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“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God.


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And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.


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“When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,


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The Parable of the Rich Fool Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”


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Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”


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“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.


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And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’


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“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’


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Do Not Worry Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.


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Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!


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“Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.


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If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!


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Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.


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like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.


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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.


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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.


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But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.


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The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?


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But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk.


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The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.


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“That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows.


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But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.


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Not Peace but Division “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!


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From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.


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They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”


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Interpreting the Times He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does.


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Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?


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As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled to him on the way, or he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.


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Repent or Perish Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.


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Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?


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Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?


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Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.


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So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’


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“‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.


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and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.


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When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”


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Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”


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The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?


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Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”


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When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.


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The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?


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It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.”


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It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.”


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The Narrow Door Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem.


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“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.


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Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’


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“There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.


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People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.


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Jesus’ Sorrow for Jerusalem At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.”


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He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will drive out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’


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In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!


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“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!


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Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”


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Jesus at a Pharisee’s House One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched.


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Then he asked them, “If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out?”


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“When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.


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If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.


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But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests.


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Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.


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and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”


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The Parable of the Great Banquet When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”


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At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’


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“But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’


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“Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’


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“The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’


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“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.


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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.


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“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?


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“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?


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If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.


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It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”


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The Parable of the Lost Sheep Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him.


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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”


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“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?


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and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’


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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.


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The Parable of the Lost Coin “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?


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And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’


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In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”


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The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.


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“Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.


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After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.


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So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.


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He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.


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“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!


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I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.


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So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.


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“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’


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“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.


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For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.


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“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.


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‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’


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But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.


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But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’


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But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”


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The Parable of the Shrewd Manager Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.


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So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’


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“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—


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“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’


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“‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. “The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.’


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“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ “‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied. “He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’


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“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.


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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.


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“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.


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So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?


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And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?


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“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”


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He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.


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Additional Teachings “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.


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It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.


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“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


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The Rich Man and Lazarus “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.


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“The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.


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So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’


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“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.


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And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’


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for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’


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“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”


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Sin, Faith, Duty Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come.


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It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.


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If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”


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He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.


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“Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’?


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Would he not rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’?


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So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”


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Ten Healed of Leprosy Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.


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When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.


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The Coming of the Kingdom of God Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation,


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Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.


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For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.


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People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.


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“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.


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On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.


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“Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”


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The Parable of the Persistent Widow Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.


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And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’


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“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care about men,


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yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”


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And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?


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I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”


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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:


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The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.


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“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’


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“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”


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The Little Children and Jesus People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.


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But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.


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You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”


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When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”


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Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”


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“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God


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Jesus Again Predicts His Death Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.


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He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him.


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The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.


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A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.


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Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”


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Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.


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When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”


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But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”


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Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.


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The Parable of the Ten Minas While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.


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He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.


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So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’


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“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’


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“He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.


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“‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’


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“Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.


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I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’


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“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?


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Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?’


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“Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’


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“He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.


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But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”


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As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them,


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“Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.


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When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:


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“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”


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and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.


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The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.


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They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”


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“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”


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Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.


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The Authority of Jesus Questioned One day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him.


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They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’


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But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”


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The Parable of the Tenants He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.


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At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.


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He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.


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“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’


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“But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’


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So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never be!”


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Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone’?


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Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”


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The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.


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Paying Taxes to Caesar Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.


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So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.


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“Caesar’s,” they replied. He said to them, “Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”


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They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.


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The Resurrection and Marriage Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.


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But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,


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and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.


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But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’


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Whose Son Is the Christ? Then Jesus said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?


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“Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.


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The Widow’s Offering As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.


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All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”


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Signs of the End of the Age Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said,


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“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”


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“Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”


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He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.


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When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”


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There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.


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“But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.


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For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.


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You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.


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Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.


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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.


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They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.


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“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.


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Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.


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When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”


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“I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.


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“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.


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Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”


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Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,


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Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,


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and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.


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And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.


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The Last Supper Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.


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He replied, “As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters,


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and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’


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And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”


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In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.


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Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors.


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But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves.


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For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.


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so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”


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Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”


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Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.


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He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.


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It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”


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Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.


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And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.


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When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.


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Jesus Arrested While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him,


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When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”


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Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?


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Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”


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Peter Disowns Jesus Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance.


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But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.


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A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”


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A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied.


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Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed.


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The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.”


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Jesus Before Pilate and Herod At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them.


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“If you are the Christ,” they said, “tell us.” Jesus answered, “If I tell you, you will not believe me,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ, a king.”


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Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”


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But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.”


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When he learned that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.


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When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform some miracle.


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Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.


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and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him.


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Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death.


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For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”


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He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.


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The Crucifixion As they led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.


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Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.


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For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’


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When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.


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Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.


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The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”


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One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”


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But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?


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We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”


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Jesus’ Death It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,


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Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.


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When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away.


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But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.


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who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.


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Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid.


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The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.


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Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.


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The Resurrection On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.


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While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.


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In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?


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‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”


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It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.


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Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.


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On the Road to Emmaus Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.


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As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;


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He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast.


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One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?”


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“What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.


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but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.


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but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.


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Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”


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He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!


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And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.


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But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.


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When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.


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They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”


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They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together


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Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.


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Jesus Appears to the Disciples While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”


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Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”


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And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”


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He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”


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He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,


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and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


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I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”


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The Ascension When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.


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The Word Became Flesh In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


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Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—


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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.


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John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”


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No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.


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John the Baptist Denies Being the Christ Now this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.


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They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”


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Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”


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John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”


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Jesus the Lamb of God The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!


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This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’


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I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”


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I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’


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Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”


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“Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.


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Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.


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The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ).


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And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).


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Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”


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Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”


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When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.”


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“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”


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Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that.”


