in a window, being borne down with deep sleep, as Paul was long discoursing, overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story, and was taken up dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul, going down, fell upon him; and, embracing him , said, \"Make no tumult! for his soul is in him.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And, having gone up, and broken bread, and eaten, and for a long time having conversed with them , even till break of day, so he departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And they brought the boy alive, and were comforted in no ordinary measure. From Troas to Miletus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And we, going before to the ship, set sail for Assos, there intending to take up Paul; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when he met us at Assos, taking him up, we came to Mytilene."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And sailing thence, we came the following day over against Chios; and the next day we touched at Samos; and, on the following day , we came to Miletus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on 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 assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "And, when they came to him, he said to them, \"Ye yourselves know from the first day on which I came into Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and with trials which befell me in the plottings of the Jews;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "how I shrank not from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and from teaching you publicly, and from house to house,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "fully testifying, both to Jews and Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And, now, behold, I, bound by the Spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "except that the Holy Spirit testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom, will see my face no more."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "Wherefore, I testify to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "for I shrank not from declaring to you the whole counsel of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "I know that, after my departure, grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "and from among yourselves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "Wherefore, watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one with tears."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "\"And now I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all the sanctified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, \"It is more blessed to give than to receive.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "And, having said these things, bowing his knees, he prayed with them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "And great weeping arose from all; and, falling upon Paul's neck, they kept kissing him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "being distressed especially on account of the word which he had spoken, that they were to see his face no more. And they were escorting him to the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when it came to pass that we, having been torn away from them, had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "and, having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, going aboard, we set sail."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And, having come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And, having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days; who, indeed, said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And, when it came to pass that we completed the days, going forth, we were resuming our journey; they all, with wives and children, accompanying us out of the city; and, kneeling down on the beach, having prayed, we bade one another farewell;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "and we embarked upon the ship, but they returned to their homes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And, having finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and, having saluted the brethren, we abode with them one day. Paul Visits Philip the Evangelist"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And, on the morrow, going forth, we came to Caesarea; and, entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of the seven, we abode with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And this man had four daughters, virgins, who prophesied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And, as we tarried there several days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, Agabus by name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And, coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, binding his own feet and hands, he said, \"Thus saith the Holy Spirit, so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind the man who owns this girdle, and shall deliver him up into the hands of the gentiles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And, when we heard these things, both we and those of that place were beseeching him not to go up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Paul answered, \"What are ye doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am ready, not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And, when he would not be persuaded, we were silent, saying, \"The will of the Lord be done.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And, after these days, having gotten ready, we went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And there went with us also some of the disciples from Caesarea, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an aged disciple, with whom we should lodge. Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And, when we came to Jerusalem, the brethren gladly received us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And, on 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 saluted them, he narrated, one by one, each of the things God wrought among the gentiles through his ministry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And they, hearing it , were glorifying God, and said to him, \"You observe, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And they were informed by report concerning you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after the customs."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "What is it, therefore? They will certainly hear that you have come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "Do this, therefore, which we say to you: we have four men who have a vow on them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "taking these to yourself , be purified with them, and incur expense for them, that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing in those things of which they have been instructed concerning you; but that you yourself also are walking orderly, keeping the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we sent to them , having given judgment, that they should keep themselves from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been purified with them, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering should be offered for each one of them. Paul Seized at the Temple"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And, when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid their hands upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "crying out, \"Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place! and, further, he brought Greeks also into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "(For they had previously seen with him in the city Trophimus, the Ephesian, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And all the city was moved, and there was a running together of the people; and, laying hold of Paul, they were dragging him out of the temple; and straightway the doors were shut."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "And, as they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "who, at once, taking with him soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them; and they, seeing the chief captain and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Then the chief captain, coming near, laid hold of him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains; and he was inquiring who he was, and what he had done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd; and, when he could not ascertain the certainty because of the tumult, he ordered that he be brought into the castle."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And, when he came upon the stairway, it happened that he was borne along by the soldiers on account of the violence of the multitude;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "for the throng of the people was following after, crying out, \"Away with him!\" Paul Addresses the Crowd"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And, when about to be led into the castle, Paul says to the chief captain, \"May I say something to you?\" And he said, \"Do you know Greek?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "Are you not, then, the Egyptian who, before these days, caused a revolt, and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "But Paul said, \"I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I beseech you, permit me to speak to the people.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "And, when he gave him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and, when there was great silence, he spake to them in the Hebrew language, saying:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "\"Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now make to you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "And, hearing that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they kept more quiet;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "and he says, \"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God, even as ye all are to-day;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "and I persecuted this Way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "as also the high priest testifies for me, and all the eldership; from whom, having received letters, I was journeying to Damascus, intending to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And it came to pass, that, as I was journeying, and was drawing nigh to Damascus, about midday, there suddenly flashed around me a great light out of the heaven;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "and I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I answered, 'Who art Thou, Lord?' And He said to me, 'I am Jesus, the Nazarene, Whom you are persecuting.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And those who were with me beheld, indeed, the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him Who spake to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Arising, go into Damascus, and there it shall be told you concerning all things which have been arranged for you to do.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And, as I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those accompanying me, I came into Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And one Ananias, a devout, man according to the law, well spoken of by all the resident Jews,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "coming to me, and standing by, said to me, 'Brother Saul, look up.' And I, in that very hour, looked up on him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "because you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you have seen, and heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "And now why do you delay? Arising, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "and saw Him, saying to me, 'Make haste, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And I said, 'Lord, they themselves understand that I was imprisoning and beating, throughout the synagogues, those believing on Thee;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "and, when the blood of Stephen, Thy witness, was poured forth, I myself also was standing by, and approving, and guarding the garments of those who slew him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to me, 'Depart, because I will send you far hence to the gentiles.' Paul the Roman Citizen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "Now they were listening to him up to this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, \"Away with such a one from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And, as they were crying out, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust into the air,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "the chief captain gave orders that he should be brought into the castle, saying that he should be examined by scourges, that he might fully know for what cause they were thus clamoring against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And, as they stretched him out for the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, \"Is it lawful for you to scourge a man, who is a Roman, and uncondemned?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And the centurion, hearing it , going to the chief captain, reported it , saying, \"What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And the chief captain, going forward, said to him, \"Tell me, are you a Roman?\" And he said, \"Yes.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "And the chief captain answered, \"I, for a great sum, acquired this citizenship.\" And Paul said, \"But I have been born a citizen .\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "Straightway, therefore, those who were about to examine him departed from him; and the chief captain also was struck with fear, having ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "And, on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty, wherefore he was accused by the Jews, he released him, and gave orders that the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin should assemble together; and, bringing Paul down, he set him among them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And Paul, looking intently on the Sanhedrin, said, \"Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And the high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by, to smite him on the mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Paul said to him, \"God is about to smite you?you whited wall! And do you sit judging me according to the law, and, in violation of law, command me to be smitten?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And those standing by said, \"Do you revile God's high priest?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And Paul said, \"I knew not, brethren, that he was high priest; for it has been written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And Paul, perceiving that the one part was of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, was crying out in the Sanhedrin, \"Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; concerning the hope and resurrection from the dead, I am being judged.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And, when he said this, there arose a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees; and the multitude was divided."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge both."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And there arose a great clamor, and some of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees, rising up, were fiercely contending, saying, \"We find no evil in this man; but, if a spirit spake to him, or an angel ?.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And, when a great dissension was arising, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul might be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers, going down, to take him by force out of their midst, and lead him into the castle."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And, on the following night, the Lord, standing by him , said, \"Be of good courage; for, as you fully testified as to the things concerning Me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome also.\" The Plot to Kill Paul ( John 16:1–4 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And, when it was day, the Jews , making a conspiracy, bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink, till they had killed Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And there were more than forty, who made this conspiracy;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "who, indeed, going to the high priests and elders, said, \"We bound ourselves under a curse to taste of nothing until we kill Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Now, therefore, do ye with the Sanhedrin signify to the chief captain that he bring him down to you, as if ye would ascertain more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before he comes near, are ready to kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "And the son of Paul's sister, hearing of their lying in wait, going and entering into the castle, reported it to Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "And Paul, calling to himself one of the centurions, said, \"Bring this young man to the chief captain; for he has something to tell him,\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "So he, taking him with him , conducted him to the chief captain, and said, \"Paul, the prisoner, calling me to him, asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "And the chief captain, taking hold of his hand, and going aside privately, was asking him, \"What is it that you have to tell me?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said, \"The Jews agreed to ask you, that tomorrow you would bring Paul down into the Sanhedrin, as if they would inquire somewhat more exactly concerning him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "Be not, therefore, persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; who, indeed, bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor drink, till they should kill him; and now they are ready, expecting the promise from you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "The chief captain, therefore, dismissed the young man, charging him , \"Tell no one that you have shown these things to me,\" Paul Sent to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "And, calling to him two of the centurions, he said, \"Make ready two hundred soldiers, that they may go as far as Caesarea; and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "to provide beasts also, that, putting Paul thereon, they may bring him safely through to Felix the governor;\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "writing a letter after this form:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "\"Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, Greeting:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "This man having been arrested by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I, going down with the army, rescued; having heard that he was a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "And, wishing to know clearly the cause for which they were accusing him, I led him down into their Sanhedrin;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "whom I found to be accused, concerning their law, but having no accusation worthy of death or of bonds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "And, a plot that was about to be against the man having been discovered to me, I immediately sent him to you, charging the accusers to speak against him before you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "The soldiers, therefore, according to what had been commanded them, taking up Paul, brought him by night to Antipatris;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "but, on the morrow, they returned to the castle, leaving the horsemen to go with him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "who, indeed, coming to Caesarea, and delivering the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And, having read it, he asked of what province he was. And, learning that he was from Cilicia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "\"I will hear you fully,\" he said, \"when your accusers also arrive:\" giving orders, that he should be kept under guard in Herod's palace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And, after five days, the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus; who, indeed, informed the governor against Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And, he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, \"Seeing that, through you, we enjoy great peace, and reforms accrue to this nation through your forethought,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "in every way and everywhere; we welcome it , most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "\"But, that I detain you no longer, I pray you to hear us briefly in your clemency."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "For, finding this man a plague, and stirring up insurrections among the Jews throughout the inhabited earth , and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "who also attempted to desecrate the temple; whom also we seized.?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "[But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, commanding his accusers to come before you;]"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "from whom you will be able, after having examined him yourself, to obtain full knowledge of all these things of which we accuse him.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Jews also assented, affirming that these things were so. Paul’s Defense to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul answered, the governor having beckoned to him to speak: \"Knowing that you, for many years, have been a judge to this nation, cheerfully do I make defense as to the things concerning myself;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "since you are able clearly to know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any one, or causing a stirring up of a multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "nor are they able to prove to you the things of which they are now accusing me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "But I confess this to you, that, according to the Way which they call 'heresy,' so I worship the God of our fathers, believing all those things, which are according to the law, and which have been written in the prophets;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "having hope toward God?which these themselves also are looking for?that there will be a resurrection, both of the righteous and unrighteous."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "In this I myself also am striving always to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "Now, after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "amidst which they found me purified in the temple, neither with a multitude, nor with a tumult; but there were certain Jews from Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "who ought to be present before you and accuse me , if they have anything against me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "Or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when standing before the Sanhedrin,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "except concerning this one voice with which I cried aloud, standing among them, 'Concerning a resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you this day.' The Verdict Postponed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "But Felix put them off, knowing more accurately the things concerning the Way, saying, \"When Lysias the chief captain comes down, I will determine your matters;\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "giving orders to the centurion that he should be held, and should have indulgence, and to prevent none of his friends from ministering to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And, after some days, Felix, having come with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And, as he was reasoning about righteousness, continence, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming terrified, answered, \"Go your way for the present; and, when I obtain a suitable opportunity, I will call for you;\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "at the same time also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul; wherefore, also, sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "But, when two years were completed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; and, wishing to gain favor with 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 Caesarea;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "and the high priests and chief men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and were beseeching him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "asking it as a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush, to kill him on the way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "Festus, therefore, answered, that Paul was held at Caesarea, and that he himself was about shortly to go out thither ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "\"Let those, therefore, among you,\" said he, who are able, going down with me , accuse him, if there is anything amiss in him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "And, having spent among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and, on the morrow, sitting on the judgment-seat, he ordered Paul to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "And, when he presented himself , the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around him , bringing many and grievous charges, which they were not able to prove;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "Paul saying in his defense, \"Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, did I commit any sin.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "But Festus, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, answering, said to Paul, \"Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, to be judged there concerning these things before me?\" Paul Appeals to Caesar"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul said, \"I am standing at Caesar's judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you also very well know."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "If, therefore, I am a wrong-doer, and have perpetrated anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but, if there is nothing in the things of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me as a favor to them. I appeal to Caesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "Then Festus, having consulted with the council, answered, To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go.\" Festus Consults Agrippa"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "And, some days having elapsed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came to Caesarea to salute Festus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "And, as they were spending several days there, Festus laid before the king the things relating to Paul, saying, \"There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the high priests and elders of the Jews gave information, asking for sentence against him:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "to whom I made answer, It is not a custom with Romans to grant as a favor any man, before the accused has the accuser face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge laid against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "When, therefore, they came together here, I, making no delay, the next day, sitting on the judgment-seat, ordered the man to be brought;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "concerning whom, the accusers, standing up, were bringing no accusation of evils such as I was supposing;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "but certain questions concerning their peculiar religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And, being perplexed in regard to the inquiry concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem, and there be judged concerning these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "But, as Paul appealed to be held for the decision of Augustus, I ordered, that he be held, until I should send him up to Caesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, \"I myself also was wishing to hear the man.\" \"To-morrow,\" said he, \"you shall hear him.\" Paul before Agrippa and Bernice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "On the morrow, therefore, Agrippa and Bernice having come with great display; and, having entered into the audience-chamber, with both the chief captains and the principal men of the city, Festus having ordered it , Paul was brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And Festus says, \"King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye behold this man, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews made suit to me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that it was not proper that he should live any longer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "But I found that he committed nothing worthy of death; and, as he himself appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore, I brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order that, when the examination has taken place, I may have something to write;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "for it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to signify also the charges against him.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And Agrippa said to Paul, \"You are permitted to speak in your own behalf.\" Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, was making his defense:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "\"I deem myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am about this day to make my defense before you, concerning all things of which I am being accused by Jews;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "especially since you are an expert in all matters relating to Jews, both in customs and questions. Wherefore, I beseech you to hear me patiently."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "My manner of life, therefore, from my youth, which from the first was among my own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "having known me from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "And now, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, I have taken my stand to be judged;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "unto which promise our twelve-tribed nation , earnestly serving day and night, is hoping to attain; concerning which hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "I, verily, therefore, imagined to myself that it was proper that I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "which also I did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints also did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the high priests; and, when they were being put to death, I have given a vote against them ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "and, punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was compelling them to blaspheme; and, being exceedingly enraged against them, I was persecuting them even unto foreign cities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "Meanwhile as I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and a commission from the high priests,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "at midday, O King, I saw, in the way, a light from Heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those journeying with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "And, we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul! Saul! why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "And I said, 'Who art Thou, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "But arise, and stand upon your feet; for I appeared to you for this end, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things in which you saw Me, and of the things in which I will appear to you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "delivering you from the people and the gentiles, to whom I send you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified 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 I declared both to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem, and through all the region of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "On account of these things, Jews, seizing me in the temple, were attempting to kill me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "Having, therefore, obtained help from God, I have stood to this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing, except those things which both the prophets and Moses said would come to pass;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "that the Christ was destined to suffer; that He, first out of a resurrection of the dead, is destined to declare light both to the people and to the gentiles.\" Festus Interrupts Paul’s Defense"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "And, as he was saying these things in defense, Festus says with a loud voice, \"Paul, you are mad! your much learning is turning you mad!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "But Paul says, \"I am not mad, most noble Festus; but I utter words of truth and soberness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "For the king knows well concerning these things, to whom also I speak boldly; for I am persuaded that no one of these things is hidden from him; for this has not been done in a corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "And Agrippa said to Paul, \"In a small degree you are persuading me to make a Christian!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And Paul said, \"I could pray God, that, both in a small degree and in a great degree , not only you, but also all who hear me this day, may become such as I am, except these chains!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "and, having withdrawn, they were talking one to 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 set at liberty, had he not appealed to Caesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And, when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, Julius by name, of the Augustan band."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "And, embarking upon a ship of Adramyttium, about to sail along the coasts of Asia, we put to Sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "And the next day we landed at Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul humanely, gave him permission to go to his friends to receive their attention."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "And, thence putting out to sea, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And, sailing over the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And there the centurion, finding an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us on board of it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And, sailing slowly many days, and with difficulty having come over against Cnidus, the wind not permitting us to approach, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "and, coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near which was a city?Lasea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "And much time having been spent, and sailing being already dangerous, because also the fast had already gone by, Paul was admonishing them ,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "saying, \"Men! I perceive that the voyage is likely to be with violence and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "But the centurion believed the pilot and the owner of the ship, more than the things spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And, because the harbor was incommodious to winter in, the greater part advised to set sail thence, if by any means, having reached Phoenix, a harbor of Crete?looking toward the south-west and north-west ?we might be able to winter there . The Storm at Sea"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "And, when the south wind was blowing gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, lifting anchor , they were coasting nearer to Crete."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "But, not long after, there beat down upon it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euroclydon."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And, the ship being caught, and unable to face the wind, yielding to it, we were borne along."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "And, running under a certain small island, called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to secure the boat;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, lowering the sail, so they were borne along."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "And, we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they were making an overthrow of the cargo ;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "and, on the third day, with their own hands, they cast out the rigging of the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "And, when neither sun nor stars appeared to us for many days, and no small tempest was pressing upon us, henceforth all hope that we should be saved was being utterly taken away."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "And, after long abstinence from food , then Paul, standing up in the midst of them, said, \"Ye ought, indeed, O men, hearkening to me, not to have set sail from Crete, and to have incurred this violence and loss."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "And, as to the present things , I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of soul among you, but only of the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "For there stood by me this night an angel of the God Whose I am, and Whom I serve,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "saying, 'Fear not, Paul; it is necessary that you should stand before Caesar, and, behold, God has granted to you as a favor all those sailing with you.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore, men, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it will be even so as it has been told me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "But we must be cast out on a certain island.\" The Shipwreck"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "And, when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven along the Adria, about midnight the sailors were surmising that some country was approaching them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "and, sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and, going a little further, and again sounding, they found fifteen fathoms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "And, fearing lest perhaps we might wreck against rocky places, having cast four anchors out of the stern, they were praying that day would come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "And, when the sailors were seeking to escape out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, by pretext, as though they were about to cast anchors out of the prow,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, \"Except these abide 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, when the day was about to dawn, Paul was beseeching them all to take food, saying, \"To-day is the fourteenth day ye, waiting, continue fasting, having taken nothing;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "wherefore, I beseech you to partake of food; for this makes the beginning of your deliverance; for a hair from the head of no one of you shall perish.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And, having said these things, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and, breaking it , he began to eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "And, all having become of good cheer, they themselves also partook of food."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "And, having been satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And, when it was day, they were not recognizing the land; but they were observing a certain bay, having a beach, into which they purposed, if they might be able, to thrust the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "And, casting off the anchors, they let them go into the sea; at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and hoisting the fore-sail to the breeze, they were holding their course towards the beach."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "But, falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow, sticking fast, remained immovable, but the stern was being broken to pieces by the violence of the waves ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "Now it was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any one, swimming out, might escape."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and he commanded that those able to swim, throwing themselves first into the sea, should get out upon the land;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "and the rest?some, indeed, on planks, and others on some of the things from the Ship. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "And, having safely escaped, we then ascertained that the island was called Melita."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And the barbarians were extending to us no ordinary kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they took us all in, because of the present rain, and because of the cold."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And Paul, having gathered a certain lot of fuel, and put it on the fire, a viper, coming out from the heat, fastened upon his hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said among themselves, \"Assuredly this man is a murderer, whom, though safely escaping from the sea, justice permitted not to live.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "He, therefore, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no harm;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "but they were expecting that he would surely become swollen, or suddenly fall down dead; but, after looking a great while, and observing nothing unusual happening to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "Now, in the districts round about that place, were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius; who, receiving us, entertained us hospitably three days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And it happened that the father of Publius was lying prostrate, afflicted with fever and dysentery; to whom Paul coming, and praying, laying his hands on him, healed him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "And, when this happened, the others also, who had diseases in the island, were coming to him , and being healed;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "who also honored us with many honors; and, when we were setting sail, they placed on board the things suited to our needs. Paul Arrives in Italy"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And, after three months, we set sail in an Alexandrian ship, which had wintered in the island, marked CASTOR AND POLLUX."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And, landing at Syracuse, we remained three days:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "whence, making a circuit, we came to Rhegium. And, after one day, a south wind springing up, we came on the second day to Puteoli;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "where, finding brethren, we were entreated to remain with them seven days; and so we came towards Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And from thence the brethren, having heard the tidings concerning us, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns; seeing whom, Paul, giving thanks to God, took courage. Paul Preaches at Rome"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And, when we came to Rome, it was permitted Paul to dwell by himself with the soldier who guarded him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together those who were chief men of the Jews; and, when they came together, he said to them, \"Brethren, having done nothing contrary to the people, or to our ancestral customs, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "who, indeed, having examined me, were disposed to release me, because there was in me no cause of death."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "But, when the Jews spake against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have anything of which to accuse my nation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "For this cause, therefore, I called for you, to see and to speak with you: for, on account of the hope of Israel, I am encompassed with this chain.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "21", "text": "But they said to him, \"We neither received letters from Judaea concerning you, nor did any one of the brethren, coming, report or speak any evil concerning you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "22", "text": "But we deem it proper to hear from you what you think: for, indeed, concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "23", "text": "And, having arranged for him a day, there came to him to his lodging a greater number, to whom he was expounding, fully testifying as to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "24", "text": "And some were believing the things spoken, and some were disbelieving."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "25", "text": "And, disagreeing among themselves, they were departing, when Paul uttered one declaration, \"Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "26", "text": "saying, 'Go your way to this people, and say, With hearing ye shall hear, but in no wise understand; and, looking, ye shall look, and in no wise see;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "27", "text": "for the heart of this people was made gross; and with their ears they heard heavily; and their eyes they closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should heal them.'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "28", "text": "Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the gentiles was this salvation of God sent: they also will hear.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "29", "text": "OMITTED TEXT."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "30", "text": "And he remained two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and was wont to welcome all who came to him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "31", "text": "preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom of speech, without hindrance."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "which He promised before through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "concerning His Son, Who was born of the seed of David, according to His flesh,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead? even Jesus Christ our Lord,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "through Whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name's sake;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "among whom also are ye the called of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: 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 thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is proclaimed in the whole world."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For God is my witness, Whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that ye may be established;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "that is, to be comforted together among you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "so, as much as in me is , I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, \"But the righteous shall live by faith.\" God’s Wrath against Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For God's wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "because that which is known of God is manifested in them; for God manifested it to them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For His invisible things, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Wherefore, God gave them up in the desires of their hearts unto the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "who, indeed, change the truth of God into falsehood; and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions; for both their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "and, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their desires one for another; men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which was due."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And, as they did not approve the holding of God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "who, indeed, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with those who practice them ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges; for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those practicing such things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And do you reckon this, O man, who judge those who practice such things, and do the same yourself , that you will escape the judgment of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Or, do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "but, after your hardness and impenitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who will render to every man according to his works;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but glory and honor and peace to every one who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "for there is no respect 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 under law shall be judged by law;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers shall be justified;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "who, indeed, show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with it , and between one another their thoughts accusing or even excusing them ;)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, through Jesus Christ, The Jews and the Law"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "and understand His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "and have become confident that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "you , therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you do the law; but, if you are transgressors of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "If, therefore, the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision he reckoned for circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in flesh;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "but he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For what, if some did disbelieve? Shall their disbelief make void the faithfulness of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, \"That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "It could not be! for, then, how shall God judge the world?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), \"Let us do evil that good may come?\" whose condemnation is just. There Is No One Righteous"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "What, then? Are we better than they ? Not at all; for we before charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "as it has been written, \"There is none righteous, no not one;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "their feet are swift to shed blood;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "destruction and misery are in their ways;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and the ways of peace have they not known;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "there is no fear of God before their eyes.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin. Righteousness through Faith in Christ ( Philippians 3:1–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "But now, apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "even a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe; for there is no distinction;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "for the manifestation of His righteousness in the present time, to the end that He may be righteous, even when declaring righteous him who has faith in Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "For we reckon that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "Or is He the God of Jews only? Is He not of gentiles also! Yes, of gentiles also;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "if, indeed, God is One Who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Do we, then, make void the law through faith? It could not be! Yea, we establish the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For what does the Scripture say? \"And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "but to him that works not, but believes on Him Who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "\"Happy are those whose iniquities were forgiven, and whose sins were covered."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Does this happiness, therefore, come upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, \"Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "How, then, was it reckoned? When he was 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 righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "and father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. Abraham Receives the Promise"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "For, if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "(as it has been written, \"A father of many nations have I made you\"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, \"So shall your seed be.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And, being not weakened in faith, he attentively considered his own body already dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made strong in faith, giving glory to God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Who was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised for our justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Having been justified, therefore, by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "through Whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have been standing; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And not only so , but we also rejoice in our tribulations; knowing that tribulation works out patience;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "and patience, approval; and approval, hope;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy Spirit, Who was given to us. Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly ( John 3:1–21 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; for, peradventure, in behalf of a good man, some one even dares to die."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "But God commendeth His own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Much more, therefore, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "and not only so , but we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation. Death in Adam, Life in Christ"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned, when there is no law:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for, if by the trespass of the one, the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the One Man, Christ Jesus, abound to the many."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift; for, indeed, the judgment came of one trespass unto condemnation; but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For, if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall those who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "So, then, as through one trespass, the judgment came to all men unto condemnation; so also, through one righteous act, the free gift came to all men unto justification of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And the law entered, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did super-abound;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "that, as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "What, then, shall we say? Shall we persist in sin, that grace may abound?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Or are ye ignorant, that all we who were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For, if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him , that the body of sin might be brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "for he that died has been justified from sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "But, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death no more has dominion over Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For the death that He died, He died to Sin once for all; but the life that He liveth He liveth to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Even so reckon ye also yourselves dead, indeed, to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its desires;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace. The Wages of Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "What, then? May we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It could not be!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "and, having been made free from sin, ye were made slaves of righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For, when ye were slaves of sin, ye were free as to righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Or, are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has dominion over the man as long as he lives?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but, if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of the husband."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another?to Him Who was raised from the dead?that we might bear fruit to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "But now we have been fully discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. God’s Law Is Holy"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, \"You shall not covet;\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And I was alive apart from the law once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "for sin, taking occasion through the commandment, thoroughly deceived me, and through it slew me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "So that the law is holy, and the command is holy and righteous and good. Struggling with Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "For what I accomplish, I know not; for not what I wish, this do I practice; but what I hate, this I do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "But, if what I wish not, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And now no longer do I accomplish it, but the sin which dwells in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "But, if what I wish not, this I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that is dwelling in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Consequently, I find the law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is present."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "or I delight in the law of God after the inward man;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Accordingly, therefore, I myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but, with the flesh, the law of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For those who are according to the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "and those who are 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 is dwelling in you. And, if any one has not the spirit of Christ, he is not His."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And, if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And, if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will make alive your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you. Heirs with Christ"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "Accordingly, then, brethren, we are debtors, not 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 are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death 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 sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, \"Abba, Father.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "The Spirit Himself testifieth with our spirit, that we are children of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "and, if children, heirs also; heirs, indeed, of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if, indeed, we suffer with Him , that we may be also glorified with Him . Future Glory ( 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory about to be revealed for us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of choice, but by reason of Him Who subjected it, in hope"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "and, not only so , but ourselves also, who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "For by hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for that which he sees?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "But, if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And, in like manner, the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And He Who searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. God Works in All Things ( Ephesians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And we know that all things are working together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And whom He predestined, 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 things? If God is for us, who is against us?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "He Who spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "Who will bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God Who justifieth;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "who is he that condemns? It is Christ Who died, yea, rather, That was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God, Who also is making intercession for us. More than Conquerors"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or perils or sword?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "As it has been written, \"For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For I am persuaded that, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "I am speaking a truth in Christ?I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "who, indeed, are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. God’s Sovereign Choice"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, \"In Isaac shall your seed be called.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For the word of the promise is this: \"At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "(for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "it was said to her, \"The elder shall serve the younger.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Even as it has been written, \"Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "For He saith to Moses, \"I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, \"For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "So, then, He hath mercy on whom He willeth, and whom He willeth He hardeneth."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "You will say to me, then, \"Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, \"Why didst Thou make me thus?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Or has not the potter a right over the clay, out of the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And what if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "and that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "whom He also called, not from Jews only, but also from gentiles?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "As He saith in Hosea, \"I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, \"If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "for the Lord will do a work on the earth, finishing it, and cutting it short."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And, as Isaiah has said before: \"Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah.\" Israel’s Unbelief"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not attain to such a law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "as it has been written, \"Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, the desire, indeed, of my heart, and my supplication to God in their behalf, is that they may be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believes."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "but the righteousness which is of faith speaks thus: \"Say not in your heart, who shall ascend up into Heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "or, who shall descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "that if you shall confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "for with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "For the Scripture says, \"Whosoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the Same One is Lord of all, being rich toward all who call upon Him;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "for, \"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "How, then, shall they call on Him in Whom they believed not? and how shall they believe on Him of Whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "and how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it has been written, \"How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "But they did not all obey the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, \"Lord, who believed our report?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Consequently, faith comes of hearing; and hearing, through the word of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "But I say, did they not hear? Yes, verily, \"Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth .\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, \"I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But Isaiah is very bold, and says, \"I was found by those who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who sought not after Me.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "But in respect to Israel He saith, \"All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "\"Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, they have digged down Thy altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my soul.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "But what says the answer of God to him? \"I left for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "Even so, then, at this present time also, a remnant, according to an election of grace, has been reserved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "But, if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise the grace becomes no longer grace. [But, if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.]"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it , and the rest were hardened;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "as it has been written, \"God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And David says, \"Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down 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 could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Now, if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more their fulness?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "But I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch, indeed, then, as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "if by any means I may excite to rivalry my flesh, and save some of them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be , but life from the dead?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "You will say, then, \"The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold, then, God's kindness and severity; toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise, you also shall 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 you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? All Israel Will Be Saved"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, \"There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "and this is the covenant from Me to them, when I shall take away their sins.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "As touching the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "for the gifts and calling of God are not repented of."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but just now obtained mercy by their disobedience;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "For God shut up all unto disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. A Hymn of Praise"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past tracing out,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "For who knew the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counsellor?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "Because, of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And, having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "or ministry, let us labor in the ministry; or he that teaches, in teaching;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "or he that exhorts, in his exhortation; he that imparts, let him do it with liberality; he that presides, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Love, Zeal, Hope, Hospitality ( John 13:31–35 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "in brotherly love being tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor, preferring one another;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "in diligence, not slothful; in spirit, fervent, serving the Lord;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; persevering in prayer;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "communicating to the necessities of the saints; cultivating hospitality. Forgiveness ( Matthew 18:21–35 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Bless those who persecute you; bless, and curse not."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Be ready to rejoice with those who rejoice; to weep with those who weep;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "thinking the same thing one toward another; minding not lofty things, but being carried along with the lowly. Be ye not wise in your own conceits;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath of God : for it has been written, \"Vengeance is Mine; I will recompense,\" saith the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "But, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for, in doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let every soul be in subjection to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority, except from God; and the authorities that are have been appointed by God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "So that he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those having resisted shall receive to themselves condemnation;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "for rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise from the same;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore, there is necessity that ye submit yourselves, not only because of the wrath, but also because of conscience."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "For, on this account, ye pay tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Render to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Love Fulfills the Law"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For this, \"You shall not commit adultery,\" \"You shall not kill,\" \"You shall not steal,\" \"You shall not covet;\" and, if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Love works no ill to one's neighbor: therefore, love is a fulfillment of the law. The Day Is Near"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "The night was far spent, and the day has drawn near; let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "One believes that he may eat all things; but he that is weak eats herbs."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "One man, indeed, esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike . Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "He that regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives thanks to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For, if we live, we live to the Lord; and, if we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "For to this end Christ died, and lived, that He might be Lord of both dead and living."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "But you?why do you judge your brother? or you also?why do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "For it has been written, \"As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So, then, each one of us shall give account concerning himself to God. The Law of Love ( 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "I know, and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: except that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Let not, therefore, your good be evil spoken of;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "for the Kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is evil to him who eats with offense."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "The faith which you have, have to yourself before God. Happy is he that judges not himself in that which he approves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And he who doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Now we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, \"The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "Now the God of patience and of consolation grant you to be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "that with one accord ye may, with one mouth, 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 one another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, \"For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And again He saith, \"Rejoice, ye gentiles with His people.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "And again, \"Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let all the people extol Him.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And again Isaiah says, \"There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may 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 myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "I have, therefore, my glorying in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel?not where Christ was already named?that I might not build upon another's foundation;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "but, as it has been written, \"Those shall see, to whom nothing was announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard shall understand.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Wherefore, also, I was being hindered many times from coming to you; Paul’s Travel Plans ( 1 Corinthians 16:5–9 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "but now, having no longer any place in these regions; and, having a desire for many years to come to you,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "whensoever I go to Spain (for I am hoping, in passing through, to see you, and to be sent on my way thither by you, if first I have been satisfied, in a measure, with your company);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "but now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "After having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you into Spain;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "and I know that, when coming to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "that I may be delivered from the unbelieving in Judea, and that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And the God of peace be with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "and salute the assembly that is in her house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia unto Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who, indeed, are of note among the apostles, who have been in Christ longer than I."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "Salute Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the household of Aristobulus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Salute Triphaena and Triphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Salute Rufus, the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren who are with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you. Avoid Divisions ( Titus 3:9–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which ye learned; and turn away from them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to evil."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Colossians 4:7–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "Timothy my fellow-worker salutes you; and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "I, Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "Gaius my host, and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Omitted Text Doxology ( Jude 1:24–25 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "Now to Him Who is able to establish you, according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "but now made manifest, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called saints, with all, in every place, who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ?their Lord and ours:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace be 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 thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "that in everything ye were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccusable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "God is faithful, through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Unity in the Church ( Ephesians 4:1–16 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Now I mean this: that each one of you is saying, \"I am of Paul;\" and \"I of Apollos;\" and \"I of Cephas:\" and \"I of Christ!\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Hath Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye immersed into the name of Paul?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I am thankful that I immersed no one of you, except Crispus and Gaius;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And I immersed also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. The Message of the Cross"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For it has been written, \"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For, since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "seeing that both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, a stumbling-block, and to the gentiles foolishness;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Wisdom from God"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "that no flesh should glory before God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who was made to us wisdom from God, also righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "that, even as it has been written, \"He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "for I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "that your faith should 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 perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery?the hidden wisdom ?which God predestined before the ages for our glory;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "but, as it has been written, \"Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man?whatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him\";"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ?even the deep things of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; combining spiritual things with spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal?as to babes in Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "I fed you with milk, and not solid food; for not yet were ye able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For, when one says, \"I am of Paul;\" and another, \"I am of Apollos;\" are ye not carnal?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "What, then, is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and as the Lord gave to each."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "I planted, Apollos watered; but God causeth it to grow."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And he that plants and he that waters are one; but each shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building. Christ Our Foundation ( Ephesians 2:19–22 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And, if any one builds on the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "If any one's work which he built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through 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 a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, \"He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And again, \"The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore, let no one glory 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 things to come, all are yours;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it , why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it ?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Even until this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "and we toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "being defamed, we entreat; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now. Paul’s Fatherly Warning"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Not as shaming you, do I write these things, but as my beloved children, admonishing you ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For, though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "I beseech you, therefore, become imitators of me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "but I will come to you shortly if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "What do ye wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even , Christ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Expel the Immoral Brother"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "not at all meaning , with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner?with such a one, not even to eat."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "But those who are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, then, things pertaining to this life?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren! Members of Christ"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, 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 for me; but all are not profitable. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the control of any."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through His power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, taking away the members of Christ, make them members of a harlot? It could not be!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, \"the two\", He saith, \"shall be one flesh\";"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "but he who is united 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 a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye were bought with a price; glorify God, therefore, in your body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Let the husband render to the wife her due; and, in like manner, the wife to the husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "But this I say by way of permission, not of command."