John Chapter 4

{4:1} When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

{4:2} (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

{4:3} He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

{4:4} And he must needs go through Samaria.

{4:5} Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

{4:6} Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.

{4:7} There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

{4:8} (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

{4:9} Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

{4:10} Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

{4:11} The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

{4:12} Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

{4:13} Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

{4:14} But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

{4:15} The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

{4:16} Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

{4:17} The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

{4:18} For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

{4:19} The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

{4:20} Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

{4:21} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

{4:22} Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

{4:23} But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

{4:24} God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

{4:25} The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

John Chapter 3

{3:1} There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

{3:2} The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do

these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

{3:3} Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

{3:4} Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

{3:5} Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

{3:6} That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

{3:7} Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

{3:8} The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound

thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so

is every one that is born of the Spirit.

{3:9} Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

{3:10} Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

{3:11} Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and

testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

{3:12} If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things?

{3:13} And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man which is in heaven.

{3:14} And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

{3:15} That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

{3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

{3:17} For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

{3:18} He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

{3:19} And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

{3:20} For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

{3:21} But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

{3:22} After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

{3:23} And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

{3:24} For John was not yet cast into prison.

{3:25} Then there arose a question between [some] of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

John Chapter 2

{2:1} And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

{2:2} And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

{2:3} And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

{2:4} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

{2:5} His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do [it. ]

{2:6} And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

{2:7} Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

{2:8} And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare [it. ]

{2:9} When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

{2:10} And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: [but] thou hast kept the good wine until now.

{2:11} This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

{2:12} After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

{2:13} And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

{2:14} And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

{2:15} And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

{2:16} And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

{2:17} And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

{2:18} Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

{2:19} Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

{2:20} Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

{2:21} But he spake of the temple of his body.

{2:22} When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

{2:23} Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast [day,] many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

{2:24} But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all [men, ]

{2:25} And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

John Chapter 1

{1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

{1:2} The same was in the beginning with God.

{1:3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

{1:4} In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

{1:5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

{1:6} There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John.

{1:7} The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.

{1:8} He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.

{1:9} [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

{1:10} He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

{1:11} He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

{1:12} But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:

{1:13} Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

{1:14} And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

{1:15} John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

{1:16} And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

{1:17} For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

{1:18} No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him.]

{1:19} And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

{1:20} And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

{1:21} And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

{1:22} Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

{1:23} He said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

{1:24} And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

{1:25} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

James Chapter 5

{5:1} Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you. ]

{5:2} Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

{5:3} Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

{5:4} Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

{5:5} Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

{5:6} Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

{5:7} Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

{5:8} Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

{5:9} Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

{5:10} Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

{5:11} Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

{5:12} But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

{5:13} Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

{5:14} Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

{5:15} And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

{5:16} Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

{5:17} Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

{5:18} And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

{5:19} Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

{5:20} Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

James Chapter 4

{4:1} From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

{4:2} Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

{4:3} Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.

{4:4} Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

{4:5} Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

{4:6} But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

{4:7} Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

{4:8} Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.

{4:9} Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

{4:10} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

{4:11} Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

{4:12} There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

{4:13} Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

{4:14} Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

{4:15} For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

{4:16} But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

{4:17} Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

James Chapter 3

{3:1} My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

{3:2} For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

{3:3} Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

{3:4} Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

{3:5} Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

{3:6} And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

{3:7} For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

{3:8} But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

{3:9} Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

{3:10} Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

{3:11} Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?

{3:12} Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

{3:13} Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

{3:14} But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

{3:15} This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.

{3:16} For where envying and strife [is,] there [is] confusion and every evil work.

{3:17} But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

{3:18} And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

James Chapter 2

{2:1} My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.

{2:2} For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

{2:3} And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

{2:4} Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

{2:5} Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

{2:6} But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

{2:7} Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

{2:8} If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

{2:9} But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

{2:10} For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point,] he is guilty of all.

{2:11} For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

{2:12} So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

{2:13} For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

{2:14} What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

{2:15} If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

{2:16} And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?

{2:17} Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

{2:18} Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

{2:19} Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

{2:20} But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

{2:21} Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

{2:22} Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

{2:23} And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

{2:24} Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

{2:25} Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out another way?

{2:26} For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

James Chapter 1

{1:1} James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

{1:2} My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

{1:3} Knowing [this,] that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

{1:4} But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

{1:5} If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

{1:6} But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

{1:7} For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

{1:8} A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.

{1:9} Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

{1:10} But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

{1:11} For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

{1:12} Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

{1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

{1:14} But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

{1:15} Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

{1:16} Do not err, my beloved brethren.

{1:17} Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

{1:18} Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

{1:19} Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

{1:20} For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

{1:21} Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

{1:22} But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

{1:23} For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

{1:24} For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

{1:25} But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein,] he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

{1:26} If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.

{1:27} Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Hebrews Chapter 13

{13:1} Let brotherly love continue.

{13:2} Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

{13:3} Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

{13:4} Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

{13:5} [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

{13:6} So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

{13:7} Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation.

{13:8} Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

{13:9} Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

{13:10} We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

{13:11} For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

{13:12} Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

{13:13} Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

{13:14} For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

{13:15} By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.

{13:16} But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

{13:17} Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.

{13:18} Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

{13:19} But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

{13:20} Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

{13:21} Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

{13:22} And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

{13:23} Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

{13:24} Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

{13:25} Grace [be] with you all. Amen.