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First, I thank my God through Yeshua the Messiah for all of you, because the report of your trust is spreading throughout the whole world.


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For God, whom I serve in my spirit by spreading the Good News about his Son, is my witness that I regularly remember you


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in my prayers; and I always pray that somehow, now or in the future, I might, by God’s will, succeed in coming to visit you.


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For I long to see you, so that I might share with you some spiritual gift that can make you stronger —


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or, to put it another way, so that by my being with you, we might, through the faith we share, encourage one another.


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Brothers, I want you to know that although I have been prevented from visiting you until now, I have often planned to do so, in order that I might have some fruit among you, just as I have among the other Gentiles.


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I owe a debt to both civilized Greeks and uncivilized people, to both the educated and the ignorant;


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For I am not ashamed of the Good News, since it is God’s powerful means of bringing salvation to everyone who keeps on trusting, to the Jew especially, but equally to the Gentile.


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For in it is revealed how God makes people righteous in his sight; and from beginning to end it is through trust — as the Tanakh puts it, “But the person who is righteous will live his life by trust.”


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What is revealed is God’s anger from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people who in their wickedness keep suppressing the truth;


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For ever since the creation of the universe his invisible qualities — both his eternal power and his divine nature — have been clearly seen, because they can be understood from what he has made. Therefore, they have no excuse;


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because, although they know who God is, they do not glorify him as God or thank him. On the contrary, they have become futile in their thinking; and their undiscerning hearts have become darkened.


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In fact, they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for mere images, like a mortal human being, or like birds, animals or reptiles!


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This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts’ lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other’s bodies.


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They have exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, by worshipping and serving created things, rather than the Creator — praised be he for ever. Amen.


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This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural;


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and likewise the men, giving up natural relations with the opposite sex, burn with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in their own persons the penalty appropriate to their perversion.


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In other words, since they have not considered God worth knowing, God has given them up to worthless ways of thinking; so that they do improper things.


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They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips,


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slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents;


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They know well enough God’s righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.


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Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, passing judgment; for when you judge someone else, you are passing judgment against yourself; since you who are judging do the same things he does.


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do you think that you, a mere man passing judgment on others who do such things, yet doing them yourself, will escape the judgment of God?


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Or perhaps you despise the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience; because you don’t realize that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to turn from your sins.


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But by your stubbornness, by your unrepentant heart, you are storing up anger for yourself on the Day of Anger, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed;


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To those who seek glory, honor and immortality by perseverance in doing good, he will pay back eternal life.


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But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey evil, he will pay back wrath and anger.


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Yes, he will pay back misery and anguish to every human being who does evil, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile;


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but glory and honor and shalom to everyone who keeps doing what is good, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile.


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All who have sinned outside the framework of Torah will die outside the framework of Torah; and all who have sinned within the framework of Torah will be judged by Torah.


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For it is not merely the hearers of Torah whom God considers righteous; rather, it is the doers of what Torah says who will be made righteous in God’s sight.


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For whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torah requires, then these, even though they don’t have Torah, for themselves are Torah!


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For their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts. Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them


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on a day when God passes judgment on people’s inmost secrets. (According to the Good News as I proclaim it, he does this through the Messiah Yeshua.)


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and know his will and give your approval to what is right, because you have been instructed from the Torah;


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an instructor for the spiritually unaware and a teacher of children, since in the Torah you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth;


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then, you who teach others, don’t you teach yourself? Preaching, “Thou shalt not steal,” do you steal?


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Saying, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? Detesting idols, do you commit idolatrous acts?


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For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision!


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Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?


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Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a b’rit-milah and have Torah written out but violate it!


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For the real Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not only external and physical.


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On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.


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Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, “so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial.”


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Now if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what should we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict his anger on us? (I am speaking here the way people commonly do.)


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“But,” you say, “if, through my lie, God’s truth is enhanced and brings him greater glory, why am I still judged merely for being a sinner?”


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Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), “Let us do evil, so that good may come of it”? Against them the judgment is a just one!


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So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, are controlled by sin.


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all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one!


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“Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.


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Moreover, we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those living within the framework of the Torah, in order that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be shown to deserve God’s adverse judgment.


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For in his sight no one alive will be considered righteous on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, because what Torah really does is show people how sinful they are.


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But now, quite apart from Torah, God’s way of making people righteous in his sight has been made clear — although the Torah and the Prophets give their witness to it as well —


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and it is a righteousness that comes from God, through the faithfulness of Yeshua the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile,


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By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.


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God put Yeshua forward as the kapparah for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody sacrificial death. This vindicated God’s righteousness; because, in his forbearance, he had passed over [with neither punishment nor remission] the sins people had committed in the past;


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and it vindicates his righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua’s faithfulness.


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So what room is left for boasting? None at all! What kind of Torah excludes it? One that has to do with legalistic observance of rules? No, rather, a Torah that has to do with trusting.


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Therefore, we hold the view that a person comes to be considered righteous by God on the ground of trusting, which has nothing to do with legalistic observance of Torah commands.


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Or is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, he is indeed the God of the Gentiles;


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because, as you will admit, God is one. Therefore, he will consider righteous the circumcised on the ground of trusting and the uncircumcised through that same trusting.


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Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, we confirm Torah.


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For if Avraham came to be considered righteous by God because of legalistic observances, then he has something to boast about. But this is not how it is before God!


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For what does the Tanakh say? “Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.”


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Now the account of someone who is working is credited not on the ground of grace but on the ground of what is owed him.


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However, in the case of one who is not working but rather is trusting in him who makes ungodly people righteous, his trust is credited to him as righteousness.


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In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances:


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Now is this blessing for the circumcised only? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say that Avraham’s trust was credited to his account as righteousness;


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but what state was he in when it was so credited — circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!


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In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him,


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and at the same time be the father of every circumcised person who not only has had a b’rit-milah, but also follows in the footsteps of the trust which Avraham avinu had when he was still uncircumcised.


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For the promise to Avraham and his seed that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces.


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The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God’s free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had — Avraham avinu for all of us.


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This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.” Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence.


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For he was past hope, yet in hope he trusted that he would indeed become a father to many nations, in keeping with what he had been told, “So many will your seed be.”


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His trust did not waver when he considered his own body — which was as good as dead, since he was about a hundred years old — or when he considered that Sarah’s womb was dead too.


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He did not by lack of trust decide against God’s promises. On the contrary, by trust he was given power as he gave glory to God,


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They were written also for us, who will certainly have our account credited too, because we have trusted in him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead —


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Yeshua, who was delivered over to death because of our offences and raised to life in order to make us righteous.


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So, since we have come to be considered righteous by God because of our trust, let us continue to have shalom with God through our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.


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Also through him and on the ground of our trust, we have gained access to this grace in which we stand; so let us boast about the hope of experiencing God’s glory.


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But not only that, let us also boast in our troubles; because we know that trouble produces endurance,


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and this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh who has been given to us.


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Now it is a rare event when someone gives up his life even for the sake of somebody righteous, although possibly for a truly good person one might have the courage to die.


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But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.


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Therefore, since we have now come to be considered righteous by means of his bloody sacrificial death, how much more will we be delivered through him from the anger of God’s judgment!


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For if we were reconciled with God through his Son’s death when we were enemies, how much more will we be delivered by his life, now that we are reconciled!


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And not only will we be delivered in the future, but we are boasting about God right now, because he has acted through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have already received that reconciliation.


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Here is how it works: it was through one individual that sin entered the world, and through sin, death; and in this way death passed through to the whole human race, inasmuch as everyone sinned.


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Sin was indeed present in the world before Torah was given, but sin is not counted as such when there is no Torah.


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Nevertheless death ruled from Adam until Moshe, even over those whose sinning was not exactly like Adam’s violation of a direct command. In this, Adam prefigured the one who was to come.


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But the free gift is not like the offence. For if, because of one man’s offence, many died, then how much more has God’s grace, that is, the gracious gift of one man, Yeshua the Messiah, overflowed to many!


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No, the free gift is not like what resulted from one man’s sinning; for from one sinner came judgment that brought condemnation; but the free gift came after many offences and brought acquittal.


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For if, because of the offence of one man, death ruled through that one man; how much more will those receiving the overflowing grace, that is, the gift of being considered righteous, rule in life through the one man Yeshua the Messiah!


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In other words, just as it was through one offence that all people came under condemnation, so also it is through one righteous act that all people come to be considered righteous.


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For just as through the disobedience of the one man, many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the other man, many will be made righteous.


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And the Torah came into the picture so that the offence would proliferate; but where sin proliferated, grace proliferated even more.


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All this happened so that just as sin ruled by means of death, so also grace might rule through causing people to be considered righteous, so that they might have eternal life, through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.


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Don’t you know that those of us who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua have been immersed into his death?


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Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.


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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his.


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We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.


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We know that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, never to die again; death has no authority over him.


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For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated; but his life, he keeps on living for God.


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In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God, by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.


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and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument for wickedness. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people alive from the dead, and your various parts to God as instruments for righteousness.


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Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid!


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Don’t you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves — whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous?


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By God’s grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed;


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(I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God.


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but what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things was death.


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However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit — it consists in being made holy, set apart for God, and its end result is eternal life.


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For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.


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Surely you know, brothers — for I am speaking to those who understand Torah — that the Torah has authority over a person only so long as he lives?


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For example, a married woman is bound by Torah to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the part of the Torah that deals with husbands.


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Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.


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Thus, my brothers, you have been made dead with regard to the Torah through the Messiah’s body, so that you may belong to someone else, namely, the one who has been raised from the dead, in order for us to bear fruit for God.


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For when we were living according to our old nature, the passions connected with sins worked through the Torah in our various parts, with the result that we bore fruit for death.


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But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah, because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.


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Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.”


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But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires — for apart from Torah, sin is dead.


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I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,


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For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.


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Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.


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For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.


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I don’t understand my own behavior — I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!


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For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me — that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!


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But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.


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So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!


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but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.


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Thanks be to God [, he will]! — through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.”


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Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua.


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Why? Because the Torah of the Spirit, which produces this life in union with Messiah Yeshua, has set me free from the “Torah” of sin and death.


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For what the Torah could not do by itself, because it lacked the power to make the old nature cooperate, God did by sending his own Son as a human being with a nature like our own sinful one [but without sin]. God did this in order to deal with sin, and in so doing he executed the punishment against sin in human nature,


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so that the just requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us who do not run our lives according to what our old nature wants but according to what the Spirit wants.


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For those who identify with their old nature set their minds on the things of the old nature, but those who identify with the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.


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Having one’s mind controlled by the old nature is death, but having one’s mind controlled by the Spirit is life and shalom.


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For the mind controlled by the old nature is hostile to God, because it does not submit itself to God’s Torah — indeed, it cannot.


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But you, you do not identify with your old nature but with the Spirit — provided the Spirit of God is living inside you, for anyone who doesn’t have the Spirit of the Messiah doesn’t belong to him.


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However, if the Messiah is in you, then, on the one hand, the body is dead because of sin; but, on the other hand, the Spirit is giving life because God considers you righteous.


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And if the Spirit of the One who raised Yeshua from the dead is living in you, then the One who raised the Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.


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So then, brothers, we don’t owe a thing to our old nature that would require us to live according to our old nature.


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For if you live according to your old nature, you will certainly die; but if, by the Spirit, you keep putting to death the practices of the body, you will live.


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For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to bring you back again into fear; on the contrary, you received the Spirit, who makes us sons and by whose power we cry out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”).


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and if we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah — provided we are suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him.


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I don’t think the sufferings we are going through now are even worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us in the future.


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for the creation was made subject to frustration — not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it. But it was given a reliable hope


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that it too would be set free from its bondage to decay and would enjoy the freedom accompanying the glory that God’s children will have.


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and not only it, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we continue waiting eagerly to be made sons — that is, to have our whole bodies redeemed and set free.


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It was in this hope that we were saved. But if we see what we hope for, it isn’t hope — after all, who hopes for what he already sees?


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But if we continue hoping for something we don’t see, then we still wait eagerly for it, with perseverance.


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Similarly, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we don’t know how to pray the way we should. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf with groanings too deep for words;


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and the one who searches hearts knows exactly what the Spirit is thinking, because his pleadings for God’s people accord with God’s will.


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Furthermore, we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose;


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because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers;


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and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!


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He who did not spare even his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all — is it possible that, having given us his Son, he would not give us everything else too?


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So who will bring a charge against God’s chosen people? Certainly not God — he is the one who causes them to be considered righteous!


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Who punishes them? Certainly not the Messiah Yeshua, who died and — more than that — has been raised, is at the right hand of God and is actually pleading on our behalf!


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Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Trouble? Hardship? Persecution? Hunger? Poverty? Danger? War?


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As the Tanakh puts it, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.”


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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers, neither what exists nor what is coming,


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neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.


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I am speaking the truth — as one who belongs to the Messiah, I do not lie; and also bearing witness is my conscience, governed by the Ruach HaKodesh:


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that I could wish myself actually under God’s curse and separated from the Messiah, if it would help my brothers, my own flesh and blood,


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the people of Isra’el! They were made God’s children, the Sh’khinah has been with them, the covenants are theirs, likewise the giving of the Torah, the Temple service and the promises;


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the Patriarchs are theirs; and from them, as far as his physical descent is concerned, came the Messiah, who is over all. Praised be Adonai for ever! Amen.


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But the present condition of Isra’el does not mean that the Word of God has failed. For not everyone from Isra’el is truly part of Isra’el;


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indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham; rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”


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In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.


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And even more to the point is the case of Rivkah; for both her children were conceived in a single act with Yitz’chak, our father;


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and before they were born, before they had done anything at all, either good or bad (so that God’s plan might remain a matter of his sovereign choice, not dependent on what they did, but on God, who does the calling),


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For the Tanakh says to Pharaoh, “It is for this very reason that I raised you up, so that in connection with you I might demonstrate my power, so that my name might be known throughout the world.”


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But you will say to me, “Then why does he still find fault with us? After all, who resists his will?”


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Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”


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Or has the potter no right to make from a given lump of clay this pot for honorable use and that one for dishonorable?


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Now what if God, even though he was quite willing to demonstrate his anger and make known his power, patiently put up with people who deserved punishment and were ripe for destruction?


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What if he did this in order to make known the riches of his glory to those who are the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory —


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As indeed he says in Hoshea, “Those who were not my people I will call my people; her who was not loved I will call loved;


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and in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God!”


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But Yesha‘yahu, referring to Isra’el, cries out, “Even if the number of people in Isra’el is as large as the number of grains of sand by the sea, only a remnant will be saved.


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Also, as Yesha‘yahu said earlier, “If Adonai-Tzva’ot had not left us a seed, we would have become like S’dom, we would have resembled ‘Amora.”


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So, what are we to say? This: that Gentiles, even though they were not striving for righteousness, have obtained righteousness; but it is a righteousness grounded in trusting!


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However, Isra’el, even though they kept pursuing a Torah that offers righteousness, did not reach what the Torah offers.


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Why? Because they did not pursue righteousness as being grounded in trusting but as if it were grounded in doing legalistic works. They stumbled over the stone that makes people stumble.


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As the Tanakh puts it, “Look, I am laying in Tziyon a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will trip them up. But he who rests his trust on it will not be humiliated.”


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for, since they are unaware of God’s way of making people righteous and instead seek to set up their own, they have not submitted themselves to God’s way of making people righteous.


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For the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts.


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For Moshe writes about the righteousness grounded in the Torah that the person who does these things will attain life through them.


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Moreover, the righteousness grounded in trusting says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend to heaven?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah down —


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What, then, does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” — that is, the word about trust which we proclaim, namely,


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that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.


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For with the heart one goes on trusting and thus continues toward righteousness, while with the mouth one keeps on making public acknowledgement and thus continues toward deliverance.


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That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him,


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But how can they call on someone if they haven’t trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him?


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And how can people proclaim him unless God sends them? — as the Tanakh puts it, “How beautiful are the feet of those announcing good news about good things!”


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The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Yesha‘yahu says, “Adonai, who has trusted what he has heard from us?”


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So trust comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through a word proclaimed about the Messiah.


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“But, I say, isn’t it rather that they didn’t hear?” No, they did hear — “Their voice has gone out throughout the whole world and their words to the ends of the earth.”


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“But, I say, isn’t it rather that Isra’el didn’t understand?” “I will provoke you to jealousy over a non-nation, over a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”


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Moreover, Yesha‘yahu boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me, I became known to those who did not ask for me”;


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but to Isra’el he says, “All day long I held out my hands to a people who kept disobeying and contradicting.”


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“In that case, I say, isn’t it that God has repudiated his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am a son of Isra’el, from the seed of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.


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God has not repudiated his people, whom he chose in advance. Or don’t you know what the Tanakh says about Eliyahu? He pleads with God against Isra’el,


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“Adonai, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I’m the only one left, and now they want to kill me too!”


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But what is God’s answer to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt down to Ba‘al.”


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(Now if it is by grace, it is accordingly not based on legalistic works; if it were otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.)


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What follows is that Isra’el has not attained the goal for which she is striving. The ones chosen have obtained it, but the rest have been made stonelike,


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just as the Tanakh says, “God has given them a spirit of dullness — eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, right down to the present day.”


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And David says, “Let their dining table become for them a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a punishment.


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“In that case, I say, isn’t it that they have stumbled with the result that they have permanently fallen away?” Heaven forbid! Quite the contrary, it is by means of their stumbling that the deliverance has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.


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Moreover, if their stumbling is bringing riches to the world — that is, if Isra’el’s being placed temporarily in a condition less favored than that of the Gentiles is bringing riches to the latter — how much greater riches will Isra’el in its fullness bring them!


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However, to those of you who are Gentiles I say this: since I myself am an emissary sent to the Gentiles, I make known the importance of my work


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For if their casting Yeshua aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting him mean? It will be life from the dead!


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Now if the hallah offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole loaf. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.


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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you — a wild olive — were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,


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then don’t boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.


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True, but so what? They were broken off because of their lack of trust. However, you keep your place only because of your trust. So don’t be arrogant; on the contrary, be terrified!


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So take a good look at God’s kindness and his severity: on the one hand, severity toward those who fell off; but, on the other hand, God’s kindness toward you — provided you maintain yourself in that kindness! Otherwise, you too will be cut off!


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Moreover, the others, if they do not persist in their lack of trust, will be grafted in; because God is able to graft them back in.


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For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!


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For, brothers, I want you to understand this truth which God formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won’t imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree, has come upon Isra’el, until the Gentile world enters in its fullness;


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and that it is in this way that all Isra’el will be saved. As the Tanakh says, “Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer; he will turn away ungodliness from Ya‘akov


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With respect to the Good News they are hated for your sake. But with respect to being chosen they are loved for the Patriarchs’ sake,


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Just as you yourselves were disobedient to God before but have received mercy now because of Isra’el’s disobedience;


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so also Isra’el has been disobedient now, so that by your showing them the same mercy that God has shown you, they too may now receive God’s mercy.


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O the depth of the riches and the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments! How unsearchable are his ways!


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I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please him; it is the logical “Temple worship” for you.


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In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.


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For I am telling every single one of you, through the grace that has been given to me, not to have exaggerated ideas about your own importance. Instead, develop a sober estimate of yourself based on the standard which God has given to each of you, namely, trust.


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For just as there are many parts that compose one body, but the parts don’t all have the same function;


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so there are many of us, and in union with the Messiah we comprise one body, with each of us belonging to the others.


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But we have gifts that differ and which are meant to be used according to the grace that has been given to us. If your gift is prophecy, use it to the extent of your trust;


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if you are a counselor, use your gift to comfort and exhort; if you are someone who gives, do it simply and generously; if you are in a position of leadership, lead with diligence and zeal; if you are one who does acts of mercy, do them cheerfully.


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Love each other devotedly and with brotherly love; and set examples for each other in showing respect.


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Be sensitive to each other’s needs — don’t think yourselves better than others, but make humble people your friends. Don’t be conceited.


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Never seek revenge, my friends; instead, leave that to God’s anger; for in the Tanakh it is written, “Adonai says, ‘Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay.’”


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On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For by doing this, you will heap fiery coals [of shame] on his head.”


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Everyone is to obey the governing authorities. For there is no authority that is not from God, and the existing authorities have been placed where they are by God.


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Therefore, whoever resists the authorities is resisting what God has instituted; and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.


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For rulers are no terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to be unafraid of the person in authority? Then simply do what is good, and you will win his approval;


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for he is God’s servant, there for your benefit. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid! Because it is not for nothing that he holds the power of the sword; for he is God’s servant, there as an avenger to punish wrongdoers.


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This is also why you pay taxes; for the authorities are God’s public officials, constantly attending to these duties.


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Pay everyone what he is owed: if you owe the tax-collector, pay your taxes; if you owe the revenue-collector, pay revenue; if you owe someone respect, pay him respect; if you owe someone honor, pay him honor.


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Don’t owe anyone anything — except to love one another; for whoever loves his fellow human being has fulfilled Torah.


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For the commandments, “Don’t commit adultery,” “Don’t murder,” “Don’t steal,” “Don’t covet,” and any others are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”


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Besides all this, you know at what point of history we stand; so it is high time for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; for the final deliverance is nearer than when we first came to trust.


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The night is almost over, the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and arm ourselves with the weapons of light.


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Let us live properly, as people do in the daytime — not partying and getting drunk, not engaging in sexual immorality and other excesses, not quarrelling and being jealous.


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Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah; and don’t waste your time thinking about how to provide for the sinful desires of your old nature.


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One person has the trust that will allow him to eat anything, while another whose trust is weak eats only vegetables.


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The one who eats anything must not look down on the one who abstains; and the abstainer must not pass judgment on the one who eats anything, because God has accepted him —


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who are you to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? It is before his own master that he will stand or fall; and the fact is that he will stand, because the Lord is able to make him stand.


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One person considers some days more holy than others, while someone else regards them as being all alike. What is important is for each to be fully convinced in his own mind.


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He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God.


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for if we live, we live in relation to the Lord; and if we die, we die in relation to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord —


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indeed, it was for this very reason that the Messiah died and came back to life, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.


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You then, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For all of us will stand before God’s judgment seat;


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since it is written in the Tanakh, “As I live, says Adonai, every knee will bend before me, and every tongue will publicly acknowledge God.”


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Therefore, let’s stop passing judgment on each other! Instead, make this one judgment — not to put a stumbling block or a snare in a brother’s way.


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I know — that is, I have been persuaded by the Lord Yeshua the Messiah — that nothing is unclean in itself. But if a person considers something unclean, then for him it is unclean;


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and if your brother is being upset by the food you eat, your life is no longer one of love. Do not, by your eating habits, destroy someone for whom the Messiah died!


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for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, shalom and joy in the Ruach HaKodesh.


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Anyone who serves the Messiah in this fashion both pleases God and wins the approval of other people.


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Don’t tear down God’s work for the sake of food. True enough, all things are clean; but it is wrong for anybody by his eating to cause someone to fall away.


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The belief you hold about such things, keep between yourself and God. Happy the person who is free of self-condemnation when he approves of something!


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But the doubter comes under condemnation if he eats, because his action is not based on trust. And anything not based on trust is a sin.


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So we who are strong have a duty to bear the weaknesses of those who are not strong, rather than please ourselves.


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For even the Messiah did not please himself; rather, as the Tanakh says, ‘The insults of those insulting you fell on me.’


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For everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that with the encouragement of the Tanakh we might patiently hold on to our hope.


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And may God, the source of encouragement and patience, give you the same attitude among yourselves as the Messiah Yeshua had,


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so that with one accord and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


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For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the Jewish people in order to show God’s truthfulness by making good his promises to the Patriarchs,


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and in order to show his mercy by causing the Gentiles to glorify God — as it is written in the Tanakh, “Because of this I will acknowledge you among the Gentiles and sing praise to your name.”


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And again, Yesha‘yahu says, “The root of Yishai will come, he who arises to rule Gentiles; Gentiles will put their hope in him.”


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May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.


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Now I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and well able to counsel each other.


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But on some points I have written you quite boldly by way of reminding you about them, because of the grace God has given me


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to be a servant of the Messiah Yeshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly duty of presenting the Good News of God, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh.


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for I will not dare speak of anything except what the Messiah has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by my words and deeds,


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through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah.


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I have always made it my ambition to proclaim the Good News where the Messiah was not yet known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation,


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but rather, as the Tanakh puts it, “Those who have not been told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”


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But now, since there is no longer a place in these regions that needs me, and since I have wanted for many years to come to you,


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I hope to see you as I pass through on my way to Spain, and to have you help me travel there after I have enjoyed your company awhile.


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For Macedonia and Achaia thought it would be good to make some contribution to the poor among God’s people in Yerushalayim.


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They were pleased to do it, but the fact is that they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared with the Jews in spiritual matters, then the Gentiles clearly have a duty to help the Jews in material matters.


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So when I have finished this task and made certain that they have received this fruit, I will leave for Spain and visit you on my way there;


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And now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God on my behalf


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that I will be rescued from the unbelievers in Y’hudah, and that my service for Yerushalayim will be acceptable to God’s people there.


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so that you may welcome her in the Lord, as God’s people should, and give her whatever assistance she may need from you; for she has been a big help to many people — including myself.


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They risked their necks to save my life; not only I thank them, but also all the Messianic communities among the Gentiles.


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And give my greetings to the congregation that meets in their house. Give my greetings to my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first person in the province of Asia to put his trust in the Messiah.


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Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, relatives of mine who were in prison with me. They are well known among the emissaries; also they came to trust in the Messiah before I did.


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Greetings to Appeles, whose trust in the Messiah has been tested and proved. Greet those in the household of Aristobulus.


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Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, women who are working hard for the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has done a lot of hard work for the Lord.


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Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all of God’s people who are with them.


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I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put snares alongside the teaching in which you have been trained — keep away from them.


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For men like these are not serving our Lord the Messiah but their own belly; by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the innocent.


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For everyone has heard about your obedience; therefore I rejoice over you. However, I want you to be wise concerning good, but innocent concerning evil.


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And God, the source of shalom, will soon crush the Adversary under your feet. The grace of our Lord Yeshua be with you.


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My host Gaius, in whose home the whole congregation meets, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and brother Quartus greet you.


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Now to God, who can strengthen you, according to my Good News, in harmony with the revelation of the secret truth which is the proclamation of Yeshua the Messiah, kept hidden in silence for ages and ages,


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but manifested now through prophetic writings, in keeping with the command of God the Eternal, and communicated to all the Gentiles to promote in them trust-grounded obedience —


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From: Sha’ul, called by God’s will to be an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua; and from brother Sosthenes


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To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Yeshua the Messiah and called to be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours:


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I thank my God always for you because of God’s love and kindness given to you through the Messiah Yeshua,


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in that you have been enriched by him in so many ways, particularly in power of speech and depth of knowledge.


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so that you are not lacking any spiritual gift and are eagerly awaiting the revealing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


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He will enable you to hold out until the end and thus be blameless on the Day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah —


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God is trustworthy: it was he who called you into fellowship with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.


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Nevertheless, brothers, I call on you in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to agree, all of you, in what you say, and not to let yourselves remain split into factions but be restored to having a common mind and a common purpose.


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For some of Chloe’s people have made it known to me, my brothers, that there are quarrels among you.


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I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”


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Has the Messiah been split in pieces? Was it Sha’ul who was put to death on a stake for you? Were you immersed into the name of Sha’ul?


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(Oh yes, I did also immerse Stephanas and his household; beyond that, I can’t remember whether I immersed anyone else.)