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them, if they remain even as I am ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "But, if they have not continency let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And to the married I give command?not I, but the Lord?that the wife depart not from her husband;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and that the husband leave not his wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And, if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; else your children are unclean; but as it is they are holy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "But, if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister has not come into bondage in such cases; but God hath called us in peace."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "For what do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or what do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? Live Your Calling"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each one, as God hath called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the assemblies."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "Was any one called, having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been 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 commandments of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "Let each one abide in that calling in which he was called."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "Ye were bought with a price; become not slaves of men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Brethren, let each one abide with God in the same condition in which he was called. The Unmarried and Widowed"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Now, concerning the virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as having received mercy from the Lord to be faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely , that it is good for a man to be thus."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Have you become bound to a wife? Seek not a release. Have you been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "and those who use the world, as not using it to the full; for the fashion of this world is passing away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "But, if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter , if she be beyond the prime of life, and thus it ought to be brought about, let him do what he wishes, he sins not; let them marry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "But he who has been standing steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has authority respecting his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, that he will keep his own virgin daughter , will do well."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "So that both he that gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage will do better."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but, if her husband fall asleep, she is at liberty to he married to whom she will: only in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "But she is happier, if she abides as she is, according to my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know because we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "but, if anyone loves God, the same has been known by Him:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many);"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "yet to us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "For he that is weak?the brother for whom Christ died?perishes by reason of your knowledge."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And thus, sinning against the brethren, and smiting their conscience which is weak, ye sin against Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are ye not my work in the Lord?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "If to others I am not an apostle, yet to you at least I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "My defense to those examining me is this."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Have we no right to eat, and to drink?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Have we no right to lead about a sister as our wife, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Or have only I and Barnabas no right to give up working?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Who ever serves as a soldier 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": "Do I speak these things after the manner of man? Or does not the law also say the same?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For in the law of Moses it has been written, \"You shall not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain.\" Doth God care for the oxen?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Or doth He say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written; because he that plows ought to plow in hope; and he that threshes ought to thresh in hope of partaking."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "If we sowed for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "If others partake of this authority over you, do not we still more? But we used not this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For, if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "What, then, is my reward? That, when proclaiming the Gospel, I may make the Gospel without charge, to the end that I may not fully use my right in the Gospel. Paul the Servant to All"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For, being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others . Run Your Race to Win"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "For I do not wish you to 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 unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "and all ate the same spiritual food;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was the Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "But in the most of them God took no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, \"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Nor let us tempt the Lord, as some of them tempted Him , and perished by the serpents."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, let him who thinks he is standing take heed, lest he fall."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Flee from Idolatry"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I am speaking as to wise men; judge ye what I say."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "because we, the many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "What, then, do I say? that an idol-sacrifice is anything? or that an idol is anything?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "Nay , but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the 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": "Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? 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, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful, but not all things build up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Let no one seek his own, but each another's good."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Whatsoever is sold in the market eat, asking no question because of conscience;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "If one of the unbelieving invites you to a feast , and ye wish to go, whatsoever is set before you eat, asking no question because of conscience."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "But, if anyone says to you, \"This is the remains of an idol-sacrifice.\" eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and because of conscience:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "even as I also, in all things, please all men : not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Become imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "Now I praise you, that you remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "Every man, praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "But every woman, praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same, as if she were shaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "For, if a woman is unveiled, let her also be shaven; but, if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "for man is not from woman, but woman from man;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "for man was also not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Nevertheless, neither is woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman, in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "For, as the woman is of the man, so also is the man through the woman; but all things are of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "Judge ye in yourselves; is it becoming that a woman, unveiled, should pray to God?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "But, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies 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": "But, in giving this charge, I praise you not; because, not for the better, but for the worse, do ye come together."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "When, therefore, ye assemble yourselves together, it is not to eat a Supper of the Lord;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "and, having given thanks, He broke it , and said, \"This is My body which is for you; this do in remembrance of Me.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying \"This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me:\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "for, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death, till He come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "Therefore, whosoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body, and blood of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "for he that eats and drinks unworthily , eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and not a few sleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "But, if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the spiritual gifts , brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye know that ye were gentiles, carried away to the dumb idols, as ye were led."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Wherefore, I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God, says, \"Jesus is accursed\"; and no one can say, \"Jesus is Lord,\" except in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And there are diversities of ministries, and the same Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, Who worketh all things in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profiting."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For to one, indeed, is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom; and to another, a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "to another, faith, in the same Spirit; and to another, gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "and to another, workings of mighty deeds; and to another, prophecy; and to another, discerning of spirits; to another, various kinds of tongues; and to another, interpretation of tongues."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "But all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one, severally, even as He willeth. 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 body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "for, indeed, in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "For the body also is not one member, but many."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "If the foot should say, \"Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body\"; it is not, therefore, not of the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And, if the ear should say, \"Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body\"; it is not, therefore, not of the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where were the smelling?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And, if they were all one member, where were the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "But now they are many members, but one body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And the eye cannot say to the hand, \"I have no need of you\"; nor again the head to the feet, \"I have no need of you.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But much more the members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are necessary;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care, one for another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one is honored, all the members rejoice with it. The Greater Gifts"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Now ye are Christ's body, and severally members thereof ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And, if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; and, if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "but, when the complete comes, the partial will be done away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "for now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know, even as I also was fully known."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "But now abides faith, hope, love; these three; and the greatest of these is love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "But he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and comfort."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "He that speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you, either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For even if a trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare for war?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "So also ye, unless through the tongue ye give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them is without signification."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian; and he that is speaking, a barbarian to me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts , seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore, let him that speaks in a tongue, pray that he may interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "For, if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "What is it, then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Else, if you are blessing with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the \"Amen\" at your giving of thanks, since he knows not what you say?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "For you, verily, give thanks well, but the other is not edified."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "but in an assembly I prefer to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "In the law it has been written, \"With other tongues, and with lips of others, I will speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to Me,\" saith the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Therefore, the tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophecy is a sign , not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "If, therefore, the whole assembly comes together, and all are speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "But, if all prophesy, and there come in one who is unbelieving or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that, in reality, God is among you. Orderly Worship"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "What is it, then, brethren? When ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "If any one speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "but, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And let the prophets, two or three, speak, and the others judge."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "But, if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "for ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be exhorted."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Let the wives keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also says the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And, if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a wife to speak in an assembly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "but, if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "So then, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "But let all things be done decently and in order."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I make known to you, brethren, the Gospel which I proclaimed to you, which also ye received, in which also ye have been standing;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you, unless ye believed in vain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "For I delivered to you, among the first things , that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "and that He was buried, and that He hath been raised on the third day according to the Scriptures;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some fell asleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "After that He appeared to James, then to all the apostles;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "and, last of all, as to one born out of time, He appeared to me also."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Whether, therefore, it be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. The Resurrection of the Dead"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Now if Christ is preached, that He hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "But, if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "For, if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "and, if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Hence, also, those who fell asleep in Christ perished!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable! The Order of Resurrection"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the First fruit of those who have fallen asleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "For since through man came death, through Man came also the resurrection 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": "but each in his own rank; Christ, the First-fruit; then those who are Christ's at His coming."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Then comes the end, when He delivereth up the Kingdom to God, even His Father; when He shall abolish all rule and all authority and power;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "for He must reign, till He hath put all the enemies under His feet."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "As the last enemy, death is abolished;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "for He put all things in subjection under His feet. But, when He saith, \"All things have been put in subjection,\" it is evident that He is excepted, Who subjected all things to Him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "And, when all things shall be subjected to Him, then will the Son also Himself be subjected to Him Who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "Else what will those do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even immersed for them?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Why, too, are we in peril every hour?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is 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 companionships corrupt good morals."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God: I say it to your shame! The Resurrection Body"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "But some one will say, \"How are the dead raised? and with what kind of body do they come?\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "Foolish one! that which you sow is not made alive, except it die;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "but God giveth it a body, even as He willed, and to each of the seeds a body of its own."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is, indeed, one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and that of the terrestrial another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "There is 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 is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "it is sown in dishonor, 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 a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "So also it has been written, \"The first man Adam was a living soul\"; the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "And the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "The first man is of the earth earthy; the second Man is from Heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "48", "text": "As was the earthy, such also are the earthy; and as is the Heavenly, such also are the heavenly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "49", "text": "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly. Where, O Death, Is Your Victory?"}
{"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 tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "52", "text": "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; 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 corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "54", "text": "And, when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that has been written, \"Death was swallowed up in victory.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "55", "text": "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "56", "text": "The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "57", "text": "but thanks be to God, Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "58", "text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so also do ye."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "On the first day of the sabbaths, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring it up, as he may prosper, that no collections be made, when I come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And, when I arrive, whomsoever ye may approve, the same will I send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "and, if it be meet 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 shall have passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "and it may be that I will remain, or even winter with you , that you may send me forward, wherever I may go."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain sometime with you, if the Lord permit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "But I will remain at Ephesus until the Pentecost;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "for a door, great and effectual, has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. Timothy and Apollos ( Philippians 2:19–30 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Now, if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Let no one, therefore, despise him; but send him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "But concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come, when he shall have opportunity. Concluding Exhortations"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Watch, stand fast in the faith; be men; be strong."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Let all your affairs be carried on in love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and that they appointed themselves for ministry to the saints),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "that ye also submit yourselves to such, and to every one who is laboring with us and toiling."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because these supplied your deficiency."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For, they refreshed my spirit and yours; therefore, recognize those who are such. Signature and Final Greetings ( Colossians 4:15–18 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the assembly meeting at their house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "If anyone loves not the Lord, let him be accursed, when the Lord cometh!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "My love be with you all in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace be 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": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Who consoleth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to console those who are in any tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Because, as the sufferings of Christ abound toward us, so through Christ our consolation also abounds."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "But, whether we be in tribulation, it is for your consolation and salvation; or, whether we are consoled, it is for your consolation, which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and our hope in your behalf is steadfast, knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so are ye of the consolation also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation which befell us in Asia; that we were exceedingly weighed down beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, Who raiseth the dead;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will still deliver: on Whom we have set our hope, that He will also still deliver;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the mercy bestowed upon us by means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. Paul’s Change of Plans"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge to the end;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "as also ye did acknowledge in part, that we are your theme of boasting, as ye also will be ours in the day of our Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And in this confidence I was purposing before to come to you, that ye might have a second favor;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "and through you to go into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judaea."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "When, therefore, I was purposing this, did I manifest fickleness or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the \"Yea, yea,\" and the \"Nay, nay?\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "But, as God is faithful, our word to you is not \"Yea\" and \"Nay.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you through us?through me and Sylvanus and Timothy?was not \"Yea\" and \"Nay,\" \"Nay,\" but in Him is \"Yea.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For however many are the promises of God, in Him is the \"Yea\"; wherefore, also, through Him is the \"Amen,\" to the glory of God through us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Now He Who confirmeth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "But I invoke God as a witness upon my soul, that, as sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye have been standing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For, if I make you sorry, who, indeed, is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I wrote this very thing, that I might not, when I came, have sorrow from those of whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "But, if any one has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Sufficient for such a one was the punishment inflicted by the many;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love toward him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I also have forgiven?if I have forgiven anything?for your sakes have I forgiven it in the person of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "that we might not be over-reached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices. Triumph in Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Now, having come to Troas for the Gospel of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I have had no relief in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but, bidding them adieu, I went forth into Macedonia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But thanks be to God, Who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "to the one class a savor of death unto death, and to the other a savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as do some, commendatory letters to you, or from you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "being made manifest that ye are Christ's epistle ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And such confidence have we through Christ toward God:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive. The Glory of the New Covenant"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But, if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily upon the face of Moses on account of the glory of his face, which glory was passing away;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For, if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For even that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "for, if that which is passing away comes through glory, much more that which remains is in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Having, therefore, such hope, we use great boldness of speech;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "and not as Moses, who put a veil over his face, that the sons of Israel might not look steadily to the end of that which was passing away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But their minds were unimpressible; for until this day upon the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted; which in Christ is done away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "But, until this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "But, whensoever it shall return to the Lord, the veil is taken away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "But we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And, even if our Gospel has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who perish;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "because it is the God Who said, \"Light shall shine out of darkness,\" Who shined in our hearts, to give the light 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": "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness may be of God, and not from ourselves;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "being pressed on every side, yet not cooped up; perplexed, yet not despairing;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "pursued, yet not abandoned; smitten down, yet not destroyed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "For we who live are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "So that death is working in us, but life in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "But, having the same spirit of faith, according to what has been written, \"I believed, therefore did I speak\"; we believe, therefore also we speak;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "knowing that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, abounding through the many, may make the thanksgiving abound, to the glory of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Wherefore, we faint not; but even if our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "For our momentary light tribulation is working out for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "For verily, in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from Heaven;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "if, indeed, being also clothed, we will not be found naked."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For, indeed, we who are in the tabernacle groan, being weighed down; not that we wish to be unclothed, but be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "(for we walk by faith and not by sight);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "we are of good courage, I say , and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Wherefore, we also make it our aim?whether being at home or being from home?to be well-pleasing to Him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil. Ambassadors for Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "We are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have something suited to those who glory in appearance, and not in heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is for you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "For the love of Christ is constraining us; having judged this, that One died for all; consequently, they all died:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to Him Who died for them, and rose again."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know Him thus ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Wherefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, they have become new."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "But all things are of God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having put in us the word of reconciliation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf, that we may become God's righteousness in Him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And, working together with Him , we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "(for He saith, \"At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;\" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministry be not blamed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "in pureness, 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 righteousness on the right hand and on the left,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians! our heart has been enlarged!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged. Do Not Be Unequally Yoked"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And what concord of Christ is there with Belial? or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, \"I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Wherefore, \"Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate,\" saith the Lord, \"and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "and I will be to you a Father, and ye shall be My sons and daughters.\" saith the Lord Almighty."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Having, therefore, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Make room for us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "I say it not with the view to your condemnation; for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Great is my boldness toward you; great is my glorying on your behalf; I am filled with consolation; I overflow with joy in all our tribulation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief; but we were in tribulation on every side; without were fightings, within were fears."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "But God, who consoleth the lowly, consoled us by the coming of Titus;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled over you; rehearsing to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "because, even if I did make you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it , though I did regret it ; for I see that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world works death."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "For, behold this very thing?that ye were made sorry after a godly manner? what diligence it wrought in you; yea, what defense of yourselves ; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea what earnest desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In everything ye proved yourselves to be pure in the matter."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "So, although I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnest care on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "For this cause, we have been consoled; but, in our consolation, we rejoice the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "I rejoice, that in everything I have good courage concerning you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "that, in much trial of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For, according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "beseeching us with much entreaty as to the grace and the participation in the ministering to the saints;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "and they did this not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "so that we exhorted Titus that, as he began before, so also he would finish in you this same grace also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But, as ye abound in everything?in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us? see that ye abound in this grace also."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And I give my judgment in this; for this is profitable for you, who, indeed, began before others , a year ago, not only to do, but also to will."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And now complete the doing also; that, as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be the completion out of what ye have;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "for, if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he has not."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "For it is not that there may be relief to others, but distress to you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "but, by the rule of equality, your abundance being a supply , at the present time, for their deficiency; that also their abundance may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "as it has been written, \"He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.\" Titus Commended ( Titus 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "But thanks be to God Who putteth the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "For he accepted, indeed, our exhortation; but, being very earnest, he went forth to you of his own accord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And we sent with him the brother whose praise in the Gospel is in all the assemblies;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "and not that only, but who was also appointed by the assemblies, as our fellow-traveler with this gift which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and our zeal;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "avoiding this, that no one should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "for we provide things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And we sent with them our brother, whom we often in many things proved to be diligent, but now much more diligent by reason of his great confidence in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "Whether any one inquires about Titus, he is my partner, and my fellow-worker in your behalf; or our brethren, they are the messengers of the assemblies, the glory of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "Show ye, therefore, toward them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "For, respecting the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past; and your zeal stirred up the majority of them."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "But I sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that even as I said, ye may be prepared;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Lest by any means, if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not ye) should be put to shame in this confidence."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "But I say this: He that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Let each one do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And God is able to make all grace abound to you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in every thing, may abound to every good work:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "as it has been written, \"He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor; his righteousness abides forever.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And He Who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "ye being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "Because the ministry of this service not only fully supplies the deficiencies of the saints, but abounds also through many thanksgivings to God;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "through the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "they also, with supplication for you, longing after you on account of the exceeding grace of God upon you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, am lowly among you; but, being absent, am bold toward you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "For, though walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "(for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God for the casting down of strongholds);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "casting down reasonings, and every high thing lifting itself up against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "and holding ourselves in readiness to avenge every disobedience, when your obedience is made complete."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Ye look at things according to appearance. If anyone has trusted to himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, as he is Christ's, so also are we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "For, even if I glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority?which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for tearing you down?I shall not be put to shame;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "because, \" His letters, indeed,\" says one, \" are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word through letters, when absent; such also are we in deed, when present."