The New Testament in the Order

It Was Written (J. N. Darby Version)

 

Contents:

 

Galatians (A. D. 49)

James (A. D. 50)

1 Thessalonians (A. D. 51)

2 Thessalonians (A. D. 52)

1 Corinthians (A. D. 55)

2 Corinthians (A. D. 57)

Romans (A. D. 57)

Mark (late 50s - early 60s)

Matthew (late 50s - early 60s)

Luke (A. D. 60-61)

Colossians (A. D. 61)

Philemon (A. D. 61)

Ephesians (A. D. 61)

Philippians (A. D. 62)

 

I Timothy (A. D. 63)

Acts (A. D. 63)

Hebrews (A. D. 64)

Titus (A. D. 65)

John (A. D. 65)

1 John (A. D. 65)

2 John (A. D. 65)

3 John (A. D. 65)

1 Peter (A. D. 65)

2 Timothy (A. D. 67)

2 Peter (A. D. 67)

Jude (A. D. 68)

Revelation (A.D. 70)

 

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Galatians (A. D. 49)

 

48N   1     1     Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through  Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among  [the] dead, 

48N   1     2     and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.

48N   1     3     Grace to you, and peace, from God [the] Father, and our Lord  Jesus Christ, 

48N   1     4     who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us  out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God  and Father;

48N   1     5     to whom [be] glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

48N   1     6     I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called  you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

48N   1     7     which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble  you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.

48N   1     8     But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad  tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as  glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

48N   1     9     As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one  announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have  received, let him be accursed.

48N   1     10    For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to  please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's  bondman.

48N   1     11    But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings  which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

48N   1     12    For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I  taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

48N   1     13    For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in  Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and  ravaged it;

48N   1     14    and advanced in Judaism beyond many [my] contemporaries in  my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my  fathers.

48N   1     15    But when God, who set me apart [even] from my mother's  womb, and called [me] by his grace,

48N   1     16    was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce  him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not  counsel with flesh and blood,

48N   1     17    nor went I up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles  before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to  Damascus.

48N   1     18    Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make  acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

48N   1     19    but I saw none other of the apostles, but James the brother  of the Lord.

48N   1     20    Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

48N   1     21    Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

48N   1     22    But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea  which [are] in Christ;

48N   1     23    only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly  now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he  ravaged:

48N   1     24    and they glorified God in me.

48N   2     1     Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to  Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];

48N   2     2     and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before  them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but  privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I  run or had run in vain;

48N   2     3     (but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek,  compelled to be circumcised;)

48N   2     4     and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in  surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our  liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us  into bondage;

48N   2     5     to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that  the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

48N   2     6     But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat --  whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does  not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous  communicated nothing;

48N   2     7     but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the  uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of  the circumcision,

48N   2     8     (for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the  circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

48N   2     9     and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and  John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and  Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go]  to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;

48N   2     10    only that we should remember the poor, which same thing  also I was diligent to do.

48N   2     11    But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the]  face, because he was to be condemned:

48N   2     12    for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those  of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated  himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;

48N   2     13    and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling  part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by  their dissimulation.

48N   2     14    But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly,  according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter  before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and  not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

48N   2     15    We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,

48N   2     16    but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of  works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also  have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on  the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of  law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be  justified.

48N   2     17    Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have  been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be  the thought.

48N   2     18    For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again,  I constitute myself a transgressor.

48N   2     19    For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to  God.

48N   2     20    I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but  Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live  by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and  given himself for me.

48N   2     21    I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness  [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

48N   3     1     O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as  before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed,  crucified [among you]?

48N   3     2     This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the  Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of  faith?

48N   3     3     Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to  be made perfect in flesh?

48N   3     4     Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in  vain?

48N   3     5     He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works  miracles among you, [is it] on the principle of works of law,  or of [the] report of faith?

48N   3     6     Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as  righteousness.

48N   3     7     Know then that they that are on the principle of faith,  these are Abraham's sons;

48N   3     8     and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the  nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the  glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be  blessed.

48N   3     9     So that they who are on the principle of faith are blessed  with believing Abraham.

48N   3     10    For as many as are on the principle of works of law are  under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does  not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of  the law to do them;

48N   3     11    but that by law no one is justified with God [is] evident,  because The just shall live on the principle of faith;

48N   3     12    but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that  shall have done these things shall live by them.