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For the Messiah did not send me to immerse but to proclaim the Good News — and to do it without relying on “wisdom” that consists of mere rhetoric, so as not to rob the Messiah’s execution-stake of its power.


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For the message about the execution-stake is nonsense to those in the process of being destroyed, but to us in the process of being saved it is the power of God.


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Indeed, the Tanakh says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and frustrate the intelligence of the intelligent.”


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Where does that leave the philosopher, the Torah-teacher, or any of today’s thinkers? Hasn’t God made this world’s wisdom look pretty foolish?


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For God’s wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know him. Therefore God decided to use the “nonsense” of what we proclaim as his means of saving those who come to trust in it.


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we go on proclaiming a Messiah executed on a stake as a criminal! To Jews this is an obstacle, and to Greeks it is nonsense;


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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, this same Messiah is God’s power and God’s wisdom!


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For God’s “nonsense” is wiser than humanity’s “wisdom.” And God’s “weakness” is stronger than humanity’s “strength.”


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Just look at yourselves, brothers — look at those whom God has called! Not many of you are wise by the world’s standards, not many wield power or boast noble birth.


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But God chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise; God chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the strong;


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and God chose what the world looks down on as common or regards as nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world considers important;


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It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!


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As for me, brothers, when I arrived among you, it was not with surpassing eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God;


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for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah, and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal.


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and neither the delivery nor the content of my message relied on compelling words of “wisdom” but on a demonstration of the power of the Spirit,


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Yet there is a wisdom that we are speaking to those who are mature enough for it. But it is not the wisdom of this world or of this world’s leaders, who are in the process of passing away.


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On the contrary, we are communicating a secret wisdom from God which has been hidden until now but which, before history began, God had decreed would bring us glory.


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Not one of this world’s leaders has understood it; because if they had, they would not have executed the Lord from whom this glory flows.


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But, as the Tanakh says, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard and no one’s heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”


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It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God.


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For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit.


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Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us.


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These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit.


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Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit.


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But the person who has the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate him.


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As for me, brothers, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as babies, so far as experience with the Messiah is concerned.


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I gave you milk, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. But you aren’t ready for it now either!


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For you are still worldly! Isn’t it obvious from all the jealousy and quarrelling among you that you are worldly and living by merely human standards?


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For when one says, “I follow Sha’ul” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you being merely human?


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After all, what is Apollos? What is Sha’ul? Only servants through whom you came to trust. Indeed, it was the Lord who brought you to trust through one of us or through another.


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Using the grace God gave me, I laid a foundation, like a skilled master-builder; and another man is building on it. But let each one be careful how he builds.


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Some will use gold, silver or precious stones in building on this foundation; while others will use wood, grass or straw.


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But each one’s work will be shown for what it is; the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire — the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.


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if it is burned up, he will have to bear the loss: he will still escape with his life, but it will be like escaping through a fire.


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So if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple.


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Let no one fool himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world’s standards), let him become “foolish,” so that he may become really wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is nonsense, as far as God is concerned; inasmuch as the Tanakh says, “He traps the wise in their own cleverness,”


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whether Sha’ul or Apollos or Kefa or the world or life or death or the present or the future: they all belong to you,


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And it matters very little to me how I am evaluated by you or by any human court; in fact, I don’t even evaluate myself.


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I am not aware of anything against me, but this does not make me innocent. The one who is evaluating me is the Lord.


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So don’t pronounce judgment prematurely, before the Lord comes; for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness; he will expose the motives of people’s hearts; and then each will receive from God whatever praise he deserves.


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Now in what I have said here, brothers, I have used myself and Apollos as examples to teach you not to go beyond what the Tanakh says, proudly taking the side of one leader against another.


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After all, what makes you so special? What do you have that you didn’t receive as a gift? And if in fact it was a gift, why do you boast as if it weren’t?


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You are glutted already? You are rich already? You have become kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we might share the kingship with you!


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For I think God has been placing us emissaries on display at the tail of the parade, like men condemned to die in the public arena: we have become a spectacle before the whole universe, angels as well as men.


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For the Messiah’s sake we are fools, but united with the Messiah you are wise! We are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are dishonored.


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Till this very moment we go hungry and thirsty, we are dressed in rags, we are treated roughly, we wander from place to place,


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we exhaust ourselves working with our own hands for our living. When we are cursed, we keep on blessing; when we are persecuted, we go on putting up with it;


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when we are slandered, we continue making our appeal. We are the world’s garbage, the scum of the earth — yes, to this moment!


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I am not writing you this to make you feel ashamed, but, as my dear children, to confront you and get you to change.


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For even if you have ten thousand trainers in connection with the Messiah, you do not have many fathers; for in connection with the Messiah Yeshua it was I who became your father by means of the Good News.


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This is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord. He will remind you of the way of life I follow in union with the Messiah Yeshua and teach everywhere in every congregation.


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But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills; and I will take cognizance not of the talk of these arrogant people but of their power.


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It is actually being reported that there is sexual sin among you, and it is sexual sin of a kind that is condemned even by pagans — a man is living with his stepmother!


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And you stay proud? Shouldn’t you rather have felt some sadness that would have led you to remove from your company the man who has done this thing?


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For I myself, even though I am absent physically, am with you spiritually; and I have already judged the man who has done this as if I were present.


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In the name of the Lord Yeshua, when you are assembled, with me present spiritually and the power of our Lord Yeshua among us,


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hand over such a person to the Adversary for his old nature to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.


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Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know the saying, “It takes only a little hametz to leaven a whole batch of dough?”


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Get rid of the old hametz, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed.


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So let us celebrate the Seder not with leftover hametz, the hametz of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and truth.


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I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether!


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No, what I wrote you was not to associate with anyone who is supposedly a brother but who also engages in sexual immorality, is greedy, worships idols, is abusive, gets drunk or steals. With such a person you shouldn’t even eat!


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For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Isn’t it those who are part of the community that you should be judging?


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How dare one of you with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God’s people?


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Don’t you know that God’s people are going to judge the universe? If you are going to judge the universe, are you incompetent to judge these minor matters?


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So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no standing in the Messianic Community?


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I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn’t one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brothers?


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Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?


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Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality,


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who steal, who are greedy, who get drunk, who assail people with contemptuous language, who rob — none of them will share in the Kingdom of God.


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Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.


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You say, “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to let anything gain control over me.


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“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.


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Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take parts of the Messiah and make them parts of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!


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Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, “The two will become one flesh”;


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Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.


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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Ruach HaKodesh who lives inside you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves;


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Well, because of the danger of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.


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The husband should give his wife what she is entitled to in the marriage relationship, and the wife should do the same for her husband.


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The wife is not in charge of her own body, but her husband is; likewise, the husband is not in charge of his own body, but his wife is.


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Do not deprive each other, except for a limited time, by mutual agreement, and then only so as to have extra time for prayer; but afterwards, come together again. Otherwise, because of your lack of self-control, you may succumb to the Adversary’s temptation.


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but if they can’t exercise self-control, they should get married; because it is better to get married than to keep burning with sexual desire.


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To those who are married I have a command, and it is not from me but from the Lord: a woman is not to separate herself from her husband


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But if she does separate herself, she is to remain single or be reconciled with her husband. Also, a husband is not to leave his wife.


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To the rest I say — I, not the Lord: if any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and she is satisfied to go on living with him, he should not leave her.


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Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband who is satisfied to go on living with her, she is not to leave him.


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For the unbelieving husband has been set aside for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been set aside for God by the brother — otherwise your children would be “unclean,” but as it is, they are set aside for God.


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But if the unbelieving spouse separates himself, let him be separated. In circumstances like these, the brother or sister is not enslaved — God has called you to a life of peace.


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For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?


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Only let each person live the life the Lord has assigned him and live it in the condition he was in when God called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the congregations.


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Was someone already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not try to remove the marks of his circumcision. Was someone uncircumcised when he was called? He shouldn’t undergo b’rit-milah.


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Being circumcised means nothing, and being uncircumcised means nothing; what does mean something is keeping God’s commandments.


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Were you a slave when you were called? Well, don’t let it bother you; although if you can gain your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.


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For a person who was a slave when he was called is the Lord’s freedman; likewise, someone who was a free man when he was called is a slave of the Messiah.


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Now the question about the unmarried: I do not have a command from the Lord, but I offer an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is worthy to be trusted.


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That means that if a man has a wife, he should not seek to be free of her; and if he is unmarried, he should not look for a wife.


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But if you marry you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. It is just that those who get married will have the normal problems of married life, and I would rather spare you.


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What I am saying, brothers, is that there is not much time left: from now on a man with a wife should live as if he had none —


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and those who deal in worldly affairs as if not engrossed in them — because the present scheme of things in this world won’t last much longer.


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What I want is for you to be free of concern. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord’s affairs,


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with how to please the Lord; but the married man concerns himself with the world’s affairs, with how to please his wife;


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and he finds himself split. Likewise the woman who is no longer married or the girl who has never been married concerns herself with the Lord’s affairs, with how to be holy both physically and spiritually; but the married woman concerns herself with the world’s affairs, with how to please her husband.


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I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to put restrictions on you — I am simply concerned that you live in a proper manner and serve the Lord with undivided devotion.


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Now if a man thinks he is behaving dishonorably by treating his fiancée this way, and if there is strong sexual desire, so that marriage is what ought to happen; then let him do what he wants — he is not sinning: let them get married.


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But if a man has firmly made up his mind, being under no compulsion but having complete control over his will, if he has decided within himself to keep his fiancée a virgin, he will be doing well.


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A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if the husband dies she is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer in the Lord.


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However, in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains unmarried, and in saying this I think I have God’s Spirit.


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Now about food sacrificed to idols: we know that, as you say, “We all have knowledge.” Yes, that is so, but “knowledge” puffs a person up with pride; whereas love builds up.


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So, as for eating food sacrificed to idols, we “know” that, as you say, “An idol has no real existence in the world, and there is only one God.”


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For even if there are so-called “gods,” either in heaven or on earth — as in fact there are “gods” and “lords” galore —


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yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things come and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, through whom were created all things and through whom we have our being.


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But not everyone has this knowledge. Moreover, some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat food which has been sacrificed to them, they think of it as really affected by the idol; and their consciences, being weak, are thus defiled.


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Now food will not improve our relationship with God — we will be neither poorer if we abstain nor richer if we eat.


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You have this “knowledge”; but suppose someone with a weak conscience sees you sitting, eating a meal in the temple of an idol. Won’t he be built up wrongly to eat this food which has been sacrificed to idols?


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and so, when you sin against the brothers by wounding their conscience when it is weak, you are sinning against the Messiah!


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To sum up, if food will be a snare for my brother, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to sin.


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Am I not a free man? Am I not an emissary of the Messiah? Haven’t I seen Yeshua our Lord? And aren’t you yourselves the result of my work for the Lord?


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Even if to others I am not an emissary, at least I am to you; for you are living proof that I am the Lord’s emissary.


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Don’t we have the right to take along with us a believing wife, as do the other emissaries, also the Lord’s brothers and Kefa?


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Did you ever hear of a soldier paying his own expenses? or of a farmer planting a vineyard without eating its grapes? Who shepherds a flock without drinking some of the milk?


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for in the Torah of Moshe it is written, “You are not to put a muzzle on an ox when it is treading out the grain.” If God is concerned about cattle,


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all the more does he say this for our sakes. Yes, it was written for us, meaning that he who plows and he who threshes should work expecting to get a share of the crop.


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If others are sharing in this right to be supported by you, don’t we have a greater claim to it? But we don’t make use of this right. Rather, we put up with all kinds of things so as not to impede in any way the Good News about the Messiah.


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Don’t you know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple, and those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrifices offered there?


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In the same way, the Lord directed that those who proclaim the Good News should get their living from the Good News.


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But I have not made use of any of these rights. Nor am I writing now to secure them for myself, for I would rather die than be deprived of my ground for boasting!


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For I can’t boast merely because I proclaim the Good News — this I do from inner compulsion: woe is me if I don’t proclaim the Good News!


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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if I do it unwillingly, I still do it, simply because I’ve been entrusted with a job.


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So then, what is my reward? Just this: that in proclaiming the Good News I can make it available free of charge, without making use of the rights to which it entitles me.


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For although I am a free man, not bound to do anyone’s bidding, I have made myself a slave to all in order to win as many people as possible.


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That is, with Jews, what I did was put myself in the position of a Jew, in order to win Jews. With people in subjection to a legalistic perversion of the Torah, I put myself in the position of someone under such legalism, in order to win those under this legalism, even though I myself am not in subjection to a legalistic perversion of the Torah.


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With those who live outside the framework of Torah, I put myself in the position of someone outside the Torah in order to win those outside the Torah — although I myself am not outside the framework of God’s Torah but within the framework of Torah as upheld by the Messiah.


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With the “weak” I became “weak,” in order to win the “weak.” With all kinds of people I have become all kinds of things, so that in all kinds of circumstances I might save at least some of them.


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But I do it all because of the rewards promised by the Good News, so that I may share in them along with the others who come to trust.


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Don’t you know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one wins the prize? So then, run to win!


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Now every athlete in training submits himself to strict discipline, and he does it just to win a laurel wreath that will soon wither away. But we do it to win a crown that will last forever.


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Accordingly, I don’t run aimlessly but straight for the finish line; I don’t shadow-box but try to make every punch count.


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I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified.


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For, brothers, I don’t want you to miss the significance of what happened to our fathers. All of them were guided by the pillar of cloud, and they all passed through the sea,


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and they all drank the same drink from the Spirit — for they drank from a Spirit-sent Rock which followed them, and that Rock was the Messiah.


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Now these things took place as prefigurative historical events, warning us not to set our hearts on evil things as they did.


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Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were — as the Tanakh puts it, “The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to indulge in revelry.”


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And let us not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, with the consequence that 23,000 died in a single day.


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These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim.


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No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.


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The “cup of blessing” over which we make the b’rakhah — isn’t it a sharing in the bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah? The bread we break, isn’t it a sharing in the body of the Messiah?


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Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many constitute one body, since we all partake of the one loaf of bread.


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So, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols has any significance in itself? or that an idol has significance in itself?


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No, what I am saying is that the things which pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice not to God but to demons; and I don’t want you to become sharers of the demons!


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You can’t drink both a cup of the Lord and a cup of demons, you can’t partake in both a meal of the Lord and a meal of demons.


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“Everything is permitted,” you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted?” Maybe, but not everything is edifying.


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If some unbeliever invites you to a meal, and you want to go, eat whatever is put in front of you without raising questions of conscience.


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But if someone says to you, “This meat was offered as a sacrifice,” then don’t eat it, out of consideration for the person who pointed it out and also for conscience’s sake —


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however, I don’t mean your conscience but that of the other person. You say, “Why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?


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If I participate with thankfulness, why am I criticized over something for which I myself bless God?”


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Well, whatever you do, whether it’s eating or drinking or anything else, do it all so as to bring glory to God.


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Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God’s Messianic Community.


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Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;


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Now I praise you because you have remembered everything I told you and observe the traditions just the way I passed them on to you.


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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of the Messiah is God.


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but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame to her head — there is no difference between her and a woman who has had her head shaved.


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For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled.


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For a man indeed should not have his head veiled, because he is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of man.


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The reason a woman should show by veiling her head that she is under authority has to do with the angels.


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Nevertheless, in union with the Lord neither is woman independent of man nor is man independent of woman;


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for as the woman was made from the man, so also the man is now born through the woman. But everything is from God.


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But a woman who wears her hair long enhances her appearance, because her hair has been given to her as a covering.


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However, if anyone wants to argue about it, the fact remains that we have no such custom, nor do the Messianic communities of God.


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But in giving you this next instruction I do not praise you, because when you meet together it does more harm than good!


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For, in the first place, I hear that when you gather together as a congregation you divide up into cliques; and to a degree I believe it


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(granted that there must be some divisions among you in order to show who are the ones in the right).


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because as you eat your meal, each one goes ahead on his own; so that one stays hungry while another is already drunk!


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Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or are you trying to show your contempt for God’s Messianic community and embarrass those who are poor? What am I supposed to say to you? Am I supposed to praise you? Well, for this I don’t praise you!


book: 1Cor
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For what I received from the Lord is just what I passed on to you — that the Lord Yeshua, on the night he was betrayed, took bread;


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and after he had made the b’rakhah he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this as a memorial to me”;


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likewise also the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant effected by my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, as a memorial to me.”


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes.


book: 1Cor
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Therefore, whoever eats the Lord’s bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in an unworthy manner will be guilty of desecrating the body and blood of the Lord!


book: 1Cor
contenido:
for a person who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.


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contenido:
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, so that we will not be condemned along with the world.


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If someone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it will not result in judgment. As for the other matters, I will instruct you about them when I come.


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contenido:
You know that when you were pagans, no matter how you felt you were being led, you were being led astray to idols, which can’t speak at all.


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Therefore, I want to make it clear to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says, “Yeshua is cursed!” and no one can say, “Yeshua is Lord,” except by the Ruach HaKodesh.


book: 1Cor
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Moreover, to each person is given the particular manifestation of the Spirit that will be for the common good.


book: 1Cor
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To one, through the Spirit, is given a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge, in accordance with the same Spirit;


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to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the ability to judge between spirits; to another, the ability to speak in different kinds of tongues; and to yet another, the ability to interpret tongues.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.


book: 1Cor
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For it was by one Spirit that we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.


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If the foot says, “I’m not a hand, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.


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And if the ear says, “I’m not an eye, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.


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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be less important turn out to be all the more necessary;


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and upon body parts which we consider less dignified we bestow greater dignity; and the parts that aren’t attractive are the ones we make as attractive as we can,


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while our attractive parts have no need for such treatment. Indeed, God has put the body together in such a way that he gives greater dignity to the parts that lack it,


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So that there will be no disagreements within the body, but rather all the parts will be equally concerned for all the others.


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Thus if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; and if one part is honored, all the parts share its happiness.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
And God has placed in the Messianic Community first, emissaries; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those who work miracles; then those with gifts of healing; those with ability to help; those skilled in administration; and those who speak in various tongues.


book: 1Cor
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I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith — enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Pursue love! However, keep on eagerly seeking the things of the Spirit; and especially seek to be able to prophesy.


book: 1Cor
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For someone speaking in a tongue is not speaking to people but to God, because no one can understand, since he is uttering mysteries in the power of the Spirit.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
A person speaking in a tongue does edify himself, but a person prophesying edifies the congregation.


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I wish you would all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you would all prophesy. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless someone gives an interpretation, so that the congregation can be edified.


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Brothers, suppose I come to you now speaking in tongues. How can I be of benefit to you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?


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Even with lifeless musical instruments, such as a flute or a harp, how will anyone recognize the melody if one note can’t be distinguished from another?


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It’s the same with you: how will anyone know what you are saying unless you use your tongue to produce intelligible speech? You will be talking to the air!


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but if I don’t know what a person’s sounds mean, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.


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Likewise with you: since you eagerly seek the things of the Spirit, seek especially what will help in edifying the congregation.


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So, what about it? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.


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Otherwise, if you are giving thanks with your spirit, how will someone who has not yet received much instruction be able to say, “Amen,” when you have finished giving thanks, since he doesn’t know what you are saying?


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but in a congregation meeting I would rather say five words with my mind in order to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue!


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contenido:
Brothers, don’t be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.


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In the Torah it is written, “By other tongues, by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. But even then they will not listen to me,” says Adonai.


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contenido:
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.


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contenido:
So if the whole congregation comes together with everybody speaking in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers come in, won’t they say you’re crazy?


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But if you all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed person enters, he is convicted of sin by all, he is brought under judgment by all,


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and the secrets of his heart are laid bare; so he falls on his face and worships God, saying, “God is really here among you!”


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contenido:
What is our conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, let everyone be ready with a psalm or a teaching or a revelation, or ready to use his gift of tongues or give an interpretation; but let everything be for edification.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
If the gift of tongues is exercised, let it be by two or at most three, and each in turn; and let someone interpret.


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And if there is no one present who can interpret, let the people who speak in tongues keep silent when the congregation meets — they can speak to themselves and to God.


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For you can all prophesy one by one, with the result that all will learn something and all will be encouraged.


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contenido:
let the wives remain silent when the congregation meets; they are certainly not permitted to speak out. Rather, let them remain subordinate, as also the Torah says;


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and if there is something they want to know, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak out in a congregational meeting.


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contenido:
If anyone thinks he is a prophet or is endowed with the Spirit, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is a command of the Lord.


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Now, brothers, I must remind you of the Good News which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and on which you have taken your stand,


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and by which you are being saved — provided you keep holding fast to the message I proclaimed to you. For if you don’t, your trust will have been in vain.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For among the first things I passed on to you was what I also received, namely this: the Messiah died for our sins, in accordance with what the Tanakh says;


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contenido:
and afterwards he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, though some have died.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For I am the least of all the emissaries, unfit to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the Messianic Community of God.


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contenido:
But by God’s grace I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain; on the contrary, I have worked harder than all of them, although it was not I but the grace of God with me.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
But if it has been proclaimed that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?


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contenido:
and if the Messiah has not been raised, then what we have proclaimed is in vain; also your trust is in vain;


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contenido:
furthermore, we are shown up as false witnesses for God in having testified that God raised up the Messiah, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
If it is only for this life that we have put our hope in the Messiah, we are more pitiable than anyone.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
But the fact is that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have died.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For just as in connection with Adam all die, so in connection with the Messiah all will be made alive.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
But each in his own order: the Messiah is the firstfruits; then those who belong to the Messiah, at the time of his coming;


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contenido:
then the culmination, when he hands over the Kingdom to God the Father, after having put an end to every rulership, yes, to every authority and power.


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contenido:
for “He put everything in subjection under his feet.” But when it says that “everything” has been subjected, obviously the word does not include God, who is himself the one subjecting everything to the Messiah.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Now when everything has been subjected to the Son, then he will subject himself to God, who subjected everything to him; so that God may be everything in everyone.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Were it otherwise, what would the people accomplish who are immersed on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not actually raised, why are people immersed for them?


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Brothers, by the right to be proud which the Messiah Yeshua our Lord gives me, I solemnly tell you that I die every day.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
If my fighting with “wild beasts” in Ephesus was done merely on a human basis, what do I gain by it? If dead people are not raised, we might as well live by the saying, “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Come to your senses! Live righteously and stop sinning! There are some people who lack knowledge of God — I say this to your shame.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Not all living matter is the same living matter; on the contrary, there is one kind for human beings, another kind of living matter for animals, another for birds and another for fish.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Further, there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the beauty of heavenly bodies is one thing, while the beauty of earthly bodies is something else.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon another, the stars yet another; indeed, each star has its own individual kind of beauty.


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contenido:
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. When the body is “sown,” it decays; when it is raised, it cannot decay.


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contenido:
When sown, it is without dignity; when raised, it will be beautiful. When sown, it is weak; when raised, it will be strong.


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When sown, it is an ordinary human body; when raised, it will be a body controlled by the Spirit. If there is an ordinary human body, there is also a body controlled by the Spirit.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
In fact, the Tanakh says so: Adam, the first man, became a living human being; but the last “Adam” has become a life-giving Spirit.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Note, however, that the body from the Spirit did not come first, but the ordinary human one; the one from the Spirit comes afterwards.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
People born of dust are like the man of dust, and people born from heaven are like the man from heaven;


book: 1Cor
contenido:
and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also we will bear the image of the man from heaven.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Let me say this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, nor can something that decays share in what does not decay.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
It will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we too will be changed.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
When what decays puts on imperishability and what is mortal puts on immortality, then this passage in the Tanakh will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
So, my dear brothers, stand firm and immovable, always doing the Lord’s work as vigorously as you can, knowing that united with the Lord your efforts are not in vain.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Now, in regard to the collection being made for God’s people: you are to do the same as I directed the congregations in Galatia to do.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Every week, on Motza’ei-Shabbat, each of you should set some money aside, according to his resources, and save it up; so that when I come I won’t have to do fundraising.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
And when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the people you have approved, and I will send them to carry your gift to Yerushalayim.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
and I may stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me continue my travels wherever I may go.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
For I don’t want to see you now, when I am only passing through; because I am hoping to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows it.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to be afraid of while he is with you; for he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.


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contenido:
So let no one treat him with disrespect. Help him on his way in peace, so that he will return to me, for the brothers and I are expecting him.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
As for brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to go and visit you along with the other brothers; and although it was not at all his desire to come at this time, he will come when he has the opportunity.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Now, brothers, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first people in Achaia to put their trust in the Messiah, and they have devoted themselves to serving God’s people.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus are here, because they have helped make up for your not being here.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
They have refreshed my spirit, just as they have yours. I want you to show appreciation for people like these.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
The congregations in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you in union with the Lord, as does the congregation that meets in their house.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, by God’s will an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua, and brother Timothy To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, along with all God’s people throughout Achaia:


book: 2Cor
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Praised be God, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, compassionate Father, God of all encouragement and comfort;


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contenido:
who encourages us in all our trials, so that we can encourage others in whatever trials they may be undergoing with the encouragement we ourselves have received from God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For just as the Messiah’s sufferings overflow into us, so through the Messiah our encouragement also overflows.


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contenido:
So if we undergo trials, it is for your encouragement and deliverance; and if we are encouraged, that should encourage you when you have to endure sufferings like those we are experiencing.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Moreover, our hope for you remains staunch, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, you will also share in the encouragement.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For, brothers, we want you to know about the trials we have undergone in the province of Asia. The burden laid on us was so far beyond what we could bear that we even despaired of living through it.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In our hearts we felt we were under sentence of death. However, this was to get us to rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
He rescued us from such deadly peril, and he will rescue us again! The one in whom we have placed our hope will indeed continue to rescue us.


book: 2Cor
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And you must add your help by praying for us; for the more people there are praying, the more people there will be to give thanks when their prayer for us is answered.


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For we take pride in this: that our conscience assures us that in our dealings with the world, and especially with you, we have conducted ourselves with frankness and godly pureness of motive — not by worldly wisdom but by God-given grace.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
There are no hidden meanings in our letters other than what you can read and understand; and my hope is that you will understand fully,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
as indeed you have already understood us in part; so that on the Day of our Lord Yeshua you can be as proud of us as we are of you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So sure was I of this that I had planned to come and see you, so that you might have the benefit of a second visit.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, visit you again on my way back from Macedonia, and then have you send me on my way to Y’hudah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Did I make these plans lightly? Or do I make plans the way a worldly man does, ready to say, “Yes, yes,” and “No, no,” in the same breath?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For the Son of God, the Messiah Yeshua, who was proclaimed among you through us — that is, through me and Sila and Timothy — was not a yes-and-no man; on the contrary, with him it is always “Yes!”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For however many promises God has made, they all find their “Yes” in connection with him; that is why it is through him that we say the “Amen” when we give glory to God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I call God to witness — he knows what my life is like — that the reason I held back from coming to Corinth was out of consideration for you!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not trying to dictate how you must live out your trust in the Messiah, for in your trust you are standing firm. Rather, we are working with you for your own happiness.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Indeed, this is why I wrote as I did — so that when I came, I would not have to be pained by those who ought to be making me happy; for I had enough confidence in all of you to believe that unless I could be happy, none of you could be happy either.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I wrote to you with a greatly distressed and anguished heart, and with many tears, not in order to cause you pain, but to get you to realize how very much I love you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Now if someone has been a cause of pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but, in some measure — I don’t want to overstate it — all of you.


