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Ephesians 4

2008-11-15T00:46:28-07:00

4:1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

4:2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

4:3 Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

4:7 But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

4:8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

4:9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

4:10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)

4:11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

4:12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

4:13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

4:14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

4:15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

4:16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

4:17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

4:18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

4:19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

4:20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

4:21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

4:22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

4:23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

4:24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

4:25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

4:26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

4:27 And do not give way to the Evil One.

4:28 Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

4:29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

4:30 And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

4:31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

4:32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

Luke 10

2008-11-15T00:41:48-07:00

10:1 Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

10:2 And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.

10:3 Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves.

10:4 Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.

10:5 And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.

10:6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

10:7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

10:8 And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:

10:9 And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you.

10:10 But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say,

10:11 Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.

10:12 I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

10:13 A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

10:14 But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

10:15 And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

10:16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

10:17 And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.

10:18 And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.

10:19 See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.

10:20 Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

10:21 In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

10:22 All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

10:23 And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:

10:24 For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

10:25 And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

10:26 And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?

10:27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

10:28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.

10:29 But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

10:30 And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead.

10:31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

10:32 And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.

10:33 But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him,

10:34 And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

10:35 And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.

10:36 Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?

10:37 And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.

10:38 Now, while they were on their way, he came to a certain town; and a woman named Martha took him into her house.

10:39 And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.

10:40 But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.

10:41 But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:

10:42 Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

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1:1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

1:2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Luke 5

2008-09-26T17:10:31-06:00

5:1 Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;

5:2 And he saw two boats by the edge of the water, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

5:3 And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.

5:4 And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

5:5 And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

5:6 And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;

5:7 And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.

5:8 But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

5:9 For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;

5:10 And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

5:11 And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.

5:12 And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.

5:13 And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him.

5:14 And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.

5:15 But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.

5:16 But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

5:17 And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.

5:18 And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.

5:19 And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

5:20 And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

5:21 And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?

5:22 But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

5:23 Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?

5:24 But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (he said to the man who was ill,) I say to you, Get up, and take up your bed, and go into your house.

5:25 And straight away he got up before them, and took up his bed and went away to his house giving praise to God.

5:26 And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

5:27 And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

5:28 And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

5:29 And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

5:30 And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?

5:31 And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

5:32 I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

5:33 And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

5:34 And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?

5:35 But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

5:36 And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

5:37 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

5:38 But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

5:39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

Luke

2008-09-26T17:08:53-06:00

Luke

2 Corinthians 9

2008-09-26T17:06:07-06:00

9:1 But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:

9:2 For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

9:3 But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

9:4 For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.

9:5 So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

9:6 But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

9:7 Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

9:8 And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:

9:9 As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.

9:10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

9:11 Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

9:12 For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

9:13 For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

9:14 While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.

9:15 Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

Corinthians 2

2008-09-26T17:03:58-06:00

Corinthians 2

Galatians 2

2008-09-19T14:07:28-06:00

2:1 Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

2:2 And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

2:3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

2:4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

2:5 To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.

2:6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

2:7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

2:8 (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

2:9 When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

2:10 Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

2:12 For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

2:13 And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

2:14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

2:15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

2:16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

2:17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

2:18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

2:19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

2:20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

2:21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.