12:1The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said: 12:2See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in. 12:3And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it. 12:4In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind. 12:5And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God. 12:6In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem. 12:7And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah. 12:8In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. 12:9And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem. 12:10And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 12:11In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12:12And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 12:13The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 12:14And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.
13:1In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean. 13:2And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land. 13:3And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so. 13:4And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit: 13:5But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young. 13:6And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 13:7Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones. 13:8And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. 13:9And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
14:1See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes. 14:2For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town. 14:3Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight. 14:4And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. 14:5And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. 14:6And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice; 14:7And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. 14:8And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so. 14:9And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one. 14:10And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her. 14:11And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger. 14:12And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths. 14:13And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's. 14:14And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing. 14:15And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease. 14:16And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. 14:17And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain. 14:18And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: 14:19This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents. 14:20On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar. 14:21And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.
Malachi
1:1The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 1:2You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me, 1:3And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land. 1:4Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever. 1:5And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel. 1:6A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name? 1:7You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value. 1:8And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies. 1:9And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies. 1:10If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands. 1:11For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies. 1:12But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value. 1:13And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord. 1:14A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
2:1And now, O you priests, this order is for you. 2:2If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart. 2:3See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 2:4And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies. 2:5My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name. 2:6True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing. 2:7For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies. 2:8But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies. 2:9And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law. 2:10Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers? 2:11Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god. 2:12The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies. 2:13And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand. 2:14But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. 2:15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years. 2:16For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts. 2:17You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
3:1See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies. 3:2But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. 3:3He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness. 3:4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years. 3:5And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies. 3:6For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off. 3:7From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back? 3:8Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. 3:9You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. 3:10Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. 3:11And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies 3:12And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies. 3:13Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you? 3:14You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies? 3:15And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe. 3:16Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name. 3:17And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant. 3:18Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
4:1For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch. 4:2But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food. 4:3And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies. 4:4Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions. 4:5See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. 4:6And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Matthew
1:1The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 1:2The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers; 1:3And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram; 1:4And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon; 1:5And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse; 1:6And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah; 1:7And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa; 1:8And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah; 1:9And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah; 1:10And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah; 1:11And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon. 1:12And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel; 1:13And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor; 1:14And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud; 1:15And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob; 1:16And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ. 1:17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations. 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit. 1:19And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately. 1:20But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit. 1:21And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins. 1:22Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true, 1:23See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us. 1:24And Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had said to him, and took her as his wife; 1:25And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.
2:1Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2:2Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship. 2:3And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 2:4And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be. 2:5And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet, 2:6You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel. 2:7Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen. 2:8And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship. 2:9And after hearing the king, they went on their way; and the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the young child was. 2:10And when they saw the star they were full of joy. 2:11And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices. 2:12And it was made clear to them by God in a dream that they were not to go back to Herod; so they went into their country by another way. 2:13And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death. 2:14So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt; 2:15And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son. 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men. 2:17Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true, 2:18In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss. 2:19But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord came in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 2:20Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead. 2:21And he got up, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 2:22But when it came to his ears that Archelaus was ruling over Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was in fear of going there; and God having given him news of the danger in a dream, he went out of the way into the country parts of Galilee. 2:23And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.
3:1And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, 3:2Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near. 3:3For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. 3:4Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey. 3:5Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan; 3:6And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong. 3:7But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? 3:8Let your change of heart be seen in your works: 3:9And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. 3:10And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire. 3:11Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire: 3:12In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out. 3:13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him. 3:14But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me? 3:15But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism. 3:16And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove; 3:17And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
4:1Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One. 4:2And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it. 4:3And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread. 4:4But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God. 4:5Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, 4:6If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. 4:7Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test. 4:8Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; 4:9And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship. 4:10Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only. 4:11Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him. 4:12Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee; 4:13And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali: 4:14So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true, 4:15The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, 4:16The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up. 4:17From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near. 4:18And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 4:19And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. 4:20And straight away they let go the nets and went after him. 4:21And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come. 4:22And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him. 4:23And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people. 4:24And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well. 4:25And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.
5:1And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him. 5:2And with these words he gave them teaching, saying, 5:3Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 5:4Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted. 5:5Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage. 5:6Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire. 5:7Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy. 5:8Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God. 5:9Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God. 5:10Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs. 5:11Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me. 5:12Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you. 5:13You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men. 5:14You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all. 5:15And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house. 5:16Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. 5:17Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete. 5:18Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done. 5:19Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven. 5:20For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven. 5:21You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged: 5:22But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire. 5:23If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you, 5:24While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering. 5:25Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison. 5:26Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing. 5:27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: 5:28But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart. 5:29And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 5:30And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 5:31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose: 5:32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her. 5:33Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord: 5:34But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God; 5:35Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King. 5:36You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. 5:37But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One. 5:38You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 5:39But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned. 5:40And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him. 5:41And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two. 5:42Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it. 5:43You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you: 5:44But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you; 5:45So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner. 5:46For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same? 5:47And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same? 5:48Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
6:1Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 6:2When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward. 6:3But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does: 6:4So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward. 6:5And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. 6:6But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward. 6:7And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words. 6:8So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him. 6:9Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 6:10Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 6:11Give us this day bread for our needs. 6:12And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us. 6:13And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One. 6:14For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven. 6:15But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins. 6:16And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. 6:17But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean; 6:18So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward. 6:19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away. 6:20But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away: 6:21For where your wealth is, there will your heart be. 6:22The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. 6:23But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be! 6:24No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth. 6:25So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? 6:26See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? 6:27And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? 6:28And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread: 6:29But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 6:30But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith? 6:31Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? 6:32Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: 6:33But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition. 6:34Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.