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so that now you should do the opposite — forgive him, encourage him, comfort him. Otherwise such a person might be swallowed up in overwhelming depression.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Anyone you forgive, I forgive too. For indeed, whatever I have forgiven, if there has been anything to forgive, has been for your sake in the presence of the Messiah


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Now when I went to Troas to proclaim the Good News of the Messiah, since a door had been opened for me by the Lord,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I could not rest, because I failed to find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia.


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contenido:
But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For to God we are the aroma of the Messiah, both among those being saved and among those being lost;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
to the latter, we are the smell of death leading only to more death; but to the former, we are the sweet smell of life leading to more life. Who is equal to such a task?


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contenido:
For we are not like a lot of folks who go about huckstering God’s message for a fee; on the contrary, we speak out of a sincere heart, as people sent by God, standing in God’s presence, living in union with the Messiah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are we starting to recommend ourselves again? Or do we, like some, need letters of recommendation either to you or from you?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You make it clear that you are a letter from the Messiah placed in our care, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on human hearts.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Now if that which worked death, by means of a written text engraved on stone tablets, came with glory — such glory that the people of Isra’el could not stand to look at Moshe’s face because of its brightness, even though that brightness was already fading away —


book: 2Cor
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For if there was glory in what worked to declare people guilty, how much more must the glory abound in what works to declare people innocent!


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unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra’el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What is more, their minds were made stonelike; for to this day the same veil remains over them when they read the Old Covenant; it has not been unveiled, because only by the Messiah is the veil taken away.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by Adonai the Spirit.


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Indeed, we refuse to make use of shameful underhanded methods, employing deception or distorting God’s message. On the contrary, by making very clear what the truth is, we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.


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They do not come to trust because the god of the ‘olam hazeh has blinded their minds, in order to prevent them from seeing the light shining from the Good News about the glory of the Messiah, who is the image of God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For what we are proclaiming is not ourselves, but the Messiah Yeshua as Lord, with ourselves as slaves for you because of Yeshua.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For it is the God who once said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has made his light shine in our hearts, the light of the knowledge of God’s glory shining in the face of the Messiah Yeshua.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it will be evident that such overwhelming power comes from God and not from us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We always carry in our bodies the dying of Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua may be manifested in our bodies too.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For we who are alive are always being handed over to death for Yeshua’s sake, so that Yeshua’s life also might be manifested in our mortal bodies.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The Tanakh says, “I trusted, therefore I spoke.” Since we have that same Spirit who enables us to trust, we also trust and therefore speak;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
because we know that he who raised the Lord Yeshua will also raise us with Yeshua and bring us along with you into his presence.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
All this is for your sakes, so that as grace flows out to more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to overflow and bring glory to God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
This is why we do not lose courage. Though our outer self is heading for decay, our inner self is being renewed daily.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For our light and transient troubles are achieving for us an everlasting glory whose weight is beyond description.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We concentrate not on what is seen but on what is not seen, since things seen are temporary, but things not seen are eternal.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We know that when the tent which houses us here on earth is torn down, we have a permanent building from God, a building not made by human hands, to house us in heaven.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For in this tent, our earthly body, we groan with desire to have around us the home from heaven that will be ours.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Moreover, it is God who has prepared us for this very thing, and as a pledge he has given us his Spirit.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So we are always confident — we know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are confident, then, and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and come to our home with the Lord.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
for we must all appear before the Messiah’s court of judgment, where everyone will receive the good or bad consequences of what he did while he was in the body.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So it is with the fear of the Lord before us that we try to persuade people. Moreover, God knows us as we really are; and I hope that in your consciences you too know us as we really are.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not recommending ourselves to you again but giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you will be able to answer those who boast about a person’s appearance rather than his inner qualities.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For the Messiah’s love has hold of us, because we are convinced that one man died on behalf of all mankind (which implies that all mankind was already dead),


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and that he died on behalf of all in order that those who live should not live any longer for themselves but for the one who on their behalf died and was raised.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So from now on, we do not look at anyone from a worldly viewpoint. Even if we once regarded the Messiah from a worldly viewpoint, we do so no longer.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
which is that God in the Messiah was reconciling mankind to himself, not counting their sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Therefore we are ambassadors of the Messiah; in effect, God is making his appeal through us. What we do is appeal on behalf of the Messiah, “Be reconciled to God!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We commend ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach HaKodesh; by genuineness of love


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and truthfulness of speech; and by God’s power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons, whether for pressing our cause or defending it;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said, “I will house myself in them, . . . and I will walk among you. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Therefore Adonai says, “‘Go out from their midst; separate yourselves; don’t even touch what is unclean. Then I myself will receive you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Make room for us in your hearts — we haven’t wronged anyone, we haven’t corrupted anyone, we haven’t exploited anyone.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am not saying this to put blame on you, for I have already said that you have a place in our hearts, whether we live together or die together;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
that I am very confident in you; that I am very proud of you; that you have filled me with encouragement; and that in spite of all our troubles, I am overflowing with joy.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For indeed when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. On the contrary, we faced all kinds of troubles — altercations without, apprehensions within.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
However, it was not only his arrival which encouraged us, but also how encouraged he was about you, as he told us how you long to see me, how distressed you are over my situation, how zealous you are in my defense — this news made me even happier!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
If I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I did regret it before — for I do see that that letter did distress you, though only for a short time —


book: 2Cor
contenido:
now I rejoice not because you were pained, but because the pain led you to turn back to God. For you handled the pain in God’s way, so that you were not harmed by us at all.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Pain handled in God’s way produces a turning from sin to God which leads to salvation, and there is nothing to regret in that! But pain handled in the world’s way produces only death.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For just look at what handling the pain God’s way produced in you! What earnest diligence, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what readiness to put things right! In everything you have proved yourselves blameless in the matter.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of either the one who did the wrong or the one wronged, but so that before God you could see for yourselves how deep is your devotion to us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
This is the reason we have been encouraged. Besides our own encouragement, we had the even greater joy of seeing how happy Titus was, because all of you set his mind at rest.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For I had boasted somewhat about you to him, and now I have not been made to look foolish. On the contrary, just as everything we have said to you is true, so too our boasting in front of Titus has proved true.


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And his affection for you is all the greater as he remembers how ready you were to obey and how you received him with reverence and respect.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Despite severe trials, and even though they are desperately poor, their joy has overflowed in a wealth of generosity.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I tell you they have not merely given according to their means, but of their own free will they have given beyond their means.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Also, they didn’t do this in the way we had expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord, which means, by God’s will, to us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
All this has led us to urge Titus to bring this same gracious gift to completion among you, since he has already made a beginning of it.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in diligence of every kind, and in your love for us — see that you excel in this gift too.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am not issuing an order; rather, I am testing the genuineness of your love against the diligence of others.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For you know how generous our Lord Yeshua the Messiah was — for your sakes he impoverished himself, even though he was rich, so that he might make you rich by means of his poverty.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
As I say, in regard to this matter I am only giving an opinion. A year ago you were not only the first to take action but the first to want to do so. Now it would be to your advantage


book: 2Cor
contenido:
to finish what you started, so that your eagerness in wanting to commence the project may be matched by your eagerness to complete it, as you contribute from what you have.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For if the eagerness to give is there, the acceptability of the gift will be measured by what you have, not by what you don’t have.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
It is not that relief for others should cause trouble for you, but that there should be a kind of reciprocity:


book: 2Cor
contenido:
at present your abundance can help those in need; so that when you are in need, their abundance can help you — thus there is reciprocity.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
It is as the Tanakh says, “He who gathered much had nothing extra, and he who gathered little had nothing lacking.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
for he not only responded to our urging, but, being so devoted, he is coming to you on his own initiative.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And with him we are sending the brother whose work for the Good News is praised in all the congregations;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
not only that, he has also been appointed by the congregations to travel with us, so that the way we administer this charitable work will bring honor to the Lord and show our eagerness to help.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Our aim in this is to show that our conduct in dealing with these substantial sums is above reproach;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
for we take pains to do what is right not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of other people.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
With these two we are sending another brother of ours, one whose diligence we have tested many times in many ways, but who is now all the more diligent because of his great confidence in you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
As for Titus, he is my partner who works with me on your behalf; and the other brothers with him are emissaries of the congregations and bring honor to the Messiah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So the love you show these men will justify our pride in you to them, and through them to the congregations that sent them.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I know how eager you are, and I boast about you to the Macedonians. I tell them, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and it was your zeal that stirred up most of them.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But now I am sending the brothers so that our boast about you in this regard will not prove hollow, so that you will be ready, as I said you would be.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For if some Macedonians were to come with me and find you unprepared, we would be humiliated at having been so confident — to say nothing of how you would feel.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go on to you ahead of me and prepare your promised gift in plenty of time; this way it will be ready when I come and will be a genuine gift, not something extracted by pressure.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Each should give according to what he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Moreover, God has the power to provide you with every gracious gift in abundance, so that always in every way you will have all you need yourselves and be able to provide abundantly for every good cause —


book: 2Cor
contenido:
He who provides both seed for the planter and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your tzedakah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You will be enriched in every way, so that you can be generous in everything. And through us your generosity will cause people to thank God,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
because rendering this holy service not only provides for the needs of God’s people, but it also overflows in the many thanks people will be giving to God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In offering this service you prove to these people that you glorify God by actually doing what your acknowledgement of the Good News of the Messiah requires, namely, sharing generously with them and with everyone.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And in their prayers for you they will feel a strong affection for you because of how gracious God has been to you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Now it is I myself, Sha’ul, making an appeal to you with the meekness and forbearance that come from the Messiah, I who am considered timid when face-to-face with you but intimidating from a distance.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But I beg you not to force me to be intimidating when I am with you, as I expect to be toward some who regard us as living in a worldly way.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God’s power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And when you have become completely obedient, then we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You are looking at the surface of things. If anyone is convinced that he belongs to the Messiah, he should remind himself that we belong to the Messiah as much as he does.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For even if I boast a little too much about the authority the Lord has given us — authority to build you up, not tear you down — I am not ashamed.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Someone says, “His letters are weighty and powerful, but when he appears in person he is weak, and as a speaker he is nothing.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We don’t dare class or compare ourselves with some of the people who advertise themselves. In measuring themselves against each other and comparing themselves with each other, they are simply stupid.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We will not boast about what lies outside the area of work which God has given us; rather, we will boast within our assigned area, and that area does reach as far as you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not overextending our boasting as if we had not reached as far as you; for we did come all the way to you with the Good News of the Messiah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We do not boast about the area in which others labor; but our hope is that as your trust grows, we will be magnified in your midst in relation to our own area of work, so that we can go on to do even more,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
namely, to proclaim the Good News in regions beyond you. Our hope is not to boast about the work already done by someone else.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
because it is not the one who recommends himself who is worthy of approval, but the one whom the Lord recommends.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For I am jealous for you with God’s kind of jealousy; since I promised to present you as a pure virgin in marriage to your one husband, the Messiah;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and I fear that somehow your minds may be seduced away from simple and pure devotion to the Messiah, just as Havah was deceived by the serpent and his craftiness.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For if someone comes and tells you about some other Yeshua than the one we told you about, or if you receive a spirit different from the one you received or accept some so-called “good news” different from the Good News you already accepted, you bear with him well enough!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I may not be a skilled speaker, but I do have the knowledge; anyhow, we have made this clear to you in every way and in every circumstance.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Or did I sin in humbling myself so that you could be exalted, in proclaiming God’s Good News to you free of charge?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And when I was with you and had needs, I did not burden anyone: my needs were met by the brothers who came from Macedonia. In nothing have I been a burden to you, nor will I be.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The truthfulness of the Messiah is in me, so that this boast concerning me is not going to be silenced anywhere in Achaia.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
No, I do it — and will go on doing it — in order to cut the ground from under those who want an excuse to boast that they work the same way we do.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The fact is that such men are pseudo-emissaries: they tell lies about their work and masquerade as emissaries of the Messiah.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
so it’s no great thing if his workers masquerade as servants of righteousness. They will meet the end their deeds deserve.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I repeat: don’t let anyone think I am a fool. But even if you do, at least receive me as a fool; so that I too may do a little boasting!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What I am saying is not in accordance with the Lord; rather, this conceited boasting is spoken as a fool would speak.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, exploits you, takes you in, puffs himself up, slaps you in the face.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
To my shame, I must admit that we have been too “weak” to do such things! But if anyone dares to boast about something — I’m talking like a fool! — I am just as daring.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are they Hebrew-speakers? So am I. Are they of the people of Isra’el? So am I. Are they descendants of Avraham? So am I.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are they servants of the Messiah? (I’m talking like a madman!) I’m a better one! I’ve worked much harder, been imprisoned more often, suffered more beatings, been near death over and over.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In my many travels I have been exposed to danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have toiled and endured hardship, often not had enough sleep, been hungry and thirsty, frequently gone without food, been cold and naked.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And besides these external matters, there is the daily pressure of my anxious concern for all the congregations.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
When I was in Dalmanuta, the governor under King Aretas had the city of Dalmanuta guarded in order to arrest me;


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have to boast. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I know a man in union with the Messiah who fourteen years ago was snatched up to the third heaven; whether he was in the body or outside the body I don’t know, God knows.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
was snatched into Gan-‘Eden and heard things that cannot be put into words, things unlawful for a human being to utter.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
About such a man I will boast; but about myself I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
If I did want to boast, I would not be foolish; because I would be speaking the truth. But, because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what my words or deeds may warrant.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Therefore, to keep me from becoming overly proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from the Adversary to pound away at me, so that I wouldn’t grow conceited.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
but he told me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is brought to perfection in weakness.” Therefore, I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses, in order that the Messiah’s power will rest upon me.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Yes, I am well pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties endured on behalf of the Messiah; for it is when I am weak that I am strong.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have behaved like a fool, but you forced me to do it — you who should have been commending me. For I am in no way inferior to the “super-emissaries,” even if I am nothing.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The things that prove I am an emissary — signs, wonders and miracles — were done in your presence, despite what I had to endure.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Is there any way in which you have been behind any of the other congregations, other than in my not having been a burden to you? For this unfairness, please forgive me!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Look, I am ready this third time to come and visit you; and I will not be a burden to you; for it is not what you own that I want, but you! Children are not supposed to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And as for me, I will most gladly spend everything I have and be spent myself too for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Let it be granted, then, that I was not a burden to you; but, crafty fellow that I am, I took you with trickery!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
that I took advantage of you? I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him; Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we live by the same Spirit and show you the same path?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Perhaps you think that all this time we have been defending ourselves before you. No, we have been speaking in the sight of God, as those united with the Messiah should; and, my dear friends, it is all for your upbuilding.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For I am afraid of coming and finding you not the way I want you to be, and also of not being found the way you want me to be. I am afraid of finding quarreling and jealousy, anger and rivalry, slander and gossip, arrogance and disorder.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me in your presence, and that I will be grieved over many of those who sinned in the past and have not repented of the impurity, fornication and debauchery that they have engaged in.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
This will be the third time that I have come to visit you. Any charge must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
To those who sinned in the past and to the rest I say beforehand while absent the same thing I said when I was with you the second time: if I come again I will not spare you —


book: 2Cor
contenido:
since you are looking for proof of the Messiah speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but he is powerful among you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
For although he was executed on a stake in weakness, now he lives by God’s power. And we too are weak in union with him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by God’s power.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And we pray to God that you will do nothing wrong. We are not concerned with our appearing successful, but with your doing what is right, even if we appear to be failures.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are strong; indeed, what we pray for is that you become perfect.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I write these things while away from you, so that when I am with you I will not have to use my authority to deal sharply with you, for the Lord gave it to me for building up and not for tearing down.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And now, brothers, shalom! Put yourselves in order, pay attention to my advice, be of one mind, live in shalom — and the God of love and shalom will be with you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The grace of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the love of God and the fellowship of the Ruach HaKodesh be with you all.


book: Gal
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me


book: Gal
contenido:
who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.


book: Gal
contenido:
I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,”


book: Gal
contenido:
which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah.


book: Gal
contenido:
But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good News” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever!


book: Gal
contenido:
We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces “Good News” contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!


book: Gal
contenido:
Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.


book: Gal
contenido:
Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product;


book: Gal
contenido:
because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.


book: Gal
contenido:
For you have heard about my former way of life in [traditional] Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it;


book: Gal
contenido:
and how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in [traditional] Judaism more rapidly than they did.


book: Gal
contenido:
and I did not go up to Yerushalayim to see those who were emissaries before me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Dammesek.


book: Gal
contenido:
Not until three years later did I go up to Yerushalayim to make Kefa’s acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,


book: Gal
contenido:
they were only hearing the report, “The one who used to persecute us now preaches the Good News of the faith he was formerly out to destroy”;


book: Gal
contenido:
Then after fourteen years I again went up to Yerushalayim, this time with Bar-Nabba; and I took with me Titus.


book: Gal
contenido:
I went up in obedience to a revelation, and I explained to them the Good News as I proclaim it among the Gentiles — but privately, to the acknowledged leaders. I did this out of concern that my current or previous work might have been in vain.


book: Gal
contenido:
Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brothers had been sneaked in — they came in surreptitiously to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Yeshua, so that they might enslave us.


book: Gal
contenido:
Not even for a minute did we give in to them, so that the truth of the Good News might be preserved for you.


book: Gal
contenido:
Moreover, those who were the acknowledged leaders — what they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by outward appearances — these leaders added nothing to me.


book: Gal
contenido:
On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Uncircumcised, just as Kefa had been for the Circumcised;


book: Gal
contenido:
since the One working in Kefa to make him an emissary to the Circumcised had worked in me to make me an emissary to the Gentiles.


book: Gal
contenido:
So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, Ya‘akov, Kefa and Yochanan, the acknowledged pillars of the community, extended to me and Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised.


book: Gal
contenido:
Their only request was that we should remember the poor — which very thing I have spared no pains to do.


book: Gal
contenido:
Furthermore, when Kefa came to Antioch, I opposed him publicly, because he was clearly in the wrong.


book: Gal
contenido:
For prior to the arrival of certain people from [the community headed by] Ya‘akov, he had been eating with the Gentile believers; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of the faction who favored circumcising Gentile believers.


book: Gal
contenido:
And the other Jewish believers became hypocrites along with him, so that even Bar-Nabba was led astray by their hypocrisy.


book: Gal
contenido:
But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, keeping in line with the truth of the Good News, I said to Kefa, right in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Goy and not like a Jew, why are you forcing the Goyim to live like Jews?


book: Gal
contenido:
even so, we have come to realize that a person is not declared righteous by God on the ground of his legalistic observance of Torah commands, but through the Messiah Yeshua’s trusting faithfulness. Therefore, we too have put our trust in Messiah Yeshua and become faithful to him, in order that we might be declared righteous on the ground of the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness and not on the ground of our legalistic observance of Torah commands. For on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, no one will be declared righteous.


book: Gal
contenido:
But if, in seeking to be declared righteous by God through our union with the Messiah, we ourselves are indeed found to be sinners, then is the Messiah an aider and abettor of sin? Heaven forbid!


book: Gal
contenido:
Indeed, if I build up again the legalistic bondage which I destroyed, I really do make myself a transgressor.


book: Gal
contenido:
For it was through letting the Torah speak for itself that I died to its traditional legalistic misinterpretation, so that I might live in direct relationship with God.


book: Gal
contenido:
When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave himself up for me.


book: Gal
contenido:
I do not reject God’s gracious gift; for if the way in which one attains righteousness is through legalism, then the Messiah’s death was pointless.


book: Gal
contenido:
You stupid Galatians! Who has put you under a spell? Before your very eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having been put to death as a criminal!


book: Gal
contenido:
I want to know from you just this one thing: did you receive the Spirit by legalistic observance of Torah commands or by trusting in what you heard and being faithful to it?


book: Gal
contenido:
Are you that stupid? Having begun with the Spirit’s power, do you think you can reach the goal under your own power?


book: Gal
contenido:
Have you suffered so much for nothing? If that’s the way you think, your suffering certainly will have been for nothing!


book: Gal
contenido:
What about God, who supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you — does he do it because of your legalistic observance of Torah commands or because you trust in what you heard and are faithful to it?


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It was the same with Avraham: “He trusted in God and was faithful to him, and that was credited to his account as righteousness.”


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Be assured, then, that it is those who live by trusting and being faithful who are really children of Avraham.


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Also the Tanakh, foreseeing that God would consider the Gentiles righteous when they live by trusting and being faithful, told the Good News to Avraham in advance by saying, “In connection with you, all the Goyim will be blessed.”


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So then, those who rely on trusting and being faithful are blessed along with Avraham, who trusted and was faithful.


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For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Torah commands lives under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Torah.”


book: Gal
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Now it is evident that no one comes to be declared righteous by God through legalism, since “The person who is righteous will attain life by trusting and being faithful.”


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Furthermore, legalism is not based on trusting and being faithful, but on [a misuse of] the text that says, “Anyone who does these things will attain life through them.”


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The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Torah by becoming cursed on our behalf; for the Tanakh says, “Everyone who hangs from a stake comes under a curse.”


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Yeshua the Messiah did this so that in union with him the Gentiles might receive the blessing announced to Avraham, so that through trusting and being faithful, we might receive what was promised, namely, the Spirit.


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Brothers, let me make an analogy from everyday life: when someone swears an oath, no one else can set it aside or add to it.


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Now the promises were made to Avraham and to his seed. It doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks of one — “and to your seed” — and this “one” is the Messiah.


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Here is what I am saying: the legal part of the Torah, which came into being 430 years later, does not nullify an oath sworn by God, so as to abolish the promise.


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For if the inheritance comes from the legal part of the Torah, it no longer comes from a promise. But God gave it to Avraham through a promise.


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So then, why the legal part of the Torah? It was added in order to create transgressions, until the coming of the seed about whom the promise had been made. Moreover, it was handed down through angels and a mediator.


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Does this mean that the legal part of the Torah stands in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For if the legal part of the Torah which God gave had had in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have come by legalistically following such a Torah.


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But instead, the Tanakh shuts up everything under sin; so that what had been promised might be given, on the basis of Yeshua the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness, to those who continue to be trustingly faithful.


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Now before the time for this trusting faithfulness came, we were imprisoned in subjection to the system which results from perverting the Torah into legalism, kept under guard until this yet-to-come trusting faithfulness would be revealed.


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Accordingly, the Torah functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful.


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because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom


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there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one.


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What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a minor he is no different from a slave, even though he is the legal owner of the estate;


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but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was the norm,


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so that he might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to be made God’s sons.


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Now because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”).


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But now you do know God, and, more than that, you are known by God. So how is it that you turn back again to those weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to enslave yourselves to them once more?


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Brothers, I beg of you: put yourselves in my place — after all, I put myself in your place. It isn’t that you have done me any wrong —


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and even though my physical condition must have tempted you to treat me with scorn, you did not display any sign of disdain or disgust. No, you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God, as if I had been the Messiah Yeshua himself!


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So what has become of the joy you felt? For I bear you witness that had it been possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.


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True, these teachers are zealous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.


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To be zealous is good, provided always that the cause is good. Indeed, whether I am present with you or not,


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contenido:
my dear children, I am suffering the pains of giving birth to you all over again — and this will go on until the Messiah takes shape in you.


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contenido:
I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone of voice. I don’t know what to do with you.


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Tell me, you who want to be in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Torah into legalism, don’t you hear what the Torah itself says?


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The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling his promise.


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Now, to make a midrash on these things: the two women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children for slavery — this is Hagar.


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Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Yerushalayim, for she serves as a slave along with her children.


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for the Tanakh says, “Rejoice, you barren woman who does not bear children! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the deserted wife will have more children than the one whose husband is with her!”


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But just as then the one born according to limited human capability persecuted the one born through the Spirit’s supernatural power, so it is now.


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Nevertheless, what does the Tanakh say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for by no means will the son of the slave woman inherit along with the son of the free woman!”


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What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery.


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Mark my words — I, Sha’ul, tell you that if you undergo b’rit-milah the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all!


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You who are trying to be declared righteous by God through legalism have severed yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God’s grace!


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For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works in us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled.


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When we are united with the Messiah Yeshua, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.


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I am confident that since you are united with the Lord, you will take no other view; and I am confident that the one who has been disturbing you, whoever he may be, will have to bear his punishment.


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And as for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, my preaching about the execution-stake would cause no offense whatever.


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For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love.


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but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!


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contenido:
What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature wants.


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For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. These oppose each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions.


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But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Torah into legalism.


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And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;


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involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue


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and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!


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Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires.


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Since it is through the Spirit that we have Life, let it also be through the Spirit that we order our lives day by day.


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Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won’t be tempted too.


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Bear one another’s burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah’s true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.


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So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually done and not merely on a judgment that you are better than someone else;


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But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.


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contenido:
Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.


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So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don’t give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.


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Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.


book: Gal
contenido:
It is those who want to look good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching about the Messiah’s execution-stake.


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For even those who are getting circumcised don’t observe the Torah. On the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.


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But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution-stake of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the stake; and through him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the stake.


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For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.


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And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra’el of God!


book: Gal
contenido:
From now on, I don’t want anyone to give me any more tsuris, because I have scars on my body to prove that I belong to Yeshua!


book: Eph
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, by God’s will an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua To: God’s people living in Ephesus, that is, those who are trusting in the Messiah Yeshua:


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Praised be Adonai, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who in the Messiah has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven.


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In the Messiah he chose us in love before the creation of the universe to be holy and without defect in his presence.


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He determined in advance that through Yeshua the Messiah we would be his sons — in keeping with his pleasure and purpose —


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so that we would bring him praise commensurate with the glory of the grace he gave us through the Beloved One.


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In union with him, through the shedding of his blood, we are set free — our sins are forgiven; this accords with the wealth of the grace


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he has made known to us his secret plan, which by his own will he designed beforehand in connection with the Messiah


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and will put into effect when the time is ripe — his plan to place everything in heaven and on earth under the Messiah’s headship.


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Also in union with him we were given an inheritance, we who were picked in advance according to the purpose of the One who effects everything in keeping with the decision of his will,


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so that we who earlier had put our hope in the Messiah would bring him praise commensurate with his glory.


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Furthermore, you who heard the message of the truth, the Good News offering you deliverance, and put your trust in the Messiah were sealed by him with the promised Ruach HaKodesh,


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who guarantees our inheritance until we come into possession of it and thus bring him praise commensurate with his glory.


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For this reason, ever since I heard about your trust in the Lord Yeshua and your love for all God’s people,


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the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full knowledge of him.


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I pray that he will give light to the eyes of your hearts, so that you will understand the hope to which he has called you, what rich glories there are in the inheritance he has promised his people,


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and how surpassingly great is his power working in us who trust him. It works with the same mighty strength he used


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far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion or any other name that can be named either in the ‘olam hazeh or in the ‘olam haba.


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Also, he has put all things under his feet and made him head over everything for the Messianic Community,


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You walked in the ways of the ‘olam hazeh and obeyed the Ruler of the Powers of the Air, who is still at work among the disobedient.


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Indeed, we all once lived this way — we followed the passions of our old nature and obeyed the wishes of our old nature and our own thoughts. In our natural condition we were headed for God’s wrath, just like everyone else.


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that, even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, he brought us to life along with the Messiah — it is by grace that you have been delivered.


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in order to exhibit in the ages to come how infinitely rich is his grace, how great is his kindness toward us who are united with the Messiah Yeshua.


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For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift.


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For we are of God’s making, created in union with the Messiah Yeshua for a life of good actions already prepared by God for us to do.


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Therefore, remember your former state: you Gentiles by birth — called the Uncircumcised by those who, merely because of an operation on their flesh, are called the Circumcised —


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at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Isra’el. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.


