³ And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

³³ And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.

⁴³ Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

³⁵ And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

¹² And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

¹⁹ My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,

²⁰ Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.

¹⁵ And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

²⁰ The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.

¹⁶ Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

¹⁷ And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

⁴⁰ And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

³⁰ The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

²² But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

²⁸ And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁴⁵ Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

¹⁶ And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

¹⁷ And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

³⁶ He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

³⁵ He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

¹⁰ In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.