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For we are not bold to judge ourselves among, or to compare ourselves with, some of those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as if not reaching to you; for we came even as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "so as to proclaim the Gospel in the regions beyond you, not to glory in another's limit in the things made ready to our hand ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "But he that glories let him glory in the Lord;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "for not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "but I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "For I reckon that I am in no respect behind the most eminent apostles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And, though I be rude in speech, yet am I not rude in knowledge; but in every way having manifested it toward you in all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them , that I might minister to you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "and, being present with you, and being in want, I was a burden to no one; for the brethren, coming from Macedonia, supplied my lack; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "As the truth of Christ is in me, this glorying shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore? because I do not love you? God knoweth!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "But what I am doing, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion from those desiring occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "and no wonder, for even Satan transforms himself into an angel of light!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to their works. Paul’s Suffering and Service ( Colossians 1:24–29 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "for ye gladly bear with the foolish, being yourselves wise."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes you captive, if one exalts himself , if one smites you on the face."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "I speak by way of dishonor, as though we were weak; but in whatever anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I also am bold."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Apart from those things without, that which is a pressure upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "If I must glory, I will glory in the things that pertain to my weakness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "It is needful for me to glory, though , indeed, not profitable; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not, God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the Third Heaven."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not, God knoweth),"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, which it is not lawful for a man to speak. Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "For, if I should desire to glory, I would not be foolish, for I shall be speaking truth; but I forbear, lest some one should think, in regard to me, above what he sees me to be , or hears from me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And, that I might not be exalted overmuch by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And He hath said to me, \"My grace is sufficient for you; for My power is made perfect in weakness.\" Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I powerful. Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "I have become foolish; ye compelled me; for I ought to be commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even if I am nothing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought out among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "For what is there in which ye were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "But be it so , I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Did I gain advantage over you through any one of those whom I have sent to you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "I entreated Titus, and sent with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not walk in the same steps?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Think ye all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you? Before God in Christ we are speaking; and all, beloved, for your edification."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses, and of three, shall every word be established."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "since ye seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, Who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "for, indeed, He was crucified through weakness, but He liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of God toward you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not as to yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be rejected?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "But I hope that ye shall know, that we are not rejected."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is honorable, though we be rejected."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for?your perfection."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "For this cause, I write these things while absent; that I may not, when present, deal sharply according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not casting down. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Salute one another with a holy kiss."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "All the saints salute 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, be with you all."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies 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": "Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "to Whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. No Other Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from Him Who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different Gospel,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "which is not another; only there are some who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the Gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But even if we or an angel out of Heaven should proclaim a Gospel to you other than that which we delivered to you, let him be accursed!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "As we have said before, even now also I say again, if any one is delivering a Gospel to you, contrary to that which ye received, let him be accursed. Paul Preaches the Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For I make known to you, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed by me is not according to man;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it , but I received it through revelation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that, beyond measure, I was persecuting the assembly of God, and laying it waste;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and was making progress in Judaism above many companions of the same age in my own nation, being more exceedingly a zealot for my ancestral instructions."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "But, when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb, and called me through His grace,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim the good news of Him among the gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "neither went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and again returned to Damascus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and continued with him fifteen days."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "But other of the apostles I saw not, except James, the brother of the Lord."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Now as to the things I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "After that I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "and I was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judaea, which were in Christ;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "but they were only hearing, \"He who was once persecuting us now proclaims the faith which once he was destroying.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And they were glorifying God in me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Then, fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking with me Titus also."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "and that was because of the false brethren secretly introduced, who, indeed, crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But from those reputed to be something (whatever they were, it matters not to me: God does not accept man's person): to me, in fact, those of repute added nothing;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "but, on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was with that of the circumcision;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "(for He Who wrought for Peter with regard to an apostleship of the circumcision, wrought for me also with regard to the gentiles)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And, perceiving the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas right-hands of fellowship, that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "only they desired that we should remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do. Paul Confronts Cephas"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "But, when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was blameworthy;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "for, before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the gentiles; but, when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But, when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in presence of them all, \"If you, being a Jew, live as do the gentiles, and not as the Jews, how do you compel the gentiles to live as do the Jews?\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "We who are by nature Jews, and not sinners from among the gentiles,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "yet knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law; because by works of law no flesh shall be justified."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But, if while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is, then, Christ a minister of sin? It could not be!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For, if I am building up again, what I pulled down, I show myself to be a transgressor."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For I through law died to law, that I might live to God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I do not set aside the grace of God; for, if righteousness is through law, then Christ died needlessly!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect in the flesh?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be even in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Does He, therefore, Who was supplying to you the Spirit, and was working miracles among you, doing it by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Know, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles through faith, proclaimed beforehand the Gospel to Abraham, saying , \"In you shall all the nations be blessed.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "So that those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. Christ Has Redeemed Us"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it has been written, \"Cursed is every one who continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Now that by law no one is justified with God, is evident; because \"The righteous one shall live by faith.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Now the law is not of faith; but \"He who did them shall live in them.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it has been written, \"Cursed is every one who is hung upon a tree\";"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "that to the gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Jesus Christ, 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 am speaking after the manner of man: even a man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds thereto."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his Seed. He saith not, \"And to seeds,\" as of many; but as of One, \"and to your Seed\"; which is Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "But this I say: A covenant previously confirmed by God, the law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate, that it should make the promise of no effect."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For, if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham through promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "What, then, is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to Whom it had been promised; having been arranged through angels in the hand of a mediator."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It could not be! For, if a law had been given, which was able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been by law;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "but the Scripture shuts up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "But, before the faith came, we were kept guarded under law, being shut up to the faith about to be revealed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "So that the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "But the faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor; Sons through Faith in Christ"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "for ye 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, did put on Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "There exists neither Jew nor Greek, there exists neither bond nor free, there exists neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "And, if ye are Christ's, ye are, consequently, Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "But I say that, so long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a slave, though he is 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 we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "But, when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "that He might redeem those under law, that, we might receive the adoption of sons."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And, because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, \"Abba,\" Father."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, also an heir through God. Paul’s Concern for the Galatians"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Ye are scrupulously observing days, and months, and seasons, and years!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am ; because I also was as ye are . Ye wronged me in nothing;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "but ye know that through weakness of the flesh I proclaimed the Gospel to you formerly;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Where, then, is your benedictions for me? For I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your eyes, ye would have given them to me!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "So, then, have I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "But it is good to be zealously sought in a good thing at all times, and not only when I am present with you,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice; because I am perplexed about you. Hagar and Sarah"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under 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 bond-woman, and one by the free-woman."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But the one by the bond-woman has been born after the flesh; and the one by the free-woman, through promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "Which things are an allegory; for these women are two covenants; one, indeed, from mount Sinai, bringing forth into servitude, which is Hagar"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "(for the word Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem; for she is in bondage with her children."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which, indeed, is our mother;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "for it has been written, \"Rejoice, O barren, that bear not! Break forth and cry, you that travail not! because many are the children of the desolate, rather than of her who has the husband.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "But, just as then, the one born after the flesh kept persecuting him born after the Spirit, so also is it now."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "But what says the Scripture? \"Cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall in nowise inherit with the son of the free-woman.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a bond-woman, but of the free-woman."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that, if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Ye were separated from Christ, whoever of you are being justified by law; ye fell out of grace;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "for we, in the Spirit, wait, by faith, for the hope of righteousness."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "The persuasion is not from Him Who calleth you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "A little leaven leavens the whole lump."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that ye will regard nothing else; but he who is troubling you shall bear his sentence, whosoever he may be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then the stumbling-block of the cross has been done away!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "O that those who are unsettling you would even cut themselves off!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "for the whole law has been fulfilled in one word, in this: \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another. Walking by the Spirit ( Romans 8:9–11 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For the flesh covets against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to the other, that ye may not do the things which ye wish."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "But, if ye are being led by the Spirit, ye are not under law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "meekness, continence; against such there is no law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And those who are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and desires."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, even if a man be caught in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "For, if any one thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have ground of glorying in respect to himself alone, and not to another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For each one shall bear his own load."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But let him who is being taught in the word share with him who is teaching, in all good things."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man sows, the same shall be also reap;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "because he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And, in doing what is noble, let us not grow weary; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "So, then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those of the household of the faith. Final Warnings and Blessings"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "See with what large letters I wrote to you with my own hand."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For neither do those themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Henceforth let no one occasion trouble to me; for I am bearing in my body the brand-marks of Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and 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": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "having predestinated us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "which He made to superabound toward us in all wisdom and understanding;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "in Whom we also were made a heritage, having been predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "that we might be to the praise of His glory, we who had before hoped in Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "in Whom ye also?after having heard the word of the truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in Whom having also believed?were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "which is an earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. Spiritual Wisdom ( 1 Corinthians 2:6–16 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "On this account I also, having heard of the faith, on your part, in the Lord Jesus, and the love which ye show towards all the saints,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "cease not to give thanks on your behalf, making mention of you in my prayers;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "and what the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of the strength of His might,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly places ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that to come;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "which, indeed, is His body, the fulness of Him Who is filling all in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "You also did He make alive , when ye were dead in your trespasses and sins,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "but God, being rich in mercy, on account of His great love wherewith He loved us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "even when we were dead in our offenses , made us alive with Christ (by grace ye have been saved),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and raised us up with Him, and made us sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is 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 workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them. One in Christ ( Philippians 2:1–4 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore, remember that ye, the gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in flesh made by hand,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "that at that time ye were apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who were once afar off were made nigh in the blood of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For He is our peace, Who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of the partition,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments expressed in decrees, that He might make the two one new man in Himself, making peace,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and, coming, He proclaimed the Gospel of peace to you who were afar off, and peace to those who were near;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "because through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Christ Our Cornerstone ( 1 Corinthians 3:10–15 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Accordingly, therefore, ye are no longer strangers and sojourners; but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the house-hold of God;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the chief corner-stone;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "in Whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing up into a holy temple in the Lord;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "in Whom ye also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you gentiles,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "if, at least, ye heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "respecting which ye can, by reading, 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 it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "that the gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partners with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the working of His power."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to proclaim, to the gentiles, the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and to plainly show what is the dispensation of the mystery which from the ages has been hidden away in God, Who made all things;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "in order that now might be made known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly places , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "according to a purpose of the ages which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "in Whom we have boldness and access with confidence through the faith of Him."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore, I ask that ye faint not at my tribulations in your behalf, which, indeed, is your glory. Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "For this cause I bow my knees to the Father,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "from Whom every family in Heaven and on earth is named,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit as to the inward man;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that ye, having been rooted and grounded in love,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "may be strong to apprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Now to Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "to Him be the glory in the assembly, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations of the age of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "earnestly endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "There is one body, and one Spirit, even 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 is over all, and through all, and in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, He saith, \"Having ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Now the word , \"He ascended,\" what does it mean, but that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "He Who descended is Himself also the One Who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "with a view to the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man?to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "from Whom all the body, fitly framed and knit together through every joint of supply, according to the working in due measure of each single part, secures the growth of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love. New Life in Christ ( Colossians 3:1–17 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their hearts;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "who, indeed, having become without feeling, delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the working of all uncleanness with greediness."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "But ye did not so learn Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "if, indeed, ye heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "and put on the new man, who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore, having put away false-hood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor, because we 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 wrath;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "neither give place to the Devil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for the supplying of the need, that it may give grace to those who hear."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling, be put away from you, with all wickedness;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanks-giving."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For this ye know, assuredly, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Let no one deceive you with empty words; for, because of these things, comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Do not, therefore, become partakers with them; Children of Light"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "for ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that makes manifest is light."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore, He saith: \"Awake, you who are sleeping; and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you!\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Look, therefore, carefully, how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "buying up the opportunity, because the days are evil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For this reason, be not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And be not drunken with wine, in which is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody 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, even the Father; Wives and Husbands ( 1 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "the wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "But, as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also let the women be to their husbands in everything."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water in the word,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "So ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the assembly;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "because we are members of His body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "For this cause, will a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the assembly."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "\"Honor your father and mother\" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "\"that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. Serving with Honor ( Colossians 3:22–25 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "with good-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "knowing that whatsoever good thing each one does, this shall he receive from the Lord, whether bond or free."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And, masters, do the same thing to them, forbearing the threat; knowing that both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and there is no respect of persons with Him. The Full Armor of God"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "On this account, take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day; and, having fully accomplished all, to stand."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Stand, therefore, having girded your loins about with truth, and having put on the breast-plate of righteousness,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "withal having taken up the shield of faith, with which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "with all prayer and supplication praying at every opportunity in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "and on my behalf that utterance may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "for which I am an ambassador in chains, that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. Final Greetings ( Philippians 4:21–23 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "But, that ye also may know my affairs, what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make all things known to you;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "whom I sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and that he may encourage your hearts."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptness."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:"}
{"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 thank my God upon every remembrance of you?"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "always, in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all, making supplication with joy?"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "on account of your fellowship for the Gospel, from the first day until now;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "having become persuaded of this very thing, that He Who began in you a good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "even as it is right for me to think this in behalf of you all; because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, all of you being partakers with me of the grace."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the tender affections of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through 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": "Now I wish you to know, brethren, that the things relating to me have resulted rather in the furtherance of the Gospel;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and that the greater part of the brethren, having become confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "but the other proclaim Christ of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add tribulation to my bonds."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For I know that this will turn out for my salvation, through your supplication and a supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall in nothing be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life, or through death. To Live Is Christ"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "But if it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "but I am constrained by the two; having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "but to abide in flesh is more needful for you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And, having become assured of this, I know that I shall abide, and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "that your glorying may abound in Jesus Christ in me through my presence with you again. Worthy of the Gospel"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "and in nothing terrified by the adversaries; which, indeed, to them is a token of destruction, but of your salvation, and this from God;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "but to you it was granted as a favor in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but in His behalf to suffer also;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear of in me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "If there is , therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others. The Mind of Christ"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and, being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed upon Him the name which is above every name;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "that, in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, and on earth, and under the earth,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Lights in the World ( Matthew 5:13–16 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for it is God Who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Do all things without murmurings and disputings;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But even if I am offered as a libation upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice with you all;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "and in the same thing do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me. Timothy and Epaphroditus ( 1 Corinthians 16:10–12 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus shortly to send Timothy to you, that I also may be cheerful, when having known the things concerning you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For I have no one like-minded, who, indeed, will sincerely care for your interests;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "for all are seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with a father, he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I may look away from the things which concern me:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Yet I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "since he was longing after you all, and was in great distress, because ye heard that he was sick."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "For, in fact, he was sick, near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "because, for the work of Christ, he came near to death; imperiling his soul, that he might fill up your lack of ministry toward me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you to me, indeed, is not irksome, while for you it is safe."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil-workers, beware of the mutilation."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "though I might have confidence even in flesh; if any other man supposes that he has occasion for confidence in flesh, I more:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "as to zeal, persecuting the assembly: as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But what things were gain to me, these I accounted loss for Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Nay, more, I even account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith in Christ?the righteousness which is of God by faith:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "if by any means I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead. Pressing on toward the Goal"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it ; but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "nevertheless, whereunto we advanced, by the same rule let us walk. Citizenship in Heaven"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Brethren, become imitators together of me, and mark those who so walk, as ye have us as an example."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For many are walking, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who are thinking of earthly things."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For our citizenship is in Heaven, whence also we are waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Who will transform the body of our humiliation into conformity to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able also to subject all things to Himself."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntiche, to think the same thing in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Yea, I request you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who, indeed, labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and my remaining fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Let your forbearance be known to all men: the Lord is near!"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Be anxious for nothing; but, in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are righteous, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "The things also, which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these practice; and the God of peace will be with you. The Generosity of the Philippians ( 2 Corinthians 8:1–15 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye revived your thought in my behalf, for whom ye were taking thought, but ye lacked opportunity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Not that I am speaking in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be content."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "I both know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound: in everything, and in all things, I have learned both to be well fed, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to be in want."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "I am strong enough for all things in Him Who strengtheneth me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Notwithstanding, ye did well, in sharing with me in my tribulation."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And know ye also, Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving, but ye only;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "because even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my need."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Not that I am seeking for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that abounds to your account."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "But I have all, and abound; I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odor of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "But my God will liberally supply all your need according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Now to our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "All the saints salute you, but especially those who are of Caesar's household."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy, the brother,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father. Thanksgiving and Prayer ( 1 Corinthians 1:4–9 ; Philippians 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We give thanks to God, 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 of the love which ye have toward all the saints,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "because of the hope laid up for you in Heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "which is present among you, even as it is in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it does in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "even as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for us a faithful minister of Christ,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "who also made known to us your love in the Spirit."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it , cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "giving thanks to the Father, Who made us meet for the portion of the inheritance of the saints in light;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Who delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness 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, Primal Source of all creation;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "because in Him were all things created, in the heavens, and upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers?all things have been created through Him, and for Him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "and He is before all things, and in Him all things have held together."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "because it was pleasing that in Him all the fulness should dwell;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in evil works,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "yet now did He reconcile in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and irreproachable, before Him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "if, at least, ye continue in the faith, founded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister. Paul’s Suffering for the Church ( 2 Corinthians 11:16–33 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "of which I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "the mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from the generations, but was now made manifest to His saints;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "Whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "to which end I am toiling also, striving according to His working, which is working in me with power."