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EXTASE

Grec ekstasis : déplacement, changement d'état, action d'être hors de soi (de stasis : fondement et ek : hors ; comp, avec Délire : du latin de lira : hors du sillon, et Exaltation, du latin ex altus : haussé au delà de ses moyens ordinaires).

Désigne le ravissement de l'esprit humain qui se trouve soudainement détaché du monde visible, séparé de ses sens, enlevé à la conscience de ses actes et transporté, comme spasmodiquement, dans un monde étranger à sa personnalité. Ce monde peut être celui de l'art (Intuitions de génie), de la science (découvertes, solutions de problèmes), mais il appartient le plus généralement à la sphère religieuse où il donne naissance à la forme la plus caractérisée du mysticisme.

Vue du côté physiologique, on peut définir l'extase : une polarisation du système nerveux, qui, dans son exaltation, perd ses commandements sur les divers éléments de notre personnalité et nous livre, passifs, soit aux révélations du monde spirituel, soit aux visions et hallucinations nées du jeu de son propre fonctionnement ou provoquées par l'usage d'excitants, de stupéfiants. (A. Westphal, Les dieux et l'alcool, 1903.) L'extase, véritable dépersonnalisation, peut être ainsi à l'origine de nos plus hautes inspirations, comme de nos plus lamentables illusions.

Vue du côté religieux, nous la retrouvons peu ou prou dans tous les cultes, comme but suprême de la mystique contemplative ou comme phénomène accidentel à la suite de la méditation continue, du jeûne prolongé, de la prière poussée à son paroxysme (voir Durand-Pallot, Rév. Montp., 1930, I, p. 36). Elle aura le plus d'emprise et se développera comme sur son terrain naturel chez les peuples panthéistes et chez ceux dont la philosophie dualiste fait du corps la prison de l'âme ; ainsi dans l'Inde, en Grèce, chez les anciens Égyptiens. Partout où l'âme est envisagée comme partie essentielle du divin, partout où elle est tyrannisée par le corps, le devoir du croyant est l'ascétisme, « il doit mourir à la chair pour que l'âme, d'essence divine, puisse retrouver le chemin vers son pays d'origine » (voir d. Leeuw). Mais une fois que la mystique est entrée dans cette voie, elle ne peut s'arrêter à la frontière du corps ; elle découvre des éléments matériels, corrupteurs, dans l'âme elle-même ; et, de purification en purification, elle finit par vider l'âme elle-même. « L'ascèse de l'âme conduit dans un néant bienheureux qui--et c'est là le paradoxe de toute mystique--est senti comme la puissance par excellence » (voir d. L.). Nulle part ce paradoxe n'apparaît mieux que chez les mystiques hindous. Notre littérature contemporaine a entrepris d'initier les Occidentaux aux doctrines védantiques et à la méthode du Yoga ; elle nous renseigne sur les procédés employés par les exaltants de l'Inde pour atteindre au « néant bienheureux » par des exercices progressifs de concentration du système nerveux dont le dernier aboutit à la grande extase finale, crise volontaire et libératrice.

Le danger des livres qui nous apportent les « nourritures orientales », c'est qu'en général ils nous exposent une religion antique dans sa phase moderne, sans avoir analysé les éléments divers, souvent contradictoires, qui se sont agrégés à elle et qui contribuent puissamment à lui donner aujourd'hui son caractère séducteur. Or, ne vaut pour une religion que ce qui remonte à ses sources. Dans « l'évangile universel », prêché actuellement par la mystique hindoue, toute l'affirmation proprement altruiste vient de l'enseignement du Christ, et il suffit d'y regarder de près pour se rendre compte que cette affirmation, qui pousse à l'action, contredit le principe fondamental de la délivrance de l'âme par le détachement de tout ce qui peut l'émouvoir, de tout ce qui peut l'empêcher de s'absorber dans le divin par l'extase ultime et rédemptrice. Dans le mysticisme extatique, que ce soit celui des disciples de Râma Krichna ou celui de sainte Thérèse dans son tardif « château intérieur », les bonnes oeuvres sont du « surajouté ». La logique du système n'est pas la vie sociale, mais le monastère. Aussi bien, ce qui rendra toujours illusoire le rapprochement de la mystique hindoue et de la mystique chrétienne la plus apparentée aux systèmes Yoga (Yoga : même racine que latin jungo, unir, fondre ; le but du yogi est de se fondre dans le Tout divin) c'est que, pour l'Hindou, la religion parfaite est dans l'impersonnalité de Dieu tandis que, pour le chrétien, la piété est essentiellement alimentée par la présence du Christ.

