Richard Francis Weymouth

“ She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business— that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world— how she shall please her husband. ”

“ We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt. ”

“ But in the endeavour to find in Twentieth Century English a precise equivalent for a Greek word, phrase, or sentence there are two dangers to be guarded against. There are a Scylla and a Charybdis. On the one hand there is the English of Society, on the other hand that of the utterly uneducated, each of these patois having also its own special, though expressive, borderland which we name 'slang.' But all these salient angles (as a professor of fortification might say) of our language are forbidden ground to the reverent translator of Holy Scripture. ”

“ Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I
have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work
in the Lord?
009:002 If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you;
for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal
of my Apostleship.
009:003 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
009:004 Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
009:005 Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do— and the Lord's brothers and Peter? ”

“ There is such a thing as sin unto death; for that I do not bid him make request.
005:017 Any kind of wrongdoing is sin; but there is sin which is not unto death.
005:018 We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, but He who is God's Child keeps him, and the Evil one cannot touch him.
005:019 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one.
005:020 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One—that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. ”

“ Exercise the oversight not reluctantly but eagerly, in accordance with the will of God; not for base gain but with cheerful minds;
005:003 not lording it over your Churches but proving yourselves
patterns for the flock to imitate.
005:004 And then, when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive
the never-withering wreath of glory.
005:005 In the same way you younger men must submit to your elders; and all of you must gird yourselves with humility towards one another, for God sets Himself against the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ”

“ For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind. ”

“ Begone from me, all of you, wrongdoers that you are.'
013:028 "There will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being driven far away. ”

“ But he who would make a truly English translation of a foreign book must not only select the right nouns, adjectives, and verbs, insert the suitable prepositions and auxiliaries, and triumph (if he can) over the seductions and blandishments of idioms with which he has been familiar from his infancy, but which, though forcible or beautiful with other surroundings, are for all that part and parcel of that other language rather than of English: he has also to beware of connecting his sentences in an un-English fashion. ”

“ Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?
006:026 Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you of much greater value than they? ”

“ If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions— those of our Lord Jesus Christ—and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness,
006:004 he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is
crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give
rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions,
006:005 and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects
are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge
of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain. ”

“ And the inhabitants of the earth will be filled with amazement— all whose names are not in the Book of Life, having been recorded there ever since the creation of the world— when they see the Wild Beast: because he was, and is not, and yet is to come. ”

“ But by a full clear statement of the truth we strive to commend ourselves in the presence of God to every human conscience.
004:003 If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled,
the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the
way to perdition,
004:004 in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving
minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News
of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.
004:005 (For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.) ”

“ Has not God chosen those whom
the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs
of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?
002:006 But *you* have put dishonour upon the poor man.
Yet is it not the rich who grind you down? Are not they
the very people who drag you into the Law courts?—
002:007 and the very people who speak evil of the noble Name by which you are called? ”

“ Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His Coming?
002:020 Yes, you are our glory and our joy.
003:001 So when we could endure it no longer, we decided to remain behind in Athens alone;
003:002 and sent Timothy our brother and God's minister in the service of Christ's Good News, that he might help you spiritually and encourage you in your faith;
003:003 that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials: for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot. ”

“ For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him.
006:010 In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power
which His supreme might imparts.
006:011 Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand
firm against all the stratagems of the Devil.
006:012 For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world—the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. ”

“ Turn away from people of this sort.
003:006 Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners— women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,
003:007 and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
003:008 And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these false teachers withstand the truth—being, as they are, men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far as faith is concerned. ”

“ They were astonished and terrified.
016:006 But he said to them, "Do not be terrified. It is Jesus you are looking for—the Nazarene who has been crucified. He has come back to life: He is not here: this is the place where they laid Him.
016:007 But go and tell His disciples and Peter that He is going
before you into Galilee: and that there you will see Him,
as He told you."
016:008 So they came out, and fled from the tomb, for they were greatly
agitated and surprised; and they said not a word to any one,
for they were afraid. ”

“ May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father
and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
001:005 I have left you behind in Crete in order that you may set
right the things which still require attention, and appoint
Elders in every town, as I directed you to do;
001:006 wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife,
having children who are themselves believers and are free
from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will. ”

“ He replied.
023:004 Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find
no crime in this man."
023:005 But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching—even from Galilee (where He first started) to this city."
023:006 On hearing this, Pilate inquired, "Is this man a Galilaean?"
023:007 And learning that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he sent Him to Herod, for he too was in Jerusalem at that time. ”

“ The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.
005:024 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life. ”

“ And I make the same request now.
001:005 But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith.
001:006 From these some have drifted away, and have wandered into empty words.
001:007 They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they do not understand either their own words or what the things are about which they make such confident assertions. ”

“ We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;
006:009 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death,
and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline,
and yet we are not deprived of life;
006:010 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow
wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely
possess all things. ”