TR Concordance for εἰ

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?[fn] It's no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness[fn] in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

“If that's how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won't he do much more for you ​— ​you of little faith?

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.

“And no one puts[fn] new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

“It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,' how much more the members of his household!

“And if you're willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago.

“And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.

“All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires[fn] to reveal him.

“how he entered the house of God, and they ate[fn] the bread of the Presence ​— ​which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?

“If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

“If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

And they were offended by him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.”

“Lord, if it's you,” Peter answered him, “command me to come to you on the water.”

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

“An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of[fn] Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it's good for us to be here. If you want, I will set up[fn] three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

When they looked up they saw no one except Jesus alone.

“And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.[fn]

“I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”[fn]

“Why do you ask me about what is good? ”[fn] he said to him. “There is only one who is good.[fn] If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

“Don't I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous[fn] because I'm generous? '[fn]

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again! ” At once the fig tree withered.

“If David calls him ‘Lord,' how, then, can he be his son? ”

“Unless those days were cut short, no one would[fn] be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.

“For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

“Now concerning that day and hour no one knows ​— ​neither the angels of heaven nor the Son[fn] ​— ​except the Father alone.

“But know this: If the homeowner had known what time[fn] the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into.

“The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”

Going a little farther,[fn] he fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this[fn] cannot pass[fn] unless I drink it, your will be done.”

But Jesus kept silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! ”

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel! Let him[fn] come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

But the rest said, “Let's see if Elijah comes to save him.”

“Why does he speak like this? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone? ”

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.

“how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the Presence ​— ​which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests ​— ​and also gave some to his companions? ”

In order to accuse him, they were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath.

“And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished.

He did not let anyone accompany him except Peter, James, and John, James's brother.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.”

He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff ​— ​no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts,

Sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

The disciples had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

And he told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer.”[fn]

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall away ​— ​it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? ”

“Why do you call me good? ”  Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.

Seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to find out if there was anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs.

“If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one would be saved. But he cut those days short for the sake of the elect, whom he chose.

“For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

“Now concerning that day or hour no one knows ​— ​neither the angels in heaven nor the Son ​— ​but only the Father.

“For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”

He went a little farther, fell to the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a stick, offered him a drink, and said, “Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down.”

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died.

“Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone? ”

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, not only will he tear the new, but also the piece from the new garment will not match the old.

“how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat? He even gave some to those who were with him.”

The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely, to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against him.

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him ​— ​she's a sinner! ”

After he came to the house, he let no one enter with him except Peter, John, James, and the child's father and mother.

“You give them something to eat,” he told them.

“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

“If a person of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

“All things have[fn] been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires[fn] to reveal him.”

“I tell you, even though he won't get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend's shameless boldness,[fn] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

“What father among you, if his son[fn] asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? ”

“If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

As the crowds were increasing, he began saying, “This generation is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.[fn]

“If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

“If then you're not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

“If that's how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will he do for you ​— ​you of little faith?

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

“I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze!

“Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.' ”

“Lord,” someone asked him, “are only a few people going to be saved? ”

He said to them,

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

“So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?

“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

“Didn't any return to give glory to God except this foreigner? ”

“Why do you call me good? ” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me ​— ​nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

When those around him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword? ”

When Pilate heard this,[fn] he asked if the man was a Galilean.

“For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? ”

The people stood watching, and even the leaders were scoffing: “He saved others; let him save himself if this is God's Messiah, the Chosen One! ”

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren't the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet? ”

“If I have told you about earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat.[fn] They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone.

“not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father.

“For no one does anything in secret while he's seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

“If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won't be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

Then they asked him, “Where is your Father? ”

“You know neither me nor my Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”

“Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

“If this man were not from God, he wouldn't be able to do anything.”

“A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?[fn] If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”[fn]

“If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods' ​— ​and the Scripture cannot be broken ​— ​

“If I am not doing my Father's works, don't believe me.

Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died! ”

“So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

“If God is glorified in him,[fn] God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

“In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

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

“Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe[fn] because of the works themselves.

“You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

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

“If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not be guilty of sin. Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

“While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,[fn] so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

“I told you I am he,” Jesus replied. “So if you're looking for me, let these men go.”

“If I have spoken wrongly,” Jesus answered him, “give evidence[fn] about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit me? ”

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, so that I wouldn't be handed over to the Jews. But as it is,[fn] my kingdom is not from here.”

“You would have no authority over me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn't been given you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him! ”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king? ”

“We have no king but Caesar! ” the chief priests answered.

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it that you're seeking? ”

Supposing he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you've carried him away, tell me where you've put him, and I will take him away.”