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For I wish you to know how great a conflict I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "in Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden away."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasive speech;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the Spirit, rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. Alive with Christ ( Ephesians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "As, therefore, ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding with thanksgiving."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "because in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and ye have been made complete in Him, Who is the Head of all principality and power;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "in Whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "having been buried with Him in your immersion, in which ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "and you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, did He make alive with Him: having freely forgiven us all our trespasses;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "having blotted out the hand-writing in decrees against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "having despoiled the principalities and the powers, He made an example of them , celebrating a triumph over them in it."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ's."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Let no one rob you of your prize, wishing to do it in humility and in a worshipping of angels, speculating about the things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as if living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to decrees,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "\"Handle not, taste not, touch not,\""}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "(which are all for destruction in the using), according to the commandments and teachings of men?"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Which things, having, indeed, a show of wisdom, in will-worship, humility, and severe treatment of the body, are not of any value, against the indulgence of the flesh."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on 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, our Life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "on account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "in which things ye also formerly walked, when ye were living in these things."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "But now do ye also put away all these ; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, shameful talk out of your mouth."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "(bearing with one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as the Lord freely forgave you, so also do ye):"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "and over all these put on love, which is the uniting-bond of perfectness."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, unto which also ye were called in one body; and become thankful."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts, to God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Christian Households ( Ephesians 6:1–4 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it was fitting in the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened. Serving with Honor ( Ephesians 6:5–9 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye are doing service to the Lord, Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "For he that does wrong shall receive back the wrong which he did; and there is no respect of persons,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Masters, render justice and equity to your servants, knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Persevere in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "at the same time praying for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ (because of which I have also become bound),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Walk in wisdom toward those without, buying up the opportunity."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Romans 16:21–23 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "All the things relating to me Tychicus will make known to you, the beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "whom I sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know the things that concern us, and that he may comfort your hearts;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is from among you; they will make known to you all things here."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, salutes you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom ye received commandments (if he come to you, receive him),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers in the interests of the Kingdom of God, who, indeed, became a comfort to me."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For I bear him witness, that he has much concern in behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, salute you. Signature and Final Instructions ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly in her house."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And, when the letter may be read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And say to Archippus, \"Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.\""}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The salutation, with my hand, of Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you, and peace."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "We give thanks to God at all times for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "remembering, without ceasing, your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "so that ye became a model to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we have no need to speak anything;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and to wait for His Son from Heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, Who delivers us from the coming wrath."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it has not become vain;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "but, having suffered before, and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, in Philippi, we grew bold in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God in much conflict."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others; though able to be in authority, as apostles of Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But we became gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you , and testifying,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "that ye should walk worthily of God, Who is calling you into His own Kingdom and glory."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it , not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God, that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because ye suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they also did from the Jews;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be saved, for the filling up of their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the uttermost. Paul’s Longing to Visit"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face, with great desire."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Because we wished to come to you, even I, Paul, both once and again; and Satan hindered us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For ye are our glory and joy."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, when no longer able to endure it , we were well pleased to be left behind at Athens alone,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "that no one should be shaken in these tribulations; for ye yourselves know that for this we are appointed."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For even when we were with you, we told you beforehand, \"We are about to suffer tribulation\"; even as also it came to pass, and ye know."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For this reason, I also, no longer enduring it , sent, that I might know your faith, lest by some means the tempter tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. Timothy’s Encouraging Report"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "But, Timothy having just now come to us from you, and having brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us at all times, longing to see us, as we also to see you?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "for this reason, brethren, we were comforted over you, in all our tribulation and distress, through your faith;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "because now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For what thanksgiving can we render again to God concerning you for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies in your faith?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, as we also do toward you,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "to the end that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God?even as ye also are walking?that ye abound more and more;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "for ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the will of God? even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "that he go not beyond and gain an advantage over his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we also told you before, and solemnly testified."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "and, in fact, ye do it to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound yet more;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and that ye may have need of nothing. The Return of the Lord"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "for, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those who fell asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For this we say to You , in a word of the Lord, that we, the living who remain over to the coming of the Lord, shall in nowise precede those who fell asleep;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "because the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven, with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "after that we, the living who are left over, will be caught up together with them in clouds, into the air, to meet the Lord; and so shall we always be with the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "So then, comfort one another with these words."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "But, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written to you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "for ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief at night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "When they are saying, \"Peace and safety,\" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "for 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": "So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "But let us, being of the day, be sober, having put on a breast-plate of faith and love; and, as a helmet, a hope of salvation;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Who died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with Him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore, exhort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do. Christian Living"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "See that no one render to any one evil for evil; but always pursue that which is good, toward one another, and toward all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Rejoice always:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "pray without ceasing."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "In everything give thanks; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Quench not the Spirit."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Despise not prophesyings;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "but prove all things, hold fast that which is good."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Abstain from every form of evil. Final Blessings and Instructions"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Faithful is He Who calleth you, Who also will do it."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Brethren, pray for us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly 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 the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "so that we ourselves glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye endure; Christ’s Coming"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "a proof of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "since it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those who cause you tribulation;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and to you who suffer tribulation, relief with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power, in flaming fire,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "awarding vengeance to those who know not God, and to those who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "who, indeed, shall pay a penalty, eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "To which end we also pray for you always, that our God may account you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and work of faith, with power;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Now we request you, brethren, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord has set in."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come , unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed?the son of perdition;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "he that opposes himself against, and exalts himself above, all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he sits in the temple of God, exhibiting himself as God."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Do ye not remember that, when I was yet with you, I was wont to tell you these things?"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And now ye know what hinders his being revealed in his own season;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "for the mystery of lawlessness is already working: only He Who hindereth will hinder , until He is taken out of the midst."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth, and will bring to nought by the manifestation of His presence;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "him whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and lying wonders,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And, for this cause, God sendeth them a working of delusion, that they may believe the lie;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "that they all may be judged, who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Stand Firm"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord; because God, from the beginning, chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of truth;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "unto which He called you through our Gospel, to an obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So, then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the instructions which ye were taught, whether through speech, or through letter of ours."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father Who loved us and gave us eternal consolation and good hope in grace."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "comfort your hearts, and establish, you in every good work and word."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as also it is with you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have the faith."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "But the Lord is faithful, Who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And we have become confident in the Lord regarding you, that ye both do, and will do, the things which we command."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. A Warning against Idleness"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For, even when we were with you, this we commanded you, \"If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat.\""}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For we hear of some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, who work not at all, but are busybodies."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Now such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And, if anyone obey not our word through this letter, note this one, not to associate with him, that he may be ashamed."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And regard him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. Signature and Final Greetings ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; Colossians 4:15–18 )"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always, in every way. The Lord be with you all."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every letter; so I write."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to a command of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our Hope,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to Timothy, a true child in 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 exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now ."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "which some having missed turned aside to vain talk;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But we know that the law is good, if one use it lawfully;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones , for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "for fornicators, for sodomites, for man-stealers, for liars, for false swearers; and whatever else is contrary to healthful teaching;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "according to the Gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, with which I was entrusted. God’s Grace to Paul"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I have thanks for Him Who empowered me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He accounted me faithful, putting me into His service,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "but for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me, as chief, Christ Jesus might show forth all His longsuffering for an example to those about to believe on Him unto eternal life."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before in respect to you, that you may war with these the noble warfare;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "holding faith, and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered up to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "for kings, and all who are in high position, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Who wisheth all men to be saved, and to come into a full knowledge of truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For there is one God, one Mediator also between God and men, a Man, Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony for its own times,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing; Instructions to Women"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "in like manner, that women adorn themselves in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair , and gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For Adam first was formed, then Eve."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into transgression."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "But she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Faithful is the saying, \"If anyone desires the office of bishop, he covets a noble work.\""}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And it is needful also that he have an honorable testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil. Qualifications for Deacons ( Acts 6:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "It is needful that deacons, in like manner, be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of base gain;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Let deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their own children and their own houses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. The Mystery of Godliness"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "But the Spirit expressly saith, that in later times, some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and to teachings of demons,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "in hypocrisy of men speaking lies, branded in their own conscience with a hot iron;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, when it is received with thanksgiving;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession. A Good Servant of Jesus Christ"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have strictly followed;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "but refuse the profane and old wives fables, and exercise yourself unto godliness;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which is present and that to come."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For to this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, Who is Savior of all men, especially of believers."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "These things command and teach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Until I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Attend to these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest to all."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Take heed to yourself, and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men, as brethren:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "the elder women, as mothers: younger, as sisters, in all purity. Honoring True Widows"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Honor widows who are widows indeed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "But, if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to show regard to their own family, and to make returns to their parents; for this is acceptable before God."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Now she that is really a widow, and left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers, night and day."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "But she who lives in pleasure, though living, has died."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "But, if any one provides not for his own, and especially for his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Let a widow be enrolled, when she has become not less than sixty years old, having been a wife of one man,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "noted for good works; if she nourished children, if she used hospitality, if she washed the saints' feet, if she relieved those in tribulation, if she diligently followed every good work."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "But younger widows refuse; for, when they grow wanton against Christ, they wish to marry,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "having condemnation, because they set aside their first faith."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "I desire, therefore, that younger widows marry, bear children, rule a house-hold, give no occasion to the adversary for reproach;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "for already some turned aside after Satan."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any believing woman has widows, let her relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, in order that it may relieve those who are really widows. Honoring Elders"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Let elders who preside well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and teaching."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For the Scripture says, \"You shall not muzzle the ox while threshing,\" and \"The laborer is worthy of his wages.\""}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Against an elder receive not an accusation, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Those who sin reprove before all, that the rest also may have fear. A Charge to Timothy"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "I solemnly charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent infirmities."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Some men's sins are openly manifest, going before to judgment; and some men also they follow after."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "In like manner also the works that are good are openly manifest; and those that are otherwise can not be hid."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Let as many as are slaves under a yoke account their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And let those having believing masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the more, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. Reject False Doctrines"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "If anyone teaches otherwise, and consents not to healthful words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching according to godliness,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain. Godliness with Contentment"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But godliness with contentment is a great source of gain;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "for nothing have we brought into the world, neither can we carry anything out;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "but, having food and raiment, with these we shall be content."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Fight the Good Fight"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "But do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "I charge you before God who preserves alive all things, and Christ Jesus Who before Pontius Pilate testified a good confession,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "that you keep the commandment, unsullied, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "which in His own times the Happy and Only Potentate will show, the King of kings and Lord of lords,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Who only hath immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable, Whom no man ever saw or is able to see; to Whom be honor and dominion eternal. Amen. A Charge to the Rich ( James 5:1–6 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Charge those who are rich in this present age, not to be high-minded, nor to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who giveth us richly all things for enjoyment;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "that they do good, that they be rich in good works, free to impart, liberal;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life. Guard the Faith"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to Timothy, a 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 thank God, Whom I serve from my forefathers, in a pure conscience, that I have an unceasing remembrance of you in my supplications night and day;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith which is in you; which, indeed, dwelt first in your grand-mother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I have become persuaded, in you also."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "For which cause, I put you in remembrance that you stir into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of hands."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and sobriety."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Be not ashamed, therefore, of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; but suffer hardship with me for the Gospel, according to the power of God,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose, and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "but now made manifest through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus; Who abolished death, and brought to light life and incorruption through the Gospel;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For which cause I am suffering also these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know Whom I have believed, and have become persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit unto that day. Holding to Sound Teaching"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Hold the pattern of healthful words which you heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "The good deposit guard through the Holy Spirit Who dwelleth in us."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "You know this, that all in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; because he ofttimes refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "but, being in Rome, he diligently sought me, and found me"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "(the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, you know very well."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Do you, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And the things which you heard from me, through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Suffer hardship with me , as a good soldier of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "No one, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And, if also one contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The toiling husbandman must first partake of the fruits."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Consider what I am saying; for the Lord will give you discernment 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 Gospel;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "wherein I am suffering hardship, even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the Word of God has not become bound."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore, I suffer all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Faithful is the saying; for, if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him ;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "if we endure, we shall also reign with Him ; if we deny Him , He will also deny us;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "if we are faithless, He remaineth faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. The Lord’s Approved Workman"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Of these things put them in remembrance, solemnly charging them before God, that they engage not in word-battles to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "But shun the profane babblings, for they will proceed to more ungodliness;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and their word will spread, as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "who erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overthrowing the faith of some."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God has been standing, having this seal, \"The Lord knew those who are His:\" and \"Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.\""}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "But, in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some, indeed, unto honor and some unto dishonor."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "If, therefore, one fully purify himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "But flee youthful desires; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "But the foolish and ignorant questionings reject, knowing that they beget strifes;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "in meekness correcting those opposing themselves, if peradventure God should give them repentance to a full knowledge of the truth,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "and they may return to soberness out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him in accordance with his will."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "holding a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from these also turn away."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For of these are those who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, and led on by manifold desires,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "always learning, and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men utterly corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "But they will proceed no further; for their folly will be fully manifest to all, as theirs also became. All Scripture Is God-Breathed ( Hebrews 4:12–16 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "But you did closely follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "persecutions, sufferings; what manner of things happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Yea, and all who wish to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But do you abide in the, things which you learned and were assured of; knowing from whom you learned them ;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "and that, from a babe, you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished for every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, Who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His Kingdom,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For there will be a time when they will not endure the healthful teaching; but, having itching ears, they will for themselves heap up teachers according to their own desires;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to the fables."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "But be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish your ministry."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has arrived."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will recompense to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing. Personal Concerns"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Give diligence to come to me speedily;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "for Demas forsook me, having loved this present age, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens, to Galatia; Titus, to Dalmatia."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Only Luke is with me. Taking Mark, bring him with you; for he is useful to me for ministering."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "The cloak which I left in Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the parchments."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Alexander, the coppersmith, showed me much evil; the Lord will reward him according to his works:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "of whom do you also beware; for greatly did he withstand our words. The Lord Remains Faithful"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "In my first defense, no one stood by me, but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their account!"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "The Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the proclamation might be fully announced, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will bring me safe into His heavenly Kingdom; to Whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; Philippians 4:21–23 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Erastus abode in Corinth; but Trophimus I left in Miletus sick."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Give diligence to come to me before winter. Eubulus salutes you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "upon hope of eternal life which God, Who cannot lie, promised before eternal times,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "but in His own seasons manifested His word in a proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. Appointing Elders on Crete ( 1 Timothy 3:1–7 ; 1 Peter 5:1–4 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children not in accusation of rioting, or unruly."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, righteous, pious, temperate;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "holding fast the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the healthful doctrine, and to convict those who contradict. Correcting False Teachers ( 1 Timothy 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For there are many unruly men, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "whom it is needful to reduce to silence: who, indeed, are overthrowing whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of base gain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, \"Cretans are always false, evil beasts, idle gluttons.\""}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "This testimony is true. For which cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience have become defiled."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "They profess to know God; but by their works they deny Him ; being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work worthless."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "that they may train the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "to be sober, pure, workers at home, good, submitting themselves to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The younger men, in like manner, exhort to be sober-minded;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "sound speech not to be condemned; that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say concerning us."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "not keeping back anything , but showing forth all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things. God’s Grace Brings Salvation"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For the salvation-imparting grace of God appeared to all men,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and godly in the present age;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "who gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous of good works."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Remind them to submit to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "to speak evil of no one, to be averse to strife, to be mild, showing all meekness to all men."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "But, when the kindness and the benevolence of God our Savior appeared,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy, He saved us through a washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I will that you affirm confidently, that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. Avoid Divisions ( Romans 16:17–20 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "But shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strife, and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "A factious man, after a first and a second admonition, avoid;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "knowing that such a one has been turned aside, and is sinning, being self-condemned. Final Remarks and Greetings"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "When I shall send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, give diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for there I have decided to winter."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Diligently send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, that nothing may be lacking to them."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "All those who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, to Philemon, our beloved and fellow-worker,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "and to Apphia, the sister, and to Archippus, our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly in your house:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon’s Faith and Love"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I give thanks to my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "hearing of your love and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "that the fellowship of your faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For I had much joy and consolation on account of your love, because the tender affections of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. Paul’s Appeal for Onesimus"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, though having much boldness in Christ to enjoin upon you that which is becoming,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "yet for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul an aged man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I beseech you for my child, whom I begat in my bonds, Onesimus,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "who at one time was unprofitable to you, but now profitable to you and to me;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "whom I sent back to you, in his own person, that is, my very heart;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "whom I was disposed to keep with me, that in your stead he might minister to me in the bonds of the Gospel;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "but, without your consent, I was willing to do nothing; that your beneficence might not be by necessity, but by choice."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For, perhaps, he departed for a season for this reason, that you might have him back forever;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "no longer as a slave, but above a slave, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord!"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "If, therefore, you hold me as a partner, receive him as myself."