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He then added, “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”


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Jesus Changes Water to Wine On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,


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Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.


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and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside


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and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”


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This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.


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Jesus Clears the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.


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In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.


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So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.


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To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”


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Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”


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The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”


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After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.


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Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name.


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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.


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He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.”


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In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”


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“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!”


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Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.


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The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”


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I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.


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I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?


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“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


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For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.


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Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.


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This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.


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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.


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But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”


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John the Baptist’s Testimony About Jesus After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.


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Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized.


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An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.


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They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”


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The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.


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“The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.


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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.”


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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,


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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.


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Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.


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The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)


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Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”


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“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?


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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”


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but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”


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The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”


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“I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.


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The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”


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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”


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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.


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You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.


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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.


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The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”


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The Disciples Rejoin Jesus Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”


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Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.


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Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.


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I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”


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Many Samaritans Believe Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”


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They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”


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When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.


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Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.


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When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.


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When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”


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Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his household believed.


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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.


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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”


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“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”


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At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,


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and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”


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The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.


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Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”


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Life Through the Son So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.


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For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.


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For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.


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For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.


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that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.


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“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.


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I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.


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“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice


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and come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.


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By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.


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“I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,


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You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,


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I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.


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How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?


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“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.


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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),


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and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick.


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When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”


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“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”


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Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them.


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Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.


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When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”


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So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.


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After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”


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Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.


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where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.


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When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified.


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Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.


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The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.


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Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.


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Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.


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Jesus the Bread of Life When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”


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Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.


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Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”


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So they asked him, “What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?


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Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”


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Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.


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Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.


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And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.


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For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”


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At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”


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They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”


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“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.


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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”


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Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.


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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.


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This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”


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Many Disciples Desert Jesus On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”


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The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.


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Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.


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He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him.”


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(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)


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Jesus Goes to the Feast of Tabernacles After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life.


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Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do.


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No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”


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You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come.”


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Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”


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Jesus Teaches at the Feast Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.


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If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.


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He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.


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Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath.


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Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath?


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Is Jesus the Christ? At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?


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Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Christ?


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Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,


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Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?”


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The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.


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The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”


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On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.


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Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”


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By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.


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Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”


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Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”


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They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.” [The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11.]


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At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.


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The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group


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They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.


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When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”


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At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.


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“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”


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The Validity of Jesus’ Testimony When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”


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The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”


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Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.


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But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.


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Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”


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He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.


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Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”


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But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.


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I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins.”


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“I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”


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So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.


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The Children of Abraham To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.


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They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”


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I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.


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I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you do what you have heard from your father.”


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“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do the things Abraham did.


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As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.


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You are doing the things your own father does.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”


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The Children of the Devil Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.


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You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.


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He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”


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The Claims of Jesus About Himself The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”


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At this the Jews exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death.


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Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”


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Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.


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Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.


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At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.


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“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.


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As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.


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Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.


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“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.


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His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”


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Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”


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He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”


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Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”


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Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others asked, “How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?” So they were divided.


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Finally they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”


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The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.


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“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”


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But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”


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His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.


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A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”


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He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”


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He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”


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Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!


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The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.


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To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.


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Spiritual Blindness Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”


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Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”


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Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.


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The Shepherd and His Flock “I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.


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The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.


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When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.


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But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”


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I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.


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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.


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The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.


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I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.


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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”


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But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”


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The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”


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Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me,


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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.


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but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”


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“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”


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what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?


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But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”


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Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed


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and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true.”


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The Death of Lazarus Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.


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This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.


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When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”


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“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?”


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Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world’s light.


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After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”


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Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”


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Jesus Comforts the Sisters On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.


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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;


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“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”


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And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.”


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When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.


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When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”


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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.


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But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”


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Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.


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“Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”


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So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.


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I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”


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The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”


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The Plot to Kill Jesus Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.


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Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many miraculous signs.


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If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”


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Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all!


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You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”


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He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,


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and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.


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Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.


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When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.


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They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple area they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the Feast at all?”


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But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.


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Jesus Anointed at Bethany Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.


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Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him.


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Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.


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He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.


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“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.


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Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.


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The Triumphal Entry The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.


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They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!”


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At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.


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Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word.


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So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”


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Jesus Predicts His Death Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.


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They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.”


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I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.


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The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.


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Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.


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“Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.


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Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.”


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The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.


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The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”


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Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.


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Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.


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The Jews Continue in Their Unbelief Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.


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This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”


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“He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”


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Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;


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Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.


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“As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.


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There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.


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For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.


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I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”


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Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.


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The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.


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Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;


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After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.


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“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”


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Jesus answered, “A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”


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When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.


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I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.


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Jesus Predicts His Betrayal “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: ‘He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’


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I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”


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After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me.”


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Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.


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As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. “What you are about to do, do quickly,” Jesus told him,


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Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the Feast, or to give something to the poor.


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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.


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“My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.


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Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”


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Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!


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In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.


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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.


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Jesus the Way to the Father Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”


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Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.


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If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”


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Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?


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Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.


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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.


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I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.


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the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.


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Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.


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Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”


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Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”


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Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.


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He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.


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But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.


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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.


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“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.


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I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,


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but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.


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He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.


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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.


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“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.


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If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.


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If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.


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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.


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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.


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If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.


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Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.


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“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.


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They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.


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I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.


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The Work of the Holy Spirit “Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’


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But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.


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But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.


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All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.


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The Disciples’ Grief Will Turn to Joy Some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”


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Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?


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I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.


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A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.


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So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.


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In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.


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Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.


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“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.


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I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”


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Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”


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“But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.


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“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”


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Jesus Prays for Himself After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.


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For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.


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Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.


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Jesus Prays for His Disciples “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.


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For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.


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I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.


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I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.


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While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.


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“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.