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But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah’s blood.


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For he himself is our shalom — he has made us both one and has broken down the m’chitzah which divided us


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by destroying in his own body the enmity occasioned by the Torah, with its commands set forth in the form of ordinances. He did this in order to create in union with himself from the two groups a single new humanity and thus make shalom,


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and in order to reconcile to God both in a single body by being executed on a stake as a criminal and thus in himself killing that enmity.


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So then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers. On the contrary, you are fellow-citizens with God’s people and members of God’s family.


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You have been built on the foundation of the emissaries and the prophets, with the cornerstone being Yeshua the Messiah himself.


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In union with him the whole building is held together, and it is growing into a holy temple in union with the Lord.


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Yes, in union with him, you yourselves are being built together into a spiritual dwelling-place for God!


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It is a consequence of this that I, Sha’ul, am a prisoner of the Messiah Yeshua on behalf of you Gentiles.


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and that it was by a revelation that this secret plan was made known to me. I have already written about it briefly,


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and if you read what I have written, you will grasp how I understand this secret plan concerning the Messiah.


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In past generations it was not made known to mankind, as the Spirit is now revealing it to his emissaries and prophets,


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that in union with the Messiah and through the Good News the Gentiles were to be joint heirs, a joint body and joint sharers with the Jews in what God has promised.


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I became a servant of this Good News by God’s gracious gift, which he gave me through the operation of his power.


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To me, the least important of all God’s holy people, was given this privilege of announcing to the Gentiles the Good News of the Messiah’s unfathomable riches,


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and of letting everyone see how this secret plan is going to work out. This plan, kept hidden for ages by God, the Creator of everything,


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is for the rulers and authorities in heaven to learn, through the existence of the Messianic Community, how many-sided God’s wisdom is.


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So I ask you not to be discouraged by the troubles I endure on your behalf — it is all for your glory.


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contenido:
so that the Messiah may live in your hearts through your trusting. Also I pray that you will be rooted and founded in love,


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so that you, with all God’s people, will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height and depth of the Messiah’s love,


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yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so that you will be filled with all the fullness of God.


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to him be glory in the Messianic Community and in the Messiah Yeshua from generation to generation forever. Amen.


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contenido:
Therefore I, the prisoner united with the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called.


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contenido:
This is why it says, “After he went up into the heights, he led captivity captive and he gave gifts to mankind.”


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contenido:
Now this phrase, “he went up,” what can it mean if not that he first went down into the lower parts, that is, the earth?


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The one who went down is himself the one who also went up, far above all of heaven, in order to fill all things.


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Furthermore, he gave some people as emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers.


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until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah’s perfection.


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We will then no longer be infants tossed about by the waves and blown along by every wind of teaching, at the mercy of people clever in devising ways to deceive.


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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah.


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Under his control, the whole body is being fitted and held together by the support of every joint, with each part working to fulfill its function; this is how the body grows and builds itself up in love.


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Therefore I say this — indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.


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Their intelligence has been shrouded in darkness, and they are estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance in them, which in turn comes from resisting God’s will.


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They have lost all feeling, so they have abandoned themselves to sensuality, practicing any kind of impurity and always greedy for more.


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contenido:
If you really listened to him and were instructed about him, then you learned that since what is in Yeshua is truth,


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then, so far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your old nature, because your old nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires;


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and clothe yourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth.


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Therefore, stripping off falsehood, let everyone speak truth with his neighbor, because we are intimately related to each other as parts of a body.


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Be angry, but don’t sin — don’t let the sun go down before you have dealt with the cause of your anger;


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contenido:
The thief must stop stealing; instead, he should make an honest living by his own efforts. This way he will be able to share with those in need.


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contenido:
Let no harmful language come from your mouth, only good words that are helpful in meeting the need, words that will benefit those who hear them.


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contenido:
Don’t cause grief to God’s Ruach HaKodesh, for he has stamped you as his property until the day of final redemption.


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contenido:
Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, violent assertiveness and slander, along with all spitefulness.


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contenido:
Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.


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and live a life of love, just as also the Messiah loved us, indeed, on our behalf gave himself up as an offering, as a slaughtered sacrifice to God with a pleasing fragrance.


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Among you there should not even be mentioned sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity, or greed; these are utterly inappropriate for God’s holy people.


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Also out of place are obscenity and stupid talk or coarse language; instead, you should be giving thanks.


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contenido:
For of this you can be sure: every sexually immoral, impure or greedy person — that is, every idol-worshipper — has no share in the Kingdom of the Messiah and of God.


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contenido:
Let no one deceive you with empty talk; for it is because of these things that God’s judgment is coming on those who disobey him.


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contenido:
For you used to be darkness; but now, united with the Lord, you are light. Live like children of light,


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contenido:
since anything revealed is a light. This is why it says, “Get up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you!”


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contenido:
Don’t get drunk with wine, because it makes you lose control. Instead, keep on being filled with the Spirit —


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contenido:
sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to each other; sing to the Lord and make music in your heart to him;


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contenido:
because the husband is head of the wife, just as the Messiah, as head of the Messianic Community, is himself the one who keeps the body safe.


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Just as the Messianic Community submits to the Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.


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contenido:
As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf,


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contenido:
in order to present the Messianic Community to himself as a bride to be proud of, without a spot, wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without defect.


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contenido:
This is how husbands ought to love their wives — like their own bodies; for the man who loves his wife is loving himself.


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contenido:
Why, no one ever hated his own flesh! On the contrary, he feeds it well and takes care of it, just as the Messiah does the Messianic Community,


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contenido:
“Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one.”


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contenido:
However, the text also applies to each of you individually: let each man love his wife as he does himself, and see that the wife respects her husband.


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contenido:
Fathers, don’t irritate your children and make them resentful; instead, raise them with the Lord’s kind of discipline and guidance.


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contenido:
Slaves, obey your human masters with the same fear, trembling and single-heartedness with which you obey the Messiah.


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contenido:
Don’t obey just to win their favor, serving only when they are watching you; but serve as slaves of the Messiah, doing what God wants with all your heart.


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contenido:
Remember that whoever does good work, whether he be a slave or a free man, will be rewarded by the Lord.


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contenido:
And masters, treat your slaves the same way. Don’t threaten them. Remember that in heaven both you and they have the same Master, and he has no favorites.


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contenido:
Use all the armor and weaponry that God provides, so that you will be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary.


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contenido:
For we are not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm.


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contenido:
So take up every piece of war equipment God provides; so that when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist; and when the battle is won, you will still be standing.


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contenido:
Therefore, stand! Have the belt of truth buckled around your waist, put on righteousness for a breastplate,


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contenido:
Always carry the shield of trust, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.


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contenido:
And take the helmet of deliverance; along with the sword given by the Spirit, that is, the Word of God;


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contenido:
as you pray at all times, with all kinds of prayers and requests, in the Spirit, vigilantly and persistently, for all God’s people.


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contenido:
And pray for me, too, that whenever I open my mouth, the words will be given to me to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,


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contenido:
Now, so that you may also be informed about how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus, the dear brother and a faithful worker for the Lord, will tell you everything.


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contenido:
This is the very reason I have sent him to you, so that you may know how we are getting along and so that he may comfort and encourage you.


book: Phil
contenido:
From: Sha’ul and Timothy, slaves of the Messiah Yeshua To: All God’s people united with the Messiah Yeshua and living in Philippi, along with the congregation leaders and shammashim:


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contenido:
And I am sure of this: that the One who began a good work among you will keep it growing until it is completed on the Day of the Messiah Yeshua.


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contenido:
It is right for me to think this way about you all, because I have you on my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and establishing the Good News, you are all sharing with me in this privileged work.


book: Phil
contenido:
And this is my prayer: that your love may more and more overflow in fullness of knowledge and depth of discernment,


book: Phil
contenido:
so that you will be able to determine what is best and thus be pure and without blame for the Day of the Messiah,


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contenido:
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Yeshua the Messiah — to the glory and praise of God.


book: Phil
contenido:
Now, brothers, I want you to know that what has happened to me has helped in advancing the Good News.


book: Phil
contenido:
It has become clear to the whole palace and to everyone else that it is because of the Messiah that I am in chains.


book: Phil
contenido:
Also, my being in prison has given most of the brothers in the Lord confidence, so that they have become much more bold in speaking the word of God fearlessly.


book: Phil
contenido:
True, some are proclaiming the Messiah out of jealousy and rivalry, but others are doing it in goodwill.


book: Phil
contenido:
while the former announce the Messiah out of selfish ambition, with impure motives, supposing they can stir up trouble for me in prison.


book: Phil
contenido:
But so what? All that matters is that in every way, whether honestly or in pretense, the Messiah is being proclaimed; and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,


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contenido:
for I know that this will work out for my deliverance, because of your prayers and the support I get from the Spirit of Yeshua the Messiah.


book: Phil
contenido:
It all accords with my earnest expectation and hope that I will have nothing to be ashamed of; but rather, now, as always, the Messiah will be honored by my body, whether it is alive or dead.


book: Phil
contenido:
Yes, I am convinced of this; so I know I will stay on with you in order to help you progress in the faith and have joy in it.


book: Phil
contenido:
Then, through my being with you again, you will have even greater reason for boasting about the Messiah Yeshua.


book: Phil
contenido:
Only conduct your lives in a way worthy of the Good News of the Messiah; so that whether I come and see you or I hear about you from a distance, you stand firm, united in spirit, fighting with one accord for the faith of the Good News,


book: Phil
contenido:
not frightened by anything the opposition does. This will be for them an indication that they are headed for destruction and you for deliverance. And this is from God;


book: Phil
contenido:
because for the Messiah’s sake it has been granted to you not only to trust in him but also to suffer on his behalf,


book: Phil
contenido:
Therefore, if you have any encouragement for me from your being in union with the Messiah, any comfort flowing from love, any fellowship with me in the Spirit, or any compassion and sympathy,


book: Phil
contenido:
Do nothing out of rivalry or vanity; but, in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves —


book: Phil
contenido:
Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God something to be possessed by force.


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contenido:
On the contrary, he emptied himself, in that he took the form of a slave by becoming like human beings are. And when he appeared as a human being,


book: Phil
contenido:
that in honor of the name given Yeshua, every knee will bow — in heaven, on earth and under the earth —


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contenido:
and every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai — to the glory of God the Father.


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contenido:
So, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey now when I am away from you: keep working out your deliverance with fear and trembling,


book: Phil
contenido:
so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,


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contenido:
as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.


book: Phil
contenido:
Indeed, even if my lifeblood is poured out as a drink offering over the sacrifice and service of your faith, I will still be glad and rejoice with you all.


book: Phil
contenido:
But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I too may be cheered by knowing how you are doing.


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contenido:
But you know his character, that like a child with his father he slaved with me to advance the Good News.


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contenido:
Also I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, the emissary whom you sent to take care of my needs;


book: Phil
contenido:
Indeed he was ill, close to death; but God had mercy on him — and not only on him, but also on me — otherwise I would have had sorrow piled on sorrow.


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Therefore, I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may rejoice when you see him again; and I, for my part, may be less sad.


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For he risked his life and nearly died working for the Messiah, in order to give me the help you were not in a position to give.


book: Phil
contenido:
In conclusion, my brothers: rejoice in union with the Lord. It is no trouble for me to repeat what I have written you before, and for you it will be a safeguard:


book: Phil
contenido:
For it is we who are the Circumcised, we who worship by the Spirit of God and make our boast in the Messiah Yeshua! We do not put confidence in human qualifications,


book: Phil
contenido:
even though I certainly have grounds for putting confidence in such things. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for putting confidence in human qualifications, I have better grounds:


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contenido:
b’rit-milah on the eighth day, by birth belonging to the people of Isra’el, from the tribe of Binyamin, a Hebrew-speaker, with Hebrew-speaking parents, in regard to the Torah, a Parush,


book: Phil
contenido:
in regard to zeal, a persecutor of the Messianic Community, in regard to the righteousness demanded by legalism, blameless.


book: Phil
contenido:
But the things that used to be advantages for me, I have, because of the Messiah, come to consider a disadvantage.


book: Phil
contenido:
Not only that, but I consider everything a disadvantage in comparison with the supreme value of knowing the Messiah Yeshua as my Lord. It was because of him that I gave up everything and regard it all as garbage, in order to gain the Messiah


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and be found in union with him, not having any righteousness of my own based on legalism, but having that righteousness which comes through the Messiah’s faithfulness, the righteousness from God based on trust.


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Yes, I gave it all up in order to know him, that is, to know the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings as I am being conformed to his death,


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It is not that I have already obtained it or already reached the goal — no, I keep pursuing it in the hope of taking hold of that for which the Messiah Yeshua took hold of me.


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Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward toward what lies ahead,


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contenido:
I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua.


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contenido:
Therefore, as many of us as are mature, let us keep paying attention to this; and if you are differently minded about anything, God will also reveal this to you.


book: Phil
contenido:
Brothers, join in imitating me, and pay attention to those who live according to the pattern we have set for you.


book: Phil
contenido:
For many — I have told you about them often before, and even now I say it with tears — live as enemies of the Messiah’s execution-stake.


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contenido:
They are headed for destruction! Their god is the belly; they are proud of what they ought to be ashamed of, since they are concerned about the things of the world.


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contenido:
But we are citizens of heaven, and it is from there that we expect a Deliverer, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


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contenido:
He will change the bodies we have in this humble state and make them like his glorious body, using the power which enables him to bring everything under his control.


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contenido:
So, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and my crown, my dear friends, keep standing firm in union with the Lord.


book: Phil
contenido:
I also request you, loyal Syzygus, to help these women; for they have worked hard proclaiming the Good News with me, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers whose names are in the Book of Life.


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contenido:
Don’t worry about anything; on the contrary, make your requests known to God by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving.


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contenido:
Then God’s shalom, passing all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with the Messiah Yeshua.


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contenido:
In conclusion, brothers, focus your thoughts on what is true, noble, righteous, pure, lovable or admirable, on some virtue or on something praiseworthy.


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contenido:
Keep doing what you have learned and received from me, what you have heard and seen me doing; then the God who gives shalom will be with you.


book: Phil
contenido:
In union with the Lord I greatly rejoice that now, after this long time, you have let your concern for me express itself again. Of course, you were concerned for me all along, but you had no opportunity to express it.


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contenido:
Not that I am saying this to call attention to any need of mine; since, as far as I am concerned, I have learned to be content regardless of circumstances.


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contenido:
I know what it is to be in want, and I know what it is to have more than enough — in everything and in every way I have learned the secret of being full and being hungry, of having abundance and being in need.


book: Phil
contenido:
And you Philippians yourselves know that in the early days of my work spreading the Good News, when I left Macedonia, not a single congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving — only you.


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contenido:
I am not seeking the gift; rather, I am looking for what will increase the credit balance of your account.


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contenido:
I have been more than paid in full: I have been filled, since I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent — they are a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, one that pleases God well.


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contenido:
Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua.


book: Col
contenido:
To: God’s people in Colosse, faithful brothers in the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father.


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contenido:
For we have heard of your trust in the Messiah Yeshua and of the love you have for all God’s people.


book: Col
contenido:
Both spring from the confident hope that you will receive what is stored up for you in heaven. You heard of this earlier in the message about the truth. This Good News


book: Col
contenido:
has made its presence felt among you, just as it is also being fruitful and multiplying throughout the world in the same way as it has among you since the day you heard and understood the grace of God as it really is.


book: Col
contenido:
You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow-slave and a faithful worker for the Messiah on your behalf;


book: Col
contenido:
Therefore, from the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all the wisdom and understanding which the Spirit gives;


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contenido:
so that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to him, being fruitful in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God.


book: Col
contenido:
We pray that you will be continually strengthened with all the power that comes from his glorious might; so that you will be able to persevere and be patient in any situation, joyfully


book: Col
contenido:
giving thanks to the Father for having made you fit to share in the inheritance of his people in the light.


book: Col
contenido:
because in connection with him were created all things — in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities — they have all been created through him and for him.


book: Col
contenido:
Also he is head of the Body, the Messianic Community — he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might hold first place in everything.


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contenido:
and through his Son to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace through him, through having his Son shed his blood by being executed on a stake.


book: Col
contenido:
In other words, you, who at one time were separated from God and had a hostile attitude towards him because of your wicked deeds,


book: Col
contenido:
he has now reconciled in the Son’s physical body through his death; in order to present you holy and without defect or reproach before himself —


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contenido:
provided, of course, that you continue in your trusting, grounded and steady, and don’t let yourselves be moved away from the hope offered in the Good News you heard. This is the Good News that has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven; and I, Sha’ul, have become a servant of it.


book: Col
contenido:
I rejoice in my present sufferings on your behalf! Yes, I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of the Messiah’s afflictions, on behalf of his Body, the Messianic Community.


book: Col
contenido:
I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to do for your benefit. The work is to make fully known the message from God,


book: Col
contenido:
the secret hidden for generations, for ages, but now made clear to the people he has set apart for himself.


book: Col
contenido:
To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory!


book: Col
contenido:
We, for our part, proclaim him; we warn, confront and teach everyone in all wisdom; so that we may present everyone as having reached the goal, united with the Messiah.


book: Col
contenido:
For I want you to know how hard I work for you, for those in Laodicea, and for the rest of those who have not met me personally.


book: Col
contenido:
My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing God’s secret truth, which is — the Messiah!


book: Col
contenido:
For although I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit, rejoicing as I see the disciplined and resolute firmness of your trust in the Messiah.


book: Col
contenido:
Remain deeply rooted in him; continue being built up in him and confirmed in your trust, the way you were taught, so that you overflow in thanksgiving.


book: Col
contenido:
Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah.


book: Col
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And it is in union with him that you have been made full — he is the head of every rule and authority.


book: Col
contenido:
Also it was in union with him that you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by human hands, but accomplished by stripping away the old nature’s control over the body. In this circumcision done by the Messiah,


book: Col
contenido:
you were buried along with him by being immersed; and in union with him, you were also raised up along with him by God’s faithfulness that worked when he raised Yeshua from the dead.


book: Col
contenido:
You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your “foreskin,” your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins.


book: Col
contenido:
He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.


book: Col
contenido:
Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.


book: Col
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So don’t let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.


book: Col
contenido:
Don’t let anyone deny you the prize by insisting that you engage in self-mortification or angel-worship. Such people are always going on about some vision they have had, and they vainly puff themselves up by their worldly outlook.


book: Col
contenido:
They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow.


book: Col
contenido:
If, along with the Messiah, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if you still belonged to the world, are you letting yourselves be bothered by its rules? —


book: Col
contenido:
Such prohibitions are concerned with things meant to perish by being used [not by being avoided!], and they are based on man-made rules and teachings.


book: Col
contenido:
They do indeed have the outward appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed religious observances, false humility and asceticism; but they have no value at all in restraining people from indulging their old nature.


book: Col
contenido:
So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God.


book: Col
contenido:
Therefore, put to death the earthly parts of your nature — sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed (which is a form of idolatry);


book: Col
contenido:
and have put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in fuller and fuller knowledge, closer and closer to the image of its Creator.


book: Col
contenido:
The new self allows no room for discriminating between Gentile and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, savage, slave, free man; on the contrary, in all, the Messiah is everything.


book: Col
contenido:
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with feelings of compassion and with kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.


book: Col
contenido:
Bear with one another; if anyone has a complaint against someone else, forgive him. Indeed, just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.


book: Col
contenido:
and let the shalom which comes from the Messiah be your heart’s decision-maker, for this is why you were called to be part of a single Body. And be thankful —


book: Col
contenido:
let the Word of the Messiah, in all its richness, live in you, as you teach and counsel each other in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude to God in your hearts.


book: Col
contenido:
That is, everything you do or say, do in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks through him to God the Father.


book: Col
contenido:
Slaves, obey your human masters in everything, not serving only when they are watching you, to win their favor, but single-heartedly, fearing the Lord.


book: Col
contenido:
Whatever work you do, put yourself into it, as those who are serving not merely other people, but the Lord.


book: Col
contenido:
Remember that as your reward, you will receive the inheritance from the Lord. You are slaving for the Lord, for the Messiah.


book: Col
contenido:
Don’t worry — whoever is doing wrong will be paid in kind for his wrong, and there is no favoritism shown.


book: Col
contenido:
Include prayer for us, too, that God may open a door for us to proclaim the message about the secret of the Messiah — for that is why I am in prison.


book: Col
contenido:
let your conversation always be gracious and interesting, so that you will know how to respond to any particular individual.


book: Col
contenido:
Our dear brother Tychicus, who is a faithful worker and fellow-slave in the Lord, will give you all the news about me.


book: Col
contenido:
I have sent him to you for this very reason — so that you might know how we are, and so that he might encourage you.


book: Col
contenido:
I have sent him with Onesimus, the dear and faithful brother, who is one of you; they will tell you everything that has happened here.


book: Col
contenido:
Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends greetings, as does Mark, Bar-Nabba’s cousin, concerning whom you have received instructions — if he comes to you, welcome him.


book: Col
contenido:
Yeshua, the one called Justus, also sends greetings. These three are among the Circumcised; and among my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, only they have turned out to be a comfort to me.


book: Col
contenido:
Epaphras sends greetings; he is one of you, a slave of the Messiah Yeshua who always agonizes in his prayer on your behalf, praying that you may stand firm, mature and fully confident, as you devote yourselves completely to God’s will.


book: Col
contenido:
Give my greetings to the brothers in Laodicea, also to Nympha and the congregation that meets in her home.


book: Col
contenido:
After this letter has been read to you, have it read also in the congregation of the Laodiceans; and you, in turn, are to read the letter that will come from Laodicea.


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contenido:
From: Sha’ul, Sila and Timothy To: The Messianic Community of the Thessalonians, united with God the Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom.


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contenido:
calling to mind before God our Father what our Lord Yeshua the Messiah has brought about in you — how your trust produces action, your love hard work, and your hope perseverance.


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contenido:
that the Good News we brought did not become for you a matter only of words, but also one of power, the Ruach HaKodesh and total conviction — just as you know how we lived for your sakes when we were with you.


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You, indeed, became imitators of us and of the Lord; so that even though you were going through severe troubles, you received the Word with joy from the Ruach HaKodesh.


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contenido:
for the Lord’s message sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but everywhere your trust toward God became known. The result is that we don’t need to say anything;


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contenido:
since they themselves keep telling us about the welcome we received from you and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the true God, the one who is alive,


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contenido:
and to wait for his Son Yeshua, whom he raised from the dead, to appear from heaven and rescue us from the impending fury of God’s judgment.


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contenido:
On the contrary, although we had already suffered and been outraged in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage, united with our God, to tell you the Good News even under great pressure.


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contenido:
For the appeal we make does not flow from error or from impure motives, neither do we try to trick people.


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contenido:
Instead, since God has tested us and found us fit to be entrusted with Good News, this is how we speak: not to win favor with people but with God, who tests our hearts.


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contenido:
For, as you know, never did we employ flattering talk, nor did we put on a false front to mask greed — God is witness.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
As emissaries of the Messiah, we could have made our weight felt; but instead, we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother feeding and caring for her children.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
We were so devoted to you that we were glad to share with you not only God’s Good News but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, how we worked night and day not to put a burden on any of you while we were proclaiming God’s Good News to you.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless our behavior was in the sight of you believers;


book: 1Thess
contenido:
we encouraged you and comforted you and appealed to you to lead lives worthy of God, who calls you into his Kingdom and glory.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
Another reason we regularly thank God is that when you heard the Word of God from us, you received it not merely as a human word, but as it truly is, God’s Word, which is at work in you believers.


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contenido:
For, brothers, you came to be imitators of God’s congregations in Y’hudah that are united with the Messiah Yeshua — you suffered the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Judeans who


book: 1Thess
contenido:
both killed the Lord Yeshua and the prophets, and chased us out too. They are displeasing God and opposing all mankind


book: 1Thess
contenido:
by trying to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they may be delivered. Their object seems to be always to make their sins as bad as possible! But God’s fury will catch up with them in the end.


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contenido:
And as for us, brothers, when we were deprived of your company for a short time — in person, but not in thought — we missed you and tried hard to come and see you.


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contenido:
For when our Lord Yeshua returns, what will be our hope, our joy, our crown to boast about? Won’t it be you?


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contenido:
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker for the Good News of the Messiah, to make you solid and encourage you in your trust;


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contenido:
so that none of you would let these persecutions unsettle him. For you yourselves know that these are bound to come to us;


book: 1Thess
contenido:
even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were about to be persecuted; and indeed it has happened, as you know.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
That is the reason why, after I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your trust. I was afraid that somehow the Tempter had tempted you, and our hard work had been wasted.


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But now Timothy has come to us from you, bringing good news about your trust and love, and telling us that you remember us well and are always longing to see us, just as we long to see you.


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contenido:
Because of this, brothers, in spite of all our trouble and distress, we were comforted over you — because of your trust;


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contenido:
Indeed, how can we thank God enough for you or express to our God all the joy we feel because of you?


book: 1Thess
contenido:
Night and day we pray as hard as we can that we will be able to see you face to face and supply whatever shortcomings there may be in your trust.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
And as for you, may the Lord make you increase and overflow in love toward each other, indeed, toward everyone, just as we do toward you;


book: 1Thess
contenido:
so that he may give you the inner strength to be blameless, by reason of your holiness, when you stand before God our Father at the coming of our Lord Yeshua with all his angels.


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contenido:
Therefore, brothers, just as you learned from us how you had to live in order to please God, and just as you are living this way now, we ask you — indeed, united with the Lord Yeshua, we urge you — to keep doing so more and more.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
No one should wrong his brother in this matter or take advantage of him, because the Lord punishes all who do such things — as we have explained to you before at length.


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contenido:
Therefore, whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not a man but God, indeed, the One who gives you the Ruach HaKodesh, which is his.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
Concerning love for the brothers we do not need to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other;


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contenido:
and you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do it even more.


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contenido:
Also, make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own business and to earn your living by your own efforts — just as we told you.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
Now, brothers, we want you to know the truth about those who have died; otherwise, you might become sad the way other people


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contenido:
do who have nothing to hope for. For since we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, we also believe that in the same way God, through Yeshua, will take with him those who have died.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
When we say this, we base it on the Lord’s own word: we who remain alive when the Lord comes will certainly not take precedence over those who have died.


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contenido:
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a rousing cry, with a call from one of the ruling angels, and with God’s shofar; those who died united with the Messiah will be the first to rise;


book: 1Thess
contenido:
then we who are left still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord.


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contenido:
But you have no need to have anything written to you, brothers, about the times and dates when this will happen;


book: 1Thess
contenido:
When people are saying, “Everything is so peaceful and secure,” then destruction will suddenly come upon them, the way labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there is no way they will escape.


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contenido:
for you are all people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We don’t belong to the night or to darkness,


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But since we belong to the day, let us stay sober, putting on trust and love as a breastplate and the hope of being delivered as a helmet.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
For God has not intended that we should experience his fury, but that we should gain deliverance through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,


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contenido:
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who are working hard among you, those who are guiding you in the Lord and confronting you in order to help you change.


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Treat them with the highest regard and love because of the work they are doing. Live at peace among yourselves;


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but we urge you, brothers, to confront those who are lazy, your aim being to help them change, to encourage the timid, to assist the weak, and to be patient with everyone.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
See that no one repays evil for evil; on the contrary, always try to do good to each other, indeed, to everyone.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
In everything give thanks, for this is what God wants from you who are united with the Messiah Yeshua.


book: 1Thess
contenido:
May the God of shalom make you completely holy — may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, Sila and Timothy To: The Messianic Community of the Thessalonians, united with God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah:


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We have to keep thanking God for you always, brothers, as is appropriate; because your trust continues to grow greater, and the love you each have for one another continues to increase.


book: 2Thess
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Therefore, we boast about you in the congregations of God because of your perseverance and trust in all the persecutions and troubles you are going through.