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "But, if he wronged you in anything, or owes you anything , set down this to my account."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "I Paul wrote it with my own hand, I will repay it ; that I say not to you, that you owe me even your own self besides."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Yea, brother, I would have joy of you in the Lord! refresh my tender affections in Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Having confidence in your obedience, I wrote to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "But, at the same time, prepare also a lodging for me; for I hope that, through your prayers, I shall be given to you. Additional Greetings"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Epaphras, my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus, salutes you;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "God, having in many parts and many ways spoken, of old, to the fathers in the prophets,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "at the end of these days spake to us in His Son, Whom He appointed Heir of all things, through Whom also He constituted the ages;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "having become by so much superior to the angels, as He hath inherited a more excellent name than they."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For to whom of the angels said He at any time, \"You are My Son; I this day have begotten you?\" And again, \"I will be to him a Father; and He shall be to me a Son?\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "But, when again He introduces the First-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, \"And let all the angels of God worship Him.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And respecting the angels He saith, \"Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire\";"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but respecting the Son, \"Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever\"; and, \"A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; therefore, God, Thy God, anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows\";"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and, \"Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thy hands."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "They shall perish, but Thou continuest; and they will all become old as does a garment;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "and as a mantle Thou wilt roll them up, as a garment also they shall be changed; but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "But to whom of the angels hath He ever said, \"Sit on My right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service, for the sake of those about to inherit salvation?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them ."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation; which, indeed, having at first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "God testifying with them , both with signs and wonders and manifold miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will? Jesus like His Brothers"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For not to angels did He subject the future inhabited earth , of which we are speaking;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "but some one, somewhere, fully testified, saying, \"What is man, that Thou rememberest him; or a son of man, that Thou visitest him?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Thou madest him a little less than angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor; and didst set him over the works of Thy hands;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet.\" For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing unsubjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "But we behold Him Who was made a little lower than angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that, by the grace of God, He might taste death for every one."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For it was becoming Him, on Whose account are all things, and through Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect, through suffering, the Captain of their salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For both He Who sanctifieth and those who are sanctified are all of One; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "saying, \"I will declare Thy name to my brethren; in the midst of an assembly will I sing praise to Thee.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And again, \"I will put my trust in Him.\" And again, \"Behold, I and the children whom God gave me.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Since, therefore, the children have partaken of blood and flesh, He Himself also in like manner took part of the same; that, through death, He might bring to nought him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and might release all those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For surely He doth not succor angels, but He succoreth Abraham's seed."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Wherefore, it behooved Him in all things to be made like His brethren, that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "for in that He Himself hath suffered, being tempted, He is able to succor those who are tempted."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Who was faithful to Him Who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His house."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For This One has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who built the house hath more honor than the house;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of the things to be afterward spoken;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "but Christ as a Son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. Do Not Harden Your Hearts"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, \"To-day, if ye hear His voice,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "where your fathers tempted Me by proving Me, and saw My works, forty years."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'\" The Peril of Unbelief"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called \"To-day,\" lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "while it is said, \"To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And with whom was He displeased forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And to whom did He swear, that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who were disbelieving?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it ."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For we who believed do enter into rest, even as He said, \"As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest; although the works were finished from the founding of a world.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For He hath spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day thus: \"And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "and, in this place , again: \"They shall not enter into My rest.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the Gospel was formerly proclaimed entered not in because of unbelief,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "again He designateth a certain day, \"To-day\" (saying in David, after so long a time, as has been before said), \"To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For, had Joshua given them rest, He would not afterward have spoken of another day."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Consequently, there remains a sabbath-keeping for the people of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, that no one fall after the same example of unbelief. The Living Word ( 2 Timothy 3:10–17 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "For the word of God is living, and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to a dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And there is no creature that is not manifest in His presence; but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him with Whom is our account."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Having, therefore, a great High Priest, Who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for we have not a High Priest, unable to sympathize with our infirmities, but One Who hath been tempted in all points like as we , apart from sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Let us, therefore, come with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For every high priest, taken from among men, is appointed in behalf of men in the things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "able to bear with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with infirmity;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "and, on account of it, he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to make offering for sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And no one takes the honor to himself, but, when called by God, as was also Aaron."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Thus Christ also glorified not Himself to become a high priest, but He Who spake to Him, \"Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee\";"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "as also, in another place , He saith, \"Thou art a Priest forever according to the rank of Melchizedek\";"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Who, in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard by reason of His godly fear,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "though He was a Son, learned obedience from the things which He suffered;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "and, having been made perfect, He became the Author of eternal life to all who obey Him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "having been addressed by God as \"High Priest according to the rank of Melchizedek.\" Milk and Solid Food ( 1 Corinthians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Concerning Whom we have much to say and difficult to explain, since ye have become dull of hearing."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "for every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "For as to those who were once enlightened, and tasted of the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting Him to open shame."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For the land which drank in the rain that often comes upon it, and brings forth an herb fit for those for whose sake also it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected, and is near to a curse; whose end is to be burned."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But, beloved, we have become persuaded better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation, even though we thus speak;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And we desire that each of you show forth the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope to the end;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises. God’s Unchangeable Promise"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "saying, \"Surely, blessing, I will bless you; and multiplying, I will multiply you.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "For men swear by the greater; and the oath for confirmation is an end, to them, of every dispute:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and firm, and entering into the place within the veil;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "where, as Forerunner in our behalf, Jesus entered, having become a High Priest forever, according to the rank of Melchizedek."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of all (first, indeed, interpreted as \"King of Righteousness,\" and then also \"King of Salem\"?which is king of peace;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like to the Son of God), abides a priest continually."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Now consider how great this man was, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the chief spoils."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And those, indeed, from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, (though having come out of the loins of Abraham);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "but he whose genealogy is not reckoned from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who had the promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And, without any dispute, the less is blessed by the better."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And here, indeed, men who die receive tithes; but there, one received them who receives witness that he lives."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who takes tithes, has paid tithes;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him. A Superior Priesthood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If, therefore, there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there , that another Priest should arise according to the rank of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned according to the rank of Aaron?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "For, the priesthood being changed, there is made, of necessity, a change of law also."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "For He of Whom these things are spoken hath taken part in a different tribe from which no one gave attendance at the altar."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah, respecting which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And it is yet far more evident; if, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Who hath been made Priest , not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "for it is testified of Him , \"Thou art a Priest forever according to the rank of Melchizedek.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For there is verily an annulling of a previous commandment, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And inasmuch as it was not without the taking of an oath"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "(for they, indeed, have been made priests without an oath; but He with an oath through Him Who said to Him, \"The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest forever\");"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And they, indeed, have been made priests many in number, because by death they are hindered from continuing;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "but He, because of His abiding forever, hath His priesthood unchangeable."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Whence also He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, since He is ever living to intercede in their behalf."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "For such a High Priest was befitting us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Who hath no necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people (for this He did once for all, when He offered up Himself);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "for the law constitutes men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the oath, which was after the law, constitutes the Son perfected forever."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Now as a main point to the things being spoken, we have such a High Priest, Who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "a Minister of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore, it is necessary that This One also have something which He may offer."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "If, therefore, He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are those offering the gifts according to the law,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "who, indeed, serve in the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses has been divinely warned, when about to make the tabernacle; for \"See,\" saith He, \"that you make all things according to the pattern which was showed you in the mount\"; The New Covenant"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "but now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much also as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which, indeed, has been enacted on better promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For, if that first covenant had been faultless, place would not be sought for a second;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "for, finding fault with them, He saith, \"Behold, the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "Because this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Putting My laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "and they shall in no wise teach each one his fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'; because all shall know Me, from a small one to a great one of them;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins no more.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "In that He saith, \"A new covenant ,\" He hath made the first old: but the thing that is becoming old, and is wearing out with age, is near vanishing away."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Verily, therefore, the first covenant used to have ordinances of divine service, and the sanctuary pertaining to the world."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "For a tabernacle was prepared; the first, in which were both the lamp-stand and the table, and the show-bread, which, indeed, is called \"Holy;\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "and, after the second veil, a tabernacle which is called the \"Holy of Holies:\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which was a golden pot containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "and over it Cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things we cannot now speak in detail."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Now, these things having been thus prepared, the priests go continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "but into the second, the high priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holies has not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "which, indeed, is a figure for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, which cannot, as to the conscience, make the worshiper perfect;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "being only (with meats and drinks and various immersions) ordinances of the flesh, imposed until a time of reformation. Redemption through His Blood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand (that is, not of this creation),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered, once for all, into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And, for this cause, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions against the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For where there is a testament, there is a necessity that the death of the testator be brought in."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For a testament over dead persons is of force; since it is never valid while the testator is living."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "Wherefore, not even has the first covenant been dedicated without blood;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "for, when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, taking the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "saying, \"This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded in respect to you.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Moreover, both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service, he sprinkled in like manner with the blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And nearly all things are cleansed, according to the law, with blood; and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "There was , therefore, a necessity that the copies of the things in Heaven should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves, with better sacrifices than these."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For Christ entered not into holy places made with hand, patterns of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God in our behalf;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "nor yet, that He should many times offer Himself, as the high priest enters into the Holies every year with blood not His own;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "else had it been needful for Him ofttimes to suffer since the founding of a world; but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, He hath been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this comes judgment;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "so also Christ, having once for all been offered to bear the sins of many, will, to those who are eagerly waiting for Him; appear a second time apart from sin, unto salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them ;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "But in these sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins year by year;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore, coming into the world, He saith, \"Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not wish, but a body didst Thou prepare for Me;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hadst no pleasure."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, O God.'\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Saving above, \"Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin,\" Thou didst not wish; neither hadst pleasure therein , which, indeed, are offered according to the law;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "then hath He said, \"Lo, I have come to do Thy will.\" He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "in which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And every priest, indeed, stands daily ministering, and ofttimes offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "but This Man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "from henceforth awaiting until His foes shall be placed as a footstool for His feet."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For by one offering He hath perfected forever those who are being sanctified."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us; for after He had said,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "\"This is the covenant that I will covenant with them after those days,\" saith the Lord, \"Putting my laws on their hearts, I will also write them upon their mind;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "and their sins and their iniquities I will in nowise remember any more.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "But where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. A Call to Persevere ( Jude 1:17–23 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places by the blood of Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is, His flesh;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "and, having a Great Priest over the house of God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering (for faithful is He Who promised);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "and let us consider one another, to incite to love and good works;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "For, if we sin wilfully after we received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "For we know Him Who said, To Me belongs vengeance; I will recompense,\" saith the Lord; and again, \"The Lord will judge His people.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "partly, indeed, when ye were made a spectacle both with reproaches and tribulations; and partly, when ye became partakers with those who were so used;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one ."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "Cast not away, therefore, your boldness, which, indeed, has great recompense."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "For ye have need of patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "\"For yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will come, and will not tarry.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "\"But My righteous one shall live by faith, and, if he draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now faith is an assurance of things hoped for, a sure persuasion of things not seen;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "for in this the elders were well reported of."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "By faith we perceive that the ages have been constituted by the word of God, so that what is seen has not arisen out of things that appear. The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for, it has been witnessed to him that, before his translation, he had been well-pleasing to God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him ; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "By faith Noah, being divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. The Faith of Abraham and Sarah ( Romans 4:1–12 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he went forth, not knowing whither he was going."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land , dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "for he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, even when past the age of child-bearing, since she accounted Him faithful, Who promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore also there sprang from one, and one impotent as to these things, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "These all died according to faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having greeted them , and having confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "For those who say such things make it manifest that they are seeking their paternal home."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "But now they long for a better country , that is, a heavenly one ; 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, when tried, has offered up Isaac; yea, he who gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son ,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "to whom it was said, \"In Isaac shall your seed be called;\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "accounting that God is able to raise even from the dead; whence he did also, as in a figure, receive him back. The Faith of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things about to be."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and he worshiped leaning on the top of his staff."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "By faith Joseph, when approaching his end, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. The Faith of Moses ( Acts 7:20–22 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "By faith Moses, when born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a comely child; and they were not afraid of the king's command."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "By faith Moses, when grown up, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a season;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "regarding the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking away to the recompense."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "By faith he has instituted the passover, and the applying of the blood, lest the destroyer of 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, making an attempt to do , were swallowed up. The Faith of Many"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been compassed about for seven days."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved; having received the spies with peace."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "And what more am I to say? for the time will fail me, if I speak at length concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David also, and of Samuel, and the prophets;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight armies of aliens."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, and, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they perished in the slaughter of the sword; they went about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, suffering tribulation, maltreated"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "And these all, having received a good report through faith, obtained not the promise;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "God having provided something better concerning us, that, apart from us, they should not be made perfect."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us ?having thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin?let us run with patience the race lying before us;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "For consider Him Who hath endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye become weary, fainting in your souls. God Disciplines His Sons"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "and ye have forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, reasons with you as with sons: \"My son, do not lightly regard the chastening of the Lord; neither faint, when reproved by Him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He acknowledgeth.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "But, if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "For they, indeed, for a few days were chastening us , according to what seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "All chastening, indeed, for the present seems not to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained thereby."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, lift up the relaxed hands and the feeble knees,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "and make straight paths for your feet, that the lame be not turned out of the way , but rather be healed. A Call to Holiness ( 1 Peter 1:13–21 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "looking carefully, lest there be any one falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness, springing up, trouble you , and through it many be defiled;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "For ye know that even after that, when wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for repentance, although he earnestly sought it with tears. An Unshakable Kingdom"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "for they could not bear that which was being commanded: \"And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned\";"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "and so terrible was the appearance, Moses said, \"I am exceedingly frightened and in fear!\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "and to Jesus, the Mediator of a 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 Who speaketh; for, if those escaped not, when refusing him who warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape , who turn away from Him Who warneth us from Heaven;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "Whose voice then shook the earth, but now hath He promised, saying, \"Yet once more I shake, not only the earth, but also the heaven.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "But the expression , \"Yet once more,\" signifies the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things that are not shaken may remain."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "for, verily, our God is a consuming fire."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let brotherly love continue."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "Do not forget to show love for strangers; for thereby some entertained angels unawares."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Christ’s Unchanging Nature"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, \"I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "So that with good courage we say, \"The Lord is my Helper, I will not be afraid; what shall man do to me?\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and , considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same?and forever."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place through the priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered without the gate."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore, let us go forth to Him without the camp, bearing His reproach;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "For we have not here an abiding city, but we are seeking for the one about to come. Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "Through Him, therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually; that is, the fruit of our lips making confession to His name."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "But, of well-doing, and contributing, be not forgetful; for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "Obey those who are your leaders, and submit to them ; for they watch in behalf of your souls, as those who are to give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with sighing; for this would be unprofitable for you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And I the more earnestly exhort you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for, indeed, I wrote to you in few words."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "Know ye that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Salute all those who are your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "Grace be with you all."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting. Rejoicing in Trials ( Philippians 1:12–20 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall in with manifold temptations;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "But, if any of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask from God, Who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and tossed."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "But let the lowly brother glory in his high station;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and the rich, in his humiliation; because, as a flower of grass, he shall pass away."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For the sun arose with scorching heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished, so also will the rich man fade away in his goings."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him. Good and Perfect Gifts"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Let no one, when tempted, say, \"I am tempted from God\"; for God cannot be tempted with evils, and He Himself tempteth no one."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Be not deceived, my beloved brethren."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Having willed it , He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures. Hearing and Doing"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Ye know this , my beloved brethren; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for man's wrath works not God's righteousness."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Because, if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "for he observed himself, and went away, and straightway he forgot what manner of man he was."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "But he who looks carefully into a perfect law?that of liberty?and remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work?this man shall be happy in his doing."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "If anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory, with respect of persons."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For, if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile apparel;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "and ye show regard to him who is wearing the splendid apparel, and say, \"Sit here in a good place\"; and say to the poor man, \"Stand, or sit under my footstool\";"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love Him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But ye dishonored the poor man! Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not drag you before the judgment-seats?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself,\" ye do well;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For whosoever keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point , has become guilty of all."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For He Who said, \"Do not commit adultery,\" said also, \"Do not kill.\" Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment. Faith and Works ( Galatians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "What profit is it , my brethren, if anyone says he has faith, but has not works; can such faith save him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "and one of you say to them, \"Go in peace, be warmed and filled,\" but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "But some one will say, \"You have faith, and I have works\": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, \"And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness\"; and he was called \"God's Friend.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "For in many things we all stumble. If anyone stumbles not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to restrain also the whole body."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how small a fire kindles how great a forest!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For every nature, both of wild beasts and birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed, by mankind;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "but the tongue no man can tame; a restless evil, full of deadly poison!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing! My brethren, these things ought not so to be."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Does the fountain send forth, from the same opening, the sweet water and the bitter,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "My brethren, can a fig tree produce olives; or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet. The Wisdom from Above"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, mild, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, \"The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, \"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.\" Drawing Near to God"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "One is Law-giver and Judge?He Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor? Do Not Boast about Tomorrow"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Come now, ye who say, \"To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain,\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "( ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "instead of your saying, \"If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "To him, therefore, who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you. Patience in Suffering"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain ."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be \"the yes, yes,\" and \"the no, no\"; that ye fall not under condemnation. The Prayer of Faith"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; 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 will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on 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 brought forth its fruit. Restoring a Sinner"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "elect according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto 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": "Blessed be the God and Father of out Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His abundant mercy, begat us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading; kept in Heaven for you,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "who are being guarded by God's power, through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "in which ye exult, though now, for a little while, if necessary, made sorrowful in manifold temptations;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "that the proving of your faith? being much more precious than gold that perishes, but is proved through fire?may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Whom, not having seen, ye love; on Whom, though now not seeing Him , yet believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and full of glory;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "concerning which salvation the prophets earnestly sought and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "searching as to what time or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ Who was in them was pointing to, when testifying beforehand the sufferings destined for Christ, and the subsequent glories;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "to whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them; which things now were reported to you through those who proclaimed the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from Heaven; into which things angels desire to look carefully. A Call to Holiness ( Hebrews 12:14–17 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly for the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "but, according as He Who called you is holy, do ye yourselves become holy in all your conduct;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "because it has been written, \"Ye shall be holy, because I am Holy.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And, if ye call on Him as Father, Who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each one's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "foreknown, indeed, from a founding of a world, but manifested in the end of the times for you,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "who through Him believe in God, Who raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. The Enduring Word"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, that lives and abides."