¹⁶ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, ^(A)filling you with vain hopes. ^(B)They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ^(C)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who ^(D)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ^(E)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

^23 (P)“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? ^24 (Q)Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. ^(R)Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said ^(S)who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ^(T)‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ ²⁶ How long shall there be lies in the heart of ^(U)the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, ²⁷ who think to make my people forget my name ^(V)by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their ^(W)fathers forgot my name for Baal? ^28 (X)Let the prophet who has a dream ^(Y)tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. ^(Z)What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord. ^29 (AA)Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and ^(AB)like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ^30 (AC)Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’ ³² Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and ^(AD)lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when ^(AE)I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

¹⁹ For ^(A)though I am free from all, ^(B)I have made myself a servant to all, that I might ^(C)win more of them. ^20 (D)To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. ²¹ To ^(E)those outside the law I became ^(F)as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but ^(G)under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. ^22 (H)To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. ^(I)I have become all things to all people, that ^(J)by all means I might save some. ²³ I do it all for the sake of the gospel, ^(K)that I may share with them in its blessings.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives ^(L)the prize? So ^(M)run that you may obtain it. ²⁵ Every ^(N)athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we ^(O)an imperishable. ²⁶ So I do not run aimlessly; I ^(P)do not box as one ^(Q)beating the air. ²⁷ But I discipline my body and ^(R)keep it under control,^[a] lest after preaching to others ^(S)I myself should be ^(T)disqualified.

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection

^31 (A)And he began to teach them that ^(B)the Son of Man must ^(C)suffer many things and ^(D)be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and ^(E)after three days rise again. ³² And he said this ^(F)plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. ³³ But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ^(G)“Get behind me, Satan! For you ^(H)are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

³⁴ And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him ^(I)deny himself and ^(J)take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵ For ^(K)whoever would save his life^[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake ^(L)and the gospel's will save it. ^36 (M)For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? ³⁷ For ^(N)what can a man give in return for his soul? ³⁸ For ^(O)whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this ^(P)adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed ^(Q)when he comes in the glory of his Father with ^(R)the holy angels.”

9 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not ^(S)taste death ^(T)until they see the kingdom of God after it has come ^(U)with power.”