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This is clear evidence that God’s judgment is just; and as a result, you will be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which you are suffering.


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and to give rest along with us to you who are being troubled, when the Lord Yeshua is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels


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in a fiery flame. Then he will punish those who don’t know God, that is, those who don’t listen to the Good News of our Lord Yeshua and obey it.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
They will suffer the just penalty of eternal destruction, far away from the face of the Lord and the glory of his might.


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On that Day, when he comes to be glorified by his holy people and admired by all who have trusted, you will be among them, because you trusted our witness to you.


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contenido:
With this in view, we always pray for you that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill by his power every good purpose of yours and every action stemming from your trust.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
In this way, the name of our Lord Yeshua will be glorified in you, and you in him, in accordance with the grace of our God and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
But in connection with the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our gathering together to meet him, we ask you, brothers,


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contenido:
not to be easily shaken in your thinking or anxious because of a spirit or a spoken message or a letter supposedly from us claiming that the Day of the Lord has already come.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come and the man who separates himself from Torah has been revealed, the one destined for doom.


book: 2Thess
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He will oppose himself to everything that people call a god or make an object of worship; he will put himself above them all, so that he will sit in the Temple of God and proclaim that he himself is God.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
For already this separating from Torah is at work secretly, but it will be secretly only until he who is restraining is out of the way.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
Then the one who embodies separation from Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yeshua will slay with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the glory of his coming.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
When this man who avoids Torah comes, the Adversary will give him the power to work all kinds of false miracles, signs and wonders.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them.


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The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
But we have to keep thanking God for you always, brothers whom the Lord loves, because God chose you as firstfruits for deliverance by giving you the holiness that has its origin in the Spirit and the faithfulness that has its origin in the truth.


book: 2Thess
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He called you to this through our Good News, so that you could have the glory of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
Therefore, brothers, stand firm; and hold to the traditions you were taught by us, whether we spoke them or wrote them in a letter.


book: 2Thess
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And may our Lord Yeshua the Messiah himself and God our Father, who has loved us and by his grace given us eternal comfort and a good hope,


book: 2Thess
contenido:
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and receive honor, just as it did with you;


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contenido:
Yes, united with the Lord we are confident about you, that you are doing the things we are telling you to do, and that you will keep on doing them.


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contenido:
Now, in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we command you, brothers, to stay away from any brother who is leading a life of idleness, a life not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
We did not accept anyone’s food without paying; on the contrary, we labored and toiled, day and night, working so as not to be a burden to any of you.


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contenido:
It was not that we hadn’t the right to be supported, but so that we could make ourselves an example to imitate.


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contenido:
We command such people — and in union with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we urge them — to settle down, get to work, and earn their own living.


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contenido:
Furthermore, if anyone does not obey what we are saying in this letter, take note of him and have nothing to do with him, so that he will be ashamed.


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contenido:
But don’t consider him an enemy; on the contrary, confront him as a brother and try to help him change.


book: 2Thess
contenido:
The greeting in my own handwriting: From Sha’ul. This is the mark of genuineness in every letter, this is what my handwriting looks like.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua by command of God our deliverer and the Messiah Yeshua our hope,


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contenido:
To: Timothy, a true son because of your trust: Grace, mercy and shalom from God the Father and the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
As I counseled you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus, so that you may order certain people who are teaching a different doctrine to stop.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Have them stop devoting their attention to myths and never-ending genealogies; these divert people to speculating instead of doing God’s work, which requires trust.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
The purpose of this order is to promote love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and from sincere trust.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
They want to be teachers of Torah, but they understand neither their own words nor the matters about which they make such emphatic pronouncements.


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contenido:
We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,


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the sexually immoral — both heterosexual and homosexual — slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching


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contenido:
that accords with the Good News of the glorious and blessed God. This Good News was entrusted to me;


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contenido:
and I thank the one who has given me strength, the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord, that he considered me trustworthy enough to put me in his service,


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contenido:
even though I used to be a man who blasphemed and persecuted and was arrogant! But I received mercy because I had acted in unbelief, not understanding what I was doing.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
So here is a statement you can trust, one that fully deserves to be accepted: the Messiah came into the world to save sinners, and I’m the number one sinner!


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But this is precisely why I received mercy — so that in me, as the number one sinner, Yeshua the Messiah might demonstrate how very patient he is, as an example to those who would later come to trust in him and thereby have eternal life.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
So to the King — eternal, imperishable and invisible, the only God there is — let there be honor and glory for ever and ever! Amen.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
This charge, son Timothy, I put to you, in keeping with the prophecies already made about you, so that by these prophecies you may fight the good fight,


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contenido:
armed with trust and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, some have made shipwreck of their trust;


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contenido:
among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I have turned them over to the Adversary, so that they will learn not to insult God.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
First of all, then, I counsel that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all human beings,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
including kings and all in positions of prominence; so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives, being godly and upright in everything.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For God is one; and there is but one Mediator between God and humanity, Yeshua the Messiah, himself human,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all, thus providing testimony to God’s purpose at just the right time.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
This is why I myself was appointed a proclaimer, even an emissary — I am telling the truth, not lying! — a trustworthy and truthful teacher of the Goyim.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Therefore, it is my wish that when the men pray, no matter where, they should lift up hands that are holy — they should not become angry or get into arguments.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Likewise, the women, when they pray, should be dressed modestly and sensibly in respectable attire, not with elaborate hairstyles and gold jewelry, or pearls, or expensive clothes.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Rather, they should adorn themselves with what is appropriate for women who claim to be worshipping God, namely, good deeds.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
but I do not permit a woman to teach a man or exercise authority over him; rather, she is to remain at peace.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Also it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who, on being deceived, became involved in the transgression.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Nevertheless, the woman will be delivered through childbearing, provided that she continues trusting, loving and living a holy life with modesty.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Here is a statement you can trust: anyone aspiring to be a congregation leader is seeking worthwhile work.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
A congregation leader must be above reproach, he must be faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, orderly, hospitable and able to teach.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
He must not drink excessively or get into fights; rather, he must be kind and gentle. He must not be a lover of money.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
for if a man can’t manage his own household, how will he be able to care for God’s Messianic Community?


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contenido:
He must not be a new believer, because he might become puffed up with pride and thus fall under the same judgment as did the Adversary.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Furthermore, he must be well regarded by outsiders, so that he won’t fall into disgrace and into the Adversary’s trap.


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contenido:
Likewise, the shammashim must be of good character, people whose word can be trusted. They must not give themselves to excessive drinking or be greedy for dishonest gain.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
And first, let them be tested; then, if they prove themselves blameless, let them be appointed shammashim.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For those who serve well as shammashim gain good standing for themselves and much boldness in the trust that comes through Yeshua the Messiah.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
so that if I am delayed, you may know how one should behave in the household of God, which is the Messianic Community of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Great beyond all question is the formerly hidden truth underlying our faith: He was manifested physically and proved righteous spiritually, seen by angels and proclaimed among the nations, trusted throughout the world and raised up in glory to heaven.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
The Spirit expressly states that in the acharit-hayamim some people will apostatize from the faith by paying attention to deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Such teachings come from the hypocrisy of liars whose own consciences have been burned, as if with a red-hot branding iron.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods which God created to be eaten with thanksgiving by those who have come to trust and to know the truth.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
If you present all this to the brothers, you will be serving the Messiah Yeshua well; it will show that you have digested the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have followed.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For although physical exercise does have some value, godliness is valuable for everything, since it holds promise both for the present life and for the life to come.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
(indeed, it is for this that we toil and strive): we have our hope set on a living God who is the deliverer of all humanity, especially of those who trust.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Don’t let anyone look down on you because of your youth; on the contrary, set the believers an example in your speech, behavior, love, trust and purity.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Do not neglect your gift, which you were given through a prophecy when the body of elders gave you s’mikhah.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Be diligent about this work, throw yourself into it, so that your progress may be clear to everyone.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Pay attention to yourself and to the teaching, continue in it, for by so doing you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Do not rebuke an older man sharply, but appeal to him as you would to a father; treat younger men like brothers,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, first let them learn to do their religious duty to their own family and thus repay some of the debt they owe their forebears, for this is what is acceptable in the sight of God.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Now the widow who is really in need, the one who has been left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Moreover, anyone who does not provide for his own people, especially for his family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Let a widow be enrolled on the list of widows only if she is more than sixty years old, was faithful to her husband,


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contenido:
and is known for her good deeds — as one who has reared her children well, showed hospitality, washed the feet of God’s people, helped those in trouble, and engaged in all kinds of good work.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they begin to feel natural passions that alienate them from the Messiah, they want to get married.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Besides that, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Therefore, I would rather the young widows get married, have children and take charge of their homes, so as to give the opposition no occasion for slandering us.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, she should provide relief for them — the congregation shouldn’t be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are really in need.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
The leaders who lead well should be considered worthy of double honor, especially those working hard at communicating the Word and at teaching.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For the Tanakh says, “You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain,” in other words, “The worker deserves his wages.”


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Before God, the Messiah Yeshua and the chosen angels, I solemnly charge you to observe these instructions, not pre-judging and not doing anything out of favoritism.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Do not be hasty in granting s’mikhah to anyone, and do not share in other people’s sins — keep yourself pure.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Stop drinking water; instead, use a little wine for the sake of your digestion and because of your frequent illnesses.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
The sins of some people are obvious and go ahead of them to judgment, but the sins of others follow afterwards.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Those who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as worthy of full respect, so that the name of God and the teaching will not be brought into disrepute.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
And those who have believing masters are not to show them less respect on the ground that they are brothers; on the contrary, they should serve all the more diligently, since those benefiting from their service are believers whom they love. Teach and exhort people about these things.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
If anyone teaches differently and does not agree to the sound precepts of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and to the doctrine that is in keeping with godliness,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
he is swollen with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has a morbid desire for controversies and word-battles, out of which come jealousy, dissension, insults, evil suspicions,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
and constant wrangling among people whose minds no longer function properly and who have been deprived of the truth, so that they imagine that religion is a road to riches.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Furthermore, those whose goal is to be rich fall into temptation; they get trapped in many foolish and hurtful ambitions which plunge them into ruin and destruction.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For the love of money is a root of all the evils; because of this craving, some people have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves to the heart with many pains.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
But you, as a man of God, flee from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, steadfastness, gentleness.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Fight the good fight of the faith, take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you testified so well to your faith before many witnesses.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before the Messiah Yeshua, who in his witness to Pontius Pilate gave the same good testimony,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
His appearing will be brought about in its own time by the blessed and sole Sovereign, who is King of kings and Lord of lords,


book: 1Tim
contenido:
who alone is immortal, who dwells in unapproachable light that no human being has ever seen or can see — to him be honor and eternal power. Amen.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
As for those who do have riches in this present world, charge them not to be proud and not to let their hopes rest on the uncertainties of riches but to rest their hopes on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
In this way they will treasure up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may lay hold of the real life.


book: 1Tim
contenido:
Oh, Timothy! Keep safe what has been entrusted to you. Turn away from the ungodly babblings and the argumentative opposition of what is falsely called “knowledge.”


book: 1Tim
contenido:
For many who promise this “knowledge” have missed the mark, as far as the faith is concerned. Grace be with you.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua by God’s will, which holds forth a promise of life through being united with Messiah Yeshua


book: 2Tim
contenido:
To: Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and shalom from God the Father and the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
I give thanks to God, whom, like my forbears, I worship with a clean conscience, as I regularly remember you in my prayers night and day.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
I recall your sincere trust, the same trust that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice had first; and I am convinced that you too now have this trust.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
For this reason, I am reminding you to fan the flame of God’s gift, which you received through s’mikhah from me.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
So don’t be ashamed of bearing testimony to our Lord or to me, his prisoner. On the contrary, accept your share in suffering disgrace for the sake of the Good News. God will give you the strength for it,


book: 2Tim
contenido:
since he delivered us and called us to a life of holiness as his people. It was not because of our deeds, but because of his own purpose and the grace which he gave to us who are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He did this before the beginning of time,


book: 2Tim
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but made it public only now through the appearing of our Deliverer, the Messiah Yeshua, who abolished death and, through the Good News, revealed life and immortality.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
and this is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know him in whom I have put my trust, and I am persuaded that he can keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Follow the pattern of the sound teachings you have heard from me, with trust and the love which is yours in the Messiah Yeshua.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Keep safe the great treasure that has been entrusted to you, with the help of the Ruach HaKodesh, who lives in us.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
You know that everyone in the province of Asia turned away from me, including Phygelus and Ermogenes.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he was often a comfort to me and was not ashamed of my being in prison.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
May the Lord grant it to him to find mercy from Adonai on that Day. And you know very well how much he helped me in Ephesus.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
And the things you heard from me, which were supported by many witnesses, these things commit to faithful people, such as will be competent to teach others also.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
No soldier on duty gets involved with civilian affairs, since he has to please his commanding officer.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Remember Yeshua the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, who was a descendant of David. This is the Good News I proclaim,


book: 2Tim
contenido:
and for which I am suffering to the point of being bound in chains — but the Word of God is not bound in chains!


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Why do I persevere through it all? For the sake of those who have been chosen, so that they too may obtain the deliverance that comes through the Messiah Yeshua, with eternal glory.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Keep reminding people of this, and charge them solemnly before the Lord not to engage in word-battles. They accomplish nothing useful and are a catastrophe for the hearers!


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Do all you can to present yourself to God as someone worthy of his approval, as a worker with no need to be ashamed, because he deals straightforwardly with the Word of the Truth.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
they have missed the mark, as far as the truth is concerned, by saying that our resurrection has already taken place; and they are overturning some people’s faith.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, stamped with these words: “The Lord knows his own,” and, “Let everyone who claims he belongs to the Lord stand apart from wrongdoing.”


book: 2Tim
contenido:
In a large house there are dishes and pots not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. That is, some are meant for honorable use and some for dishonorable.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
If a person keeps himself free of defilement by the latter, he will be a vessel set aside for honorable use by the master of the house and ready for every kind of good work.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
So, flee the passions of youth; and, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love and peace.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
and a slave of the Lord shouldn’t fight. On the contrary, he should be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and not resentful when mistreated.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Also he should be gentle as he corrects his opponents. For God may perhaps grant them the opportunity to turn from their sins, acquire full knowledge of the truth,


book: 2Tim
contenido:
come to their senses and escape the trap of the Adversary, after having been captured alive by him to do his will.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,


book: 2Tim
contenido:
For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,


book: 2Tim
contenido:
In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so also these people oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds, whose trust cannot pass the test.


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contenido:
However, they won’t get very far; because everyone will see how stupid they are, just as happened with those two.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
But you, you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose in life, trust, steadfastness, love and perseverance —


book: 2Tim
contenido:
as well as the persecutions and sufferings that came my way in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.


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contenido:
while evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
But you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, recalling the people from whom you learned it;


book: 2Tim
contenido:
and recalling too how from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which can give you the wisdom that leads to deliverance through trusting in Yeshua the Messiah.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living;


book: 2Tim
contenido:
I solemnly charge you before God and the Messiah Yeshua, who will judge the living and the dead when he appears and establishes his Kingdom:


book: 2Tim
contenido:
proclaim the Word! Be on hand with it whether the time seems right or not. Convict, censure and exhort with unfailing patience and with teaching.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
For the time is coming when people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever their ears itch to hear.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
But you, remain steady in every situation, endure suffering, do the work that a proclaimer of the Good News should, and do everything your service to God requires.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
For as for me, I am already being poured out on the altar; yes, the time for my departure has arrived.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
All that awaits me now is the crown of righteousness which the Lord, “the Righteous Judge,” will award to me on that Day — and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for him to appear.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
For Demas, because he has fallen in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone off to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia; Titus has gone to Dalmatia —


book: 2Tim
contenido:
only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, because he is a very useful helper in my work.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
When you come, bring the coat which I left with Carpus in Troas, also the scrolls and especially the parchments.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm; the Lord will render to him according to his works;


book: 2Tim
contenido:
The first time I had to present my defense, no one stood by me; everyone deserted me — may it not be counted against them.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
But the Lord stood by me and gave me power to proclaim the full message for all the Goyim to hear, and I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and bring me safely into his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.


book: 2Tim
contenido:
Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers.


book: Titus
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, God’s slave and an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, sent to promote among God’s chosen people the trust and knowledge of truth which lead to godliness


book: Titus
contenido:
and which are based on the certain hope of eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised that life before the beginning of time


book: Titus
contenido:
but made public this word of his in its own season through a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by order of God, our Deliverer.


book: Titus
contenido:
To: Titus, a true son in the faith we share: Grace and shalom from God the Father and from the Messiah Yeshua, our Deliverer.


book: Titus
contenido:
The reason I left you in Crete was so that you might attend to the matters still not in order and appoint congregation leaders in each city — those were my instructions.


book: Titus
contenido:
A leader must be blameless, husband to one wife, with believing children who do not have a reputation for being wild or rebellious.


book: Titus
contenido:
For an overseer, as someone entrusted with God’s affairs, must be blameless — he must not be self-willed or quick-tempered, he must not drink excessively, get into fights or be greedy for dishonest gain.


book: Titus
contenido:
On the contrary, he must be hospitable, devoted to good, sober-mindedness, uprightness, holiness and self-control.


book: Titus
contenido:
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy Message that agrees with the doctrine; so that by his sound teaching he will be able to exhort and encourage, and also to refute those who speak against it.


book: Titus
contenido:
For there are many, especially from the Circumcision faction, who are rebellious, who delude people’s minds with their worthless and misleading talk.


book: Titus
contenido:
They must be silenced; because they are upsetting entire households by teaching what they have no business teaching, and doing it for the sake of dishonest gain.


book: Titus
contenido:
Even one of the Cretans’ own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons” —


book: Titus
contenido:
and it’s true! For this reason, you must be severe when you rebuke those who have followed this false teaching, so that they will come to be sound in their trust


book: Titus
contenido:
To all who are themselves pure, everything is pure. But to those who are defiled and without trust, nothing is pure — even their minds and consciences have been defiled.


book: Titus
contenido:
They claim to know God, but with their actions they deny him. They are detestable and disobedient; they have proved themselves unfit to do anything good.


book: Titus
contenido:
Tell the older men to be serious, sensible, self-controlled and sound in their trust, love and perseverance.


book: Titus
contenido:
Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good,


book: Titus
contenido:
to be self-controlled and pure, to take good care of their homes and submit to their husbands. In this way, God’s message will not be brought into disgrace.


book: Titus
contenido:
and in everything set them an example yourself by doing what is good. When you are teaching, have integrity and be serious;


book: Titus
contenido:
let everything you say be so wholesome that an opponent will be put to shame because he will have nothing bad to say about us.


book: Titus
contenido:
or pilfering. On the contrary, they should demonstrate complete faithfulness always, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Deliverer more attractive.


book: Titus
contenido:
It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age;


book: Titus
contenido:
while continuing to expect the blessed fulfillment of our certain hope, which is the appearing of the Sh’khinah of our great God and the appearing of our Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.


book: Titus
contenido:
He gave himself up on our behalf in order to free us from all violation of Torah and purify for himself a people who would be his own, eager to do good.


book: Titus
contenido:
These are the things you should say. Encourage and rebuke with full authority; don’t let anyone look down on you.


book: Titus
contenido:
Remind people to submit to the government and its officials, to obey them, to be ready to do any honorable kind of work,


book: Titus
contenido:
For at one time, we too were foolish and disobedient, deceived and enslaved by a variety of passions and pleasures. We spent our lives in evil and envy; people hated us, and we hated each other.


book: Titus
contenido:
he delivered us. It was not on the ground of any righteous deeds we had done, but on the ground of his own mercy. He did it by means of the mikveh of rebirth and the renewal brought about by the Ruach HaKodesh,


book: Titus
contenido:
He did it so that by his grace we might come to be considered righteous by God and become heirs, with the certain hope of eternal life.


book: Titus
contenido:
You can trust what I have just said, and I want you to speak with confidence about these things, so that those who have put their trust in God may apply themselves to doing good deeds. These are both good in themselves and valuable to the community.


book: Titus
contenido:
But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are worthless and futile.


book: Titus
contenido:
When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you. Do your best to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.


book: Titus
contenido:
Do your best to help Zenas the Torah expert and Apollos with their arrangements for travelling, so that they will lack nothing.


book: Titus
contenido:
And have our people learn to apply themselves to doing good deeds that meet genuine needs, so that they will not be unproductive.


book: Titus
contenido:
All who are with me send you greetings. Give our greetings to our friends in the faith. Grace be with you all.


book: Phlm
contenido:
From: Sha’ul, a prisoner for the sake of the Messiah Yeshua, and brother Timothy To: Our dear fellow-worker Philemon,


book: Phlm
contenido:
along with sister Apphia, our fellow-soldier Archippus and the congregation that gathers in your home:


book: Phlm
contenido:
I pray that the fellowship based on your commitment will produce full understanding of every good thing that is ours in union with the Messiah.


book: Phlm
contenido:
For your love has given me much joy and encouragement. Brother, you have refreshed the hearts of God’s people.


book: Phlm
contenido:
Therefore, I would not hesitate, in union with the Messiah, to direct you to do the thing you ought to do.


book: Phlm
contenido:
But since I Sha’ul, am the kind of person I am, an old man and now for the Messiah Yeshua’s sake a prisoner besides, I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love.


book: Phlm
contenido:
His name means “useful,” and although he was once useless to you, he has now become most useful — not only to you but also to me;


book: Phlm
contenido:
I would dearly have loved to keep him with me, in order for him to serve me in your place while I am in prison because of the Good News.


book: Phlm
contenido:
But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do for me may be voluntary and not forced.


book: Phlm
contenido:
Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a brief period was so that you could have him back forever,


book: Phlm
contenido:
no longer as a slave but as more than a slave, as a dear brother. And that he is, especially to me. But how much dearer he must be to you, both humanly and in union with the Lord!


book: Phlm
contenido:
I, Sha’ul, write with my own hand. I will repay it. (I won’t mention, of course, that you owe me your very life.)


book: Phlm
contenido:
Trusting that you will respond positively, I write knowing that you will indeed do more than I am asking.


book: Phlm
contenido:
One more thing: please get a room ready for me. For I hope that through the prayers of you all God will give me a chance to visit you.


book: Heb
contenido:
But now, in the acharit-hayamim, he has spoken to us through his Son, to whom he has given ownership of everything and through whom he created the universe.


book: Heb
contenido:
This Son is the radiance of the Sh’khinah, the very expression of God’s essence, upholding all that exists by his powerful word; and after he had, through himself, made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of HaG’dulah BaM’romim.


book: Heb
contenido:
For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? Also, God never said of any angel, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son.”


book: Heb
contenido:
And again, when God brings his Firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Indeed, when speaking of angels, he says, “. . . who makes his angels winds and his servants fiery flames”;


book: Heb
contenido:
but to the Son, he says, “Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever; you rule your Kingdom with a scepter of equity;


book: Heb
contenido:
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy in preference to your companions”;


book: Heb
contenido:
and, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is the work of your hands.


book: Heb
contenido:
and you will fold them up like a coat. Yes, they will be changed like clothing, but you remain the same, your years will never end.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Moreover, to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, we must pay much more careful heed to the things we have heard, so that we will not drift away.


book: Heb
contenido:
For if the word God spoke through angels became binding, so that every violation and act of disobedience received its just deserts in full measure,


book: Heb
contenido:
then how will we escape if we ignore such a great deliverance? This deliverance, which was first declared by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;


book: Heb
contenido:
while God also bore witness to it with various signs, wonders and miracles, and with gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh which he distributed as he chose.


book: Heb
contenido:
And there is a place where someone has given this solemn testimony: “What is mere man, that you concern yourself with him? or the son of man, that you watch over him with such care?


book: Heb
contenido:
you put everything in subjection under his feet.” In subjecting everything to him, he left nothing unsubjected to him. However, at present, we don’t see everything subjected to him — at least, not yet.


book: Heb
contenido:
But we do see Yeshua — who indeed was made for a little while lower than the angels — now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he might taste death for all humanity.


book: Heb
contenido:
For in bringing many sons to glory, it was only fitting that God, the Creator and Preserver of everything, should bring the Initiator of their deliverance to the goal through sufferings.


book: Heb
contenido:
For both Yeshua, who sets people apart for God, and the ones being set apart have a common origin — this is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers


book: Heb
contenido:
when he says, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Also, “I will put my trust in him, . . .” and then it goes on, “Here I am, along with the children God has given me.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, since the children share a common physical nature as human beings, he became like them and shared that same human nature; so that by his death he might render ineffective the one who had power over death (that is, the Adversary)


book: Heb
contenido:
Indeed, it is obvious that he does not take hold of angels to help them; on the contrary, “He takes hold of the seed of Avraham.”


book: Heb
contenido:
This is why he had to become like his brothers in every respect — so that he might become a merciful and faithful cohen gadol in the service of God, making a kapparah for the sins of the people.


book: Heb
contenido:
For since he himself suffered death when he was put to the test, he is able to help those who are being tested now.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, brothers whom God has set apart, who share in the call from heaven, think carefully about Yeshua, whom we acknowledge publicly as God’s emissary and as cohen gadol.


book: Heb
contenido:
But Yeshua deserves more honor than Moshe, just as the builder of the house deserves more honor than the house.


book: Heb
contenido:
Also, Moshe was faithful in all God’s house, as a servant giving witness to things God would divulge later.


book: Heb
contenido:
But the Messiah, as Son, was faithful over God’s house. And we are that house of his, provided we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for.


book: Heb
contenido:
don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel on that day in the Wilderness when you put God to the test.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation — I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, they have not understood how I do things’;


book: Heb
contenido:
Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!


book: Heb
contenido:
Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.


book: Heb
contenido:
For we have become sharers in the Messiah, provided, however, that we hold firmly to the conviction we began with, right through until the goal is reached.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now where it says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel,”


book: Heb
contenido:
who were the people who, after they heard, quarreled so bitterly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt.


book: Heb
contenido:
And with whom was God disgusted for forty years? Those who sinned — yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness!


