Sabbath Regulations

¹Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, b“These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. ²cSix days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. ³dYou shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”

Contributions for the Tabernacle

⁴Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. ⁵eTake from among you a contribution to the Lord. fWhoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ⁶blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats' hair, ⁷tanned rams' skins, and goatskins;1 acacia wood, ⁸oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, ⁹and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

¹⁰“Let gevery skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: ¹¹hthe tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; ¹²ithe ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the jveil of the screen; ¹³kthe table with its poles and all its utensils, and the lbread of the Presence; ¹⁴mthe lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the noil for the light; ¹⁵oand the altar of incense, with its poles, pand the anointing oil and the qfragrant incense, and rthe screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; ¹⁶sthe altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the tbasin and its stand; ¹⁷uthe hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; ¹⁸vthe pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their wcords; ¹⁹the xfinely worked garments for ministering2 in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

²⁰Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. ²¹And they came, yeveryone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, zand brought the Lord's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²²So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³And aevery one who possessed bblue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or goatskins brought them. ²⁴cEveryone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord's contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. ²⁵And every dskillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. ²⁶All the women ywhose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats' hair. ²⁷And the eleaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, ²⁸and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. ²⁹fAll the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord.

Construction of the Tabernacle

³⁰gThen Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; ³¹and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with hskill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, ³²to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, ³³in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. ³⁴And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has hfilled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

¹d“Let not your hearts be troubled. eBelieve in God;1 believe also in me. ²In fmy Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that gI go to prepare a place for you?2 ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you hto myself, that iwhere I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.”3 ⁵jThomas said to him, “Lord, kwe do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am lthe way, and mthe truth, and nthe life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷oIf you had known me, you would have pknown my Father also.4 From now on you do know him and qhave seen him.”

⁸rPhilip said to him, “Lord, sshow us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? tWhoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you vI do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else wbelieve on account of the works themselves.

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, xwhoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I yam going to the Father. ¹³zWhatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that athe Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴zIf you ask me5 anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵b“If you love me, you will ckeep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another dHelper,6 to be with you forever, ¹⁷even ethe Spirit of truth, fwhom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and gwill be7 in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; hI will come to you. ¹⁹iYet a little while and the world will see me no more, but jyou will see me. kBecause I live, you also will live. ²⁰lIn that day you will know that mI am in my Father, and nyou in me, and oI in you. ²¹pWhoever has my commandments and qkeeps them, he it is who loves me. And rhe who loves me swill be loved by my Father, and I will love him and tmanifest myself to him.” ²²uJudas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it vthat you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered him, w“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and xwe will come to him and ymake our home with him. ²⁴Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And zthe word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶But the aHelper, the Holy Spirit, bwhom the Father will send in my name, che will teach you all things and dbring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ²⁷ePeace I leave with you; fmy peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. gLet not your hearts be troubled, neither hlet them be afraid. ²⁸iYou heard me say to you, j‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I kam going to the Father, for lthe Father is greater than I. ²⁹And mnow I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, for nthe ruler of this world is coming. oHe has no claim on me, ³¹but I do pas the Father has commanded me, qso that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

¹aA false balance is an abomination to the Lord,

bbut a just weight is his delight.

²cWhen pride comes, then comes disgrace,

but with dthe humble is wisdom.

³eThe integrity of the upright guides them,

fbut the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

⁴gRiches do not profit in the day of wrath,

hbut righteousness delivers from death.

⁵The righteousness of the blameless ikeeps his way straight,

but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

⁶hThe righteousness of the upright delivers them,

but the treacherous jare taken captive by their lust.

⁷When the wicked dies, his khope will perish,

and lthe expectation of wealth1 perishes too.

⁸mThe righteous is delivered from trouble,

and the wicked walks into it instead.

⁹With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,

but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

¹⁰nWhen it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,

and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

¹¹By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,

but oby the mouth of the wicked pit is overthrown.