48N   3     13    Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having  become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every  one hanged upon a tree,)

48N   3     14    that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in  Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit  through faith.

48N   3     15    Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed  covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.

48N   3     16    But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his  seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,  And to thy seed; which is Christ.

48N   3     17    Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the  law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does  not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

48N   3     18    For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it  is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in  grace to Abraham by promise.

48N   3     19    Why then the law? It was added for the sake of  transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was  made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.

48N   3     20    But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

48N   3     21    [Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the  thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then  indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

48N   3     22    but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that  the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should  be given to those that believe.

48N   3     23    But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up  to faith [which was] about to be revealed.

48N   3     24    So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we  might be justified on the principle of faith.

48N   3     25    But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;

48N   3     26    for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

48N   3     27    For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put  on Christ.

48N   3     28    There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman;  there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ  Jesus:

48N   3     29    but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed,  heirs according to promise.

48N   4     1     Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs  nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

48N   4     2     but he is under guardians and stewards until the period  fixed by the father.

48N   4     3     So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage  under the principles of the world;

48N   4     4     but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth  his Son, come of woman, come under law,

48N   4     5     that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive  sonship.

48N   4     6     But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his  Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

48N   4     7     So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir  also through God.

48N   4     8     But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to  those who by nature are not gods;

48N   4     9     but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do  ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye  desire to be again anew in bondage?

48N   4     10    Ye observe days and months and times and years.

48N   4     11    I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as  to you.

48N   4     12    Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I  beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

48N   4     13    But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the  glad tidings to you at the first;

48N   4     14    and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not  slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel  of God, as Christ Jesus.

48N   4     15    What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness  that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have  given [them] to me.

48N   4     16    So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

48N   4     17    They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut  you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

48N   4     18    But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is  right, and not only when I am present with you --

48N   4     19    my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ  shall have been formed in you:

48N   4     20    and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my  voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

48N   4     21    Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not  listen to the law?

48N   4     22    For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the  maid servant, and one of the free woman.

48N   4     23    But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to  flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

48N   4     24    Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two  covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is  Hagar.

48N   4     25    For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to  Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her  children;

48N   4     26    but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

48N   4     27    For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;  break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the  children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her  that has a husband.

48N   4     28    But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are  children of promise.

48N   4     29    But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted  him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

48N   4     30    But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and  her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with  the son of the free woman.

48N   4     31    So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but  [children] of the free woman.

48N   5     1     Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and  be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

48N   5     2     Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised,  Christ shall profit you nothing.

48N   5     3     And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that  he is debtor to do the whole law.

48N   5     4     Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated  [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen  from grace.

48N   5     5     For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await  the hope of righteousness.

48N   5     6     For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor  uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

48N   5     7     Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the  truth?

48N   5     8     The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

48N   5     9     A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

48N   5     10    *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will  have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the  guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

48N   5     11    But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I  yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done  away.

48N   5     12    I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw  you into confusion.

48N   5     13    For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do]  not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by  love serve one another.

48N   5     14    For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt  love thy neighbour as thyself;

48N   5     15    but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not  consumed one of another.

48N   5     16    But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil  flesh's lust.

48N   5     17    For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit  against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the  other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

48N   5     18    but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

48N   5     19    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are  fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

48N   5     20    idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers,  contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

48N   5     21    envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like  these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have  said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit  God's kingdom.

48N   5     22    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,  long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

48N   5     23    meekness, self-control: against such things there is no  law.

48N   5     24    But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh  with the passions and the lusts.

48N   5     25    If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

48N   5     26    Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another,  envying one another.

48N   6     1     Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are  spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness,  considering thyself lest *thou* also be tempted.

48N   6     2     Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the  Christ.

48N   6     3     For if any man reputes himself to be something, being  nothing, he deceives himself;

48N   6     4     but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his  boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs  to another.

48N   6     5     For each shall bear his own burden.

48N   6     6     Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that  teaches in all good things.

48N   6     7     Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall  sow, that also shall he reap.

48N   6     8     For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption  from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit  shall reap eternal life:

48N   6     9     but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if  we do not faint, we shall reap.

48N   6     10    So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all,  and specially towards those of the household of faith.

48N   6     11    See how long a letter I have written to you with my own  hand.

48N   6     12    As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh,  these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be  persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

48N   6     13    For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep  the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may  boast in your flesh.

48N   6     14    But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our  Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me,  and I to the world.