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I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.


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Jesus Prays for All Believers “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,


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that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.


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I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.


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“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.


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“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.


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I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”


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Jesus Arrested When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.


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So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.


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“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)


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This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”


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Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)


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Jesus Taken to Annas Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him


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Peter’s First Denial Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,


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but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty there and brought Peter in.


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“You are not one of his disciples, are you?” the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, “I am not.”


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It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.


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The High Priest Questions Jesus Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.


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“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.


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When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby struck him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.


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“If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”


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Peter’s Second and Third Denials As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, “You are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, saying, “I am not.”


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One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the olive grove?”


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Jesus Before Pilate Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.


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Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” “But we have no right to execute anyone,” the Jews objected.


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This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.


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Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”


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“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”


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Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.”


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“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”


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“What is truth?” Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.


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But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”


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The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe


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and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him in the face.


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Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”


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When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”


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As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”


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The Jews insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”


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and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.


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“Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”


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Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”


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From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”


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When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).


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It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.


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But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.


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Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. The Crucifixion So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.


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Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).


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Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.


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Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.


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The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”


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When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.


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“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.” So this is what the soldiers did.


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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


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When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,”


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and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.


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The Death of Jesus Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”


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A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.


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When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.


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Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.


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The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.


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Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.


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The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.


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These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”


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The Burial of Jesus Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.


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He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.


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Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.


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At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.


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The Empty Tomb Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.


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So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”


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Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,


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as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.


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and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.


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They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”


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“Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”


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Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).


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Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”


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Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.


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Jesus Appears to His Disciples On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”


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After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.


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If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”


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Jesus Appears to Thomas Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.


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So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”


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A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”


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Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”


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Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”


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Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.


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But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.


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Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias. It happened this way:


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Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.


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“I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.


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Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.


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He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.


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Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water.


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The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.


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Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.


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Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.


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Jesus Reinstates Peter When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”


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Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”


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The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.


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I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”


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Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”


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Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”)


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Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”


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Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”


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This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.


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Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.


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Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach


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until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.


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After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.


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On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.


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So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”


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He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.


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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”


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They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.


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“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”


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Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city.


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When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.


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They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.


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and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus—


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(With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.


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Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)


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“For,” said Peter, “it is written in the book of Psalms, “‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, “‘May another take his place of leadership.’


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Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”


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The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.


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Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.


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All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.


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When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.


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(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”


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Peter Addresses the Crowd Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.


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“‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.


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Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.


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I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.


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The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.


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“Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.


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This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.


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But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.


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David said about him: “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.


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“Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.


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But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne.


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Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.


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Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.


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For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand


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“Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”


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When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”


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Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”


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With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”


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Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.


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The Fellowship of the Believers They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.


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Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,


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praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.


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Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon.


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Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.


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Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”


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Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong.


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He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.


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they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


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Peter Speaks to the Onlookers While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.


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When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Men of Israel, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?


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The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.


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By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has given this complete healing to him, as you can all see.


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But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.


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Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,


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He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.


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For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.


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And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’


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When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”


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Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.


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They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.


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Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and the other men of the high priest’s family.


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They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”


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If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed,


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then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.


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Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”


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When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.


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But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.


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“What are we going to do with these men?” they asked. “Everybody living in Jerusalem knows they have done an outstanding miracle, and we cannot deny it.


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But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn these men to speak no longer to anyone in this name.”


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Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.


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But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God.


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After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened.


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The Believers’ Prayer On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.


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You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?


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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One.’


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Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.


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Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”


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After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.


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The Believers Share Their Possessions All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.


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With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all.


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There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales


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Ananias and Sapphira Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.


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With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.


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Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?


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Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God.”


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When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.


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Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?” “Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”


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Peter said to her, “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”


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At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.


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The Apostles Heal Many The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade.


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As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.


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Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed.


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The Apostles Persecuted Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.


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At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.


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“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”


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On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were puzzled, wondering what would come of this.


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Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.”


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At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.


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Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.


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“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”


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God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.


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We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”


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But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while.


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Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.


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After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered.


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Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.


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But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”


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His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.


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Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.


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The Choosing of the Seven In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.


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So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.


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Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them


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This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.


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So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.


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Stephen Seized Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.


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Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. These men began to argue with Stephen,


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Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, “We have heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”


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So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.


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They produced false witnesses, who testified, “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.


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For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”


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All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.


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To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.


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“So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.


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He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.


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God spoke to him in this way: ‘Your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.


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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’


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Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.


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“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him


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and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt; so he made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.


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“Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our fathers could not find food.


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On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family.


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Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.


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“As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt greatly increased.


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He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.


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“At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for in his father’s house.


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He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian.


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Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.


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The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’


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“But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?


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“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.


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When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord’s voice:


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‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.


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“Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals; the place where you are standing is holy ground.


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I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’


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“This is the same Moses whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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He led them out of Egypt and did wonders and miraculous signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.


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“This is that Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.’


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He was in the assembly in the desert, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to us.


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“But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.


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They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’


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That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and held a celebration in honor of what their hands had made.


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But God turned away and gave them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?


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You have lifted up the shrine of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile’ beyond Babylon.


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“Our forefathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the desert. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.


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Having received the tabernacle, our fathers under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David,


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“‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be?


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“You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!


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Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him—


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But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.


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dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.


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And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. The Church Persecuted and Scattered On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.


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But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.


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When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said.


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Simon the Sorcerer Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,


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and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is the divine power known as the Great Power.”


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But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.


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When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.


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because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.


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When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money


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and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”


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Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!


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Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.


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When they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.


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Philip and the Ethiopian Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”


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So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,


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Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.


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“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.


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The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.


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In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”


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The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”


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As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”


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And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.


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When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.


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Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.


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Saul’s Conversion Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest


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and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.