¹²Whoever qbelittles his neighbor lacks sense,

but a man of understanding remains silent.

¹³Whoever rgoes about slandering reveals secrets,

but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

¹⁴Where there is sno guidance, a people falls,

sbut in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

¹⁵tWhoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,

but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

¹⁶uA gracious woman gets honor,

and vviolent men get riches.

¹⁷wA man who is kind benefits himself,

but a cruel man hurts himself.

¹⁸The wicked earns deceptive wages,

but one who xsows righteousness gets a sure reward.

¹⁹Whoever is steadfast in righteousness ywill live,

but zhe who pursues evil will die.

²⁰Those of acrooked heart are ban abomination to the Lord,

but those of cblameless ways are dhis delight.

²¹eBe assured, fan evil person will not go unpunished,

but gthe offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

²²Like ha gold ring in a pig's snout

is a beautiful woman without discretion.

²³The desire of the righteous ends only in good,

ithe expectation of the wicked in wrath.

²⁴jOne gives kfreely, yet grows all the richer;

another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

²⁵lWhoever brings blessing mwill be enriched,

and none who waters will himself be watered.

²⁶oThe people curse him who holds back grain,

but pa blessing is on the head of him who qsells it.

²⁷Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor,2

but evil comes to rhim who searches for it.

²⁸Whoever strusts in his riches will fall,

but the righteous will tflourish like a green leaf.

²⁹Whoever utroubles his own household will vinherit the wind,

and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

³⁰The fruit of the righteous is wa tree of life,

and whoever xcaptures souls is wise.

³¹If ythe righteous is repaid on earth,

how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Unity in the Body of Christ

¹I therefore, ma prisoner for the Lord, urge you to nwalk in a manner worthy of othe calling to which you have been called, ²with all phumility and qgentleness, with rpatience, sbearing with one another in love, ³eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in tthe bond of peace. ⁴There is uone body and vone Spirit—just as you were called to the one whope that belongs to your call— ⁵xone Lord, yone faith, zone baptism, ⁶aone God and Father of all, bwho is over all and through all and in all. ⁷But cgrace was given dto each one of us eaccording to the measure of Christ's gift. ⁸Therefore it says,

f“When he ascended on high ghe led a host of captives,

and he gave gifts to men.”1

⁹(hIn saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into ithe lower regions, the earth?2 ¹⁰He who descended is the one who also jascended kfar above all the heavens, that he might lfill all things.) ¹¹And mhe gave the napostles, the prophets, the oevangelists, the pshepherds3 and teachers,4 ¹²qto equip the saints for the work of ministry, for rbuilding up sthe body of Christ, ¹³until we all attain to tthe unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, uto mature manhood,5 to the measure of the stature of vthe fullness of Christ, ¹⁴so that we may no longer be children, wtossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in xdeceitful schemes. ¹⁵Rather, yspeaking the truth in love, we are to zgrow up in every way into him who is athe head, into Christ, ¹⁶bfrom whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, cwhen each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

The New Life

¹⁷Now this I say and dtestify in the Lord, ethat you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, fin the futility of their minds. ¹⁸They gare darkened in their understanding, halienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to itheir hardness of heart. ¹⁹They jhave become callous and khave given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. ²⁰But that is not the way you llearned Christ!— ²¹assuming that myou have heard about him and nwere taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ²²to oput off pyour old self,6 which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through qdeceitful desires, ²³and rto be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴and to put on sthe new self, tcreated after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

²⁵Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you uspeak the truth with his neighbor, for vwe are members one of another. ²⁶wBe angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, ²⁷and xgive no opportunity to the devil. ²⁸Let the thief no longer steal, but rather ylet him labor, zdoing honest work with his own hands, so athat he may have something to share with anyone in need. ²⁹bLet no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give cgrace to those who hear. ³⁰And ddo not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, eby whom you were sealed for the day of fredemption. ³¹gLet all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. ³²hBe kind to one another, tenderhearted, iforgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.