48N   6     15    For [in Christ Jesus] neither is circumcision anything, nor  uncircumcision; but new creation.

48N   6     16    And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and  mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

48N   6     17    For the rest let no one trouble me, for *I* bear in my body  the brands of the Lord Jesus.

48N   6     18    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit,  brethren. Amen.

 

James (A. D. 50)

 

59N   1     1     James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the  twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting.

59N   1     2     Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various  temptations,

59N   1     3     knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

59N   1     4     But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be  perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

59N   1     5     But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who  gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given  to him:

59N   1     6     but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that  doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed  about;

59N   1     7     for let not that man think that he shall receive anything  from the Lord;

59N   1     8     [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

59N   1     9     But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,

59N   1     10    and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's  flower he will pass away.

59N   1     11    For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has  withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the  comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall  wither in his goings.

59N   1     12    Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having  been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has  promised to them that love him.

59N   1     13    Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For  God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no  one.

59N   1     14    But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his  own lust;

59N   1     15    then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin  fully completed brings forth death.

59N   1     16    Do not err, my beloved brethren.

59N   1     17    Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from  above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor  shadow of turning.

59N   1     18    According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth,  that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.

59N   1     19    So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to  hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

 

59N   1     20    for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.

59N   1     21    Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of  wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is  able to save your souls.

59N   1     22    But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only,  beguiling yourselves.

59N   1     23    For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer,  *he* is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

59N   1     24    for he has considered himself and is gone away, and  straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

59N   1     25    But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of  liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a  doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his doing.

59N   1     26    If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his  tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

59N   1     27    Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is  this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep  oneself unspotted from the world.

59N   2     1     My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,  [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:

59N   2     2     for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring  in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile  apparel,

59N   2     3     and ye look upon him who wears the splendid apparel, and  say, Do thou sit here well, and say to the poor, Do thou stand  there, or sit here under my footstool:

59N   2     4     have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become  judges having evil thoughts?

59N   2     5     Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to  the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he  has promised to them that love him?

59N   2     6     But *ye* have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich  oppress you, and [do not] *they* drag you before [the]  tribunals?

59N   2     7     And [do not] *they* blaspheme the excellent name which has  been called upon you?

59N   2     8     If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the  scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do  well.

59N   2     9     But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being  convicted by the law as transgressors.

59N   2     10    For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in  one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.

59N   2     11    For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also,  Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but  killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law.

59N   2     12    So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by  [the] law of liberty;

59N   2     13    for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn  no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

59N   2     14    What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have  faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

59N   2     15    Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of  daily food,

59N   2     16    and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be  warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for  the body, what [is] the profit?

59N   2     17    So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

59N   2     18    But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have  works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works  will shew thee my faith.

59N   2     19    *Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The  demons even believe, and tremble.

59N   2     20    But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is  dead?

59N   2     21    Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had  offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

59N   2     22    Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by  works faith was perfected.

59N   2     23    And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham  believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and  he was called Friend of God.

59N   2     24    Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works,  and not on the principle of faith only.

59N   2     25    But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified  on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers  and put [them] forth by another way?

59N   2     26    For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith  without works is dead.

59N   3     1     Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall  receive greater judgment.

59N   3     2     For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he*  [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

59N   3     3     Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that  they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.

59N   3     4     Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by  violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder,  wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.

59N   3     5     Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great  things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

59N   3     6     and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the  tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body,  and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire  of hell.

59N   3     7     For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of  creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed  by the human species;

59N   3     8     but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an  unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

59N   3     9     Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse  we men made after [the] likeness of God.

59N   3     10    Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It  is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

59N   3     11    Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth  sweet and bitter?

59N   3     12    Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs?  Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.

59N   3     13    Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out  of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

59N   3     14    but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts,  do not boast and lie against the truth.

59N   3     15    This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but  earthly, natural, devilish.

59N   3     16    For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder  and every evil thing.

59N   3     17    But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful,  gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning,  unfeigned.

59N   3     18    But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them  that make peace.

59N   4     1     Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it]  not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?

59N   4     2     Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and  cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask  not.

59N   4     3     Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may  consume [it] in your pleasures.

59N   4     4     Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is  enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend  of the world is constituted enemy of God.

59N   4     5     Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit  which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

59N   4     6     But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself  against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

59N   4     7     Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and  he will flee from you.

59N   4     8     Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse  [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye  double-minded.