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Because \"All flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass: the grass withered, and the flower fell off; but the word of the Lord abides forever.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And this is the word of the good news which was proclaimed to you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "to Whom coming, a Living Stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but with God Elect, Precious,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "ye yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Because it is contained in Scripture, \"Behold, I lay in Zion a Chief Corner-Stone, Elect, Precious; and he who believes on Him shall in nowise be put to shame.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "To you, therefore, who believe is the preciousness; but to those who disbelieve, a stone which the builders rejected, this was made into a head of a corner,\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and \"a stone of stumbling, and rock of offense\"; who stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which also they were appointed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "But ye are \"an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation,\" a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "who once were not a people, but are now God's people; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submission to Authorities ( Romans 13:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Submit yourself to every human ordinance, for the Lord's sake; whether to a king as supreme;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "or to governors, as sent through him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for praise to those who do well;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "for so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "as free, and not holding your freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as servants of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For this is acceptable, if, for conscience toward God, one endures griefs, suffering wrongfully."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For what glory is it , if, when sinning and being beaten, ye endure it ? but, if, when doing well and suffering for it , ye endure it , this is acceptable with God. Christ’s Example of Suffering"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For to this were ye called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, was not threatening, but committed Himself to Him Who judgeth righteously;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by Whose bruise ye were healed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For, as sheep, ye were going astray; but now ye returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be gained through the conduct of their wives,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "having beheld your chaste conduct mingled with fear:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "whose adorning , let it not be the outward one of braiding of hair and of wearing of golden ornaments, or of putting on apparel;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For thus, in former times, the holy women also, who hoped in God, were wont to adorn themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye became children; if ye do good, and fear no alarm."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with them according to knowledge, assigning honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. Turning from Evil"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And, finally, be ye all of one mind, compassionate, loving as brethren, tender-hearted, humble-minded;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "not returning evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but, on the contrary, blessing; because to this end ye were called, that ye might inherit a blessing."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For, \"He who wishes to love life, and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "and let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are toward their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And who is he that will harm you, if ye become zealous for that which is good? Suffering for Righteousness"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But, if ye should even suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye . But fear not their fear, neither be troubled;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always for an answer to every one who asks of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "having a good conscience; that, in whatever ye are spoken against, those who revile your good conduct may be put to shame."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For it is better, if the will of God should will it , that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "because Christ also suffered for sins once, a Righteous One in behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "in Whom, also, going, He preached to the spirits in prison,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "who were once disobedient, when the long-suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was being prepared, entering into which, a few, that is, eight, souls were saved through water;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "which, in its anti-type, immersion, now saves you also (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the requirement of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection 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 having been made subject to Him."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Christ, therefore, having suffered in flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; because he who suffered in flesh has ceased from sin;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "at which they are surprised, since ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "who shall render an account to Him Who is ready to judge the living and the dead."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For to this end was the Gospel proclaimed even to the dead, that they might, indeed, be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "But the end of all things has drawn near; be ye, therefore, of sound mind, and be sober unto prayers;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "above all things, having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "being hospitable to one another, without murmuring;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "according as each one received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "if anyone speaks, as uttering the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to Whom is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Suffering as Christians"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Beloved, be not surprised at the fiery-test taking place among you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened to you;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "but, in so far as ye share in Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of His glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "If ye are reproached in Christ's name, happy are ye , because the Spirit of glory and that of God rests upon you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For let no one of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other men's matters;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "but, if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this name."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Because it is the time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and, if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the Gospel of God?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And, if the righteous, with difficulty, is saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a Faithful Creator."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "The elders, therefore, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of Christ's sufferings, also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it , not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "and, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, ye will obtain the unfading crown of glory. Cast Your Cares on Him"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Likewise, ye younger, be subject to the elder; yea, all of you gird on the lowly mind to serve one another; because \"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Be humbled, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due season;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He careth for you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, is going about, seeking whom he may devour;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And the God of all grace, Who called you into His everlasting glory in Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, settle you ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "To Him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Through Sylvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him , I wrote to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God; within which stand ye."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "The assembly in Babylon, elected with you, and Mark my son, salute you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Salute ye one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who obtained an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "grace to you, and peace be multiplied in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; Partakers of the Divine Nature"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "since His divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him Who called us through His glory and virtue;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "through which have been given to us very great and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world in lust:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and, even for this very reason, adding all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and in knowledge, continence; and in continence, patience; and in patience, godliness;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For these things, belonging to you and abounding, make you neither idle nor unfruitful regarding the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "for he to whom these things are lacking is blind, seeing dimly, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for, if ye do these things, ye shall in nowise ever stumble;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for thus shall there be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, I shall be always ready to remind you of these things, though ye know them , and have become confirmed in the present truth."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by reminding you ;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "knowing that speedy is the putting off of my tabernacle, as also our Lord Jesus Christ signified to me."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And I will also give diligence that at all times ye may be able, after my departure, to perpetuate the remembrance of these things. 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 as having followed after cunningly-devised stories, did we make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made spectators of His majesty."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For He received from God the Father honor and glory, when such a voice was borne to Him from the Excellent Glory, \"This is My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I took delight\";"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "and this voice we heard borne from Heaven, when we were with Him in the holy mount."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which ye do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Morning Star arise in your hearts;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "knowing this, first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one's own interpretation;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "for prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who, indeed, will stealthily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "and many will follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth will be defamed;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For, if God spared not angels that sinned, but, hurling them down to Hell, delivered them up to pits of darkness, kept for judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "and spared not the old world; but preserved Noah, an eighth person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing a flood upon a world of ungodly people ;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and, turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, condemned them by an overthrow, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "and delivered righteous Lot, distressed by the conduct of those who were impious in lasciviousness,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "(for this righteous man, dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, was torturing his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous enduring punishment unto the day of judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but especially those who walk after the flesh in a desire for pollution, and despise dominion; daring, self-willed, they tremble not, when railing at dignities;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "suffering evil as wages of unrighteousness; accounting revelry in the daytime a pleasure; spots and blemishes; reveling in their deceivings, while feasting with you;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "leaving the right way, they were led astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "but had a rebuke for his own transgression; a dumb beast-of-burden, speaking in man's voice, forbade the prophet's madness."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For it were better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "It has happened to them according to the true proverb, \"A dog having returned to his own vomit\"; and \"A sow that was washed, to her wallowing in mire.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "This, a second letter, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your sincere mind by way of remembrance;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "that ye remember the words spoken before by holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Savior by your apostles."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "and saying, \"Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "through which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "but the present heavens and the earth, by the same word, have been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. The Day of the Lord ( 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 )"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "But, beloved, let not this one thing escape you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, being intensely hot, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works therein shall be burned up."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct and godliness,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "looking for, and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved; and the elements, being intensely hot, shall melt!"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But, according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness, Final Exhortations"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we gazed upon, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "(and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you The Eternal Life; Who, indeed, was with the Father, and was manifested to us);"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "that which we have seen and heard we declare to you also, that ye also may have fellow-ship with us; and our fellowship also is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And these things we write, that your joy may be made full. 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 announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, 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 fellowship with One another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "If we say, \"We have no sin,\" we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If we say, \"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, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And, if any one sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous."}
{"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 keep His commandments."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "He who says, \"I have known Him,\" and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "but whosoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected: in this we know that we are in Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "He who says that he is abiding in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked. A New Commandment"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but and old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "He who says that he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I write to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have conquered the evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because ye have known the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one. Do Not Love the World"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "because all that is in the world?the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life?is not of the Father, but is of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever. Beware of Antichrists"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Little children, it is the last hour; and, as ye heard that Anti-Christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have arisen; whence we know that it is the last hour."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out , that they might be made manifest, that they are not all of us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye all know Him ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I did not write to you because ye know not the truth; but because ye know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who is the liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Anti-Christ, he that denies the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Every one who denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also. Remain in Christ"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "As for you, let that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And this is the promise which He Himself promised us, the eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "These things I wrote to you concerning those who would deceive you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And now, little children, abide in Him; that, if He shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and not be put away from Him with shame at His coming."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that does righteousness has been begotten of Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And every one that has this hope on Him purifies himself, even as He is pure."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Every one who commits sin commits lawlessness also; and sin is lawlessness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And ye know that He was manifested, that He might take away sins; and in Him is no sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Little children, let no one deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "He that commits sin is of the Devil; because the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; because His seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he has been begotten of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother; Love One Another ( John 13:31–35 ; Romans 12:9–13 )"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "because this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "In this we have known the love, that He laid down His soul in our behalf; and we ought to lay down our souls in behalf of the brethren."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "But whosoever possesses the goods of the world, and beholds his brother having need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and we shall assure our heart before Him;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "because, if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And this is the commandment, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And he that keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him; and in this we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit Whom He gave to us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "In this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ hath come in flesh is of God;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Anti-Christ, of which ye have heard that it is coming, and now it is in the world already."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He Who is in you, than he that is in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "They are of the world; for this cause they speak of the world, and the world hears them."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears us not: from this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Love Comes from God"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "He that loves not never knew God; because God is love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "In this was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "No one has ever beheld God. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and His love has been perfected in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "In this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And we have beheld, and testify, that the Father hath sent the Son, as Savior of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Whosoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in Him, and he in God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "In this has love been made perfect with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, even so are we in this world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and he who fears is not made perfect in love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "We love, because He first loved us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "If anyone says, \"I love God,\" and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God Whom he has not seen."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And this commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God loves his brother also."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God; and every one who loves Him Who begat loves him also that has been 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 do His commandments."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "because all that has been begotten of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "This is He Who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And the Spirit is He Who beareth witness, because the Spirit is the Truth:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "because there are Three Who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the Three agree in 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; because this is the testimony of God, that He hath testified concerning His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that believes not God has made Him a liar; because he has not believed in the testimony that God testified concerning His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life. Effective Prayer"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "These things I wrote to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And this is the confidence which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "and, if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we asked of Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those that sin not to death. There is a sin to death: I do not say that he shall make request concerning this."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "All unrighteousness 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 who has been begotten of God sins not; but he who was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know the True One: and we are in the True One?in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the True God, and eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Little children, guard yourselves from idols."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder to an elect lady and her children whom I love in truth?and not I only, but also all who know the truth?"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "for the truth's sake which abides in us, and will be with us forever:"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace, mercy, peace, shall be with us from God the Father, and from 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 rejoiced exceedingly, because I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And now I beseech you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And this is love, that we walk according to His commandment. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it. Beware of Deceivers"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Because many deceivers went out into the world, who confess not Jesus Christ as coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the Anti-Christ."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but that ye receive a full reward."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Every one who leads forward, and abides not in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If anyone comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and say not to him, \"Greeting,\""}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for he that says to him, \"Greeting,\" partakes in 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 to write them with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and speak mouth to mouth, that your joy may be made full."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "The children of your elect sister salute you."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Beloved, I pray that, in all things, you may be prosperous, and be in health, even as your soul prospers."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "For I rejoiced exceedingly, when brethren came and testified to your truth, even as you walk in truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. Gaius Commended for Hospitality"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Beloved, you do a faithful work , in whatsoever you do to the brethren, and that to strangers,"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "who testified to your love before the assembly; whom sending forward worthily of God, you will do well;"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "for on behalf of His name they went forth, taking nothing from the gentiles."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "We ought, therefore, to welcome such persons , that we may become fellow-workers for the truth. Diotrephes and Demetrius"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I wrote to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them, receives us not."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He that does good is of God; the evil-doer has not seen God."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "To Demetrius testimony has been borne by all, and by the truth itself; and we also bear testimony, and you know that our testimony is true. Conclusion ( 2 John 1:12–13 )"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Many things I had to write to you; but I wish not to write to you with ink and pen;"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "but I hope shortly to see you, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to you. The friends salute you. Salute the friends by name."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "mercy, and peace, and love, be multiplied to you. God’s Judgment on the Ungodly ( 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I was constrained to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were set forth for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into lasciviousness; and denying the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Now I wish to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And angels who kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, He hath kept in everlasting bonds, under darkness, for the judgment of the great day."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Yet, in like manner, these also, indulging in dreams, defile, indeed, the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "But Michael, the arch-angel, when contending with the Devil he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a railing judgment, but said, \"The Lord rebuke you.\""}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "But these rail at such things as they know not; and what they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they are corrupted."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balsam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah!"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "These are the hidden rocks in your love-feasts, feasting sumptuously together, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without water, borne along by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own ignominies; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of the darkness has been reserved forever."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, \"Behold, the Lord came with His holy myriads,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness, which in ungodliness they committed, and of all the hard things which, as ungodly sinners, they spake against Him.\""}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words ; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit. A Call to Persevere ( Hebrews 10:19–39 ; 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "But do ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "that they were wont to say to you: \"In the last time there will be mockers, walking according to their own ungodly desires.\""}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "These are those who make separations; sensual, having not the Spirit."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "But do ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And on some have compassion, while contending with you ,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Doxology ( Romans 16:25–27 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now to Him Who is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you without blemish, in gladness, before the presence of His glory,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time, and now, and forever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show to His servants the things which must shortly come to pass; and, having sent, He signified them through His angel to His servant John;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "who testified of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, whatsoever things he saw."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Happy is he that reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written therein; for the time is near. John Greets the Seven Churches"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him Who is, and Who was, and Who is coming; and from the seven Spirits Who are before His throne;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him Who loveth, and loosed us from our sins in His own blood,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and made us a kingdom, and priests to God and His Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Behold, He cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall lament over Him! Even so. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "\"I am the Alpha and the Omega,\" saith the Lord God, Who is, and Who was, and Who is coming, the Almighty. John’s Vision on Patmos"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I, John, your brother, and fellow-sharer in the tribulation, and kingdom, and patience in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "saying, \"What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven assemblies; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me; and, having turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "and, in the midst of the candlesticks, One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girded at the breasts with a golden girdle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And His head and hair were white as white wool, as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "and His feet like burnished brass, as if glowing 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 a sharp, two-edged sword proceeding out of His mouth; and His countenance was as the sun shining in his power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And, when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead! And He laid His right hand on me, saying, \"Fear not; I am the First and the Last,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "and the Living One; and I was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of Hades."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Write, therefore, the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to take place after these;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of seven assemblies; and the seven candlesticks are seven assemblies.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "\"To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write these things,\" saith He Who holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, He Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "\"I know your works and your toil, and your patience, and that you cannot bear evil men; and you tried those who call themselves apostles, and are not, and found them false;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "and you have patience, and did bear for My name's sake, and have not grown weary."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But I have it against you, that you left your first love."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Remember, therefore whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your candlestick out of its place, if you do not repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. To the Church in Smyrna"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write these things,\" saith the First and the Last, Who became dead, and lived:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "\"I know your tribulation, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Fear not the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. He that overcomes shall in nowise be hurt by the second death. To the Church in Pergamum"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write these things,\" saith He Who hath the sharp, two-edged sword:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "\"I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is ; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one , who was killed among you, where Satan dwells."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So you have also those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans, in like manner."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Repent, therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and will make war with them with the sword of My mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the Hidden Manna; and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows, but he that receives it . To the Church in Thyatira ( Acts 16:11–15 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write these things.\" saith the Son of God, Who hath His eyes as a flame of fire, and His feet like burnished brass:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "\"I know your works, and your love, and faith, and ministry, and your patience; and your last works to be more than the first."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces My servants to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And I gave her time, that she might repent; and she is not willing to repent of her fornication."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those committing adultery with her, into great tribulation, if they repent not of their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And her children I will slay with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am He Who searcheth the reins and hearts; and I will give to you, each one, according to your works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who knew not the deep things of Satan, as they say, I cast on you no other burden;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "nevertheless, that which ye have, hold fast till I come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And he that overcomes, and he that keeps My works until the end, to him will I give authority over the nations;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of earthenware are broken in pieces, as I also have received from 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 that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write these things,\" saith He Who hath the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: \"I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and you are dead."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Become watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your works complete before My God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember, therefore, how you have received, and did hear; and keep it , and repent. If, therefore, you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "But you have a few names in Sardis, who did not defile their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, because they are worthy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "He that overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will in nowise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To the Church in Philadelphia"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write these things,\" saith He Who is holy, He Who is true, He Who hath the key of David, He Who openeth, and no one shall shut; and shutteth, and no one opens:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "\"I know your works. Behold, I have set before you a door opened, which no one can shut; because you have a little power, and kept My word, and did not deny My name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Behold, I give those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie?behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I loved you."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Because you kept the word of My patience. I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth , to try those who dwell upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I am coming speedily; hold fast that which you have, that no one take your crown."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God; and he shall in nowise go out any more: and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My own New Name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To the Church in Laodicea ( Colossians 2:1–5 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "\"And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write these things,\" saith the Amen, the Faithful and the True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "\"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would you were cold or hot."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of My mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing'; and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "I counsel you to buy of Me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "\"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if anyone 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 that overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with Me in My throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with My Father in His throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies."}