Prise en elle-même, dans la mystique hindoue comme dans la mystique chrétienne, la transe extatique, glorifiée comme le sommet de la jouissance divine et pratiquée comme moyen de délivrance de toute activité terrestre, n'est qu'une volupté individuelle, qui participe à l'égoïsme essentiel à toute volupté et porte en elle, malgré ses élans sublimes, le ferment corrupteur commun à toutes les voluptés.

La Bible, ennemie de la volupté parce qu'elle est le livre de l'action sainte, a tracé à la rédemption humaine une voie que peut, à l'occasion, croiser l'extase à titre de phénomène psychique occasionnel, mais l'extase n'est pas dans sa ligne, encore moins en est-elle l'aboutissement. C'est en vain qu'on en chercherait la moindre parcelle dans l'enseignement de Jésus-Christ. L'extase est une dépersonnalisation, l'Évangile est une affirmation, une résurrection de la personnalité. L'extase détache de l'action, tout l'Évangile y pousse et ne fait en cela qu' « accomplir Moïse et les prophètes ».

Pour trouver l'extase dans la vocation de Moïse (Ex 3:2) ou d'Ésaïe (Esa 6:1), il faut mettre dans les textes ce qu'ils ne renferment pas et confondre délibérément extase avec vision ou théophanie. Les rêves ou visions nocturnes de Daniel (Da 7 à Da 12) ne doivent pas non plus être confondus avec l'extase. Seules, dans l'A.T., quelques-unes des révélations d'Ézéchiel (Eze 1-4, Eze 8-11) présentent des caractères extatiques. Les modalités de son inspiration semblent prouver qu'Ézéchiel avait, auprès des heures de ministère actif, une vie contemplative de grande intensité. N'oublions pas qu'avec lui, c'est la littérature apocalyptique qui commence. Si nous connaissions mieux la vie des auteurs d'apocalypses, il est probable que nous y trouverions bien des éléments qui touchent à la technique de l'extase. Le N.T. n'abolit pas cette forme de la vie spirituelle, mais il n'en fournit que de rares exemples et il ne la recommande pas comme exercice religieux. Les expressions employées dans (Apo 1:10 4:2 17:3) rappellent la situation d'Ézéchiel et semblent bien prouver que le visionnaire exilé à Patmos eut part aux transports extatiques qu'avait connus le visionnaire de l'exil à Babylone. Ici encore il s'agit de littérature d'ordre apocalyptique. Pierre, en prière à midi sur la terrasse d'une maison de Joppé, après avoir jeûné, est tombé en extase (Ac 10) ; mais dans cette extase, bien loin de se perdre en Dieu, il reçoit de Dieu l'enseignement qui va faire de lui le premier missionnaire du monde païen. Paul décrit lui-même aux Corinthiens (2Co 12) un ravissement dont il avait été l'objet, il y avait déjà bien des années, mais il s'excuse aussitôt d'avoir raconté ce souvenir tant il a souci de recommander son apostolat non par un phénomène psychique qui l'a conduit à entendre la parole révélatrice : « ma grâce te suffit », mais par son activité quotidienne, faite de patience et de puissance : démonstration qu'effectivement la grâce de Christ suffit au chrétien pour surmonter tous les obstacles et poursuivre sur la terre l'oeuvre régénératrice de Jésus-Christ.