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Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.


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In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord,” he answered.


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The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.


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“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.


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But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.


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Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”


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Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,


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and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.


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All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”


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Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.


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but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him.


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When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.


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So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.


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Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace. It was strengthened; and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord.


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“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and take care of your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up.


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In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which, when translated, is Dorcas), who was always doing good and helping the poor.


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Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Please come at once!”


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Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.


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Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up.


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He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called the believers and the widows and presented her to them alive.


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Cornelius Calls for Peter At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.


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He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.


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One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”


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Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.


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When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants.


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Peter’s Vision About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.


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He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.


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It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.


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While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate.


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While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for you.


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The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”


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Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests. Peter at Cornelius’s House The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went along.


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The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.


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He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with a Gentile or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.


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Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me


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Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’


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So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”


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You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.


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You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—


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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.


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“We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,


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He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.


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He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.


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All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”


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The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.


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“Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”


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So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.


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Peter Explains His Actions The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.


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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.


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I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.


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“Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.


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The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.


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He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.


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Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’


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So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?”


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When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”


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The Church in Antioch Now those who had been scattered by the persecution in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Jews.


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Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.


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When he arrived and saw the evidence of the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.


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He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.


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and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.


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One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.)


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The disciples, each according to his ability, decided to provide help for the brothers living in Judea.


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Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.


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When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.


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After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.


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The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.


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Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.


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Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.


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Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.


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They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.


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Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”


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When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.


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When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”


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“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”


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Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the brothers about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.


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After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Herod’s Death Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there a while.


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He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. Having secured the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king’s country for their food supply.


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On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people.


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Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.


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When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark.


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Barnabas and Saul Sent Off In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.


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While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”


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On Cyprus The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.


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When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.


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They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,


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who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.


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Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said,


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“You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?


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Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind, and for a time you will be unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.


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When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord.


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In Pisidian Antioch From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.


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From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down.


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After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak.”


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Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me!


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The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt, with mighty power he led them out of that country,


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All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.


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Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.


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After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’


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As John was completing his work, he said: ‘Who do you think I am? I am not that one. No, but he is coming after me, whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’


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“Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.


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The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.


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When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.


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and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.


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he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: “‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’


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The fact that God raised him from the dead, never to decay, is stated in these words: “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’


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“For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.


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“Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.


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Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.


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“‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”


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As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath.


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When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.


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When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.


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Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.


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For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”


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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.


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But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.


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In Iconium At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed.


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But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.


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So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.


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There was a plot afoot among the Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.


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But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country,


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In Lystra and Derbe In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.


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He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed


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When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”


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The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.


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But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting:


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“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.


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Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”


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Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.


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But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe.


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The Return to Antioch in Syria They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,


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strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.


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Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.


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From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.


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On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.


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The Council at Jerusalem Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”


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This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.


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The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad.


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When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.


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Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”


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After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.


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God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.


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Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?


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The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.


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Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself.


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“‘After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,


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that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’


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“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.


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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.


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For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”


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The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, two men who were leaders among the brothers.


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With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.


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We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said.


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It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:


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You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.


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The men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.


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After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them.


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But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.


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Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”


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but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work.


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They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,


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Timothy Joins Paul and Silas He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was a Jewess and a believer, but whose father was a Greek.


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Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.


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Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.


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When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.


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During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”


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After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.


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Lydia’s Conversion in Philippi From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.


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From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.


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On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.


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One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.


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When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.


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Paul and Silas in Prison Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.


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This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.”


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She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her.


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When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.


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They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar


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The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten.


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After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.


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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.


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Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s chains came loose.


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The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.


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At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized.


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The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.


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When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.”


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The jailer told Paul, “The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.”


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But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.”


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The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.


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After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they met with the brothers and encouraged them. Then they left.


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In Thessalonica When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.


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As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,


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explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he said.


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Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women.


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But the Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.


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But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,


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and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.”


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In Berea As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.


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Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.


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When the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, they went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.


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The men who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.


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In Athens While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.


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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.


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A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.


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Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?


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(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)


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Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.


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For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.


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“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.


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And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.


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From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.


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God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.


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‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’


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“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.


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For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”


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When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”


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A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.


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There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,


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When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


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But when the Jews opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clear of my responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”


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Crispus, the synagogue ruler, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard him believed and were baptized.


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One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.


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For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.”


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While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him into court.


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Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to listen to you.


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But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law—settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.”


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Then they all turned on Sosthenes the synagogue ruler and beat him in front of the court. But Gallio showed no concern whatever.


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Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken.


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They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.


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Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.


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He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.


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He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.


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When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On arriving, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.


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For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.


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Paul in Ephesus While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples


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and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”


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Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”


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When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.


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Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.


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But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.


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This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.


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so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.


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Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”


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Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.


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When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.


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A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.


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After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”


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He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia a little longer.


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A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen.


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He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know we receive a good income from this business.


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And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.


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There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited, and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.”


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Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia, and rushed as one man into the theater.


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Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.


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The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there.


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The Jews pushed Alexander to the front, and some of the crowd shouted instructions to him. He motioned for silence in order to make a defense before the people.


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But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”


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The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?


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You have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess.


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If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They can press charges.


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As it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of today’s events. In that case we would not be able to account for this commotion, since there is no reason for it.”


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Through Macedonia and Greece When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said good-by and set out for Macedonia.


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He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece,


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where he stayed three months. Because the Jews made a plot against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.


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He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy also, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.


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But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days.


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Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.


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Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.


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Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!”


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Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.


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The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Kios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.


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Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.


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When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia.


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I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews.


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You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.


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I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.


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“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.


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However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.


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“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.