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, let us be terrified of the possibility that, even though the promise of entering his rest remains, any one of you might be judged to have fallen short of it;


book: Heb
contenido:
for Good News has also been proclaimed to us, just as it was to them. But the message they heard didn’t do them any good, because those who heard it did not combine it with trust.


book: Heb
contenido:
For it is we who have trusted who enter the rest. It is just as he said, “And in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest.” He swore this even though his works have been in existence since the founding of the universe.


book: Heb
contenido:
For there is a place where it is said, concerning the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, since it still remains for some to enter it, and those who received the Good News earlier did not enter,


book: Heb
contenido:
he again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, let us do our best to enter that rest; so that no one will fall short because of the same kind of disobedience.


book: Heb
contenido:
See, the Word of God is alive! It is at work and is sharper than any double-edged sword — it cuts right through to where soul meets spirit and joints meet marrow, and it is quick to judge the inner reflections and attitudes of the heart.


book: Heb
contenido:
Before God, nothing created is hidden, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, since we have a great cohen gadol who has passed through to the highest heaven, Yeshua, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we acknowledge as true.


book: Heb
contenido:
For we do not have a cohen gadol unable to empathize with our weaknesses; since in every respect he was tempted just as we are, the only difference being that he did not sin.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, let us confidently approach the throne from which God gives grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace in our time of need.


book: Heb
contenido:
For every cohen gadol taken from among men is appointed to act on people’s behalf with regard to things concerning God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.


book: Heb
contenido:
He can deal gently with the ignorant and with those who go astray, since he too is subject to weakness.


book: Heb
contenido:
Also, because of this weakness, he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as those of the people.


book: Heb
contenido:
So neither did the Messiah glorify himself to become cohen gadol; rather, it was the One who said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.”


book: Heb
contenido:
During Yeshua’s life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions, crying aloud and shedding tears, to the One who had the power to deliver him from death; and he was heard because of his godliness.


book: Heb
contenido:
And after he had been brought to the goal, he became the source of eternal deliverance to all who obey him,


book: Heb
contenido:
We have much to say about this subject, but it is hard to explain, because you have become sluggish in understanding.


book: Heb
contenido:
For although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the very first principles of God’s Word all over again! You need milk, not solid food!


book: Heb
contenido:
Anyone who has to drink milk is still a baby, without experience in applying the Word about righteousness.


book: Heb
contenido:
But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, leaving behind the initial lessons about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of turning from works that lead to death, trusting God,


book: Heb
contenido:
For when people have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become sharers in the Ruach HaKodesh,


book: Heb
contenido:
and then have fallen away — it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt.


book: Heb
contenido:
For the land that soaks up frequent rains and then brings forth a crop useful to its owners receives a blessing from God;


book: Heb
contenido:
but if it keeps producing thorns and thistles, it fails the test and is close to being cursed; in the end, it will be burned.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now even though we speak this way, dear friends, we are confident that you have the better things that come with being delivered.


book: Heb
contenido:
For God is not so unfair as to forget your work and the love you showed for him in your past service to his people — and in your present service too.


book: Heb
contenido:
However, we want each one of you to keep showing the same diligence right up to the end, when your hope will be realized;


book: Heb
contenido:
so that you will not become sluggish, but will be imitators of those who by their trust and patience are receiving what has been promised.


book: Heb
contenido:
For when God made his promise to Avraham, he swore an oath to do what he had promised; and since there was no one greater than himself for him to swear by, he swore by himself


book: Heb
contenido:
Now people swear oaths by someone greater than themselves, and confirmation by an oath puts an end to all dispute.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, when God wanted to demonstrate still more convincingly the unchangeable character of his intentions to those who were to receive what he had promised, he added an oath to the promise;


book: Heb
contenido:
so that through two unchangeable things, in neither of which God could lie, we, who have fled to take a firm hold on the hope set before us, would be strongly encouraged.


book: Heb
contenido:
We have this hope as a sure and safe anchor for ourselves, a hope that goes right on through to what is inside the parokhet,


book: Heb
contenido:
where a forerunner has entered on our behalf, namely, Yeshua, who has become a cohen gadol forever, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.


book: Heb
contenido:
This Malki-Tzedek, king of Shalem, a cohen of God Ha‘Elyon, met Avraham on his way back from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;


book: Heb
contenido:
also Avraham gave him a tenth of everything. Now first of all, by translation of his name, he is “king of righteousness”; and then he is also king of Shalem, which means “king of peace.”


book: Heb
contenido:
There is no record of his father, mother, ancestry, birth or death; rather, like the Son of God, he continues as a cohen for all time.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now the descendants of Levi who became cohanim have a commandment in the Torah to take a tenth of the income of the people, that is, from their own brothers, despite the fact that they too are descended from Avraham.


book: Heb
contenido:
But Malki-Tzedek, even though he was not descended from Levi, took a tenth from Avraham. Also, he blessed Avraham, the man who received God’s promises;


book: Heb
contenido:
and it is beyond all dispute that the one who blesses has higher status than the one who receives the blessing.


book: Heb
contenido:
Moreover, in the case of the cohanim, the tenth is received by men who die; while in the case of Malki-Tzedek, it is received by someone who is testified to be still alive.


book: Heb
contenido:
One might go even further and say that Levi, who himself receives tenths, paid a tenth through Avraham;


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, if it had been possible to reach the goal through the system of cohanim derived from Levi (since in connection with it, the people were given the Torah), what need would there have been for another, different kind of cohen, the one spoken of as to be compared with Malki-Tzedek and not to be compared with Aharon?


book: Heb
contenido:
For if the system of cohanim is transformed, there must of necessity occur a transformation of Torah.


book: Heb
contenido:
The one about whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar;


book: Heb
contenido:
for everyone knows that our Lord arose out of Y’hudah, and that Moshe said nothing about this tribe when he spoke about cohanim.


book: Heb
contenido:
one who became a cohen not by virtue of a rule in the Torah concerning physical descent, but by virtue of the power of an indestructible life.


book: Heb
contenido:
(for the Torah did not bring anything to the goal); and, on the other hand, a hope of something better is introduced, through which we are drawing near to God.


book: Heb
contenido:
What is more, God swore an oath. For no oath was sworn in connection with those who become cohanim now;


book: Heb
contenido:
but Yeshua became a cohen by the oath which God swore when he said to him, “Adonai has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a cohen forever.’”


book: Heb
contenido:
Moreover, the present cohanim are many in number, because they are prevented by death from continuing in office.


book: Heb
contenido:
and consequently, he is totally able to deliver those who approach God through him; since he is alive forever and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf.


book: Heb
contenido:
This is the kind of cohen gadol that meets our need — holy, without evil, without stain, set apart from sinners and raised higher than the heavens;


book: Heb
contenido:
one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g’dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.


book: Heb
contenido:
For the Torah appoints as cohanim g’dolim men who have weakness; but the text which speaks about the swearing of the oath, a text written later than the Torah, appoints a Son who has been brought to the goal forever.


book: Heb
contenido:
Here is the whole point of what we have been saying: we do have just such a cohen gadol as has been described. And he does sit at the right hand of HaG’dulah in heaven.


book: Heb
contenido:
There he serves in the Holy Place, that is, in the true Tent of Meeting, the one erected not by human beings but by Adonai.


book: Heb
contenido:
For every cohen gadol is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so this cohen gadol too has to have something he can offer.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now if he were on earth, he wouldn’t be a cohen at all, since there already are cohanim offering the gifts required by the Torah.


book: Heb
contenido:
But what they are serving is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly original; for when Moshe was about to erect the Tent, God warned him, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.”


book: Heb
contenido:
But now the work Yeshua has been given to do is far superior to theirs, just as the covenant he mediates is better. For this covenant has been given as Torah on the basis of better promises.


book: Heb
contenido:
Indeed, if the first covenant had not given ground for faultfinding, there would have been no need for a second one.


book: Heb
contenido:
For God does find fault with the people when he says, “‘See! The days are coming,’ says Adonai, ‘when I will establish over the house of Isra’el and over the house of Y’hudah a new covenant.


book: Heb
contenido:
“‘It will not be like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by their hand and led them forth out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, did not remain faithful to my covenant; so I, for my part, stopped concerning myself with them,’ says Adonai.


book: Heb
contenido:
“‘For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,’ says Adonai: ‘I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.


book: Heb
contenido:
“‘None of them will teach his fellow-citizen or his brother, saying, “Know Adonai!” For all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest,


book: Heb
contenido:
By using the term, “new,” he has made the first covenant “old”; and something being made old, something in the process of aging, is on its way to vanishing altogether.


book: Heb
contenido:
A tent was set up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place; in it were the menorah, the table and the Bread of the Presence.


book: Heb
contenido:
which had the golden altar for burning incense and the Ark of the Covenant, entirely covered with gold. In the Ark were the gold jar containing the man, Aharon’s rod that sprouted and the stone Tablets of the Covenant;


book: Heb
contenido:
and above it were the k’ruvim representing the Sh’khinah, casting their shadow on the lid of the Ark — but now is not the time to discuss these things in detail.


book: Heb
contenido:
but only the cohen hagadol enters the inner one; and he goes in only once a year, and he must always bring blood, which he offers both for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.


book: Heb
contenido:
By this arrangement, the Ruach HaKodesh showed that so long as the first Tent had standing, the way into the Holiest Place was still closed.


book: Heb
contenido:
This symbolizes the present age and indicates that the conscience of the person performing the service cannot be brought to the goal by the gifts and sacrifices he offers.


book: Heb
contenido:
For they involve only food and drink and various ceremonial washings — regulations concerning the outward life, imposed until the time for God to reshape the whole structure.


book: Heb
contenido:
But when the Messiah appeared as cohen gadol of the good things that are happening already, then, through the greater and more perfect Tent which is not man-made (that is, it is not of this created world),


book: Heb
contenido:
he entered the Holiest Place once and for all. And he entered not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus setting people free forever.


book: Heb
contenido:
For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity;


book: Heb
contenido:
then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!


book: Heb
contenido:
It is because of this death that he is mediator of a new covenant [or will]. Because a death has occurred which sets people free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.


book: Heb
contenido:
After Moshe had proclaimed every command of the Torah to all the people, he took the blood of the calves with some water and used scarlet wool and hyssop to sprinkle both the scroll itself and all the people;


book: Heb
contenido:
In fact, according to the Torah, almost everything is purified with blood; indeed, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now this is how the copies of the heavenly things had to be purified, but the heavenly things themselves require better sacrifices than these.


book: Heb
contenido:
For the Messiah has entered a Holiest Place which is not man-made and merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.


book: Heb
contenido:
Further, he did not enter heaven to offer himself over and over again, like the cohen hagadol who enters the Holiest Place year after year with blood that is not his own;


book: Heb
contenido:
for then he would have had to suffer death many times — from the founding of the universe on. But as it is, he has appeared once at the end of the ages in order to do away with sin through the sacrifice of himself.


book: Heb
contenido:
so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to deliver those who are eagerly waiting for him.


book: Heb
contenido:
For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them.


book: Heb
contenido:
Otherwise, wouldn’t the offering of those sacrifices have ceased? For if the people performing the service had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have sins on their conscience.


book: Heb
contenido:
This is why, on coming into the world, he says, “It has not been your will to have an animal sacrifice and a meal offering; rather, you have prepared for me a body.


book: Heb
contenido:
Then I said, ‘Look! In the scroll of the book it is written about me. I have come to do your will.’”


book: Heb
contenido:
In saying first, “You neither willed nor were pleased with animal sacrifices, meal offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings,” things which are offered in accordance with the Torah;


book: Heb
contenido:
and then, “Look, I have come to do your will”; he takes away the first system in order to set up the second.


book: Heb
contenido:
It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah’s body.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now every cohen stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.


book: Heb
contenido:
But this one, after he had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God,


book: Heb
contenido:
For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy.


book: Heb
contenido:
“ ‘This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days,’ says Adonai: ‘I will put my Torah on their hearts, and write it on their minds . . . ,’ ”


book: Heb
contenido:
So, brothers, we have confidence to use the way into the Holiest Place opened by the blood of Yeshua.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting — with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.


book: Heb
contenido:
Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy.


book: Heb
contenido:
And let us keep paying attention to one another, in order to spur each other on to love and good deeds,


book: Heb
contenido:
not neglecting our own congregational meetings, as some have made a practice of doing, but, rather, encouraging each other. And let us do this all the more as you see the Day approaching.


book: Heb
contenido:
For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,


book: Heb
contenido:
Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.


book: Heb
contenido:
Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God’s grace!


book: Heb
contenido:
For the One we know is the One who said, “Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay,” and then said, “Adonai will judge his people.”


book: Heb
contenido:
But remember the earlier days, when, after you had received the light, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.


book: Heb
contenido:
Sometimes you were publicly disgraced and persecuted, while at other times you stood loyally by those who were treated this way.


book: Heb
contenido:
For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever.


book: Heb
contenido:
For you need to hold out; so that, by having done what God wills, you may receive what he has promised.


book: Heb
contenido:
But the person who is righteous will live his life by trusting, and if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”


book: Heb
contenido:
However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, we understand that the universe was created through a spoken word of God, so that what is seen did not come into being out of existing phenomena.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Hevel offered a greater sacrifice than Kayin; because of this, he was attested as righteous, with God giving him this testimony on the ground of his gifts. Through having trusted, he still continues to speak, even though he is dead.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Hanokh was taken away from this life without seeing death — “He was not to be found, because God took him away” — for he has been attested as having been, prior to being taken away, well pleasing to God.


book: Heb
contenido:
And without trusting, it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, because whoever approaches him must trust that he does exist and that he becomes a Rewarder to those who seek him out.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Noach, after receiving divine warning about things as yet unseen, was filled with holy fear and built an ark to save his household. Through this trusting, he put the world under condemnation and received the righteousness that comes from trusting.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go out to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him.


book: Heb
contenido:
For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, he received potency to father a child, even when he was past the age for it, as was Sarah herself; because he regarded the One who had made the promise as trustworthy.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore this one man, who was virtually dead, fathered descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the grains of the sand on the seashore.


book: Heb
contenido:
All these people kept on trusting until they died, without receiving what had been promised. They had only seen it and welcomed it from a distance, while acknowledging that they were aliens and temporary residents on the earth.


book: Heb
contenido:
but as it is, they aspire to a better fatherland, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Avraham, when he was put to the test, offered up Yitz’chak as a sacrifice. Yes, he offered up his only son, he who had received the promises,


book: Heb
contenido:
For he had concluded that God could even raise people from the dead! And, figuratively speaking, he did so receive him.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Ya‘akov, when he was dying, blessed each of Yosef’s sons, leaning on his walking-stick as he bowed in prayer.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Yosef, near the end of his life, remembered about the Exodus of the people of Isra’el and gave instructions about what to do with his bones.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, the parents of Moshe hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they weren’t afraid of the king’s decree.


book: Heb
contenido:
He chose being mistreated along with God’s people rather than enjoying the passing pleasures of sin.


book: Heb
contenido:
He had come to regard abuse suffered on behalf of the Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes fixed on the reward.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, he obeyed the requirements for the Pesach, including the smearing of the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Isra’el.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, they walked through the Red Sea as through dry land; when the Egyptians tried to do it, the sea swallowed them up.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, the walls of Yericho fell down — after the people had marched around them for seven days.


book: Heb
contenido:
By trusting, Rachav the prostitute welcomed the spies and therefore did not die along with those who were disobedient.


book: Heb
contenido:
What more should I say? There isn’t time to tell about Gid‘on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Sh’mu’el and the prophets;


book: Heb
contenido:
who, through trusting, conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, received what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,


book: Heb
contenido:
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, had their weakness turned to strength, grew mighty in battle and routed foreign armies.


book: Heb
contenido:
Women received back their dead resurrected; other people were stretched on the rack and beaten to death, refusing to be ransomed, so that they would gain a better resurrection.


book: Heb
contenido:
They were stoned, sawed in two, murdered by the sword; they went about clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, mistreated,


book: Heb
contenido:
wandering about in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground! The world was not worthy of them!


book: Heb
contenido:
All of these had their merit attested because of their trusting. Nevertheless, they did not receive what had been promised,


book: Heb
contenido:
because God had planned something better that would involve us, so that only with us would they be brought to the goal.


book: Heb
contenido:
So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement — and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us,


book: Heb
contenido:
looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.


book: Heb
contenido:
Yes, think about him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you won’t grow tired or become despondent.


book: Heb
contenido:
Also you have forgotten the counsel which speaks with you as sons: “My son, don’t despise the discipline of Adonai or become despondent when he corrects you.


book: Heb
contenido:
Regard your endurance as discipline; God is dealing with you as sons. For what son goes undisciplined by his father?


book: Heb
contenido:
Furthermore, we had physical fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them; how much more should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!


book: Heb
contenido:
For they disciplined us only for a short time and only as best they could; but he disciplines us in a way that provides genuine benefit to us and enables us to share in his holiness.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now, all discipline, while it is happening, does indeed seem painful, not enjoyable; but for those who have been trained by it, it later produces its peaceful fruit, which is righteousness.


book: Heb
contenido:
and make a level path for your feet; so that what has been injured will not get wrenched out of joint but rather will be healed.


book: Heb
contenido:
See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many,


book: Heb
contenido:
and that no one is sexually immoral, or godless like Esav, who in exchange for a single meal gave up his rights as the firstborn.


book: Heb
contenido:
For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to obtain his father’s blessing, he was rejected; indeed, even though he sought it with tears, his change of heart was to no avail.


book: Heb
contenido:
For you have not come to a tangible mountain, to an ignited fire, to darkness, to murk, to a whirlwind,


book: Heb
contenido:
to the sound of a shofar, and to a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further message be given to them —


book: Heb
contenido:
for they couldn’t bear what was being commanded them, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death”;


book: Heb
contenido:
On the contrary, you have come to Mount Tziyon, that is, the city of the living God, heavenly Yerushalayim; to myriads of angels in festive assembly;


book: Heb
contenido:
to a community of the firstborn whose names have been recorded in heaven; to a Judge who is God of everyone; to spirits of righteous people who have been brought to the goal;


book: Heb
contenido:
to the mediator of a new covenant, Yeshua; and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better things than that of Hevel.


book: Heb
contenido:
See that you don’t reject the One speaking! For if those did not escape who rejected him when he gave divine warning on earth, think how much less we will escape if we turn away from him when he warns from heaven.


book: Heb
contenido:
Even then, his voice shook the earth; but now, he has made this promise: “One more time I will shake not only the earth, but heaven too!”


book: Heb
contenido:
And this phrase, “one more time,” makes clear that the things shaken are removed, since they are created things, so that the things not shaken may remain.


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, since we have received an unshakeable Kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may offer service that will please God, with reverence and fear.


book: Heb
contenido:
but don’t forget to be friendly to outsiders; for in so doing, some people, without knowing it, have entertained angels.


book: Heb
contenido:
Remember those in prison and being mistreated, as if you were in prison with them and undergoing their torture yourselves.


book: Heb
contenido:
Marriage is honorable in every respect; and, in particular, sex within marriage is pure. But God will indeed punish fornicators and adulterers.


book: Heb
contenido:
Keep your lives free from the love of money; and be satisfied with what you have; for God himself has said, “I will never fail you or abandon you.”


book: Heb
contenido:
Therefore, we say with confidence, “Adonai is my helper; I will not be afraid — what can a human being do to me?”


book: Heb
contenido:
Remember your leaders, those who spoke God’s message to you. Reflect on the results of their way of life, and imitate their trust —


book: Heb
contenido:
Do not be carried away by various strange teachings; for what is good is for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods. People who have made these the focus of their lives have not benefited thereby.


book: Heb
contenido:
For the cohen hagadol brings the blood of animals into the Holiest Place as a sin offering, but their bodies are burned outside the camp.


book: Heb
contenido:
So too Yeshua suffered death outside the gate, in order to make the people holy through his own blood.


book: Heb
contenido:
Through him, therefore, let us offer God a sacrifice of praise continually. For this is the natural product of lips that acknowledge his name.


book: Heb
contenido:
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your lives, as people who will have to render an account. So make it a task of joy for them, not one of groaning; for that is of no advantage to you.


book: Heb
contenido:
Keep praying for us, for we are certain that we have a clear conscience and want to conduct ourselves properly in everything we do.


book: Heb
contenido:
The God of shalom brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Yeshua, by the blood of an eternal covenant.


book: Heb
contenido:
May that God equip you with every good thing you need to do his will; and may he do in us whatever pleases him, through Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.


book: Heb
contenido:
Now I urge you, brothers, to bear with my message of exhortation; for I have written you only briefly.


book: Heb
contenido:
Know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon enough, I will bring him with me when I come to see you.


book: Jas
contenido:
From: Ya‘akov, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah To: The Twelve Tribes in the Diaspora: Shalom!


book: Jas
contenido:
But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.


book: Jas
contenido:
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach; and it will be given to him.


book: Jas
contenido:
But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind.


book: Jas
contenido:
But let the rich brother boast about his being humbled; since, like a wildflower, he will pass away.


book: Jas
contenido:
For just as the sun rises with the sharav and dries up the plant, so that its flower falls off and its beauty is destroyed, so too the rich person going about his business will wither away.


book: Jas
contenido:
How blessed is the man who perseveres through temptation! For after he has passed the test, he will receive as his crown the Life which God has promised to those who love him.


book: Jas
contenido:
No one being tempted should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and God himself tempts no one.


book: Jas
contenido:
Rather, each person is being tempted whenever he is being dragged off and enticed by the bait of his own desire.


book: Jas
contenido:
Then, having conceived, the desire gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.


book: Jas
contenido:
Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father who made the heavenly lights; with him there is neither variation nor darkness caused by turning.


book: Jas
contenido:
Having made his decision, he gave birth to us through a Word that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits of all that he created.


book: Jas
contenido:
Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry;


book: Jas
contenido:
So rid yourselves of all vulgarity and obvious evil, and receive meekly the Word implanted in you that can save your lives.


book: Jas
contenido:
For whoever hears the Word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,


book: Jas
contenido:
But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does.


book: Jas
contenido:
Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing.


book: Jas
contenido:
The religious observance that God the Father considers pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world.


book: Jas
contenido:
My brothers, practice the faith of our Lord Yeshua, the glorious Messiah, without showing favoritism.


book: Jas
contenido:
Suppose a man comes into your synagogue wearing gold rings and fancy clothes, and also a poor man comes in dressed in rags.


book: Jas
contenido:
If you show more respect to the man wearing the fancy clothes and say to him, “Have this good seat here,” while to the poor man you say, “You, stand over there,” or, “Sit down on the floor by my feet,”


book: Jas
contenido:
then aren’t you creating distinctions among yourselves, and haven’t you made yourselves into judges with evil motives?


book: Jas
contenido:
Listen, my dear brothers, hasn’t God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to receive the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?


book: Jas
contenido:
If you truly attain the goal of Kingdom Torah, in conformity with the passage that says, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.


book: Jas
contenido:
But if you show favoritism, your actions constitute sin, since you are convicted under the Torah as transgressors.


book: Jas
contenido:
For a person who keeps the whole Torah, yet stumbles at one point, has become guilty of breaking them all.


book: Jas
contenido:
For the One who said, “Don’t commit adultery,” also said, “Don’t murder.” Now, if you don’t commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the Torah.


book: Jas
contenido:
For judgment will be without mercy toward one who doesn’t show mercy; but mercy wins out over judgment.


book: Jas
contenido:
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is such “faith” able to save him?


book: Jas
contenido:
and someone says to him, “Shalom! Keep warm and eat hearty!” without giving him what he needs, what good does it do?


book: Jas
contenido:
But someone will say that you have faith and I have actions. Show me this faith of yours without the actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions!


book: Jas
contenido:
You believe that “God is one”? Good for you! The demons believe it too — the thought makes them shudder with fear!


book: Jas
contenido:
Wasn’t Avraham avinu declared righteous because of actions when he offered up his son Yitz’chak on the altar?


book: Jas
contenido:
and the passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled which says, “Avraham had faith in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.” He was even called God’s friend.


book: Jas
contenido:
Likewise, wasn’t Rachav the prostitute also declared righteous because of actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route?


book: Jas
contenido:
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, since you know that we will be judged more severely.


book: Jas
contenido:
For we all stumble in many ways; if someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who can bridle his whole body.


book: Jas
contenido:
And think of a ship — although it is huge and is driven by strong winds, yet the pilot can steer it wherever he wants with just a small rudder.


book: Jas
contenido:
So too the tongue is a tiny part of the body, yet it boasts great things. See how a little fire sets a whole forest ablaze!


book: Jas
contenido:
Yes, the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue is so placed in our body that it defiles every part of it, setting ablaze the whole of our life; and it is set on fire by Gei-Hinnom itself.


book: Jas
contenido:
With it we bless Adonai, the Father; and with it we curse people, who were made in the image of God.


book: Jas
contenido:
Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing! Brothers, it isn’t right for things to be this way.


book: Jas
contenido:
Can a fig tree yield olives, my brothers? or a grapevine, figs? Neither does salt water produce fresh.


book: Jas
contenido:
Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him demonstrate it by his good way of life, by actions done in the humility that grows out of wisdom.


book: Jas
contenido:
But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, don’t boast and attack the truth with lies!


book: Jas
contenido:
This wisdom is not the kind that comes down from above; on the contrary, it is worldly, unspiritual, demonic.


book: Jas
contenido:
For where there are jealousy and selfish ambition, there will be disharmony and every foul practice.


book: Jas
contenido:
But the wisdom from above is, first of all, pure, then peaceful, kind, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.


book: Jas
contenido:
You desire things and don’t have them. You kill, and you are jealous, and you still can’t get them. So you fight and quarrel. The reason you don’t have is that you don’t pray!


book: Jas
contenido:
Or you pray and don’t receive, because you pray with the wrong motive, that of wanting to indulge your own desires.


book: Jas
contenido:
You unfaithful wives! Don’t you know that loving the world is hating God? Whoever chooses to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy!


book: Jas
contenido:
Or do you suppose the Scripture speaks in vain when it says that there is a spirit in us which longs to envy?


book: Jas
contenido:
But the grace he gives is greater, which is why it says, “God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.”


book: Jas
contenido:
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded people!


book: Jas
contenido:
Brothers, stop speaking against each other! Whoever speaks against a brother or judges a brother is speaking against Torah and judging Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of what Torah says, but a judge.


book: Jas
contenido:
There is but one Giver of Torah; he is also the Judge, with the power to deliver and to destroy. Who do you think you are, judging your fellow human being?


book: Jas
contenido:
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a city, stay there a year trading and make a profit”!


book: Jas
contenido:
You don’t even know if you will be alive tomorrow! For all you are is a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.


book: Jas
contenido:
your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat up your flesh like fire! This is the acharit-hayamim, and you have been storing up wealth!


book: Jas
contenido:
Listen! The wages you have fraudulently withheld from the workers who mowed your fields are calling out against you, and the outcries of those who harvested have reached the ears of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Jas
contenido:
You have led a life of luxury and self-indulgence here on earth — in a time of slaughter, you have gone on eating to your heart’s content.


book: Jas
contenido:
So, brothers, be patient until the Lord returns. See how the farmer waits for the precious “fruit of the earth” — he is patient over it until it receives the fall and spring rains.


book: Jas
contenido:
Don’t grumble against one another, brothers, so that you won’t come under condemnation — look! the Judge is standing at the door!


book: Jas
contenido:
As an example of suffering mistreatment and being patient, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of Adonai.


book: Jas
contenido:
Look, we regard those who persevered as blessed. You have heard of the perseverance of Iyov, and you know what the purpose of Adonai was, that Adonai is very compassionate and merciful.


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Above all, brothers, stop swearing oaths — not “By heaven,” not “By the earth,” and not by any other formula; rather, let your “Yes” be simply “Yes” and your “No” simply “No,” so that you won’t fall under condemnation.


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Is someone among you in trouble? He should pray. Is someone feeling good? He should sing songs of praise.


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Is someone among you ill? He should call for the elders of the congregation. They will pray for him and rub olive oil on him in the name of the Lord.


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The prayer offered with trust will heal the one who is ill — the Lord will restore his health; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.


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Therefore, openly acknowledge your sins to one another, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.


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Eliyahu was only a human being like us; yet he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and no rain fell on the Land for three years and six months.


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you should know that whoever turns a sinner from his wandering path will save him from death and cover many sins.


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From: Kefa, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah To: God’s chosen people, living as aliens in the Diaspora — in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bythinia —


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chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obeying Yeshua the Messiah and for sprinkling with his blood: Grace and shalom be yours in full measure.


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Praised be God, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who, in keeping with his great mercy, has caused us, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead, to be born again to a living hope,


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Meanwhile, through trusting, you are being protected by God’s power for a deliverance ready to be revealed at the Last Time.


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Even gold is tested for genuineness by fire. The purpose of these trials is so that your trust’s genuineness, which is far more valuable than perishable gold, will be judged worthy of praise, glory and honor at the revealing of Yeshua the Messiah.


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Without having seen him, you love him. Without seeing him now, but trusting in him, you continue to be full of joy that is glorious beyond words.


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The prophets, who prophesied about this gift of deliverance that was meant for you, pondered and inquired diligently about it.


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They were trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of the Messiah in them was referring in predicting the Messiah’s sufferings and the glorious things to follow.


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It was revealed to them that their service when they spoke about these things was not for their own benefit, but for yours. And these same things have now been proclaimed to you by those who communicated the Good News to you through the Ruach HaKodesh sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things!


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Therefore, get your minds ready for work, keep yourselves under control, and fix your hopes fully on the gift you will receive when Yeshua the Messiah is revealed.


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As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant.


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On the contrary, following the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in your entire way of life;


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Also, if you are addressing as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s actions, you should live out your temporary stay on earth in fear.


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You should be aware that the ransom paid to free you from the worthless way of life which your fathers passed on to you did not consist of anything perishable like silver or gold;


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on the contrary, it was the costly bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah, as of a lamb without defect or spot.


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God knew him before the founding of the universe, but revealed him in the acharit-hayamim for your sakes.


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Through him you trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your trust and hope are in God.


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Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have a sincere love for your brothers, love each other deeply, with all your heart.


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You have been born again not from some seed that will decay, but from one that cannot decay, through the living Word of God that lasts forever.


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For all humanity is like grass, all its glory is like a wildflower — the grass withers, and the flower falls off;


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but the Word of Adonai lasts forever. Moreover, this Word is the Good News which has been proclaimed to you.


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Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, of all deceit, hypocrisy and envy, and of all the ways there are of speaking against people;


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and be like newborn babies, thirsty for the pure milk of the Word; so that by it, you may grow up into deliverance.


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you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah.


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This is why the Tanakh says, “Look! I am laying in Tziyon a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and whoever rests his trust on it will certainly not be humiliated.”


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Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting, “The very stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”;


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also he is a stone that will make people stumble, a rock over which they will trip. They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it — as had been planned.


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But you are a chosen people, the King’s cohanim, a holy nation, a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.


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Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; before, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.


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Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you;


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but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.


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For the sake of the Lord, submit yourselves to every human authority — whether to the emperor as being supreme,


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Submit as people who are free, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God’s slaves.


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Household servants, submit yourselves to your masters, showing them full respect — and not only those who are kind and considerate, but also those who are harsh.


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For it is a grace when someone, because he is mindful of God, bears up under the pain of undeserved punishment.


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For what credit is there in bearing up under a beating you deserve for doing something wrong? But if you bear up under punishment, even though you have done what is right, God looks on it with favor.


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Indeed, this is what you were called to; because the Messiah too suffered, on your behalf, leaving an example so that you should follow in his steps.


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When he was insulted, he didn’t retaliate with insults; when he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but handed them over to him who judges justly.


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He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed.


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For you used to be like sheep gone astray, but now you have turned to the Shepherd, who watches over you.


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In the same way, wives, submit to your husbands; so that even if some of them do not believe the Word, they will be won over by your conduct, without your saying anything,


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Your beauty should not consist in externals such as fancy hairstyles, gold jewelry or what you wear;


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rather, let it be the inner character of your heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit. In God’s sight this is of great value.


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This is how the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves and submit to their husbands,


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the way Sarah obeyed Avraham, honoring him as her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not succumb to fear.


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You husbands, likewise, conduct your married lives with understanding. Although your wife may be weaker physically, you should respect her as a fellow-heir of the gift of Life. If you don’t, your prayers will be blocked.


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Finally, all of you, be one in mind and feeling; love as brothers; and be compassionate and humble-minded,


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not repaying evil with evil or insult with insult, but, on the contrary, with blessing. For it is to this that you have been called, so that you may receive a blessing.


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For “Whoever wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,


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For Adonai keeps his eyes on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers; but the face of Adonai is against those who do evil things.”


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But even if you do suffer for being righteous, you are blessed! Moreover, don’t fear what they fear or be disturbed,


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but treat the Messiah as holy, as Lord in your hearts; while remaining always ready to give a reasoned answer to anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you — yet with humility and fear,


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keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are spoken against, those who abuse the good behavior flowing from your union with the Messiah may be put to shame.


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For if God has in fact willed that you should suffer, it is better that you suffer for doing what is good than for doing what is evil.


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For the Messiah himself died for sins, once and for all, a righteous person on behalf of unrighteous people, so that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but brought to life by the Spirit;


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to those who were disobedient long ago, in the days of Noach, when God waited patiently during the building of the ark, in which a few people — to be specific, eight — were delivered by means of water.


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This also prefigures what delivers us now, the water of immersion, which is not the removal of dirt from the body, but one’s pledge to keep a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah.


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He has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities and powers subject to him.


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Therefore, since the Messiah suffered physically, you too are to arm yourselves with the same attitude. For whoever has suffered physically is finished with sin,


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with the result that he lives the rest of his earthly life no longer controlled by human desires, but by God’s will.


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For you have spent enough time already living the way the pagans want you to live — in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties and forbidden idol-worship.


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They think it strange that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of dissoluteness, and so they heap insults on you.


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This is why he was proclaimed to those who have died; it was so that, although physically they would receive the judgment common to all humanity, they might live by the Spirit in the way that God has provided.


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The accomplishing of the goal of all things is close at hand. Therefore, keep alert and self-controlled, so that you can pray.


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As each one has received some spiritual gift, he should use it to serve others, like good managers of God’s many-sided grace —


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if someone speaks, let him speak God’s words; if someone serves, let him do so out of strength that God supplies; so that in everything God may be glorified through Yeshua the Messiah — to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.


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Dear friends, don’t regard as strange the fiery ordeal occurring among you to test you, as if something extraordinary were happening to you.


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Rather, to the extent that you share the fellowship of the Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice; so that you will rejoice even more when his Sh’khinah is revealed.


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If you are being insulted because you bear the name of the Messiah, how blessed you are! For the Spirit of the Sh’khinah, that is, the Spirit of God, is resting on you!


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Let none of you suffer for being a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or a meddler in other people’s affairs.


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But if anyone suffers for being Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears this name.


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For the time has come for the judgment to begin. It begins with the household of God; and if it starts with us, what will the outcome be for those who are disobeying God’s Good News? —


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So let those who are suffering according to God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator by continuing to do what is good.


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Therefore, I urge the congregation leaders among you, as a fellow-leader and witness to the Messiah’s sufferings, as well as a sharer in the glory to be revealed:


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shepherd the flock of God that is in your care, exercising oversight not out of constraint, but willingly, as God wants; and not out of a desire for dishonest gain, but with enthusiasm;


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also not as machers domineering over those in your care, but as people who become examples to the flock.


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Likewise, you who are less experienced, submit to leaders. Further, all of you should clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, because God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.


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Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the right time he may lift you up.


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Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.


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Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering.


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You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm.


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Through Sila, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written you briefly, encouraging you and giving my witness that this is God’s true grace. Stand firm in it!


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Your sister congregation in Bavel, chosen along with you, sends greetings to you, as does my son Mark.


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From: Shim‘on Kefa, a slave and emissary of Yeshua the Messiah To: Those who, through the righteousness of our God and of our Deliverer Yeshua the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours:


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May grace and shalom be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of God and Yeshua our Lord.


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God’s power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness.


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By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world.


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For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,


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For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


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Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.


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Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.


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Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.


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For this reason, I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you already have.


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And I consider it right to keep stirring you up with reminders, as long as I am in the tent of this body.


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I know that I will soon lay aside this tent of mine, as our Lord Yeshua the Messiah has made clear to me.


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And I will do my best to see that after my exodus, you will be able to remember these things at all times.


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For when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, we did not rely on cunningly contrived myths. On the contrary, we saw his majesty with our own eyes.


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For we were there when he received honor and glory from God the Father; and the voice came to him from the grandeur of the Sh’khinah, saying, “This is my son, whom I love; I am well pleased with him!”


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Yes, we have the prophetic Word made very certain. You will do well to pay attention to it as to a light shining in a dark, murky place, until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.


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First of all, understand this: no prophecy of Scripture is to be interpreted by an individual on his own;


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for never has a prophecy come as a result of human willing — on the contrary, people moved by the Ruach HaKodesh spoke a message from God.


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But among the people there were also false prophets, just as there will be false teachers among you. Under false pretenses they will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and thus bring on themselves swift destruction.


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In their greed they will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their punishment, decreed long ago, is not idle; their destruction is not asleep!


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For God did not spare the angels who sinned; on the contrary, he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than Sh’ol to be held for judgment.


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And he did not spare the ancient world; on the contrary, he preserved Noach, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, and brought the Flood upon a world of ungodly people.


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And he condemned the cities of S’dom and ‘Amora, reducing them to ashes and ruin, as a warning to those in the future who would live ungodly lives;


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but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people;


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for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.


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So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them,


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especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;


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whereas angels, though stronger and more powerful, do not bring before the Lord an insulting charge against them.


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But these people, acting without thinking, like animals without reason, born to be captured and destroyed, insult things about which they have no knowledge. When they are destroyed, their destruction will be total —


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they will be paid back harm as wages for the harm they are doing. Their idea of pleasure is carousing in broad daylight; they are spots and defects reveling in their deceptions as they share meals with you —


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for they have eyes always on the lookout for a woman who will commit adultery, eyes that never stop sinning; and they have a heart that has exercised itself in greed; so that they seduce unstable people. What a cursed brood!


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These people have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Bil‘am Ben-B‘or, who loved the wages of doing harm


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but was rebuked for his sin — a dumb beast of burden spoke out with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s insanity!


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Waterless springs they are, mists driven by a gust of wind; for them has been reserved the blackest darkness.


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Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.


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They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him.


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Indeed, if they have once escaped the pollutions of the world through knowing our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah, and then have again become entangled and defeated by them, their latter condition has become worse than their former.


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It would have been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness than, fully knowing, to turn from the holy command delivered to them.


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What has happened to them accords with the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit.” Yes, “The pig washed itself, only to wallow in the mud!”


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Dear friends, I am writing you now this second letter; and in both letters I am trying to arouse you to wholesome thinking by means of reminders;


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so that you will keep in mind the predictions of the holy prophets and the command given by the Lord and Deliverer through your emissaries.


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and asking, “Where is this promised ‘coming’ of his? For our fathers have died, and everything goes on just as it has since the beginning of creation.”


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But, wanting so much to be right about this, they overlook the fact that it was by God’s Word that long ago there were heavens, and there was land which arose out of water and existed between the waters,


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It is by that same Word that the present heavens and earth, having been preserved, are being kept for fire until the Day of Judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.


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Moreover, dear friends, do not ignore this: with the Lord, one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day


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The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins.


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However, the Day of the Lord will come “like a thief.” On that Day the heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will melt and disintegrate, and the earth and everything in it will be burned up.


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Since everything is going to be destroyed like this, what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives,


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as you wait for the Day of God and work to hasten its coming. That Day will bring on the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt from the heat;


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but we, following along with his promise, wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness will be at home.


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Therefore, dear friends, as you look for these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect and at peace.


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And think of our Lord’s patience as deliverance, just as our dear brother Sha’ul also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him.


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Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.


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But you, dear friends, since you know this in advance, guard yourselves; so that you will not be led away by the errors of the wicked and fall from your own secure position.


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And keep growing in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory, both now and forever! Amen.


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The Word, which gives life! He existed from the beginning. We have heard him, we have seen him with our eyes, we have contemplated him, we have touched him with our hands!


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The life appeared, and we have seen it. We are testifying to it and announcing it to you — eternal life! He was with the Father, and he appeared to us.


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What we have seen and heard, we are proclaiming to you; so that you too may have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah.


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And this is the message which we have heard from him and proclaim to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him — none!


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If we claim to have fellowship with him while we are walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living out the truth.


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But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.


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If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.


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If we claim we have not been sinning, we are making him out to be a liar, and his Word is not in us.


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My children, I am writing you these things so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we have Yeshua the Messiah, the Tzaddik, who pleads our cause with the Father.


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Also, he is the kapparah for our sins — and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.


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But if someone keeps doing what he says, then truly love for God has been brought to its goal in him. This is how we are sure that we are united with him.


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Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command. On the contrary, it is an old command, which you have had from the beginning; the old command is the message which you have heard before.


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Yet I am writing you a new command, and its reality is seen both in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.


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The person who keeps loving his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him that could make him trip.


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But the person who hates his brother is in the dark — yes, he is walking in the dark, and he doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.


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You fathers, I am writing you because you have known him who has existed from the beginning. You young people, I am writing you because you have overcome the Evil One.


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You children, I have written you because you have known the Father. You fathers, I have written you because you have known him who has existed from the beginning. You young people, I have written you because you are strong — the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.


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Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him;


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because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.


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Children, this is the Last Hour. You have heard that an Anti-Messiah is coming; and in fact, many anti-Messiahs have arisen now — which is how we know that this is the Last Hour.


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contenido:
They went out from us, but they weren’t part of us; for had they been part of us, they would have remained with us.


book: 1John
contenido:
It is not because you don’t know the truth that I have written to you, but because you do know it, and because no lie has its origin in the truth.


book: 1John
contenido:
Who is a liar at all, if not the person who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? Such a person is an anti-Messiah — he is denying the Father and the Son.


book: 1John
contenido:
Everyone who denies the Son is also without the Father, but the person who acknowledges the Son has the Father as well.


book: 1John
contenido:
Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you will also remain in union with both the Son and the Father.


book: 1John
contenido:
As for you, the Messianic anointing you received from the Father remains in you, so that you have no need for anyone to teach you. On the contrary, as his Messianic anointing continues to teach you about all things, and is true, not a counterfeit, so, just as he taught you, remain united with him.


book: 1John
contenido:
And now, children, remain united with him; so that when he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink back from him in shame at his coming.


book: 1John
contenido:
If you know that he is righteous, you should also know that he is the Father of everyone who does what is right.


book: 1John
contenido:
See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God’s children! For that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it has not known him.


book: 1John
contenido:
Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when he appears, we will be like him; because we will see him as he really is.


book: 1John
contenido:
So no one who remains united with him continues sinning; everyone who does continue sinning has neither seen him nor known him.


book: 1John
contenido:
Children, don’t let anyone deceive you — it is the person that keeps on doing what is right who is righteous, just as God is righteous.


book: 1John
contenido:
The person who keeps on sinning is from the Adversary, because from the very beginning the Adversary has kept on sinning. It was for this very reason that the Son of God appeared, to destroy these doings of the Adversary.


book: 1John
contenido:
No one who has God as his Father keeps on sinning, because the seed planted by God remains in him. That is, he cannot continue sinning, because he has God as his Father.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how one can distinguish clearly between God’s children and those of the Adversary: everyone who does not continue doing what is right is not from God. Likewise, anyone who fails to keep loving his brother is not from God.


book: 1John
contenido:
and not be like Kayin, who was from the Evil One and murdered his own brother. Why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.


book: 1John
contenido:
We, for our part, know that we have passed from death to life because we keep loving the brothers. The person who fails to keep on loving is still under the power of death.


book: 1John
contenido:
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.


book: 1John
contenido:
The way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers!


book: 1John
contenido:
If someone has worldly possessions and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving God?


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how we will know that we are from the truth and will set our hearts at rest in his presence:


book: 1John
contenido:
then, whatever we ask for, we receive from him; because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.


book: 1John
contenido:
This is his command: that we are to trust in the person and power of his Son Yeshua the Messiah and to keep loving one another, just as he commanded us.


book: 1John
contenido:
Those who obey his commands remain united with him and he with them. Here is how we know that he remains united with us: by the Spirit whom he gave us.


book: 1John
contenido:
Dear friends, don’t trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua the Messiah came as a human being is from God,


book: 1John
contenido:
and every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God — in fact, this is the spirit of the Anti-Messiah. You have heard that he is coming. Well, he’s here now, in the world already!


book: 1John
contenido:
You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.


book: 1John
contenido:
They are from the world; therefore, they speak from the world’s viewpoint; and the world listens to them.


book: 1John
contenido:
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God doesn’t listen to us. This is how we distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.


book: 1John
contenido:
Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.


book: 1John
contenido:
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains united with us, and our love for him has been brought to its goal in us.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how we know that we remain united with him and he with us: he has given to us from his own Spirit.


book: 1John
contenido:
If someone acknowledges that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains united with him, and he with God.


book: 1John
contenido:
Also we have come to know and trust the love that God has for us. God is love; and those who remain in this love remain united with God, and God remains united with them.


book: 1John
contenido:
Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.


book: 1John
contenido:
There is no fear in love. On the contrary, love that has achieved its goal gets rid of fear, because fear has to do with punishment; the person who keeps fearing has not been brought to maturity in regard to love.


book: 1John
contenido:
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if a person does not love his brother, whom he has seen, then he cannot love God, whom he has not seen.


book: 1John
contenido:
Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.


book: 1John
contenido:
because everything which has God as its Father overcomes the world. And this is what victoriously overcomes the world: our trust.


book: 1John
contenido:
He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah — not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.


book: 1John
contenido:
If we accept human witness, God’s witness is stronger, because it is the witness which God has given about his Son.


book: 1John
contenido:
Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son.


book: 1John
contenido:
I have written you these things so that you may know that you have eternal life — you who keep trusting in the person and power of the Son of God.


book: 1John
contenido:
This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us.


book: 1John
contenido:
And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — then we know that we have what we have asked from him.


book: 1John
contenido:
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask; and God will give him life for those whose sinning does not lead to death. There is sin that does lead to death; I am not saying he should pray about that.


book: 1John
contenido:
We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.


book: 1John
contenido:
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment, so that we may know who is genuine; moreover, we are united with the One who is genuine, united with his Son Yeshua the Messiah. He is the genuine God and eternal life.


book: 2John
contenido:
From: The Elder To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth — and not only I but also all who have come to know the truth —


book: 2John
contenido:
Grace, mercy and shalom will be with us from God the Father and from Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


book: 2John
contenido:
I was very happy when I found some of your children living in truth, just as the Father commanded us.


book: 2John
contenido:
And now, dear lady, I am requesting that we love one another — not as if this were a new command I am writing you, for it is the one which we have had from the beginning.


book: 2John
contenido:
Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!


book: 2John
contenido:
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah’s coming as a human being. Such a person is a deceiver and an anti-Messiah.


book: 2John
contenido:
Watch yourselves, so that you won’t lose what you have worked for, but will receive your full reward.


book: 2John
contenido:
Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.


book: 2John
contenido:
If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;


book: 2John
contenido:
Although I have much to write you people, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and see you and to talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.


book: 3John
contenido:
Dear friend, I am praying that everything prosper with you and that you be in good health, as I know you are prospering spiritually.


book: 3John
contenido:
For I was so happy when some brothers came and testified how faithful you are to the truth, as you continue living in the truth.


book: 3John
contenido:
Dear friend, you are faithful in all the work you are doing for the brothers, even when they are strangers to you.


book: 3John
contenido:
They have testified to your love in front of the congregation. You will be doing well if you send them on their way in a manner worthy of God,


book: 3John
contenido:
It is we, therefore, who should support such people; so that we may share in their work for the truth.


book: 3John
contenido:
I wrote something to the congregation; but Diotrephes, who likes to be the macher among them, doesn’t recognize our authority.


book: 3John
contenido:
So if I come, I will bring up everything he is doing, including his spiteful and groundless gossip about us. And as if that weren’t enough for him, he refuses to recognize the brothers’ authority either; moreover, he stops those who want to do so and tries to drive them out of the congregation!


book: 3John
contenido:
Dear friend, don’t imitate the bad, but the good. Those who do what is good are from God; those who do what is bad are not from God.


book: 3John
contenido:
Everyone speaks well of Demetrius, and so does the truth itself. We vouch for him, and you know that our testimony is true.


book: 3John
contenido:
however, I am hoping to see you very soon, and we will speak face to face. Shalom to you. Your friends send you their greetings. Greet each of our friends by name.


book: Jude
contenido:
From: Y’hudah, a slave of Yeshua the Messiah and a brother of Ya‘akov To: Those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept for Yeshua the Messiah:


book: Jude
contenido:
Dear friends, I was busily at work writing to you about the salvation we share, when I found it necessary to write, urging you to keep contending earnestly for the faith which was once and for all passed on to God’s people.


book: Jude
contenido:
For certain individuals, the ones written about long ago as being meant for this condemnation, have wormed their way in — ungodly people who pervert God’s grace into a license for debauchery and disown our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.


book: Jude
contenido:
Since you already know all this, my purpose is only to remind you that Adonai, who once delivered the people from Egypt, later destroyed those who did not trust.


book: Jude
contenido:
And the angels that did not keep within their original authority, but abandoned their proper sphere, he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for the Judgment of the Great Day.


book: Jude
contenido:
And S’dom, ‘Amora and the surrounding cities, following a pattern like theirs, committing sexual sins and perversions, lie exposed as a warning of the everlasting fire awaiting those who must undergo punishment.


book: Jude
contenido:
Likewise, these people, with their visions, defile their own flesh, despise godly authority and insult angelic beings.


book: Jude
contenido:
When Mikha’el, one of the ruling angels, took issue with the Adversary, arguing over the body of Moshe, he did not dare bring against him an insulting charge, but said, “May Adonai rebuke you.”


book: Jude
contenido:
However, these people insult anything they don’t understand; and what they do understand naturally, without thinking, like animals — by these things they are destroyed!


book: Jude
contenido:
Woe to them, in that they have walked the road of Kayin, they have given themselves over for money to the error of Bil‘am, they have been destroyed in the rebellion of Korach.


book: Jude
contenido:
These men are filthy spots at your festive gatherings meant to foster love; they share your meals without a qualm, while caring only for themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; trees without fruit even in autumn, and doubly dead because they have been uprooted;


book: Jude
contenido:
savage sea-waves heaving forth their shameful deeds like foam; wandering stars for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.


book: Jude
contenido:
Moreover, Hanokh, in the seventh generation starting with Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, “Look! Adonai came with his myriads of holy ones


book: Jude
contenido:
to execute judgment against everyone, that is, to convict all the godless for their godless deeds which they have done in such a godless way, and for all the harsh words these godless sinners have spoken against him.”


book: Jude
contenido:
These people are grumblers and complainers, they follow their evil passions, their mouths speak grandiosities, and they flatter others to gain advantage.


book: Jude
contenido:
But you, dear friends, keep in mind the words spoken in advance by the emissaries of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


book: Jude
contenido:
They told you, “During the acharit-hayamim there will be scoffers following their own godless passions.”


book: Jude
contenido:
These are the people who cause divisions. They are controlled by their impulses, because they don’t have the Spirit.


book: Jude
contenido:
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith, and pray in union with the Ruach HaKodesh.


book: Jude
contenido:
Thus keep yourselves in God’s love, as you wait for our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to give you the mercy that leads to eternal life.


book: Jude
contenido:
save others, snatching them out of the fire; and to yet others, show mercy, but with fear, hating even the clothes stained by their vices.


book: Jude
contenido:
Now, to the one who can keep you from falling and set you without defect and full of joy in the presence of his Sh’khinah —


book: Jude
contenido:
to God alone, our Deliverer, through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord — be glory, majesty, power and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.


book: Rev
contenido:
This is the revelation which God gave to Yeshua the Messiah, so that he could show his servants what must happen very soon. He communicated it by sending his angel to his servant Yochanan,


book: Rev
contenido:
Blessed are the reader and hearers of the words of this prophecy, provided they obey the things written in it! For the time is near!


book: Rev
contenido:
From: Yochanan To: The seven Messianic communities in the province of Asia: Grace and shalom to you from the One who is, who was and who is coming; from the sevenfold Spirit before his throne;


book: Rev
contenido:
and from Yeshua the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the earth’s kings. To him, the one who loves us, who has freed us from our sins at the cost of his blood,


book: Rev
contenido:
who has caused us to be a kingdom, that is, cohanim for God, his Father — to him be the glory and the rulership forever and ever. Amen.


book: Rev
contenido:
Look! He is coming with the clouds! Every eye will see him, including those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the Land will mourn him. Yes! Amen!


book: Rev
contenido:
“I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’” says Adonai, God of heaven’s armies, the One who is, who was and who is coming.


book: Rev
contenido:
I, Yochanan, am a brother of yours and a fellow-sharer in the suffering, kingship and perseverance that come from being united with Yeshua. I had been exiled to the island called Patmos for having proclaimed the message of God and borne witness to Yeshua.


book: Rev
contenido:
I came to be, in the Spirit, on the Day of the Lord; and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet,


book: Rev
contenido:
saying, “Write down what you see on a scroll, and send it to the seven Messianic communities — Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea!”


book: Rev
contenido:
and among the menorahs was someone like a Son of Man, wearing a robe down to his feet and a gold band around his chest.


book: Rev
contenido:
In his right hand he held seven stars, out of his mouth went a sharp double-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.


book: Rev
contenido:
When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. He placed his right hand upon me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,


book: Rev
contenido:
the Living One. I was dead, but look! — I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys to Death and Sh’ol.


book: Rev
contenido:
Here is the secret meaning of the seven stars you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold menorahs: the seven stars are the angels of the seven Messianic communities, and the seven menorahs are the seven Messianic communities.


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Ephesus, write: ‘Here is the message from the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven gold menorahs:


book: Rev
contenido:
“I know what you have been doing, how hard you have worked, how you have persevered, and how you can’t stand wicked people; so you tested those who call themselves emissaries but aren’t — and you found them to be liars.


book: Rev
contenido:
Therefore, remember where you were before you fell, turn from this sin, and do what you used to do before. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place — if you don’t turn from your sin!


book: Rev
contenido:
Those who have ears, let them hear what the Spirit is saying to the Messianic communities. To him winning the victory I will give the right to eat from the Tree of Life which is in God’s Gan-‘Eden.”’


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Smyrna, write: ‘Here is the message from the First and the Last, who died and came alive again:


book: Rev
contenido:
“I know how you are suffering and how poor you are (though in fact you are rich!), and I know the insults of those who call themselves Jews but aren’t — on the contrary, they are a synagogue of the Adversary.


book: Rev
contenido:
Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Adversary is going to have some of you thrown in prison, in order to put you to the test; and you will face an ordeal for ten days. Remain faithful, even to the point of death; and I will give you life as your crown.


book: Rev
contenido:
Those who have ears, let them hear what the Spirit is saying to the Messianic communities. He who wins the victory will not be hurt at all by the second death.”’


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Pergamum, write: ‘Here is the message from the one who has the sharp double-edged sword:


book: Rev
contenido:
“I know where you are living, there where the Adversary’s throne is. Yet you are holding onto my name. You did not deny trusting me even at the time when my faithful witness Antipas was put to death in your town, there where the Adversary lives.


book: Rev
contenido:
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: you have some people who hold to the teaching of Bil‘am, who taught Balak to set a trap for the people of Isra’el, so that they would eat food that had been sacrificed to idols and commit sexual sin.


book: Rev
contenido:
Therefore, turn from these sins. Otherwise, I will come to you very soon and make war against them with the sword of my mouth.


book: Rev
contenido:
Those who have ears, let them hear what the Spirit is saying to the Messianic communities. To him winning the victory I will give some of the hidden man. I will also give him a white stone, on which is written a new name that nobody knows except the one receiving it.”’


