⁴³ and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

⁷ He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

²⁵ whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

¹⁵ stedfast `is' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;

¹⁶ but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

¹⁰ for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

¹⁸ Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

¹⁹ If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

³ and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

⁴ that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

⁸ For not My thoughts `are' your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

⁹ For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

²⁴ `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

¹¹ Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

¹⁸ Who `is' a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth `in' kindness.

²⁴ And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.

⁵ My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

²⁷ He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

²⁹ Lo, all these doth God work, Twice -- thrice with man,

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

⁴ `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

⁵ and having found, he doth lay `it' on his shoulders rejoicing,

²⁰ `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

²¹ and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

²² `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

²³ and having brought the fatted calf, kill `it', and having eaten, we may be merry,

²⁴ because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.