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Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.


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Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.


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So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.


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“Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.


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In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”


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What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.


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On to Jerusalem After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Cos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara.


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After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo.


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Finding the disciples there, we stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.


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But when our time was up, we left and continued on our way. All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray.


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We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.


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Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven.


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Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”


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Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”


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Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.


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When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.


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They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.


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Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.


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As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”


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The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.


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Paul Arrested When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,


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shouting, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place.”


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(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area.)


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The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.


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While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar.


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He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


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The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.


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Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.


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When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.


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Paul Speaks to the Crowd As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.


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“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the desert some time ago?”


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Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”


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Having received the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic:


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“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.


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I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,


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as also the high priest and all the Council can testify. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.


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“‘What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked. “ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.’


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“A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there.


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He stood beside me and said, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ And at that very moment I was able to see him.


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“Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.


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And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’


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and saw the Lord speaking. ‘Quick!’ he said to me. ‘Leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’


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“‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘these men know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.


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And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’


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Paul the Roman Citizen The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He’s not fit to live!”


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the commander ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and questioned in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this.


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As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?”


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When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. “What are you going to do?” he asked. “This man is a Roman citizen.”


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Then the commander said, “I had to pay a big price for my citizenship.” “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.


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Those who were about to question him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.


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Before the Sanhedrin The next day, since the commander wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.


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Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.”


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Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!”


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Paul replied, “Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”


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Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead.”


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When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.


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(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)


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There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. “We find nothing wrong with this man,” they said. “What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”


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The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.


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The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”


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The Plot to Kill Paul The next morning the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.


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They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.


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Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.”


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Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”


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So he took him to the commander. The centurion said, “Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”


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The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, “What is it you want to tell me?”


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He said: “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him.


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Don’t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.”


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The commander dismissed the young man and cautioned him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”


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Paul Transferred to Caesarea Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, “Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.


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This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen.


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I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment.


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When I was informed of a plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you their case against him.


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So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul with them during the night and brought him as far as Antipatris.


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When the cavalry arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him.


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The governor read the letter and asked what province he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,


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he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers get here.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.


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The Trial Before Felix Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor.


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When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented his case before Felix: “We have enjoyed a long period of peace under you, and your foresight has brought about reforms in this nation.


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“We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect


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By examining him yourself you will be able to learn the truth about all these charges we are bringing against him.”


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When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: “I know that for a number of years you have been a judge over this nation; so I gladly make my defense.


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My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.


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However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,


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and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.


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“After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.


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I was ceremonially clean when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.


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But there are some Jews from the province of Asia, who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.


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unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”


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Then Felix, who was well acquainted with the Way, adjourned the proceedings. “When Lysias the commander comes,” he said, “I will decide your case.”


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He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard but to give him some freedom and permit his friends to take care of his needs.


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Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.


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As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, “That’s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you.”


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At the same time he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe, so he sent for him frequently and talked with him.


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When two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, but because Felix wanted to grant a favor to the Jews, he left Paul in prison.


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The Trial Before Festus Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,


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where the chief priests and Jewish leaders appeared before him and presented the charges against Paul.


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They urgently requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.


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Let some of your leaders come with me and press charges against the man there, if he has done anything wrong.”


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After spending eight or ten days with them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him.


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When Paul appeared, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.


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Then Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”


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Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there on these charges?”


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Paul answered: “I am now standing before Caesar’s court, where I ought to be tried. I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.


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If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”


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After Festus had conferred with his council, he declared: “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”


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Festus Consults King Agrippa A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.


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Since they were spending many days there, Festus discussed Paul’s case with the king. He said: “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner.


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When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked that he be condemned.


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“I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over any man before he has faced his accusers and has had an opportunity to defend himself against their charges.


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When they came here with me, I did not delay the case, but convened the court the next day and ordered the man to be brought in.


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Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.


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I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges.


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When Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar.”


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Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.” He replied, “Tomorrow you will hear him.”


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Paul Before Agrippa The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with the high ranking officers and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.


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Festus said: “King Agrippa, and all who are present with us, you see this man! The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him in Jerusalem and here in Caesarea, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.


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I found he had done nothing deserving of death, but because he made his appeal to the Emperor I decided to send him to Rome.


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But I have nothing definite to write to His Majesty about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that as a result of this investigation I may have something to write.


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Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” So Paul motioned with his hand and began his defense:


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“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today as I make my defense against all the accusations of the Jews,


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and especially so because you are well acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.


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“The Jews all know the way I have lived ever since I was a child, from the beginning of my life in my own country, and also in Jerusalem.


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They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.


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This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. O king, it is because of this hope that the Jews are accusing me.


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“I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.


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And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.


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Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. In my obsession against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.


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“On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.


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About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.


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We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’


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‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you.


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to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’


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First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.


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But I have had God’s help to this very day, and so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen—


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that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”


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At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane.”


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The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.


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Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?”


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Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”


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They left the room, and while talking with one another, they said, “This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.”


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Paul Sails for Rome When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.


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We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.


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The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs.


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From there we put out to sea again and passed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.


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When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.


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We made slow headway for many days and had difficulty arriving off Cnidus. When the wind did not allow us to hold our course, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.


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We moved along the coast with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.


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Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Fast. So Paul warned them,


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“Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.”


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But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship.


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Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided that we should sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and winter there. This was a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.


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The Storm When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had obtained what they wanted; so they weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete.


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The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind; so we gave way to it and were driven along.


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As we passed to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were hardly able to make the lifeboat secure.


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When the men had hoisted it aboard, they passed ropes under the ship itself to hold it together. Fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and let the ship be driven along.