59N   4     9     Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be  turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

59N   4     10    Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt  you.

59N   4     11    Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks  against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against  [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law,  thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

59N   4     12    One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to  destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?

59N   4     13    Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into  such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

59N   4     14    ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what  [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little  while, and then disappearing,)

59N   4     15    instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we  should live, we will also do this or that.

59N   4     16    But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is  evil.

59N   4     17    To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not,  to him it is sin.

59N   5     1     Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that  [are] coming upon [you].

59N   5     2     Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

59N   5     3     Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall  be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire.  Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days.

59N   5     4     Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your  fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of  those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord  of sabaoth.

59N   5     5     Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged  yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of  slaughter;

59N   5     6     ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not  resist you.

59N   5     7     Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the  Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the  earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and  [the] latter rain.

59N   5     8     *Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the  coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.

59N   5     9     Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not  judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

59N   5     10    Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having  patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the]  Lord.

59N   5     11    Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have  heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord;  that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

59N   5     12    But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by  heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your  yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under  judgment.

59N   5     13    Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any  happy? let him sing psalms.

59N   5     14    Is any sick among you? let him call to [him] the elders of  the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with  oil in the name of [the] Lord;

59N   5     15    and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord  shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it  shall be forgiven him.

59N   5     16    Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray  for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent  supplication of the righteous [man] has much power.

59N   5     17    Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with  prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the  earth three years and six months;

59N   5     18    and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the  earth caused its fruit to spring forth.

59N   5     19    My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and  one bring him back,

59N   5     20    let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the]  error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a  multitude of sins.

 

1 Thessalonians (A. D. 51)

 

52N   1     1     Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of  Thessalonians in God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.  Grace to you and peace.

52N   1     2     We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of  you at our prayers,

52N   1     3     remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of  love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ,  before our God and Father;

52N   1     4     knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

52N   1     5     For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but  also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance;  even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

52N   1     6     and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having  accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy  Spirit,

52N   1     7     so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia  and in Achaia:

52N   1     8     for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in  Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is]  towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say  anything;

52N   1     9     for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we  had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a  living and true God,

52N   1     10    and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from  among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

52N   2     1     For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we  had] to you, that it has not been in vain;

52N   2     2     but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye  know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you  the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

52N   2     3     For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,  nor in guile;

52N   2     4     but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad  tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but  God, who proves our hearts.

52N   2     5     For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering  discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for  covetousness, God [is] witness;

52N   2     6     nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from  others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

52N   2     7     but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would  cherish her own children.

52N   2     8     Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having  imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own  lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

52N   2     9     For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working  night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have  preached to you the glad tidings of God.

52N   2     10    *Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously  and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that  believe:

52N   2     11    as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to  exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

52N   2     12    that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own  kingdom and glory.

52N   2     13    And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly  that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us,  ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's  word, which also works in you who believe.

52N   2     14    For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies  of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have  suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they*  of the Jews,

52N   2     15    who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and  have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and  [are] against all men,

52N   2     16    forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be  saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has  come upon them to the uttermost.

52N   2     17    But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated  for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more  abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

52N   2     18    wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both  once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

52N   2     19    For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are]  not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

52N   2     20    for ye are our glory and joy.

52N   3     1     Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we  thought good to be left alone in Athens,

52N   3     2     and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God  in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage  [you] concerning your faith,

52N   3     3     that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For  yourselves know that we are set for this;

52N   3     4     for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we  are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass,  and ye know.)

52N   3     5     For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself,  sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted  you and our labour should be come to nothing.

52N   3     6     But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought  to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have  always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as  we also you;

52N   3     7     for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in  all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

52N   3     8     because now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord.

52N   3     9     For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all  the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

52N   3     10    night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may  see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?

52N   3     11    But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct  our way to you.

52N   3     12    But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love  toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards  you,

52N   3     13    in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in  holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord  Jesus with all his saints.

52N   4     1     For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in  [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought  to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would  abound still more.

52N   4     2     For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

52N   4     3     For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification,  that ye should abstain from fornication;

52N   4     4     that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in  sanctification and honour,

52N   4     5     (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not  God,)

52N   4     6     not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in  the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these  things, even as we also told you before, and have fully  testified.

52N   4     7     For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in  sanctification.

52N   4     8     He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother],  disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy  Spirit to you.

52N   4     9     Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should  write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one  another.

52N   4     10    For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole  of