Paul, sans doute, use d'abstinence, mate son corps (1Co 9:25-27), recommande à ses lecteurs la sobriété et la discipline personnelle, mais ce ne sont là chez lui que procédés éducateurs et précautions protectrices ; point d'ascétisme dans tout cela, car nul n'a plus énergiquement proclamé que l'apôtre des Gentils le néant des observances extérieures (Col 2:20-23), le droit pour tout chrétien d'user de toutes choses avec actions de grâces (Ro 14:1,20,1Co 10:33-33,1Ti 4:4 etc.), la dignité du corps temple de l'Esprit, membre de Christ, candidat à la résurrection (2Co 5:15-19,1Co 15). La seule chose nécessaire pour Paul est de développer l'homme intérieur par le Saint-Esprit, qui n'est pas un esprit de contemplation, de servitude et de nostalgie, mais un esprit d'action, de liberté et de joie (Eph 3:16-17, Ro 8:16,2Co 3:17, Php 3:1 4:4). Paul veut qu'on aspire aux dons spirituels, mais en vue de l'édification (1Co 14). Il met en garde ses fidèles contre l'abus des phénomènes extatiques, contre toute transe d'adoration qui laisse l'intelligence inactive et n'a point de profit pour l'exhortation : « Quant à moi, dit-il, je préfère prononcer dans l'Église cinq paroles avec mon intelligence, afin d'instruire les autres, plutôt que dix mille paroles en langues » (en glose extatique, v. 19). Si l'on veut se rendre compte de la distance qui sépare l'enseignement de Paul et l'enseignement des mystiques extatiques, qu'on relise ses lettres à son fils dans la foi, Timothée, et qu'on les compare avec ce qu'écrit, dans sa Théologie mystique, le pseudo-Denys l'Aréopagite à son disciple du même nom : « O Timothée, dit Paul, combats le bon combat, sois le modèle des fidèles, donne-toi tout entier à la lecture, à l'exhortation, à l'enseignement, prêche en temps et hors de temps (1 Tim.), souffre avec moi comme un bon soldat de Jésus-Christ, et le Seigneur lui-même te donnera de l'intelligence en toutes choses. » (2 Tim.). « Cher Timothée, dit le pseudo-Denys, dans ta pratique ardente de la contemplation mystique, laisse derrière toi également tes sens et tes fonctions intellectuelles, et toutes les choses que l'on connaît... et applique-toi dans la mesure où tu le peux à t'unir dans l'inconscience avec Celui qui est au-dessus de tout être et de toute connaissance. »

Que s'est-il donc passé pour que la recherche de l'union avec Dieu soit retombée ainsi du domaine de l'action évangélique dans les errements de l'extatisme ? Tout simplement que l'anthropologie hébraïque a été dénaturée par l'apport de la philosophie grecque. Pour l'Hébreu, comme aussi pour Jésus et ses apôtres, l'âme n'est pas une partie divine distincte du corps et opposée à lui ; elle est le fond même de la personnalité humaine et ce qui en fait proprement l'unité. C'est pourquoi la Bible ne parle pas de l'immortalité de l'âme mais de la résurrection des corps, le corps étant envisagé comme l'expression de la personnalité. Dès lors, l'évasion de l'âme par le mysticisme extatique n'a plus de sens. L'opposition n'est pas entre corps et âme, c'est-à-dire entre matière et esprit, impuissance et puissance, souillure et divinité ; l'opposition, autrement tragique et toute morale, est entre deux volontés : la volonté humaine, corrompue par le péché, et la volonté divine, qui est sainte et commande la sainteté. Pour rejoindre Dieu, pour avoir l'intelligence de Dieu et pour vivre en lui, il ne s'agit pas ici de libérer l'âme du corps par l'ascèse et l'extase, mais de discipliner son être corps et âme, de rechercher le centre de son activité volontaire, de retrouver le chemin qui permet à ce centre de la personnalité humaine de communier avec la volonté divine. Ce chemin, ce n'est pas l'extase, c'est l'effort moral, la sanctification agissante, le témoignage héroïque, c'est-à-dire une attitude tout opposée à l'extase, puisqu'elle exige la plus haute maîtrise de soi. Si donc le mysticisme extatique du style néoplatonicien a pu entrer dans le christianisme et apporter en lui le trouble, c'est parce que la philosophie grecque est entrée dans la théologie chrétienne dès le II e siècle et l'a scindée en deux courants : l'ancien, l'israélite, le judéo-chrétien, pour qui l'antithèse reste toujours : créature et créateur, et le nouveau courant, le courant hellénique, qui n'est jamais arrivé à triompher de l'autre, mais qui en a contrarié le cours et pour qui l'opposition est : corps matériel et âme divine. D'où le malaise et en un sens l'impuissance pratique de la théologie chrétienne qui, encore de nos jours, souffre et se débat dans la contradiction qu'elle porte en elle : l'Hébreu et le Grec.

