Book of Common Prayer
Know That Difficult Times Will Come, And Turn Away From The Ungodly
3 But know this— that during the last days difficult[a] times will be present. 2 For the people will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unaffectionate, unreconcilable[b], slanderous, without-self-control, untamed[c], not-lovers-of-good, 4 traitors, reckless, having become conceited, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers, 5 holding a form of godliness but having denied the power of it. Indeed, be turning-away-from these ones.
For They Deceive The Ignorant And Oppose The Truth
6 For from these are the ones creeping into the houses and taking-captive little-women[d]— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires, 7 always learning and never being able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 And the way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, in this manner these also oppose the truth— people having been corrupted as to the mind, disapproved with respect to the faith. 9 But they will not advance further, for their folly will be very-evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two came-to-be[e].
Continue In The Teaching And Lifestyle You Have Seen In Me And Learned From The Scriptures
10 Now you closely-followed my teaching, way-of-life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings— such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. Such persecutions I endured! And the Lord delivered me out of them all! 12 And indeed all the ones wanting to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 And evil people and impostors will advance to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you, be continuing in the things which you learned and were convinced-of, knowing from whom[f] you learned, 15 and that from babyhood you have known the sacred writings being able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus!
All Scripture Is God-Breathed, And Profitable For Equipping Us For Good Works
16 All[g] Scripture is God-breathed[h], and profitable for teaching, for rebuking[i], for correcting[j], for training[k] in righteousness, 17 in order that the person of God may be complete[l], having been equipped for every good work.
Jesus Predicts His Death And Resurrection For The Third Time
32 And they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going-ahead-of them. And they were astonished. And the ones following were fearing. And having again taken aside the twelve, He began to tell them the things going-to happen to Him, 33 that “Behold— we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be handed-over to the chief priests and the scribes. And they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. 34 And they will mock Him and spit-on Him and whip Him and kill Him. And after three days, He will rise-up”.
Two Disciples Jockey For Position In The Kingdom. He Says, It Is Not Mine To Give
35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approach Him, saying to Him, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask You”. 36 And the One said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” 37 And the ones said to Him, “Grant to us that we may sit one on Your right side and one on the left side in Your glory”. 38 But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, or to be baptized the baptism which I am baptized?” 39 And the ones said to Him, “We are able”. And Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup which I drink. And you will be baptized the baptism which I am baptized. 40 But the sitting on My right side or on the left side is not Mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared”.
Whoever Wants To Be First Shall Be Your Slave. Even I Came To Serve
41 And having heard-of it, the ten began to be indignant about James and John. 42 And having summoned them, Jesus says to them, “You know that the ones having-the-reputation-of [a] being rulers of the Gentiles are lording-over[b] them, and their great ones are exercising-authority-over[c] them. 43 But it is not so among you. But whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first among you shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many”.
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