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We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.


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When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.


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After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: “Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves this damage and loss.


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But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed.


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and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.’


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The Shipwreck On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.


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They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.


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Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.


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In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow.


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Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”


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Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything.


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Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.”


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After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.


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When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.


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When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.


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Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.


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But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf.


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But the centurion wanted to spare Paul’s life and kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.


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The rest were to get there on planks or on pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land in safety.


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The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold.


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Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.


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When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”


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The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.


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There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us to his home and for three days entertained us hospitably.


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His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him.


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They honored us in many ways and when we were ready to sail, they furnished us with the supplies we needed.


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Arrival at Rome After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island. It was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux.


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From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli.


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The brothers there had heard that we were coming, and they traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At the sight of these men Paul thanked God and was encouraged.


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Paul Preaches at Rome Under Guard Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: “My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.


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But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar—not that I had any charge to bring against my own people.


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For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”


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They replied, “We have not received any letters from Judea concerning you, and none of the brothers who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you.


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But we want to hear what your views are, for we know that people everywhere are talking against this sect.”


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They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. From morning till evening he explained and declared to them the kingdom of God and tried to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.


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They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your forefathers when he said through Isaiah the prophet:


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“‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”


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“Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”


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and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Through him and for his name’s sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.


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To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.


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Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.


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God, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you


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in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.


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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.


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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.


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For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”


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God’s Wrath Against Mankind The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,


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For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.


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For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.


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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.


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Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.


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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.


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Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.


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In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.


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Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.


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They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,


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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;


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Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.


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God’s Righteous Judgment You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.


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So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?


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Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance?


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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.


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To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.


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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.


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There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;


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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.


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For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.


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(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,


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since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)


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This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.


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The Jews and the Law Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God;


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—


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you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?


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You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?


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Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.


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If those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?


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The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.


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No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God.


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God’s Faithfulness What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?


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Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”


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But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)


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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”


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Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.


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No One Is Righteous What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.


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All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”


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“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.”


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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.


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Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.


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Righteousness Through Faith But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.


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This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,


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God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—


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he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.


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Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith.


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since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.


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Abraham Justified by Faith What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?


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However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.


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David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:


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Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.


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Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before!


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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.


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And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.


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It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.


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Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.


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As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.


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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”


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Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.


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Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,


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but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.


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Peace and Joy Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,


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through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.


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Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;


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And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.


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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.


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Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!


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For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!


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Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.


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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—


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for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.


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Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.


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But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!


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Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.


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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.


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Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.


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


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The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,


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so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?


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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.


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If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.


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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—


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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.


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Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.


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Slaves to Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!


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Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?


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But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.


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I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.


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What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!


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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.


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An Illustration From Marriage Do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to men who know the law—that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?


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For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.


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So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.


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So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.


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For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.


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But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.


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Struggling With Sin What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”


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But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.


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For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.


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Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.


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I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.


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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.


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but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.


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Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.


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because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.


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For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,


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in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.


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Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.


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You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.


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But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.


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And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.


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Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.


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For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,


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For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”


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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.


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Future Glory I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.


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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope


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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.


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We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.


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Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.


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For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?


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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.


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And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.


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More Than Conquerors And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.


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For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.


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And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.


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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?


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Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?


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As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”


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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,


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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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God’s Sovereign Choice I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit—


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For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,


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the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.


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Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.


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Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”


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In other words, it is not the natural children who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.


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For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”


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Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:


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For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”


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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”


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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”


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Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?


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What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?


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


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As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”


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and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”


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Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.


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It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”


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Israel’s Unbelief What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;


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Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”


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As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”


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For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.


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Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.


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Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them.”


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But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)


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But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:


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That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


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For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.


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For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,


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How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?


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And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”


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But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”


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Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.


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But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”


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Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says, “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”


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And Isaiah boldly says, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”


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But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”


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The Remnant of Israel I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.


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God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:


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“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”?


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And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”


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What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,


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as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day.”


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And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.


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Ingrafted Branches Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.


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But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!


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I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry


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For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?


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If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.


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If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,


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do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.


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Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.


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Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.


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And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.


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After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!


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All Israel Will Be Saved I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.


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And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.


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As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,


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Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,


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so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.


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Doxology Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!


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Living Sacrifices Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.


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Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.


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For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.


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Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,


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We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.


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if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.


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Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.


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Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.


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On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”


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Submission to the Authorities Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.


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Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.


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For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.


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For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.


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Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.


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This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.


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Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.


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Love, for the Day Is Near Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.


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The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”


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And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.


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The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.


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Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.


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Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.


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The Weak and the Strong Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.


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One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.


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The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.


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Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.


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One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.


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He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.


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If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.


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For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.


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You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.


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It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’”


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Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.


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As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.


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If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.


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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,


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Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.


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It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.


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So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves.


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But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.


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For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”


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For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.


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May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus,


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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs


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so that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to your name.”


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And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him.”


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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


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Paul the Minister to the Gentiles I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.


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I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me


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to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


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I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—


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by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.


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It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.


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Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”


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Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to see you,


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I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to visit you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.


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For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.


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They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.


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So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this fruit, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.


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I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.


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Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,


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I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been a great help to many people, including me.


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They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.


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Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.


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Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.


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Greet Apelles, tested and approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.


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Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.


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I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.


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For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.


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Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.


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Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.


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Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings. Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.


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Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past,


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but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him—


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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:


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Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.


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He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Divisions in the Church I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.


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What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”


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(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.)


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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.


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Christ the Wisdom and Power of God For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.


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For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”


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Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?


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For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.


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but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.


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For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.


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Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.


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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.


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He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,


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It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.


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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.


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My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,


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Wisdom From the Spirit We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.


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No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.


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None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.