{"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 was as a voice of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, \"Come up hither, and I will show you the things which must take place after these.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Straightway I was in the Spirit, and, behold, there was a throne set in Heaven, and One sitting upon the throne;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and He Who was sitting was , in appearance, like a jasper stone and a sardius; there was a rainbow round about the throne, in appearance, like an emerald;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "and around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders sitting, arrayed in white garments, and on their heads crowns of gold. Worship of the Creator"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunderings; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and before the throne, as it were a glassy sea like crystal; and, in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first living creature was like a lion; and the second living creature like a calf; and the third living creature having a face as of a man; and the fourth living creature was like an eagle flying."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and they have no rest, day and night, saying, \"Holy! Holy! Holy! the Lord God, the Almighty, Who was, and Who is, and Who is coming!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And, when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sitteth on the throne?to Him Who liveth forever and ever,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him Who sitteth on the throne, and will worship Him Who liveth forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "\"Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; because Thou didst create all things; and, because of Thy will, they were, and were created.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw, in the right hand of Him Who was sitting on the throne, a book written within and on the back, sealed up 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 no one in Heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look upon it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look upon it;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "and one of the elders says to me, \"Weep not; behold, the Lion Who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, prevailed to open the book, and its seven seals."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And He came, and hath taken it out of the right hand of Him Who sitteth 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 down before the Lamb, having, each, a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints."}
{"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; because Thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God, by Thy blood, some of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "and didst make them, to our God, a Kingdom and priests, and they reign on 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 of the living creatures, and of the elders, (and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "saying with a great voice, \"Worthy is the Lamb Who hath been slain, to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And every created thing which is in Heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, \"To Him Who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the might, forever and ever!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And the four living creatures said, \"Amen.\" And the elders fell down and worshiped."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw, when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, \"Come.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw, and, behold, a white horse, and He Who sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given to him; and he went forth conquering, and to 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.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And there went forth another horse, a red one ; and to him who was sitting thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another; and there was given to him a great sword. 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 I saw, and, behold, a black horse, and he who sat on him had a balance in his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard as if a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, \"A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary; and the oil and the wine do not hurt.\" 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.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And I saw, and behold, a pale horse; and he that sat on him, his name was Death; and Hades was following with him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the 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, underneath the altar, the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they were holding."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they cried with a great voice, saying, \"How long, O Master, the Holy, and the True, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And a white robe was given to each one of them; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet a little time, until their fellow-servants and their brethren, who were about to be slain, as they also had been, should fulfill their course. The Sixth Seal: Terror"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And I saw, when He opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place; and the sun became black as sack-cloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig-tree casts her unripe figs, when shaken by a great wind;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And the heaven was removed, as a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island were removed out of their places."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And the kings of the earth, and the magnates, and the commanders of thousands, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, \"Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him Who is sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "because the great day of their wrath came, and who is able to stand?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God; and he cried with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "saying, \"Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we shall seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; Of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Of the tribe of Zebulon, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed. Praise from the Great Multitude"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation, and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "and they cry with a great voice, saying, \"Salvation to our God, Who sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And all the angels stood around the throne, and around the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "saying, \"Amen. The blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honor, and the power, and the strength, be to our God forever and ever. Amen!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And one of the elders answered, saying to me, \"These who are clothed in white robes, who are they, and whence did they come?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And I have said to him, \"My lord, you know.\" And he said to me, \"These are those who come out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "For this reason are they before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His Temple; and He Who sitteth on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor shall the sun by any means fall on them, nor any heat;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "because the Lamb, Who is in the midst of the throne, will be their Shepherd, and will guide them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will wipe away 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 stand before God, and there were given to them seven trumpets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And another angel came, and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God out of the hand of the angel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel has taken the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it to the earth; and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake. The First Four Trumpets"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the seven angels, who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first sounded; and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast to the earth; and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, that had souls, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And the third angel sounded; and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell on the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many of the men died in consequence of the waters, because they were made bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And the fourth angel sounded; and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, that the third part of them might be darkened, and that the day might not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And I saw, and heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, \"Woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fallen out of the heaven to the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And it was given to them, that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And in those days will men seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they will desire to die, and death flees from them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads as it were crowns like gold; and their faces were as the faces of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And they had hair as the hair of women; and their teeth were as the teeth of lions."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon; and, in the Greek, he has a name Apollyon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "The first woe departed; behold, there are coming yet two woes hereafter! The Sixth Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard one voice out of the 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 that are bound in the great river Euphrates.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And the four angels were loosed, who had been prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they might kill the third part of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates as of fire, and hyacinth, and brimstone. And the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire, and smoke, and brim-stone."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "By these three plagues the third part of men was killed, by reason of the fire, and the smoke, and the brimstone, that was issuing out of their mouths."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they hurt."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And the rest of the men, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship the demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another strong angel, descending out of Heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And he had in his hand a little book opened; and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land;"}
{"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 uttered their voices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And, when the seven thunders spake, I was about to write; and I heard a voice out of Heaven, saying, \"Seal up the things which the seven thunders spake, and write them not.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel, whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land, lifted up his right hand to Heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "and swore by Him Who liveth forever and ever, Who created the heaven and the things therein, and the earth and the things therein, and the sea and the things therein, that there shall be delay no longer;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God was also finished, according to the good news He proclaimed to His servants the prophets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And the voice which I heard from Heaven, I heard again, talking with me, and saying, \"Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel, who is standing upon the sea and upon the land.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And I went to the angel, saying to him, that he should give me the little book. And he says to me, \"Take, and eat it up; and it will make your belly bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey; and, when I ate it, my belly was made bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he says to me, \"You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And there was given to me a reed, like a staff, one Saying, \"Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those worshipping therein."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; because it was given to the gentiles, and they will tread down the holy city forty-two months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And, if anyone wishes to injure them, fire issues out of their mouth, and devours their enemies; and, if anyone wishes to injure them, he must in this manner be slain."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "These have authority to shut the heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they may wish. The Witnesses Killed and Raised"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And when they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And their corpses will lie on the street of the great city, which, spiritually, is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And some of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, look upon their corpses three days and a half; and they suffer not their corpses to be put into a tomb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry, and they will send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented those dwelling on the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And, after the three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell on those who beheld them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And they heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying to them, \"Come up hither.\" And they went up into Heaven, in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons; and the rest became terrified, and gave glory to the God of Heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "The second woe departed; behold, the third woe comes quickly. The Seventh Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in Heaven, saying, \"The kingdom of the world became our Lord's and His Christ's; and He will reign forever and ever.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And the twenty-four elders who sit before God on their thrones fell on their faces, and worshiped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "saying, \"We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, Who art, and Who wast; because Thou hast taken Thy great power, and didst reign."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the nations were angered, and Thy anger came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And the Temple of God that is in Heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Temple; and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "and, being with child, she cries out, travailing in birth, and being in pain to bring forth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And another sign was seen in the heaven; and, behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And his tail drags the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon has taken his stand before the woman who is about to bring forth; in order that, when she brings forth, he may devour her child."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And she brought forth a man-child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they may nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days. The War in Heaven"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was war in the heaven; Michael and his angels went forth to war with the dragon. And the dragon made war, and his angels;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "and they prevailed not, nor was their place found any more in the heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole habitable earth ; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And I heard a great voice in Heaven, saying, \"Now came the salvation, and the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ; because the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "and they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul, even to death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "On this account, rejoice, ye Heavens, and ye who dwell in them! Woe to the earth, and to the sea! because the Devil went down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time. The Woman Persecuted"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And, when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the man-child."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for 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 out of his mouth, after the woman, water as a river, that he might cause her to be borne away by the river."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened her mouth, and drank down the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "(12:18) and he stood upon the sand of the sea. (13:1) And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, 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 if smitten to death. And his death-stroke was healed; and all the earth wondered after the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, \"Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name, and His Tabernacle, even those dwelling in Heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given him authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the founding of a world."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "If anyone has an ear, let him hear."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "If anyone is for captivity, into captivity he goes; if anyone shall kill with a sword, with a sword he must be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. The Beast from the Earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he was speaking as a dragon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he makes the earth and those dwelling therein, to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And he does great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of the heaven to the earth, in the sight of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to those dwelling on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who has the stroke of the sword, and lived."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was given to him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as worship not the image of the beast should be killed. The Mark of the Beast"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "and that no one should be able to buy or sell, except him who has the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Here is wisdom. He that has understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is a number of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty six."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw, and, behold, the Lamb, standing on the mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name, and the name of His Father, written on their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And I heard a voice out of Heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder; and the voice which I heard was as that of harpers, harping with their harps."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to learn the song, except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who had been purchased out of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And in their mouth was found no falsehood. They are without blemish. The Three Angels and Babylon’s Fall"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal Gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on 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, because the hour of His judgment came; and worship Him Who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and fountains of waters.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And another, a second angel, followed, saying, \"It fell, it fell, Babylon the Great, that has made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, \"If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which has been mingled undiluted in the cup of His anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and before the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying, \"Write: Happy are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea,\" saith the Spirit, \"that they may rest from their labors; for 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, One sitting, like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown; and, in His hand, a sharp sickle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And another angel came forth out of the Temple, crying with a great voice to Him Who was sitting upon the cloud, \"Send forth Thy sickle, and reap; because the hour to reap came, because the harvest of the earth was fully dried."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And He Who was sitting upon the cloud sent forth His sickle, and the earth was reaped."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And another angel came forth out of the Temple which is in Heaven, himself also having a sharp sickle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And another angel came forth out from the altar, he that has authority over the fire; and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, \"Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; because her grapes were ripe.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And the angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And the winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came forth out of the winepress even to the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another sign in Heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having seven plagues, the last, because in them was finished the wrath of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw as it were a glassy sea mingled with fire; and those who were victorious over the beast, and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing by the glassy sea, having harps of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, \"Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are Thy ways, Thou King of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou only art holy; because all the nations shall come, and worship before Thee; because Thy righteous acts were made manifest.\" Preparation for Judgment"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And after these things I saw, and the Temple of the Tabernacle of the testimony in Heaven was opened;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "and there came out of the Temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, clothed with linen pure and white, and girded about the breasts with golden girdles."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls, full of the wrath of God, who liveth 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 no one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels should be finished."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And I heard a great voice out of the Temple, saying to the seven angels, \"Go, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and there came a baneful and painful sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood, as of a dead man; and every living soul died, the things in the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and fountains of waters; and it became blood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And I heard the angel of the waters, saying, \"Righteous art Thou, Who art, and Who wast, the Holy One, because Thou didst thus judge;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "because they poured out the blood of saints and of prophets, and Thou hast given them blood to drink: they are worthy!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard another out of the altar, saying, \"Yea, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given to it to scorch the men with fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And the men were scorched with great heat; and they blasphemed the name of God, Who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not, to give Him glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened; and they were gnawing their tongues because of the pain;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "and they blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings who come from the rising of the sun might he prepared."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the 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 spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole inhabited earth , to gather them together to the war of the great day of God, the Almighty."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "\"Behold, I come as a thief! Happy is he that is watching, and keeping his garments; that he walk not naked, and they see his shame.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And they gathered them into the place which is called in Hebrew Harmagedon. The Seventh Bowl of Wrath"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventh poured out his bowl into the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the Temple, from the throne, saying, \"it has come to pass!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And there were lightnings and voices and thunders; and there was an earthquake, a great one, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so mighty an earthquake, so great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell; and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And great hail, as of a talent's weight, comes down out of the heaven upon the men; and the men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; because the plague thereof is exceedingly great!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, \" Come hither! I will show you the judgment of the great harlot, that sits on many waters;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of the names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations, even the impurities of her fornication,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "and upon her forehead a name written, \"MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.\" The Mystery Explained"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And, seeing her, I wondered with great wonder."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And the angel said to me, \"Why did you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "The beast which you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And those who dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the founding of the world, when they behold the beast, that he was, and is not, and shall come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And there are seven kings; the five fell, and the one is, the other did not yet come. And, when he comes, he must remain a little time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who, indeed, received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, one hour with the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast. The Victory of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them; because He is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and those with Him are called and chosen and faithful.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And he says to me, \"The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot, and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her up with fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "For God gave it into their hearts to do His will, even to execute one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be accomplished."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And the woman whom you saw is the great city which has a kingdom over the kings of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I saw another angel coming down out of Heaven, having great authority; and the earth was illumined with his glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, \"Babylon the great fell, fell, and became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "because, in consequence of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, have all the nations fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich by the power of her luxury.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, \"Come forth out of her, my people, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "because her sins were joined together even to Heaven, and God remembered her iniquities."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "Render to her, as she also rendered; and double the double according to her works; in the cup which she mixed, mix ye to her double."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "As much as she glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and mourning give her; because she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am not a widow, and shall in nowise see mourning.'"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore, in one day shall come her plagues, death and mourning and famine; and she shall be burned up with fire; because strong is the Lord God who judged her. Lament over Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "\"And the kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they behold the smoke of her burning;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour your judgment came!'"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "\"And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her; because no one buys their merchandise any more;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "merchandise of gold, and of silver, and of precious stone, and of pearls, and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet, and of every kind of fragrant wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and of brass, and of iron, and of marble,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of slaves, and souls of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And the fruit of your souls coveting departed from you, and all dainty things and sumptuous things perished from you, and in nowise shall men find them any more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, shall stand afar off because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, which was attired in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and was gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearl;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "because in one hour so great wealth was made desolate!' And every ship-master, and every one sailing to any place, and mariners, and as many as do business at sea, stood afar off;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "and they cried out, when beholding the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What city is like the great city?'"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all who have ships in the sea became rich by reason of her costliness! because in one hour she was made desolate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Rejoice over her, O Heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; because God judged your judgment on her.' The Doom of Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And a strong angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, \"Thus with violence shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and in nowise be found any more!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And the voice of harpers and musicians, and flute-players and trumpeters shall in nowise be heard in you any more. And no craftsman of whatever craft shall in any wise be found in you any more; and no sound of a millstone shall ever be heard in you any more;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "and the light of a lamp shall in nowise shine in you any more: and the voice of bridegroom and of bride shall be heard in you no more; because your merchants were the princes of the earth; because by your sorcery were all the nations deceived."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in Heaven, saying, \"Hallelujah! the salvation, and the glory, and the power, are our God's;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "because true and righteous are His judgments; because He judged the great harlot; who, indeed, corrupted the earth with her fornication, and He avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And a second time they say, \"Hallelujah!\" And her smoke ascends forever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down, and worshiped God, Who sitteth on the throne, saying, \"Amen! Hallelujah!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, \"Give praise to our God, all ye His servants, ye who fear Him, the small and the great.\" The Marriage of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, \"Hallelujah! because the Lord our God, the Almighty, became King!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "Let us rejoice, and exult, and give the glory to Him; because the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife made herself ready.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And it was given to her that she should clothe herself in fine linen, bright, pure; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to me, \"Write, Happy are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.\" And he says to me, \"These are true words of God.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, \"See that you do it not: I am a fellow-servant of you and of your brethren who hold 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 Who sat on him, called Faithful and True; and in righteousness doth He judge and make war."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "And His eyes are as a flame of fire; and on His head are many diadems; having a name written which no one knows but Himself;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "and He is clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood; and His name is called \"THE WORD OF GOD.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And the armies in Heaven were following Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white, pure."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And out of His mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it He may smite the nations, and He will govern them with a rod of iron; and He treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And He hath on His garment, and on His thigh, a 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 that fly in mid-heaven, \"Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all, both of free and bond, and of small and great.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war with Him Who was sitting on the horse, and with His army."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his presence, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image. The two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "And the rest were killed with the sword of Him Who was sitting on the horse, the sword that went forth out of His mouth; and all the birds were filled with 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 upon 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 for a thousand years,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "and cast him into the abyss, and shut it , and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished; after these things he must be loosed for a little time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them; and judgment was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God; and such as worshiped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Happy and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and 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 are finished, Satan will be loosed out of his prison,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "and will come forth to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; and fire came down out of the heaven, and devoured them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also the beast and the false prophet were cast ; and they shall be tormented, day and night, forever and ever. Judgment before the Great White Throne"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw a great white throne, and Him Who was sitting thereon, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and no place was found for them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of the things that were written in the books, according to their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged, every 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, even the lake of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And, if anyone 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 the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And I heard a great voice out of the throne, saying, \"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them, as their God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more; neither mourning, nor crying, nor pain, shall be any more; because the first things passed away.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And He Who sits upon the throne said, \"Behold, I make all things new.\" And He saith to me, \"Write; because these words are faithful and true.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to me, \"It has come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him that thirsted of the fountain of the water of life freely."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "He that overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and He will be to Me a son."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "But, for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.\" The New Jerusalem"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls that were full of the seven last plagues, and spake with me, saying, \" Come hither; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the Heaven from God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "having the glory of God; her radiance was like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "on the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "and the wall of the city, having twelve foundations; and on them, twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And he who was talking with me had as a measure a golden reed, that he might measure the city, and its gate, and its wall."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And the city lies four-square, and its length is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And he measured its wall a hundred and forty-four cubits, a man's measure, that is, an angel's."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And the material of its wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like pure glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every manner of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates, severally, was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine upon it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And the nations will walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And its gates shall in nowise be shut by day (for there will be no night there);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And there shall in nowise enter into it any thing unclean, or he that works abomination and a lie; but only those written in the Lamb's book of life."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, issuing forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "in the midst of its street. And on either side of the river, was a tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing 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 will be in it; and His servants will serve Him;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "and they will see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And there will be night no more; and they need no lamp-light, nor light of the sun; because the Lord God will illuminate them, and they shall reign forever and ever. Jesus Is Coming"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said to me, \"These words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His servants the things which must shortly come to pass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And, behold, I come quickly! Happy is he that keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And, when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says, \"See that you do it not. I am a fellow-servant with you and with your brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: worship God.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And he says to me, \"Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still; and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still; and he that is holy, let him be made holy still."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "\"Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to render to each one according as his work is ."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "Happy are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Without are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and acting a lie."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "\"I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify to you these things to the assemblies. I am the root and offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "\"And the Spirit and the bride say, 'Come'; and let him that hears say, 'Come'; and let him that thirsts say, 'Come'; he that will let him take the water of life freely. Nothing May Be Added or Removed"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "\"I testify to every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone shall add to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "and, if anyone shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, even from the things written in this book.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "He Who testifieth these things saith, \"Yea; I come quickly.\" Amen; come, Lord Jesus!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen."}