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Thyatira, write: ‘Here is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like burnished brass:


book: Rev
contenido:
I know what you are doing, your love, trust, service and perseverance. And I know that you are doing more now than before.


book: Rev
contenido:
But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols.


book: Rev
contenido:
So I am throwing her into a sickbed; and those who commit adultery with her I am throwing into great trouble, unless they turn from the sins connected with what she does;


book: Rev
contenido:
and I will strike her children dead! Then all the Messianic communities will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and that I will give to each of you what your deeds deserve.


book: Rev
contenido:
But to the rest of you in Thyatira, to those who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some people call the ‘deep things’ of the Adversary, I say this: I am not loading you up with another burden;


book: Rev
contenido:
To him who wins the victory and does what I want until the goal is reached, I will give him authority over the nations;


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Sardis, write: ‘Here is the message from the one who has the sevenfold Spirit of God and the seven stars: “I know what you are doing — you have a reputation for being alive, but in fact you are dead!


book: Rev
contenido:
Wake up, and strengthen what remains, before it dies too! For I have found what you are doing incomplete in the sight of my God.


book: Rev
contenido:
So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and turn from your sin! For if you don’t wake up, I will come like a thief; and you don’t know at what moment I will come upon you.


book: Rev
contenido:
Nevertheless, you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes; and they will walk with me, clothed in white, because they are worthy.


book: Rev
contenido:
He who wins the victory will, like them, be dressed in white clothing; and I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life; in fact, I will acknowledge him individually before my Father and before his angels.


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Philadelphia, write: ‘Here is the message of HaKadosh, the True One, the one who has the key of David, who, if he opens something, no one else can shut it, and if he closes something, no one else can open it.


book: Rev
contenido:
“I know what you are doing. Look, I have put in front of you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have but little power, yet you have obeyed my message and have not disowned me.


book: Rev
contenido:
Here, I will give you some from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who call themselves Jews but aren’t — on the contrary, they are lying — see, I will cause them to come and prostrate themselves at your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.


book: Rev
contenido:
Because you did obey my message about persevering, I will keep you from the time of trial coming upon the whole world to put the people living on earth to the test.


book: Rev
contenido:
I will make him who wins the victory a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he will never leave it. Also I will write on him the name of my God and the name of my God’s city, the new Yerushalayim coming down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.


book: Rev
contenido:
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Laodicea, write: ‘Here is the message from the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the Ruler of God’s creation:


book: Rev
contenido:
“I know what you are doing: you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were either one or the other!


book: Rev
contenido:
For you keep saying, ‘I am rich, I have gotten rich, I don’t need a thing!’ You don’t know that you are the one who is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked!


book: Rev
contenido:
My advice to you is to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be dressed and not have to be ashamed of your nakedness; and eyesalve to rub on your eyes, so that you may see.


book: Rev
contenido:
Here, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If someone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat with me.


book: Rev
contenido:
I will let him who wins the victory sit with me on my throne, just as I myself also won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.


book: Rev
contenido:
After these things, I looked; and there before me was a door standing open in heaven; and the voice like a trumpet which I had heard speaking with me before said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”


book: Rev
contenido:
Instantly I was in the Spirit, and there before me in heaven stood a throne, and on the throne Someone was sitting.


book: Rev
contenido:
The One sitting there gleamed like diamonds and rubies, and a rainbow shining like emerald encircled the throne.


book: Rev
contenido:
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on the thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white clothing and wearing gold crowns on their heads.


book: Rev
contenido:
From the throne came forth lightnings, voices and thunderings; and before the throne were seven flaming torches, which are the sevenfold Spirit of God.


book: Rev
contenido:
In front of the throne was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living beings covered with eyes in front and behind.


book: Rev
contenido:
The first living being was like a lion, the second living being was like an ox, the third living being had a face that looked human, and the fourth living being was like a flying eagle.


book: Rev
contenido:
Each of the four living beings had six wings and was covered with eyes inside and out; and day and night they never stop saying, “Holy, holy, holy is Adonai, God of heaven’s armies the One who was, who is and who is coming!”


book: Rev
contenido:
And whenever the living beings give glory, honor and thanks to the One sitting on the throne, to the One who lives forever and ever,


book: Rev
contenido:
the twenty-four elders fall down before the One sitting on the throne, who lives forever and ever, and worship him. They throw their crowns in front of the throne and say,


book: Rev
contenido:
“You are worthy, Adonai Eloheinu, to have glory, honor and power, because you created all things — yes, because of your will they were created and came into being!”


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Next I saw in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals;


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and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”


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One of the elders said to me, “Don’t cry. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Y’hudah, the Root of David, has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals.”


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Then I saw standing there with the throne and the four living beings, in the circle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the sevenfold Spirit of God sent out into all the earth.


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When he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the Lamb. Each one held a harp and gold bowls filled with pieces of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people;


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and they sang a new song, “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals; because you were slaughtered; at the cost of blood you ransomed for God persons from every tribe, language, people and nation.


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You made them into a kingdom for God to rule, cohanim to serve him; and they will rule over the earth.”


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Then I looked, and I heard the sound of a vast number of angels — thousands and thousands, millions and millions! They were all around the throne, the living beings and the elders;


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and they shouted out, “Worthy is the slaughtered Lamb to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise!”


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And I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth and on the sea — yes, everything in them — saying, “To the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb belong praise, honor, glory and power forever and ever!”


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Next I watched as the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living beings say in a thundering voice, “Go!”


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I looked, and there in front of me was a white horse; its rider had a bow and was given a crown; and he rode off as a conqueror to conquer.


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Another horse went out, a red one; and its rider was given the power to take peace away from the earth and make people slaughter each other. He was given a great sword.


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When he broke the third seal, I heard the third living being say, “Go!” I looked, and there in front of me was a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.


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Then I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living beings say, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages! Six pounds of barley for the same price! But don’t damage the oil or the wine!”


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I looked, and there in front of me was a pallid, sickly-looking horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Sh’ol followed behind him. They were given authority to kill one-quarter of the world by war, by famine, by plagues and with the wild animals of the earth.


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When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for proclaiming the Word of God, that is, for bearing witness.


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They cried out in a loud voice, “Sovereign Ruler, HaKadosh, the True One, how long will it be before you judge the people living on earth and avenge our blood?”


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Each of them was given a white robe; and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow-servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed, just as they had been.


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Then I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in mourning, and the full moon became blood-red.


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The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.


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Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty — indeed, everyone, slave and free — hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains,


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and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the fury of the Lamb!


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After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the land, on the sea or on any tree.


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I saw another angel coming up from the east with a seal from the living God, and he shouted to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea,


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“Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads!”


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From the tribe of Y’hudah 12,000 were sealed from the tribe of Re’uven 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, 12,000


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After this, I looked; and there before me was a huge crowd, too large for anyone to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language. They were standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands;


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All the angels stood around the throne, the elders and the four living beings; they fell face down before the throne and worshipped God, saying,


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“Amen! “Praise and glory, wisdom and thanks, honor and power and strength belong to our God forever and ever! “Amen!”


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One of the elders asked me, “These people dressed in white robes — who are they, and where are they from?”


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“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” Then he told me, “These are the people who have come out of the Great Persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.


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That is why they are before God’s throne. “Day and night they serve him in his Temple; and the One who sits on the throne will put his Sh’khinah upon them.


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“They will never again be hungry, they will never again be thirsty, the sun will not beat down on them, nor will any burning heat.


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“For the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them, will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”


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When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for what seemed like half an hour.


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Another angel came and stood at the altar with a gold incense-bowl, and he was given a large quantity of incense to add to the prayers of all God’s people


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on the gold altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of God’s people from the hand of the angel before God.


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Then the angel took the incense-bowl, filled it with fire from the altar and threw it down onto the earth; and there followed peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.


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The first one sounded his shofar; and there came hail and fire mingled with blood, and it was thrown down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.


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The second angel sounded his shofar, and what looked like an enormous blazing mountain was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,


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The third angel sounded his shofar; and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky onto a third of the rivers and onto the springs of water.


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The name of the star was “Bitterness,” and a third of the water became bitter, and many people died from the water that had been turned bitter.


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The fourth angel sounded his shofar; and a third of the sun was struck, also a third of the moon and a third of the stars; so that a third of them were darkened, the day had a third less light, and the night likewise.


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Then I looked, and I heard a lone eagle give a loud cry, as it flew in mid-heaven, “Woe! Woe! Woe to the people living on earth, because of the remaining blasts from the three angels who have yet to sound their shofars!”


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The fifth angel sounded his shofar; and I saw a star that had fallen out of heaven onto the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss.


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He opened the shaft of the Abyss, and there went up smoke from the shaft like the smoke of a huge furnace; the sun was darkened, and the sky too, by the smoke from the shaft.


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Then out of the smoke onto the earth came locusts, and they were given power like the power scorpions have on earth.


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They were instructed not to harm the grass on the earth, any green plant or any tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.


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The locusts were not allowed to kill them, only to inflict pain on them for five months; and the pain they caused was like the pain of a scorpion sting.


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In those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.


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Now these locusts looked like horses outfitted for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.


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Their chests were like iron breastplates, and the sound their wings made was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.


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They had tails like those of scorpions, with stings; and in their tails was their power to hurt people for five months.


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They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is “Abaddon” and in our language, “Destroyer.”


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The sixth angel sounded his shofar, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the gold altar before God,


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saying to the sixth angel, the one with the shofar, “Release the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates!”


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And they were released. These four angels had been kept ready for this moment, for this day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind;


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Here is how the horses looked in the vision: the riders had breastplates that were fire-red, iris-blue and sulfur-yellow; the horses’ heads were like lions’ heads; and from their mouths issued fire, smoke and sulfur.


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It was these three plagues that killed a third of mankind — the fire, smoke and sulfur issuing from the horses’ mouths.


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For the power of the horses was in their mouths — and also in their tails, for their tails were like snakes with heads, and with them they could cause injury.


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The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, even then did not turn from what they had made with their own hands — they did not stop worshipping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.


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Nor did they turn from their murdering, their involvement with the occult and with drugs, their sexual immorality or their stealing.


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Next I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, his legs like columns of fire;


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and he had a little scroll lying open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,


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and shouted in a voice as loud as the roar of a lion; and when he shouted, seven thunderclaps sounded with voices that spoke.


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When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up the things the seven thunders said, do not write them down!”


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and swore by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will be no more delay;


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on the contrary, in the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he sounds his shofar, the hidden plan of God will be brought to completion, the Good News as he proclaimed it to his servants the prophets.”


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Next the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the scroll lying open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land!”


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So I went over to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”


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I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; but after I had swallowed it, my stomach turned bitter.


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I was given a measuring rod like a stick and told, “Get up, and measure the Temple of God and the altar, and count how many people are worshipping there!


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But the court outside the Temple, leave that out; don’t measure it; because it has been given to the Goyim, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.


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“Also I will give power to my two witnesses; and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”


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If anyone tries to do them harm, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies — yes, if anyone tries to harm them, that is how he must die.


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They have the authority to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the period of their prophesying; also they have the authority to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.


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When they finish their witnessing, the beast coming up out of the Abyss will fight against them, overcome them and kill them;


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and their dead bodies will lie in the main street of the great city whose name, to reflect its spiritual condition, is “S’dom” and “Egypt” — the city where their Lord was executed on a stake.


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Some from the nations, tribes, languages and peoples see their bodies for three-and-a-half days and do not permit the corpses to be placed in a tomb.


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The people living in the Land rejoice over them, they celebrate and send each other gifts, because these two prophets tormented them so.


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But after the three-and-a-half days a breath of life from God entered them, they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.


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Then the two heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.


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In that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were awestruck and gave glory to the God of heaven.


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The seventh angel sounded his shofar; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!”


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The twenty-four elders sitting on their thrones in God’s presence fell on their faces and worshipped God,


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saying, “We thank you, Adonai, God of heaven’s armies, the One who is and was, that you have taken your power and have begun to rule.


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“The Goyim raged. But now your rage has come, the time for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding your servants the prophets and your holy people, those who stand in awe of your name, both small and great. It is also the time for destroying those who destroy the earth.”


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Then the Temple of God in heaven was opened, and the Ark of the Covenant was seen in his Temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake and violent hail.


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Now a great sign was seen in heaven — a woman clothed with the sun, under her feet the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.


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Another sign was seen in heaven there was a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven royal crowns.


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Its tail swept a third of the stars out of heaven and threw them down to the earth. It stood in front of the woman about to give birth, so that it might devour the child the moment it was born.


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She gave birth to a son, a male child, the one who will rule all the nations with a staff of iron. But her child was snatched up to God and his throne;


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and she fled into the desert, where she has a place prepared by God so that she can be taken care of for 1,260 days.


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Next there was a battle in heaven — Mikha’el and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.


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The great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan [the Adversary], the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.


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Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come God’s victory, power and kingship, and the authority of his Messiah; because the Accuser of our brothers, who accuses them day and night before God, has been thrown out!


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“They defeated him because of the Lamb’s blood and because of the message of their witness. Even when facing death they did not cling to life.


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“Therefore, rejoice, heaven and you who live there! But woe to you, land and sea, for the Adversary has come down to you, and he is very angry, because he knows that his time is short!”


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When the dragon saw that he had been hurled down to the earth, he went in pursuit of the woman who had given birth to the male child.


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But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where she is taken care of for a season and two seasons and half a season, away from the serpent’s presence.


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The serpent spewed water like a river out of its mouth after the woman, in order to sweep her away in the flood;


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but the land came to her rescue — it opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of its mouth.


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The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.


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and I saw a beast come up out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten royal crowns and on its heads blasphemous names.


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The beast which I saw was like a leopard, but with feet like those of a bear and a mouth like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its power, its throne and great authority.


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One of the heads of the beast appeared to have received a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed after the beast in amazement.


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They worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?”


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It was given a mouth speaking arrogant blasphemies; and it was given authority to act for forty-two months.


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So it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God to insult his name and his Sh’khinah, and those living in heaven;


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it was allowed to make war on God’s holy people and to defeat them; and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.


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Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded.


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“If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he goes! If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he is to be killed!” This is when God’s holy people must persevere and trust!


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Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like those of a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.


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It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence; and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, the one whose fatal wound had been healed.


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It performs great miracles, even causing fire to come down from heaven onto the earth as people watch.


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It deceives the people living on earth by the miracles it is allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, and it tells them to make an image honoring the beast that was struck by the sword but came alive again.


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It was allowed to put breath into the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could even speak; and it was allowed to cause anyone who would not worship the image of the beast to be put to death.


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Also it forces everyone — great and small, rich and poor, free and slave — to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead


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preventing anyone from buying or selling unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.


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This is where wisdom is needed; those who understand should count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person, and its number is 666.


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Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Tziyon; and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.


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I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing waters and like the sound of pealing thunder; the sound I heard was also like that of harpists playing on their harps.


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They were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living beings and the elders, and no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who have been ransomed from the world.


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These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among humanity as firstfruits for God and the Lamb;


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Next I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with everlasting Good News to proclaim to those living on the earth — to every nation, tribe, language and people.


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In a loud voice he said, “Fear God, give him glory, for the hour has come when he will pass judgment! Worship the One who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!”


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Another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “She has fallen! She has fallen! Bavel the Great! She made all the nations drink the wine of God’s fury caused by her whoring!”


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Another angel, a third one, followed them and said in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives the mark on his forehead or on his hand,


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he will indeed drink the wine of God’s fury poured undiluted into the cup of his rage. He will be tormented by fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before the Lamb,


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and the smoke from their tormenting goes up forever and ever. They have no rest, day or night, those who worship the beast and its image and those who receive the mark of its name.”


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This is when perseverance is needed on the part of God’s people, those who observe his commands and exercise Yeshua’s faithfulness.


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Next I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: ‘How blessed are the dead who die united with the Lord, from now on!’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘now they may rest from their efforts, for the things they have accomplished follow along with them.’”


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Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud. Sitting on the cloud was someone like a Son of Man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.


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Another angel came out of the Temple and shouted to the one sitting on the cloud, “Start using your sickle to reap, because the time to reap has come — the earth’s harvest is ripe!”


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Then out from the altar went yet another angel, who was in charge of the fire; and he called in a loud voice to the one with the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because they are ripe!”


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The angel swung his sickle down onto the earth, gathered the earth’s grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s fury.


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The winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress as high as the horses’ bridles for two hundred miles!


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Then I saw another sign in heaven, a great and wonderful one — seven angels with the seven plagues that are the final ones; because with them, God’s fury is finished.


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I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire. Those defeating the beast, its image and the number of its name were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps which God had given them.


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They were singing the song of Moshe, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are the things you have done, Adonai, God of heaven’s armies! Just and true are your ways, king of the nations!


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Adonai, who will not fear and glorify your name? because you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous deeds have been revealed.”


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and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean bright linen and had gold belts around their chests.


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One of the four living beings gave to the seven angels seven gold bowls filled with the fury of God, who lives forever and ever.


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Then the sanctuary was filled with smoke from God’s Sh’khinah, that is, from his power; and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels had accomplished their purpose.


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I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary say to the seven angels, “Go, and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s fury!”


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So the first one went and poured his bowl onto the earth, and disgusting and painful sores appeared on all the people who had the mark of the beast and worshipped its image.


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The second one poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.


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Then I heard the angel of the waters say, “O HaKadosh, the One who is and was, you are just in these judgments of yours.


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They poured out the blood of your people and your prophets, so you have made them drink blood. They deserve it!”


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Then I heard the altar say, “Yes, Adonai, God of heaven’s armies, your judgments are true and just!”


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People were burned by the intense heat; yet they cursed the name of God, who had the authority over these plagues, instead of turning from their sins to give him glory.


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The fifth one poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom grew dark. People gnawed on their tongues from the pain,


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yet they cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, and did not turn from their sinful deeds.


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The sixth one poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water dried up, in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east.


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And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs; they came from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet.


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They are miracle-working demonic spirits which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world to assemble them for the War of the Great Day of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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(“Look! I am coming like a thief! How blessed are those who stay alert and keep their clothes clean, so that they won’t be walking naked and be publicly put to shame!”)


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The seventh one poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the Temple from the throne, saying, “It is done!”


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There were flashes of lightning, voices and peals of thunder; and there was a massive earthquake, such as has never occurred since mankind has been on earth, so violent was the earthquake.


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The great city was split into three parts, the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Bavel the Great and made her drink the wine from the cup of his raging fury.


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And huge seventy-pound hailstones fell on people from the sky. But the people cursed God for the plague of hail, that it was such a terrible plague.


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Then came one of the angels with the seven bowls; and he said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who is sitting by many waters.


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The kings of the earth went whoring with her, and the people living on earth have become drunk from the wine of her whoring.”


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He carried me off in the Spirit to a desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast filled with blasphemous names and having seven heads and ten horns.


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The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and glittered with gold, precious stones and pearls. In her hand was a gold cup filled with the obscene and filthy things produced by her whoring.


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On her forehead was written a name with a hidden meaning, BAVEL THE GREAT MOTHER OF WHORES AND OF THE EARTH’S OBSCENITIES


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I saw the woman drunk from the blood of God’s people, that is, from the blood of the people who testify about Yeshua. On seeing her, I was altogether astounded.


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Then the angel said to me, “Why are you astounded? I will tell you the hidden meaning of the woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that was carrying her.


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The beast you saw once was, now is not, and will come up from the Abyss; but it is on its way to destruction. The people living on earth whose names have not been written in the Book of Life since the founding of the world will be astounded to see the beast that once was, now is not, but is to appear.


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This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is sitting; also they are seven kings —


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five have fallen, one is living now and the other is yet to come; and when he does come, he must remain only a little while.


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The beast which once was and now is not is an eighth king; it comes from the seven and is on its way to destruction.


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The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet begun to rule, but they receive power as kings for one hour, along with the beast.


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They will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are called, chosen and faithful will overcome along with him.”


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Then he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is sitting, are peoples, crowds, nations and languages.


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As for the ten horns that you saw and the beast, they will hate the whore, bring her to ruin, leave her naked, eat her flesh and consume her with fire.


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For God put it in their hearts to do what will fulfill his purpose, that is, to be of one mind and give their kingdom to the beast until God’s words have accomplished their intent.


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After these things, I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, the earth was lit up by his splendor.


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He cried out in a strong voice, “She has fallen! She has fallen! Bavel the Great! She has become a home for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, a prison for every unclean, hated bird.


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“For all the nations have drunk of the wine of God’s fury caused by her whoring — yes, the kings of the earth went whoring with her, and from her unrestrained love of luxury the world’s businessmen have grown rich.”


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Then I heard another voice out of heaven say: “My people, come out of her! so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not be infected by her plagues,


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“Render to her as she rendered to others! Pay her back double for what she has done! Use the cup in which she has brewed to brew her a double-sized drink!


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“Give her as much torment and sorrow as the glory and luxury she gave herself! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen — I am not a widow, I will never see sorrow.’


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“Therefore, her plagues will come in a single day — death, sorrow and famine; and she will be burned with fire, because Adonai, God, her Judge, is mighty”


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The kings of the earth who went whoring with her and shared her luxury will sob and wail over her when they see the smoke as she burns.


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Standing at a distance, for fear of her torment, they will say, “Oh no! The great city! Bavel, the mighty city! In a single hour your judgment has come!”


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The world’s businessmen weep and mourn over her, because no one is buying their merchandise any more —


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stocks of gold and silver, gems and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, all rare woods, all ivory goods, all kinds of things made of scented wood, brass, iron and marble;


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cinnamon, cardamom, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, flour, grain, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots — and bodies — and people’s souls.


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The fruits you lusted for with all your heart have gone! All the luxury and flashiness have been destroyed, never to return!


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The sellers of these things, who got rich from her, will stand at a distance, for fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,


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and saying, “Oh no! The great city used to wear fine linen, purple and scarlet! She glittered with gold, precious stones and pearls!


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Such great wealth — in a single hour, ruined!” All the ship masters, passengers, sailors and everyone making his living from the sea stood at a distance


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And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, saying, “Oh no! The great city! The abundance of her wealth made all the ship owners rich! In a single hour she is ruined!”


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Rejoice over her, heaven! Rejoice, people of God, emissaries and prophets! For in judging her, God has vindicated you.


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Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea, saying, “With violence like this will the great city Bavel be hurled down, never to be found again!


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“The sound of harpists and musicians, flute-players and trumpeters will never again be heard in you. No worker of any trade will ever again be found in you, the sound of a mill will never again be heard in you,


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the light of a lamp will never again shine in you, the voice of bridegroom and bride will never again be heard in you. “For your businessmen were the most powerful on earth, all the nations were deceived by your magic spell.


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“In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s people, indeed, of all who have ever been slaughtered on earth!”


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After these things, I heard what sounded like the roar of a huge crowd in heaven, shouting, “Halleluyah! The victory, the glory, the power of our God!


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For his judgments are true and just. He has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her whoring. He has taken vengeance on her who has the blood of his servants on her hands.”


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The twenty-four elders and the four living beings fell down and worshipped God, sitting on the throne, and said, “Amen! Halleluyah!”


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A voice went out from the throne, saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great!”


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Then I heard what sounded like the roar of a huge crowd, like the sound of rushing waters, like loud peals of thunder, saying, “Halleluyah! Adonai, God of heaven’s armies, has begun his reign!


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“Let us rejoice and be glad! Let us give him the glory! For the time has come for the wedding of the Lamb, and his Bride has prepared herself —


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fine linen, bright and clean has been given her to wear.” (“Fine linen” means the righteous deeds of God’s people.)


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The angel said to me, “Write: ‘How blessed are those who have been invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb!’” Then he added, “These are God’s very words.”


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I fell at his feet to worship him; but he said, “Don’t do that! I’m only a fellow-servant with you and your brothers who have the testimony of Yeshua. Worship God! For the testimony of Yeshua is the Spirit of prophecy.”


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Next I saw heaven opened, and there before me was a white horse. Sitting on it was the one called Faithful and True, and it is in righteousness that he passes judgment and goes to battle.


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His eyes were like a fiery flame, and on his head were many royal crowns. And he had a name written which no one knew but himself.


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He was wearing a robe that had been soaked in blood, and the name by which he is called is, “THE WORD OF GOD.”


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And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down nations — “He will rule them with a staff of iron.” It is he who treads the winepress from which flows the wine of the furious rage of Adonai, God of heaven’s armies.


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Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds that fly about in mid-heaven, “Come, gather together for the great feast God is giving,


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to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of important men, the flesh of horses and their riders and the flesh of all kinds of people, free and slave, small and great!”


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I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to do battle with the rider of the horse and his army.


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But the beast was taken captive, and with it the false prophet who, in its presence, had done the miracles which he had used to deceive those who had received the mark of the beast and those who had worshipped his image. The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.


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The rest were killed with the sword that goes out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.


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Next I saw an angel coming down from heaven, who had the key to the Abyss and a great chain in his hand.


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He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan [the Adversary], and chained him up for a thousand years.


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He threw him into the Abyss, locked it and sealed it over him; so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over. After that, he has to be set free for a little while.


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Then I saw thrones, and those seated on them received authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for testifying about Yeshua and proclaiming the Word of God, also those who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands. They came to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.


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(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first resurrection.


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Blessed and holy is anyone who has a part in the first resurrection; over him the second death has no power. On the contrary, they will be cohanim of God and of the Messiah, and they will rule with him for the thousand years.


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and will go out to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the battle. Their number is countless as the sand on the seashore;


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and they came up over the breadth of the Land and surrounded the camp of God’s people and the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.


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The Adversary who had deceived them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.


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Next I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.


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And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done.


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The sea gave up the dead in it; and Death and Sh’ol gave up the dead in them; and they were judged, each according to what he had done.


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Then Death and Sh’ol were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.


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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had passed away, and the sea was no longer there.


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Also I saw the holy city, New Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.


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I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “See! God’s Sh’khinah is with mankind, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and he himself, God-with-them, will be their God.


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He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away.”


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Then the One sitting on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new!” Also he said, “Write, ‘These words are true and trustworthy!’”


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And he said to me, “It is done! I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’ the Beginning and the End. To anyone who is thirsty I myself will give water free of charge from the Fountain of Life.


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But as for the cowardly, the untrustworthy, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those involved with the occult and with drugs, idol-worshippers, and all liars — their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death.”


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One of the seven angels having the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues approached me and said, “Come! I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.”


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He carried me off in the Spirit to the top of a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God.


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It had the Sh’khinah of God, so that its brilliance was like that of a priceless jewel, like a crystal-clear diamond.


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It had a great, high wall with twelve gates; at the gates were twelve angels; and inscribed on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Isra’el.


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There were three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three gates to the south and three gates to the west.


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The wall of the city was built on twelve foundation-stones, and on these were the twelve names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb.


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The angel speaking with me had a gold measuring-rod with which to measure the city, its gates and its wall.


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The city is laid out in a square, its length equal to its width. With his rod he measured the city at 1,500 miles, with length, width and height the same.


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The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of precious stones — the first foundation stone was diamond, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,


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the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh turquoise and the twelfth amethyst.


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The twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate made of a single pearl. The city’s main street was pure gold, transparent as glass.


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The city has no need for the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God’s Sh’khinah gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.


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Nothing impure may enter it, nor anyone who does shameful things or lies; the only ones who may enter are those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.


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Next the angel showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.


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Between the main street and the river was the Tree of Life producing twelve kinds of fruit, a different kind every month; and the leaves of the tree were for healing the nations —