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However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”—


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but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.


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For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.


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We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.


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This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.


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The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.


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The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:


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On Divisions in the Church Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ.


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I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.


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You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?


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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.


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The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.


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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.


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his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work.


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If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.


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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.


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Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;


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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,


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Apostles of Christ So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.


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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.


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Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.


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For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?


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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings—and that without us! How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you!


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For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men.


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We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!


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To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.


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We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;


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when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.


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Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.


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For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.


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But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.


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Expel the Immoral Brother! It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.


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And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?


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Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.


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When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,


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hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.


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Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?


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Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.


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Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.


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not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.


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But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.


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Lawsuits Among Believers If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints?


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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?


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Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church!


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I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?


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The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?


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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders


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nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.


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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


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Sexual Immorality “Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything.


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“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.


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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!


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Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”


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Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.


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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;


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But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.


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The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.


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Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.


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I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.


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But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.


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To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.


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But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.


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To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.


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And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.


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For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.


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But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.


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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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Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.


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Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised.


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Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so.


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For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.


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Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.


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But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.


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What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;


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those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep;


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those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.


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I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord.


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and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.


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I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.


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If anyone thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if she is getting along in years and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married.


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But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing.


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A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.


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In my judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.


book: 1Cor
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Food Sacrificed to Idols Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.


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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one.


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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),


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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.


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But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.


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Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.


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For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, won’t he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?


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When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.


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Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.


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The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?


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Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.


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


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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk?


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For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?


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Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.


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If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.


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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 share in what is offered on the altar?


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In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.


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But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of this boast.


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Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!


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If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.


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What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make use of my rights in preaching it.


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Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.


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To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.


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To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.


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To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.


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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.


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Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.


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No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.


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Warnings From Israel’s History For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.


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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.


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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.


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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry.”


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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.


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These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.


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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.


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Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?


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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.


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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.


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The Believer’s Freedom “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive.


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


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But if anyone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience’ sake—


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the other man’s conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?


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If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?


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even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.


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Propriety in Worship I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.


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Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.


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And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved.


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If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.


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A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.


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For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.


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The Lord’s Supper In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good.


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In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.


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for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk.


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Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? Certainly not!


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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,


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and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”


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In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”


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Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.


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For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.


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When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.


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If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment. And when I come I will give further directions.


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You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.


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Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.


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To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,


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to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.


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All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.


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One Body, Many Parts The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.


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For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.


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If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.


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And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.


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If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?


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But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.


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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”


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and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,


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while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,


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so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.


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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.


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And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.


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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.


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If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.


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If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.


book: 1Cor
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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.


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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.


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Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.


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Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.


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For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.


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I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be edified.


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Now, brothers, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?


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Even in the case of lifeless things that make sounds, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes?


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So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.


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If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.


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So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.


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So what shall I do? 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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If you are praising God with your spirit, how can one who finds himself among those who do not understand say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?


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But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.


book: 1Cor
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.


book: 1Cor
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In the Law it is written: “Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.


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Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.


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So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?


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But if an unbeliever or someone who does not understand comes in while everybody is prophesying, he will be convinced by all that he is a sinner and will be judged by all,


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and the secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”


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Orderly Worship What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church.


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If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret.


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If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.


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women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says.


book: 1Cor
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If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.


book: 1Cor
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If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command.


book: 1Cor
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The Resurrection of Christ Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.


book: 1Cor
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By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.


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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,


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After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.


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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.


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The Resurrection of the Dead But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.


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Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.


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For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.


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When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.


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Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?


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If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”


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Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.


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The Resurrection Body But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”


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When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.


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All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.


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There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.


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The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.


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So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;


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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.


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As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.


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And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.


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I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.


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in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.


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When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”


book: 1Cor
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Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.


book: 1Cor
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The Collection for God’s People Now about the collection for God’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do.


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On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.


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Then, when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem.


book: 1Cor
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Personal Requests After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you—for I will be going through Macedonia.


book: 1Cor
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Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go.


book: 1Cor
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I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.


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If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is carrying on the work of the Lord, just as I am.


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No one, then, should refuse to accept him. Send him on his way in peace so that he may return to me. I am expecting him along with the brothers.


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Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was quite unwilling to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.


book: 1Cor
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You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. I urge you, brothers,


book: 1Cor
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I was glad when Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.


book: 1Cor
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Final Greetings The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.


book: 2Cor
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:


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The God of All Comfort Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,


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who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.


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For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.


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If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.


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And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.


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We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.


book: 2Cor
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Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.


book: 2Cor
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He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,


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as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.


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Paul’s Change of Plans Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God’s grace.


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as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea.


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When I planned this, did I do it lightly? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say, “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”


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For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.


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set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.


book: 2Cor
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Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I wrote as I did so that when I came I should not be distressed by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.


book: 2Cor
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For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.


book: 2Cor
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Forgiveness for the Sinner If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent—not to put it too severely.


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Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.


book: 2Cor
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If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Ministers of the New Covenant Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,


book: 2Cor
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I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-by to them and went on to Macedonia.


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But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.


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To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?


book: 2Cor
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Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.


book: 2Cor
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Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.


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He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


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The Glory of the New Covenant Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,


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If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!


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We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away.


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But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.


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And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.


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Treasures in Jars of Clay Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.


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Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.


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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.


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For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.


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For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.


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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.


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We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.


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For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.


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It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,


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because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence.


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All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.


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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.


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For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.


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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.


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Our Heavenly Dwelling Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.


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For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.


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Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.


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Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.


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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.


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The Ministry of Reconciliation Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.


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We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.


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For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.


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And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.


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So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.


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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:


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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.


