Absent in Body, Present in Spirit (Revelation 3:14–22)
1 TNT I wolde ye knewe what fyghtinge I have for youre sakes and for them of Laodicia and for as many as have not sene my parson in the flesshe BSB BSB: For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
2 TNT that their hertes myght be conforted and knet togedder in love and in all ryches of full vnderstondynge for to knowe the mistery of God the father and of Christ BSB BSB: that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
3 TNT in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. BSB BSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 TNT This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes. BSB BSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5 TNT For though I be absent in the flesshe yet am I present with you in the sprete ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe and youre stedfast fayth in Christ. BSB BSB: For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
Alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:1–10)
6 TNT As ye have therfore receaved Christ Iesu the Lorde even so walke BSB BSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
7 TNT roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes. BSB BSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
9 TNT For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheed bodyly BSB BSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10 TNT and ye are complete in him which is the heed of all rule and power BSB BSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11 TNT in whom also ye are circucised with circumcision made mith out hondes by puttinge of the sinfull boddy of the flesshe thorow the circumcision that is in Christ BSB BSB: In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
12 TNT in that ye are buryed with him thorow baptism in whom ye are also rysen agayne thorowe fayth that is wrought by the operacion of god which raysed him from deeth. BSB BSB: And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13 TNT And ye which weare deed in synne thorow the vncircumcision of youre flesshe hath he quyckened with him and hath forgeve vs all oure trespases BSB BSB: When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
14 TNT and hath put out the handwritinge that was agaynst vs contayned in the lawe writte and that hath he take out of the waye and hath fastened it to his crosse BSB BSB: having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
17 TNT which are nothinge but shaddowes of thynges to come: but the body is in Christ. BSB BSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18 TNT Let no man make you shote at a wronge (marke) which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde BSB BSB: Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
19 TNT and holdeth not the heed wherof all the body by ioyntes and couples receaveth norisshment and is knet to gedder and encreaseth with the in creasynge that commeth of god. BSB BSB: He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
20 TNT Wherfore if ye be deed with Christ from ordinaunces of the worlde why as though ye yet lived in the worlde are ye ledde with tradicions of them that saye? BSB BSB: If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
21 TNT Touche not tast not handell not: BSB BSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22 TNT which all perysshe with the vsinge of the and are after the commaundmentes and doctrins of men BSB BSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23 TNT which thinges have the similitude of wisdome in chosen holynes and humblenes and in that they spare not the body and do the flesshe no worshype vnto his nede. BSB BSB: Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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