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? ”

“If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,

“Tell me,” Peter asked her, “did you sell the land for this price? ”

“Yes,” she said, “for that price.”

“but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even be found fighting against God.” They were persuaded by him.

“Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart's intent may be forgiven.

They called out, asking if Simon, who was also named Peter, was lodging there.

“If, then, God gave them the same gift that he also gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God? ”

Now those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined[fn] the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

“He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

“But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? ”

“No,” they told him, “we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

“So if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a case against anyone, the courts are in session, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost.

“With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that[fn] they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and argued vehemently, “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? ”[fn]

“If then I did anything wrong and am deserving of death, I am not trying to escape death; but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar! ”

“Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding these matters.

“Why do any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

“that the Messiah would suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

When daylight came, they did not recognize the land but sighted a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore if they could.

What then? If some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness nullify God's faithfulness?

But if our unrighteousness highlights[fn] God's righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument:[fn] Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

But if by my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

If Abraham was justified[fn] by works, he has something to boast about ​— ​but not before God.

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise nullified,

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.

If by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be[fn] in the likeness of his resurrection.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

and if children, also heirs ​— ​heirs of God and coheirs with Christ ​— ​if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

Now if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.[fn]

Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast ​— ​you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these ​— ​the natural branches ​— ​be grafted into their own olive tree?

If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.

Yes, they were pleased, and indeed are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual benefits, then they are obligated to minister to them in material needs.

I thank God[fn][fn] that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

For who knows a person's thoughts[fn] except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn't receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn't received it?

Or don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the trivial cases?

Do not deprive one another ​— ​except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to[fn] prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you[fn] to live in peace.

Were you called while a slave? Don't let it concern you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.[fn]

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won't cause my brother or sister to fall.

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a commission.

No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.

If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I criticized because of something for which I give thanks?

For if a woman doesn't cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her head be covered.

If we were properly judging ourselves, we would not be judged,

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.

Therefore I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?

I wish all of you spoke in tongues,[fn] but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, none is without meaning.

If they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, since it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

If anyone ignores this, he will be ignored.[fn]

and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you ​— ​unless you believed in vain.

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead?[fn] If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?[fn]

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus as a mere man, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

And as for what you sow ​— ​you are not sowing the body that will be, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

For if I cause you pain, then who will cheer me other than the one being hurt by me?[fn]

I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.

For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.

For if what was set aside was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective.[fn] Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective,[fn] yet now we no longer know him in this way.

For even if I grieved you with my letter, I don't regret it. And if I regretted it ​— ​since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a while ​— ​

So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your devotion to us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!

Even if I am untrained in public speaking, I am certainly not untrained in knowledge. Indeed, we have in every way made that clear to you in everything.

So it is no great surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.

I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

So in what way are you worse off than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me for this wrong!

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you.[fn] If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you? ​— ​unless you fail the test.[fn]

not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

For am I now trying to persuade people,[fn] or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

But I didn't see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.

But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter[fn] of sin? Absolutely not!

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has graciously given it to Abraham through the promise.

Is the law therefore contrary to God's promises? Absolutely not! For if the law had been granted with the ability to give life, then righteousness would certainly be on the basis of the law.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir.

Where, then, is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Now brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

But what does “he ascended” mean except that he[fn] also descended to the lower parts of the earth?[fn]

Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don't know which one I should choose.

But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don't associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God's church?)

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

and is well known for good works ​— ​that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints' feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.

Don't accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

This saying is trustworthy:

For if we died with him,

we will also live with him;

And if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding[fn] and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

Even though we are speaking this way, dearly loved friends, in your case we are confident of things that are better and that pertain to salvation.

And this becomes clearer if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

Now if he were on earth, he wouldn't be a priest, since there are those[fn] offering the gifts prescribed by the law.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

But if you are without discipline ​— ​which all receive[fn] ​— ​then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.

Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and deny the truth.

Don't criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer[fn] defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

You rejoice in this,[fn] even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials

If you appeal to the Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, you are to conduct yourselves in reverence during your time living as strangers.

For it brings favor if, because of a consciousness of God, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear them[fn] or be intimidated,

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

If you are ridiculed for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God[fn] rests on you.

But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but let him glorify God in having that name.[fn]

For if, having escaped the world's impurity through the knowledge of the Lord[fn] and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.

Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because it is God's testimony that he has given about his Son.

“Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you[fn] and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

“So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only those people who do not have God's seal on their foreheads.

so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast's name or the number of its name.

They sang[fn] a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns[fn] were on his head. He had a name written that no one knows except himself.

Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.