7:1Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. 7:2For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you. 7:3And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye? 7:4Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye? 7:5You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye. 7:6Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you. 7:7Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: 7:8Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open. 7:9Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone? 7:10Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake? 7:11If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him? 7:12All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets. 7:13Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it. 7:14For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it. 7:15Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves. 7:16By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 7:17Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit. 7:18It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. 7:19Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. 7:20So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them. 7:21Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. 7:22A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? 7:23And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil. 7:24Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; 7:25And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. 7:26And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; 7:27And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall. 7:28And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching, 7:29for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
8:1And when he had come down from the mountain, great numbers of people came after him. 8:2And a leper came and gave him worship, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean. 8:3And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean. 8:4And Jesus said to him, See that you say nothing about this to anyone; but go and let the priest see you and make the offering which was ordered by Moses, for a witness to them. 8:5And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request, 8:6Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain. 8:7And he said to him, I will come and make him well. 8:8And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well. 8:9Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. 8:10And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel. 8:11And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain. 8:13And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour. 8:14And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother in bed, very ill. 8:15And he put his hand on hers and the disease went from her, and she got up and took care of his needs. 8:16And in the evening, they took to him a number of people who had evil spirits; and he sent the spirits out of them with a word, and made well all who were ill; 8:17So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases. 8:18Now when Jesus saw a great mass of people about him, he gave an order to go to the other side. 8:19And there came a scribe and said to him, Master, I will come after you wherever you go. 8:20And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head. 8:21And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father. 8:22But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead. 8:23And when he had got into a boat, his disciples went after him. 8:24And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping. 8:25And they came to him, and, awaking him, said, Help, Lord; destruction is near. 8:26And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. 8:27And the men were full of wonder, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea do his orders? 8:28And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way. 8:29And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time? 8:30Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food. 8:31And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs. 8:32And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea and came to their end in the water. 8:33And their keepers went in flight to the town and gave an account of everything, and of the men who had the evil spirits. 8:34And all the town came out to Jesus; and seeing him they made request that he would go away from their part of the country.
9:1And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town. 9:2And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins. 9:3And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God. 9:4And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil? 9:5For which is the simpler, to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go? 9:6But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house. 9:7And he got up and went away to his house. 9:8But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men. 9:9And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him. 9:10And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples. 9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners? 9:12But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. 9:13But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners. 9:14Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not? 9:15And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food. 9:16And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole. 9:17And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe. 9:18While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life. 9:19And Jesus got up and went after him, and so did his disciples. 9:20And a woman, who for twelve years had had a flow of blood, came after him, and put her hand on the edge of his robe: 9:21Because, she said to herself, if I may but put my hand on his robe, I will be made well. 9:22But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour. 9:23And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the players with their instruments and the people making a noise, 9:24He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him. 9:25But when the people were sent out, he went in and took her by the hand; and the girl got up. 9:26And the news of it went out into all that land. 9:27And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David. 9:28And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord. 9:29Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you. 9:30And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it. 9:31But they went out and gave news of him in all that land. 9:32And while they were going away, there came to him a man without the power of talking, and with an evil spirit. 9:33And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel. 9:34But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men. 9:35And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain. 9:36But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper. 9:37Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in. 9:38Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
10:1And he got together his twelve disciples and gave them the power of driving out unclean spirits, and of making well all sorts of disease and pain. 10:2Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother; 10:3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-farmer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 10:4Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who was false to him. 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria, 10:6But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel, 10:7And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near. 10:8Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give. 10:9Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets; 10:10Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food. 10:11And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away. 10:12And when you go in, say, May peace be on this house. 10:13And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you. 10:14And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet. 10:15Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town. 10:16See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves. 10:17But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows; 10:18And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. 10:19But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you; 10:20Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you. 10:21And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death. 10:22And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation. 10:23But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes. 10:24A disciple is not greater than his master, or a servant than his lord. 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house! 10:26Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear. 10:27What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops. 10:28And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell. 10:29Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father: 10:30But the hairs of your head are all numbered. 10:31Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows. 10:32To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven. 10:33But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven. 10:34Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. 10:35For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 10:36And a man will be hated by those of his house. 10:37He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. 10:38And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me. 10:39He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him. 10:40He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me. 10:41He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward. 10:42And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.
11:1And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns. 11:2Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples 11:3To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? 11:4And Jesus, answering, said to them, Go and give news to John of the things which you are seeing and hearing: 11:5The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them. 11:6And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me. 11:7And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind? 11:8But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses. 11:9But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. 11:10This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. 11:11Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 11:12And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. 11:13For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. 11:14And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come. 11:15He who has ears, let him give ear. 11:16But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another, 11:17We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief. 11:18For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit. 11:19The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works. 11:20Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins. 11:21Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads. 11:22But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you. 11:23And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day. 11:24But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you. 11:25At that time Jesus made answer 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. 11:26Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes. 11:27All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear. 11:28Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 11:29Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 11:30For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.