Le livre de la Théologie mystique, écrit vers 460 sous l'influence du néoplatonisme et surtout de Plotin, passait pour avoir été écrit par Denys l'Aréopagite, disciple de Paul. L'Église d'Orient reçut donc sa doctrine du mysticisme scolastique comme une science apostolique et quasi divine. L'Occident en subit l'influence dès le IX e siècle ; elle inspira Hugues de Saint-Victor (Mort en 1141), qui le premier systématisa l'éducation mystique de l'âme, avec ses trois étapes : cogitatio, meditatio, contemplatio, et aboutit à la lignée latine du Grand Mysticisme : Catherine de Sienne (Mort en 1380), saint Jean de la Croix (Mort en 1591), sainte Thérèse (Mort en 1582), Molinos (Mort en 1697), Mme Guyon (Mort en 1717).

Nous n'avons pas à raconter ici l'histoire de ce mysticisme extatique, des désordres qu'il a produits et de l'insuffisance morale qu'il manifeste. Nous ne discuterons pas non plus la thèse de W. James, que « l'expérience religieuse personnelle a sa racine et son centre dans la conscience mystique », ni sa croyance trop confiante dans la portée métaphysique des expériences faites au cours de la transe mystique. On trouvera des lumières sur ces sujets dans l'étude très pénétrante présentée par le professeur américain James H. Leuba sous le titre trop général de : Psychologie du mysticisme religieux. Cet ouvrage répondrait mieux à son intention scientifique s'il ne solidarisait pas, comme il le fait, tout le mysticisme chrétien avec le mysticisme extatique, lequel, nous venons de le rappeler, n'est qu'une déviation, qu'une forme particularisée du mysticisme lui-même. Mais il aurait fallu pour cela y faire la part qui convient à la personne de Jésus-Christ.

L'étude psychologique du Christ montre en effet que le fondateur du christianisme, de qui sont dérivées toutes les formes du phénomène chrétien, y compris le mysticisme, ne doit rien à l'extase et se maintient constamment, de par sa communion parfaite avec le Dieu personnel, son Père, sur le terrain de la conscience personnelle et de l'action personnelle. Même aux heures où son ministère semble le conduire le plus près de la méditation ou de la contemplation extatiques--la Transfiguration avec ses phénomènes lumineux et Gethsémané avec sa sueur de sang--il suffit de le considérer attentivement pour constater que, bien loin de s'absorber, de se perdre en Dieu, Jésus, à ces moments-là, se trouve aux lieux les plus pathétiques de sa décision personnelle et consciente : le débat relatif à son sacrifice volontaire. Ce sont les veillées de la croix. Jésus pousse son souci de conscience jusqu'à refuser dans ses tortures de crucifié le breuvage stupéfiant qui aurait pu adoucir son martyre en endormant son esprit. « Veillez ! » dit-il à ses disciples. Partout il fait appel à la volonté, à la possession de soi, à la conscience du devoir, a la puissance de l'action, à la sublimation de la personnalité par la sainteté dans sa ressemblance avec Dieu. Le chrétien, c'est la créature qui, à l'exemple du Maître, continue sur la terre l'oeuvre du Créateur.

Quand Jésus parle à ceux qui veulent le suivre de renoncement absolu, de dépouillement total et de mort (Mt 16:24 13:44-46, Mr 10:21,29 et suivant, Mt 10:38 et suivant), ce n'est pas pour les pousser à se libérer de la vie personnelle, mais au contraire pour leur enseigner à l'acquérir véritablement (Mt 16:25). Le but qu'il leur propose, ce n'est pas l'abdication mais la victoire, pas le néant mais la vie éternelle.

