Jeremiah 18.0:

Jeremiah 18.1: 18The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 18.2: 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”

Jeremiah 18.3: 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.

Jeremiah 18.4: 4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18.5: 5 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 18.6: 6 “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Jeremiah 18.7: 7 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

Jeremiah 18.8: 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Jeremiah 18.9: 9 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

Jeremiah 18.10: 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

Jeremiah 18.11: 11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’

Jeremiah 18.12: 12 But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 18.13: 13 Therefore Yahweh says:

“Ask now among the nations,

‘Who has heard such things?’

The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

Jeremiah 18.14: 14 Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?

Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

Jeremiah 18.15: 15 For my people have forgotten me.

They have burned incense to false gods.

They have been made to stumble in their ways,

in the ancient paths,

to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Jeremiah 18.16: 16 to make their land an astonishment,

and a perpetual hissing.

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,

and shake his head.

Jeremiah 18.17: 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy.

I will show them the back, and not the face,

in the day of their calamity.

Jeremiah 18.18: 18 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 18.19: 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh,

and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

Jeremiah 18.20: 20 Should evil be recompensed for good?

For they have dug a pit for my soul.

Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them,

to turn away your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18.21: 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,

and give them over to the power of the sword.

Let their wives become childless and widows.

Let their men be killed

and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 18.22: 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses

when you bring a troop suddenly on them;

for they have dug a pit to take me

and hidden snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 18.23: 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me.

Don’t forgive their iniquity.

Don’t blot out their sin from your sight,

Let them be overthrown before you.

Deal with them in the time of your anger.

1 Corinthians 3.0:

1 Corinthians 3.1: 3Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3.2: 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

1 Corinthians 3.3: 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

1 Corinthians 3.4: 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

1 Corinthians 3.5: 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 3.6: 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3.7: 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

1 Corinthians 3.8: 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3.9: 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3.10: 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 3.11: 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3.12: 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

1 Corinthians 3.13: 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

1 Corinthians 3.14: 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3.15: 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

1 Corinthians 3.16: 16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3.17: 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

1 Corinthians 3.18: 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3.19: 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”a

1 Corinthians 3.20: 20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”b

1 Corinthians 3.21: 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

1 Corinthians 3.22: 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

1 Corinthians 3.23: 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

1 Peter 2.0:

1 Peter 2.1: 2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

1 Peter 2.2: 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

1 Peter 2.3: 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

1 Peter 2.4: 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

1 Peter 2.5: 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2.6: 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,

“Behold,1 I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious:

He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”a

1 Peter 2.7: 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,

“The stone which the builders rejected

has become the chief cornerstone,”b

1 Peter 2.8: 8 and,

“a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.”c

For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

1 Peter 2.9: 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2.10: 10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

1 Peter 2.11: 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 2.12: 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2.13: 13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

1 Peter 2.14: 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

1 Peter 2.15: 15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 2.16: 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

1 Peter 2.17: 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1 Peter 2.18: 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

1 Peter 2.19: 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

1 Peter 2.20: 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

1 Peter 2.21: 21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you2 an example, that you should follow his steps,

1 Peter 2.22: 22 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”d

1 Peter 2.23: 23 When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

1 Peter 2.24: 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.3

1 Peter 2.25: 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer4 of your souls.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.0:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.1: 8And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.2: 2 I will tell you now a similitude, Esdras; As when you asks the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives very much mold whereof earthen vessels are made, and little dust that gold comes of: even so is the course of the present world.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.3: 3 There be many created, but few shall be saved.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.4: 4 And I answered and said, Swallow down understanding then, O my soul, and let my heart devour wisdom.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.5: 5 For you 1 are come here without your will, and depart when you would not: for there is given you no longer space than only to live a short time.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.6: 6 O Lord, that are over us, suffer your servant, that we may pray before you, and give us seed to our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one shall live that is corrupt, who bears the 2 likeness of a man.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.7: 7 For you are alone, and we all one workmanship of your hands, like as you have said.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.8: 8 Forasmuch as you quicken the body that is fashioned now in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months does your workmanship endure your creature which is created in her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.9: 9 But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept 3 by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.10: 10 you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.11: 11 that the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you shall order it in your mercy.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.12: 12 Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, and nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.13: 13 And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.14: 14 If therefore you shall 4 lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.15: 15 Now therefore I will speak; touching man in general, you know best; but touching your people I will speak, for whose sake I am sorry;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.16: 16 and for your inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for the seed of Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.17: 17 therefore I will begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.18: 18 but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.19: 19 Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you.

The beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up. And he said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.20: 20 O Lord, you who 5 remain forever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.21: 21 whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the army of angels stand with trembling,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.22: 22 6 at whose bidding they are changed to wind and fire; whose word is sure, and sayings constant; whose ordinance is strong, and commandment fearful;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.23: 23 whose look dries up the depths, and whose indignation makes the mountains to melt away, and whose truth bears witness:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.24: 24 hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servant, and give ear to the petition of your handiwork;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.25: 25 attend to my words, for so long as I live I will speak, and so long as I have understanding I will answer.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.26: 26 O look not upon the sins of your people; but on those who have served you in truth,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.27: 27 Regard not the doings of those who deal wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.28: 28 Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before you; but remember them which have willingly known your fear.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.29: 29 Let it not be your will to destroy them which have lived like cattle; but look upon those who have 7 clearly taught your law.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.30: 30 Take you no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love those who have always put their trust in your glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.31: 31 For we and our fathers have 8 passed our lives in 9 ways that bring death: but you because of us sinners 1 are called merciful.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.32: 32 For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us, then shall you be called merciful, to us, namely, that have no works of righteousness.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.33: 33 For the just, which have many good works laid up with you, shall for their own deeds receive reward.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.34: 34 For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.35: 35 For in truth there is no man among those who are born, but he has dealt wickedly; and among them 2 that have lived there is none which have not done amiss.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.36: 36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and your goodness shall be declared, if you be merciful to them which have no store of good works.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.37: 37 Then answered he me, and said, Some things have you spoken aright, and according to your words so shall it come to pass.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.38: 38 For indeed I will not think on the fashioning of them which have sinned, or their death, their judgement, or their destruction;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.39: 39 but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.40: 40 Like therefore as I have spoken, so shall it be.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.41: 41 For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown shall 3 come up in due season, neither shall all that is planted take root: even so those who are sown in the world shall not all be saved.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.42: 42 I answered then and said, if I have found favor, let me speak before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.43: 43 Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, 4 so perishes;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.44: 44 likewise man, which is formed with your hands, and is called your own image, because he is made like to you, for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like to the husbandman’s seed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.45: 45 Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.46: 46 Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for those who now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.47: 47 For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.48: 48 Yet in this shall you be admirable to the Most High;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.49: 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself worthy to be among the righteous, so as to be much glorified.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.50: 50 For many grievous miseries shall fall on those who in the last times dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.51: 51 But understand you for yourself, and of such as be like you seek out the glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.52: 52 For to you is paradise opened, the tree of life planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is 5 allowed, goodness is perfected, wisdom being perfect beforehand.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.53: 53 The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and 6 [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.54: 54 sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.55: 55 Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.56: 56 For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.57: 57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.58: 58 and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.59: 59 For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.60: 60 but they which be created have themselves defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful to him which prepared life for them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.61: 61 And therefore is my judgement now at hand,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.62: 62 which I have not showed to all men, but to you, and a few like you.

Then answered I and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.63: 63 Behold, O Lord, now have you showed me the multitude of the wonders, which you will do in the last times: but at what time, you have not showed me.