5:11"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. ^5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

7:15"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. ^7:16By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ^7:17Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. ^7:18A good tree can’t bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ^7:19Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. ^7:20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. ^7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ^7:22Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy by your name, by your name cast out demons, and by your name do many mighty works?’ ^7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

24:23"Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it. ^24:24For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

2:2"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

22:12"Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. ^22:13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ^22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. ^22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. ^22:16I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."

7:4It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ^7:5Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in? ^7:6for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tent. ^7:7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? ^7:8Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel; ^7:9and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. ^7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, ^7:11and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. ^7:12When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ^7:13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ^7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; ^7:15but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. ^7:16Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

2:1Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, ^2:2I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man; ^2:3and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. ^2:4That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

3:1Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. ^3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days. ^3:3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ^3:4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar. ^3:5In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you. ^3:6Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great lovingkindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great lovingkindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. ^3:7Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don’t know how to go out or come in. ^3:8Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for multitude. ^3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people? ^3:10The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ^3:11God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; ^3:12behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you. ^3:13I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days. ^3:14If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days. ^3:15Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

9:1It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, ^9:2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ^9:3Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. ^9:4As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; ^9:5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. ^9:6But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; ^9:7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ^9:8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? ^9:9And they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them. ^9:10It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house

10:23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. ^10:24All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

13:1Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. ^13:2As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."

13:6When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, ^13:7who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God. ^13:8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith. ^13:9But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, ^13:10and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? ^13:11Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!"

Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. ^13:12Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

21:17When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. ^21:18The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present. ^21:19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry. ^21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law. ^21:21They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs. ^21:22What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come. ^21:23Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have a vow on them. ^21:24Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law. ^21:25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."