Le seul mysticisme que Jésus autorise, voire qu'il inspire, c'est celui qui, en nous attachant à lui par le coeur, nous pousse à son imitation : le mysticisme qui, au lieu de nous porter à jouir de lui et à nous perdre orgueilleusement en lui, nous contraint de lui obéir humblement et de le continuer personnellement par notre activité. Ce mysticisme-là rétablit les droits du sentiment à côté de la raison, il satisfait en nous à cette grande réalité que la vérité n'est pas tout entière accessible à la science historique ou rationnelle, et que, lorsqu'il s'agit d'approcher une personne vivante, divine, et de s'identifier à elle dans l'action, la communion la plus haute s'établit par un contact immédiat, une intuition créatrice, une pénétration réciproque qui n'est pas du domaine de la froide raison. Volonté et amour, deux sources de connaissance et de puissance que Jésus a mises en tête de toutes les autres lorsqu'il a dit : « Si quelqu'un veut faire la volonté de mon Père, il connaîtra... » (Jn 7:17), « si quelqu'un m'aime, mon Père l'aimera, nous viendrons à lui, nous ferons notre demeure chez lui » (Jn 14:23). Par la dépersonnalisation dans l'extase ? Non, mais pour lui enseigner l'oubli de soi, première condition de toute action régénératrice dans le monde. C'est là ce qu'ont compris Bernard de Clairvaux (Mort en 1153), François d'Assise (Mort en 1226), Gerson (Mort en 1428), Spener (Mort en 1705), les premiers Quakers, et tous les mystiques pratiques qui ont combattu les excès du mysticisme extatique et se sont montrés, au sein de la corruption humaine, « le sel de la terre ».

Quiconque fait équitablement sa part de ce mysticisme-là, n'écrira pas avec le prof. Leuba dans sa conclusion : « Si une religion qui existe depuis deux mille ans, et qui a été officiellement soutenue pendant quinze cents ans par les nations les plus puissantes du monde, n'a pas encore donné sa mesure, c'est qu'elle a failli à sa tâche. » Cette conclusion fausse est le châtiment de tout observateur qui ne sait voir dans le christianisme que le dogmatisme, le rationalisme, le sacerdoce et le mysticisme extatique, négligeant la portion de l'humanité chrétienne où s'accomplit le mysticisme pratique et où se réalise depuis bientôt vingt siècles, par des individualités spirituelles, l'oeuvre vive de la régénération morale, sociale, spirituelle dans le monde. Nous renvoyons ici, comme preuve, aux origines de toutes les grandes oeuvres philanthropiques et aux effets de la mission évangélique dans tous les temps. C'est à ce mysticisme-là, vécu d'abord par le Christ dans ses rapports avec Dieu pendant son humanité, inspiré par le Christ à ceux qui se sont de coeur convertis à lui, et inspirateur de toute science chrétienne comme de toute action ecclésiastique digne de ce nom, que convient l'appréciation du prof. J. Royce : « Le mysticisme a été le ferment des croyances, l'annonciateur de la liberté spirituelle, l'inaccessible refuge des hérétiques à l'âme un peu noble, l'inspirateur, par la voie de la poésie, d'une jeunesse innombrable ignorante de la métaphysique, le consolateur de ceux auxquels pèsent les bornes du fini, » disons mieux : auxquels pèsent l'esclavage du péché et la misère insondable de l'humanité déchue. L'extase mystique ne peut ni libérer du premier, ni porter secours à la seconde. En ce sens on peut dire que, recherchée pour elle-même, elle a contribué à faire croire à la faillite du Christianisme. Alex. W. BIBLIOGRAPHIE --William James, L'Expérience religieuse, 1908. --H. Delacroix, Etudes d'histoire et de psychologie du mysticisme, 1908. --James H. Leuba, Psychologie du mysticisme religieux, 1930 (trad. Lucien Herr). --Van der Leeuw, Phénoménologie de l'âme, Rév. Strasb. 1930, 1.

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      6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
      7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
      8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.
      9 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
      10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

      Ezéchiel 3

      1 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
      2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
      3 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
      4 He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
      5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
      6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
      7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
      8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
      9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
      10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
      11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
      12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.
      13 I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.
      14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.
      15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
      16 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
      17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
      18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
      19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
      20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
      21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
      22 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
      23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
      24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house.
      25 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
      26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
      27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

      Ezéchiel 4

      1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
      2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
      3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
      4 Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
      5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
      6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
      7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
      8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.
      9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.
      10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.
      11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
      12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
      13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
      14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
      15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
      16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
      17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

      Ezéchiel 8

      1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
      2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
      3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
      4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
      5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
      6 He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.
      7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
      8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
      9 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
      10 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
      11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
      12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
      13 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
      14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
      15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
      16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of Yahweh's temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh's temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
      17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
      18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

      Ezéchiel 9

      1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
      2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in their midst clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
      3 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.
      4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
      5 To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity;
      6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
      7 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.
      8 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
      9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
      10 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.
      11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.

      Ezéchiel 10

      1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
      2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
      3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
      4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.
      5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
      6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
      7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
      8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.
      9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
      10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.
      11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
      12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.
      13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.
      14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
      15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
      16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
      17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
      18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
      19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
      20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
      21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
      22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

      Ezéchiel 11

      1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
      2 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
      3 who say, The time is not near to build houses: this is the caldron, and we are the meat.
      4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
      5 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
      6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
      7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this is the caldron; but you shall be brought out of its midst.
      8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
      9 I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
      10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
      11 This shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the meat in its midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
      12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.
      13 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
      14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
      15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.
      16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.
      17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
      18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.
      19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
      20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
      21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
      22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
      23 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
      24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
      25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

      Daniel 7

      1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
      2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
      3 Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
      4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
      5 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
      6 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
      7 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
      8 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
      9 I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] its wheels burning fire.
      10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
      11 I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
      12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
      13 I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
      14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
      15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
      16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
      17 These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
      18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
      19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
      20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
      21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
      22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
      23 Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
      24 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
      25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
      26 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
      27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
      28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

      Daniel 12

      1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
      2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
      3 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
      4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
      5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
      6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
      7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
      8 I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
      9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
      10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
      11 From the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
      12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
      13 But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.

      Matthieu 10

      38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.

      Matthieu 13

      44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

      Matthieu 16

      24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
      25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

      Marc 10

      21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
      29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

      Jean 7

      17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

      Jean 14

      23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

      Actes 10

      1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
      2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
      3 At about the ninth hour of the day , he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!"
      4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
      5 Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter.
      6 He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside. "
      7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
      8 Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
      9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
      10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
      11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
      12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
      13 A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!"
      14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
      15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
      16 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.
      17 Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,
      18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there.
      19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.
      20 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them."
      21 Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"
      22 They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."
      23 So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
      24 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.
      25 When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
      26 But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."
      27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.
      28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
      29 Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"
      30 Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
      31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
      32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.'
      33 Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God."
      34 Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;
      35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
      36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all--
      37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
      38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
      39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
      40 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
      41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
      42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
      43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."
      44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
      45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
      46 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,
      47 "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
      48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

      Romains 8

      16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

      Romains 14

      1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
      20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

      1 Corinthiens 9

      25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
      26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
      27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

      1 Corinthiens 10

      33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

      1 Corinthiens 14

      1 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
      2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
      3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
      4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
      5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
      6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
      7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
      8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
      9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
      10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
      11 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
      12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
      13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
      14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
      15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
      16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?
      17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
      18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
      19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
      20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
      21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
      22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
      23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
      24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
      25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
      26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
      27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
      28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
      29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
      30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
      31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
      32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
      33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
      34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
      35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
      36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
      37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
      38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
      39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.
      40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

      1 Corinthiens 15

      1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
      2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
      3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
      4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
      5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
      6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
      7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
      8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
      9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
      10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
      11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
      12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
      13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
      14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
      15 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
      16 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.
      17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
      18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
      19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
      20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
      21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
      22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
      23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.
      24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
      25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
      26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
      27 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
      28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
      29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
      30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
      31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
      32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
      33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
      34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
      35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"
      36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
      37 That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
      38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
      39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
      40 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
      41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
      42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.
      43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
      44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
      45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
      46 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
      47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
      48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
      49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
      50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
      51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
      52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
      53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
      54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
      55 "Death, where is your sting? Hades , where is your victory?"
      56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
      57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
      58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

      2 Corinthiens 3

      17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

      2 Corinthiens 5

      15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
      16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
      17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
      18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
      19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

      2 Corinthiens 12

      1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
      2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
      3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),
      4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
      5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
      6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
      7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
      8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
      9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
      10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
      11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
      12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
      13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
      14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
      15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
      16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.
      17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?
      18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?
      19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
      20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
      21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

      Ephésiens 3

      16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
      17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

      Colossiens 2

      20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
      21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"
      22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
      23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

      1 Timothée 4

      4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

      Apocalypse 1

      10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

      Apocalypse 4

      2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

      Apocalypse 17

      3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
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