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We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.


book: 2Cor
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God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


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For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.


book: 2Cor
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Paul’s Hardships We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.


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Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;


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in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;


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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.


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Do Not Be Yoked With Unbelievers Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?


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What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?


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What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”


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“Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”


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Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.


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Paul’s Joy Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.


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I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you.


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I have great confidence in you; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.


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For when we came into Macedonia, this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within.


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and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.


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Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—


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yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.


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Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.


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See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.


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So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong or of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are.


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By all this we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.


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I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well.


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And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling.


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Generosity Encouraged And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches.


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Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.


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For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own,


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And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God’s will.


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So we urged Titus, since he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part.


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But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.


book: 2Cor
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I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.


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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.


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And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.


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Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.


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For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.


book: 2Cor
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Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.


book: 2Cor
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At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality,


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as it is written: “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little.”


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For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative.


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And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel.


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What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help.


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For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.


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In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you.


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As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ.


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Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.


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For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.


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But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.


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For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.


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So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.


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Sowing Generously Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.


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Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.


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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.


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As it is written: “He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”


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Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.


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You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.


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This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.


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Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.


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And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.


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Paul’s Defense of His Ministry By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” when away!


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I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.


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The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.


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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.


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You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.


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For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it.


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For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.”


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Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.


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We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.


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We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you.


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We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ.


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Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand,


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so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in another man’s territory.


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Paul and the False Apostles I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that.


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I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.


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But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.


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For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.


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I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.


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Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?


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And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.


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As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.


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And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.


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It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.


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Paul Boasts About His Sufferings I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.


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In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face.


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To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! What anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about.


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Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.


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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,


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I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers.


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I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.


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In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.


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Paul’s Vision and His Thorn I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.


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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.


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Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say.


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To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.


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But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.


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That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.


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Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.


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The things that mark an apostle—signs, wonders and miracles—were done among you with great perseverance.


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How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!


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Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.


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So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?


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Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!


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I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not act in the same spirit and follow the same course?


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Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.


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For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.


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I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.


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Final Warnings This will be my third visit to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”


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I already gave you a warning when I was with you the second time. I now repeat it while absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others,


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since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.


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For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him to serve you.


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Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?


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Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong. Not that people will see that we have stood the test but that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed.


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This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.


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Final Greetings Finally, brothers, good-by. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.


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May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.


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Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—


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who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,


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No Other Gospel I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—


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which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.


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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!


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As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!


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Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.


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Paul Called by God I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up.


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I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.


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For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.


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I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.


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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.


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Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.


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They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”


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Paul Accepted by the Apostles Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.


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I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be leaders, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.


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This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.


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As for those who seemed to be important—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance—those men added nothing to my message.


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On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews.


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For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.


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James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.


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Paul Opposes Peter When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.


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Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.


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The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.


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When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?


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know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.


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“If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!


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I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”


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Faith or Observance of the Law You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.


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I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?


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Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?


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Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?


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The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”


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All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”


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He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.


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The Law and the Promise Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.


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The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.


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What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.


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For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.


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What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.


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Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.


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But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.


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Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.


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There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


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What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.


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Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”


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Paul’s Concern for the Galatians Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.


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But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?


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Even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.


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What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.


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Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.


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It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.


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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.


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His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.


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These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.


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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.


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For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”


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At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.


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But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”


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Freedom in Christ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.


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Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.


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Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.


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You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.


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I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.


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Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.


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You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.


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Life by the Spirit So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.


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For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.


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idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions


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and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Doing Good to All Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.


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Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else,


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The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.


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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.


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Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.


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Not Circumcision but a New Creation See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!


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Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.


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Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh.


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May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:


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Spiritual Blessings in Christ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.


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For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love


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he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—


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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace


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And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,


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to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.


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In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,


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And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,


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who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.


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Thanksgiving and Prayer For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,


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I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.


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I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,


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and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength,


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which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,


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far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.


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And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,


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in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.


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All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.


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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.


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in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.


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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—


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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.


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One in Christ Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men)—


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remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.


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But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.


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For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,


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by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,


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and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.


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Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,


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built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.


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Paul the Preacher to the Gentiles For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—


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which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets.


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This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.


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I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power.


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Although I am less than the least of all God’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,


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and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.


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His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,


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I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,


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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,


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may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,


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and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.


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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,


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to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.


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Unity in the Body of Christ As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.


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This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.”


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He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)


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It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,


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until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.


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Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.


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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.


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From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.


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Living as Children of Light So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.


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They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.


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Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.


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You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;


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Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.


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He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.


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Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.


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and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.


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But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.


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Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.


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For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.


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for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”


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Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,


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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.


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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.


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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.


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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—


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“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”


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However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.


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Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.


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Slaves and Masters Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.


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Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.


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because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.


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And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.


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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.


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Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.


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Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,


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In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.


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And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.


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Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,


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Final Greetings Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing.


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I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.


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Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:


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being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.


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It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me.


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so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,


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filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.


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Paul’s Chains Advance the Gospel Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.


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As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.


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Because of my chains, most of the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the word of God more courageously and fearlessly.


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The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains.


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But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,


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for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.


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I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.


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If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!


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Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,


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Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel


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without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God.


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For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him,


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Imitating Christ’s Humility If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,


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then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.


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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.


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And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!


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Shining as Stars Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,


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so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe


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as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.


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But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.


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Timothy and Epaphroditus I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you.


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But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.


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But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs.


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Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.


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Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.


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because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help you could not give me.


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No Confidence in the Flesh Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.


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For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—


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though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:


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circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;


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What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ


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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.


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I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,


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Pressing on Toward the Goal Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.


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Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,


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All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.


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Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you.


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For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.


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Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.


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who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.


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Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends!


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Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.


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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.


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And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.


