Book of Common Prayer
3 1 Therefore, bearing[a] it no longer, we preferred[b] to be left-behind in Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and a fellow-worker of God in[c] the good-news of Christ, so that he might establish[d] you and encourage you concerning your faith, 3 that no one might be disturbed[e] by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed[f] for this. 4 For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we were going to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and just as you know. 5 For this reason, and I bearing it no longer, I sent Timothy so as to know your faith— that the one tempting had not somehow tempted you and our labor proved-to-be in vain[g].
Timothy Now Returned With Encouraging News About Your Faith And Love. I Am Rejoicing!
6 And Timothy having just-now[h] come to us from you, and having announced-the-good-news to us as to your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always[i], yearning to see us just as we also you— 7 because of this, brothers, we were encouraged over you in all our distress and affliction, through your faith. 8 Because now we live!— if you are standing-firm in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can we return[j] to God for you for all the joy with which we are-rejoicing[k] because of you before our God?— 10 while praying super-abundantly by night and by day that we may see your face and complete the things lacking from your faith.
May God And Our Lord Jesus Guide Our Ways And Cause Us To Abound In Love
11 Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for everyone (just as we also for you), 13 so that He may establish your hearts so as to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy[l] ones. Amen.
Sadducees Question Jesus About The Resurrection of a Wife With Seven Husbands
27 And having come to Him, some of the Sadducees— the ones denying that there is a resurrection— questioned Him, 28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us [in Deut 25:5] that if a brother of someone dies having a wife, and this[a] one is childless, that his brother should take the wife and raise-up-from her a seed[b] for his brother. 29 So there were seven brothers. And the first, having taken a wife, died childless. 30 And the second. 31 And the third took her. And similarly, the seven also did not leave-behind children, and died. 32 Last, the woman also died. 33 The woman, therefore, at the resurrection— of which of them does she become the wife? For the seven had her as wife”. 34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of [c] this age marry and are given-in-marriage. 35 But the ones having been considered-worthy to attain[d] that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor are they given-in-marriage. 36 For they are not even still able to die, for they are angel-like[e]. And they are sons[f] of God, being sons of [g] the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed[h] at the bush [in Ex 3:16]— when he calls the Lord the ‘God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob’. 38 Now He is not God of dead ones, but of living ones. For to Him all are alive”. 39 And having responded, some of the scribes said, “Teacher, You spoke well”. 40 For they were no longer daring to ask Him anything.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing