Bible Texts

Genesis 3
  1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
  2. And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:
  3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
  4. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
  5. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
  6. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
  7. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
  8. And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
  9. And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?
  10. And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
  11. And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
  12. And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
  13. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
  14. And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
  15. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
  16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
  17. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
  18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.
  19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
  20. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
  21. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
  22. And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
  23. And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
  24. And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 4:1-16
  1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.
  2. And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.
  3. And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.
  4. Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.
  5. But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell.
  6. And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?
  7. If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.
  8. And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.
  9. And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?
  10. And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth.
  11. Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.
  12. When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
  13. And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
  14. Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.
  15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.
  16. And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.
Genesis 12:1-9
  1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
  2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
  3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.
  5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,
  6. Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
  7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
  9. And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
Matthew 24:36-44
  1. But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.
  2. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
  3. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark:
  4. And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
  5. Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall be left.
  6. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and one shall be left.
  7. Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.
  8. But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
  9. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.
Matthew 25:31-33
  1. And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.
  2. And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:
  3. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.
Mark 8:34
  1. And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
John 2:17
  1. And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
John 14:6
  1. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
1 Corinthians 7:31
  1. And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.
Hebrews 11:1-16
  1. Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.
  2. For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.
  3. By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.
  4. By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.
  5. By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.
  6. But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.
  7. By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.
  8. By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.
  9. By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.
  10. For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.
  11. By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,
  12. For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
  13. All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.
  14. For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.
  15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.
  16. But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:13
  1. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
James 1:11
  1. For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1 Peter 2:11
  1. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2 Peter 3:10-13
  1. But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.
  2. Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?
  3. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning hea
  4. But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.
Revelation 21:9-22:5
  1. And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
  2. And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
  3. Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone even as crystal.
  4. And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
  5. On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates.
  6. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,
  7. And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall.
  8. And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.
  9. And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.
  10. And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold like to clear glass.
  11. And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:
  12. The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.
  13. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass.
  14. And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb.
  15. And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.
  16. And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into it.
  17. And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.
  18. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
  19. There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.
  1. And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
  2. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month: the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.
  3. And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him.
  4. And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their foreheads.
  5. And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever.