NOSTR SAFEBOX FUNDING PAGE IS LIVE!!!

We are live, folks!

A nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyzmdehwlsen49p735n5xyrvj42g9cfvds59l3nyj85ua78klae0wwttfksp  fund page has been set up to accept payments for the #nostr  #safebox  project. The very first contribution came from an anonymous safebox (well, that was me testing...)

I am working on this project regardless of the funding. What I am looking for is help to offset travel expenses when I need to travel to faraway lands to meet other nostriches.

Bon Voyage!

The link is below:

https://geyser.fund/project/nostrsafebox/


Looking to see if ReplyGuy will return with more notes.

https://image.nostr.build/5af46ceab3caa57776b3fcfaedef4ec3bee2849fee34f8238e1ec55816d04d11.jpg


It's like a cargo cult.


Some relays are only ws://local, for instance.


I used to work the help desk, so... 😂


I've said this before an will continue to say it.

My belief is, that promoting a culture of STFU does not stop the whining and "bitching", but only makes people with honest and nuanced criticism (even if it can be unrealistic) hesitant to voice concerns.

This is not how freedom tech moves forward


😂

Beave all, Shut up and take our money!


Sad.


Development funding should be something done impartially, transparently, and professionally, on the side.

It should not be so prominent in the feed, the people arranging the funding shouldn't have a rabid fan club, it shouldn't constantly be debated, and it shouldn't be having so much influence upon what is built and what is not built.

This feels too much like Twitter, where everything revolves around Elon.


Once again, I am reminded, that Nostr is more about OpenSats than about Nostr.


Yeah, we need to write some Gherkin. We can already see the problem with the naming, arising out of a lack of consensus.


Just saw a dev admit that he applied 3 times and was turned down all 3 times. And he's okay with that.

I don't even understand why you have to reapply. Do they lose the applications each round under the seat cushions, or something?

The whole thing is just strange.


Felt that. 😂


Humans trust clear, written rules and transparent, public, verifiable processes more than other humans.

Rules, not rulers.


Unpopular opinion:
nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f has too-little beauracratic overhead.


1.  Email is for boomers.
2.  If they have a stake in companies that are asking for opensats funding, they shouldn't be on the opensats board.
3.  This is the internet, unprofessional is what we do.  Case in point: this note is unprofessional as fuck.


Air reply to the quarterly OpenSatsCircus.

Someone complains about being poorly ruled by the nobility.
The nobility declares themselves beyond reproof, with their possession of all excess monies as ProofOfGodlyElection.
Then some more serfs complain. A few Freemen speak up, on either side.
The nobility demands respect from the serfs and tells the Freemen to mind their manners.
Someone from OpenSats asks the serfs for more money, to later dispense to the other serfs.

Wash, rinse, repeat.


You asked a question. I gave you a reasonable answer.
It is fair to assume that the selection and evaluation is being recorded, in some way, as that is standard practice for meetings.

Simply structure the process, from the beginning, so that it is transparent, in the end. That will lower the amount of effort required, in the mid-term, not raise it.


I did read it. I like the model. I was just agreeing with the point that good bounties are quite difficult to write. I bet clearly formulated ones would be very popular, tho.

I have a lot of experience in requirements engineering for companies, so I trust myself to write good requirements.
I mean, people could pay me to write up the bounty requirements with your parallel system. 😂


Maybe that's now the standard or they don't make them, anymore.


If people are whining at you, then it's probably because you have turned them into supplicants.

Free people have no one above them to whine to.


Okay, everyone can unfollow me, now. My personality hasn't changed, only my npub has.


Or have AI write a summary for each application discussed.


What is unprofessional?

Dealing with earnest, founded complaints by telling people you are above criticism.

Demanding all complaints be issued in secret, so that they are easier to ignore.

Posting sycophantic comments below the posts of your employer.

Refusing to engage people with reasonable requests for transparency, or acting like they're partaking in a thought crime.


Some people also seem to have to apply multiple rounds, for a rejection or acceptance, I think. They only do so many, each round.

I worry that too much innovation is bottled up in people waiting around months for funding, so kudos to you (and to us 😊) for being starving entrepreneurs!

Just build it, right?


Yeah, we have our Geyser page and we list the fund wallet on our profiles, and people have indeed been contributing to that. Project Alexandria was rejected for funding, and a lot of the work we do isn't covered by their grant system, so it's nice to see some organic demand, with zaps.

And the Geyserfund itself regularly tops-up popular projects.


Yes, I like the idea, but we have no excess equity to share.


We have said, from the beginning, that we are interested in establishing the concept of "paying for work" directly, both by demonstratively paying our own suppliers, working for bounties, finding external funding sources by marketing our products, and by requesting payment for our own services through zaps, subscriptions, fees, sales, or etc.

It is a cultural change, we wish to promote.


Yes, overreliance on grants (and especially grants determined by one committee) is hurting the internal marketplace and causing unecessary strife, as we easily predicted months ago (this is just beginners' Austrian economics).

Nostr needs at least _additional_ funding models, including some that might not turn a profit for years.


Probably detached and anonymized, at least, at first.


And quality requirements are nonfunctional requirements, so that's a level of abstraction higher.


Every committee will have conflicts of interest, as that tends to come along with expertise. The bigger issue is having a clear, structured, traceable, aggressively-transparent process.

That doesn't just help the funders, it also helps rejected recipients. Right now, nobody knows how many applications are received or what percentage of applications is accepted, and according to which specific criteria. It's a black box process, so everyone is free to take a rejection as a personal slight.

If they think there were 50 applications and 49 were accepted, then they probably should feel slighted. If there were 50 applications and 32 were accepted, and it was clearly stated why, then it just is, what it is.


Are they all at least planning on it?


Sorry, that was supposed to be a 👍🏼
Reaction typo.


Probably multiple times as many relays in active use as nostr.watch displays. Most people don't register them.


Lots of them, as they're probably local ones, for private use.


Whoever is keeping meeting minutes during the vote, perhaps? I'm assuming there's some discussion of the acceptance criteria and then a vote.


This npub is trending. 🤦♀

A quieter life, she said. Be more incognito, she said. Mix in with the common folk, she said.

https://media.tenor.com/-oTND_G8U94AAAAC/disguise-undercover.gif

This is mostly going to be GMs, nostr:npub1purpleye8gzrzss99nzqqnemtf7g8xxj8p950nkyknnuqzycuh5qnazkzp meetups and nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz dev talk, so follow at your own risk.


Could you also give some criteria for which applications are more likely to be accepted?
This is a bit of a mystery, at the moment, but I'm sure future applicants would appreciate knowing what you are specifically looking for, in an application. Is there some sort of checklist you could post on your website?


Is there any statistic available, that would clarify the acceptance rate?

In other words,
granted applications : total applications • 100


😂 I mean, I alone already have five of them, on three different services in 2 countries.


Ugh. I have Bluetooth headphones, but I hate them.

I've got a Motorola Power going into its 4 year that I'll probably replace with another one. Battery is still good!


Has thousands. Hundreds are public and online.

https://nostr.watch/relays/statistics


GM


😎

Make sure you go full pgfplots and tikz.


Wut? They don't?


Well, anyone who looks at the relay settings can see it.


Already crossed that desert, last spring.


Same, bro. 😂

We were trying to think through the nested index structure, yesterday, and it turned into a multi-hour debate in three channels, to straighten it out.

https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qq9yzmr90pskuerjd9sszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqygxufnggdntuukccx2klflw3yyfgnzqd93lzjk7tpe5ycqdvaemuqcpsgqqqw7vskyayug/proposals/note187a6pmzk8py7pyz095g6jz9w38axc68yusdq0mr4kejm2v5rrj8qcm4f82


Some of you were already following this one, anyway.


France/Germany is UTC+01


I just abandoned my Laeserin npub, so it isn't a pressing issue for me, anymore. Just thought I'd report it, before I forget what happened.


8 pm -- 10 pm is fine for me, any day of the week.
I can also do 6 am, our time, but that's then in the middle of the night for the Americans.


I kinda like the song idea better, as it seems like it has more potential for further development.  I mean, if they had no song setup, it would just revert to the current state, which is fine for most npubs.


Could we arrange a Corny Chat, with the four of us +  nostr:npub15qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exs5cyejr?
Maybe for Sunday evening, 19:00 UTC (that's 1 pm in Texas and 8 pm in Germany)?

nostr:note1takwuq3my5dddpty8qptm9drnaw22gfhls6zhzx2jtys9a7aysgslrzmdf


Always that way for me. 🤷♀


I'm mostly doing other stuff. I just see things, as I'm using it.


Ah, I found it. Interesting.


People might be checking their repo and seeing nothing, but things have been submitted.


What do you think about #2 nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7
nostr:npub1ecdlntvjzexlyfale2egzvvncc8tgqsaxkl5hw7xlgjv2cxs705s9qs735
nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn ?


With the song, you mean have it be a sort of automatic proposal-puller? Would we need an instance per repo or per gitworkshop? Like, if we hosted song and gitworkshop, then it would be our own song, and otherwise you would provide a central one?


Yeah, #1 would probably blow up the even -size, as well. They're already quite large.


Yes, Nostrudel


I'll be using this account primarily, going forward. I'm not closing nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl, but I'm tired of switching between them and nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z is my "dev/git npub", so it takes priority.

It's also just quieter. I'll be following and responding to all of my favorites from here and I'm writing to theforest, of course. 🥰

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr3mhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqypgxxwz7fdt5ua7cpfymaflt2upde44h2red8p9ep38fs9agldxy6uhcttc


I want to give a shout-out and say thank you to nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7.  While I've been working on event editing for Alexandria, he has been carrying the torch for Aedile.

The #noscrypt Nostr cryptography library is now fully integrated into Aedile, which uses it for key generation and encryption operations related to remote signing actions.

Everyone go check out noscrypt, it is the C reference implementation of NIP-44, and some high-quality code.

https://www.vaughnnugent.com/Resources/Software/Modules/noscrypt

You can also check the `note-signing` branch on Aedile to follow progress on our work to add remote signer support.

https://github.com/buttercat1791/aedile-ndk/tree/note-signing


This funding problem is exactly why the nostr:nprofile1qqsggm4l0xs23qfjwnkfwf6fqcs66s3lz637gaxhl4nwd2vtle8rnfqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz8rhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsjmvd7t team is pursuing alternative funding sources beyond grants.

nostr:nevent1qqs0nmdvzgas9vhx3lrl45d4px0hrezggalretsxh75akr09d83n7ngppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs2qzx779ted7af5rt04vzw3l2hpzfgtk0a2pw6t2plaz4d2734vngrqsqqqqqpsrpysh


nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn did you see this one?


Okay, sounds good. That's how I handle it, as well.


Okay, it's all a bit fuzzy. The spec assumes 30040 is always an article and each linked element is a section of the article. But we also allowed for 30040 to be a book and each linked element is then a chapter. And we allowed for 30040 to be a collection and each linked element is then an article, in it's own right. I made a 30040 that was an audiobook list and each 30041 contained an audiobook episode.

I actually prefer 30040 index and 30041 section, as we don't presume to know the content of the events, we're just describing what the "do": one contains a list of events, the other contains a portion of the content.


Still doing it. Repos show the yellow error box.


Don't know what to do with this one. Should we bookmark issues, instead?


Yeah, the relays are just refusing to delete. Client will have to suppress it, or it'll drive people nuts.


It's doing it, again. This is what I see, with the repo boxes flashing. Seems to be difficulty loading.

https://image.nostr.build/4e80ea1c42a9111e373fc0d5482062392f03d0354b61eadab0630e7a1bd4905c.png


Is this one obsolete, since you want to implement display of repo contents?


Still seems to do this. I have a much fast computer, now, but it still seems to drag, when changing from one repo to another. Or I have to refresh a few times to see the Issues/Proposals.


It initially changed and then went back.


It's not really urgent, but it looks like spam.


I would just do it locally. It's not really "important" data, that needs to travel between applications. Npubs will be able to use the ⭐ bookmarks, to favorite individual events, which seems like the more critical data.


Just came over here to say that publishing just hangs, if the GitWorkshop login account and the extension account don't match. I don't receive an error, or have a chance to correct it, and the send button isn't deaktivated.

It's Nos2X-fox.


Darn it. I don't know why I can't see your response in my #Nostrudel notifications. I'm sorry that you had to wait so long.


Or is a wiki page actually a zettel, in that context and we need to redo the spec?
The spec calls them "section/article".


Ah, it comes from Asciidoctor. What is in it? Is it a random string UID?


Proposal: collapse changes from multiple commits

It would be nice if the commits submitted as a proposal together would be displayed overlayed, so that the same file doesn't appear multiple times, in different versions within the same proposal.

git repository issue: Proposal: collapse changes from multiple commits


What happens if the first section contains no entries? Seems to just return an empty relay. Shouldn't it return FALSE?


Find it a bit confusing that the indices are sections and the sections are blocks, and the nodes can be indices or sections, which means that they can be sections or blocks, and the commentary  and function "zettel", but they aren't called zettel in the function.
Clashes too much with the domain, as described in NKBIP-1 and in my Uploader. Can we maybe agree on one naming convention and write it into the spec?
Also problematic because only 30041 are zettel, so adding more kinds would make it even more confusing because you'd be referring to wiki pages as "zettel".


I'm sorry, but I can't tell what you do with the article-title, how you get it into the d-tag and formulate the d-tag, with the title, author, and version. I must be blind. I just see a node ID, but I can't tell where it comes from or what it consists of.


What happens if it has more than 5 sections?


Wow, five levels. Nice.


Why is page.ts empty? Am I missing some information or is it just a placeholder?


But The-fox-and-the-hound or The-fox-and-the-hound-v-fourth-revised or The-fox-and-the-hound-by-Aesop are also correct.


It looks like you've made author a required field, but NKBIP-01 says it's optional.
On the uploader, I have a construct_d_tag function with a fall-through statement, that adds on each additional available variable, ending with $dTagTitle . "-by-" . $dTagAuthor . "-v-" . $dTagVersion

So, something like The-fox-and-the-hound-by-Aesop-v-fourth-revised


Okay, works again. Broke away for five minutes, but oddly only on Firefox. Chrome was still running. nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn was on Firefox, but he says it was fine. No idea.


This is all I see of Alexandria
 https://image.nostr.build/07a70444e7b8df0ab5775882aeb009850c8b5d48effaa5f85ccd1b73f998231a.png


What was that? Did you restart the server or something?


nostr:npub15qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exs5cyejr I think GitWorkshop just went down.


limit which kinds are displayed

I think there are labels being displayed like replies. Looks odd.

git repository issue: limit which kinds are displayed


login with different npubs doesn't work

If I logout of my Laeserin account and then change to Silberengel in my browser extension, and then login, it shows Laeserin, again. But I can't publish anything.

git repository issue: login with different npubs doesn't work


issue resolving button sticks

Hi. I tried to click the issue resolved button three times, and it kept reverting to open, but when I changed npubs and logged in again, this is what I saw:
https://i.nostr.build/FfNbOc7dexSTV6gc.png

git repository issue: issue resolving button sticks


#ProjectAlexandria is coming along. Here you see some of Aesop's fables.

If you want to better understand how such a an eBook is constructed, you can view the original 30040 event, with the linked 30041 events listed, here:

https://njump.me/nevent1qqswqqzfxpmm3fx4dn39dc373mtds2veqv0vzlf2dfw0f3yv75gqu5sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqgs9wd35keyxxn966y8jg5thvzy75ggfpk2q0ac4aq79w76xzxhxahqxmd5hw

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr3mhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyr8a596mxuk30fyvck8tlzcdfjnautdvhewm7a34d5fdh8uccqz2kgwfqdv


DMing nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0907cz8 from my phone directly to his Citrine relay via Tor. https://image.nostr.build/1ad95bd258670354a25a031e9dcd1ed710794078ba1a06466fdd1dad05303b12.jpg


Update on #alexandria main feed work before I go to bed.

As discussed earlier, it seems relay-based feeds are highest on the wishlist, followed by follow-based feeds.  Alexandria will have both!

Once you login with a NIP-07 extension or a NIP-46 bunker, you'll be able to configure your feed via a drop-down.  You can either view all articles on your relay list, or view all articles from users you follow.

Currently, the relay-based feed works well, and updates smoothly.

Follows does not work yet, seemingly because NDK is not returning the follow list for the signed-in user.  I'll look into that more soon.

At the moment, you cannot select individual relays, and follow-based feeds query your relay list.  Those limitations will be removed as part of future work.

Special thanks to nostr:npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf for uploading test events, and to nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl for hosting an "OtherStuff-only" relay we can use as a default.

https://image.nostr.build/c4125e140bc21034cc8e188b9561ec382946a3e73a18f2f9158d2159ea243709.png


Repo display wrong

I keep posting issues to the wrong repo when switching from one to the other because the new page doesn't load and I'm actually still on the previous repo.

Maybe a refresh issue.

git repository issue: Repo display wrong


We finally setup a Geyser fund.
https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel


thanks 💕


Okay, just didn't know if it had fallen off the roadmap. 👍


Sort of important.


I wasn't joking, when I said that nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz was starting all. the. way. at. the. bottom.
Do not build your house on sand.

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqqm9x092su3hd9rdfe8aafxp5pzpak3cegkem9qhhvmqqm96406cqqxnzdejxqmnxdpn8y6njvfkeskju8


Can I get some alpha testers for my 30040/30041 uploader?
I catch a lot of errors, but I need more tests and it's probably sorta buggy.

ANYONE WITH  A MARKDOWN FILE IN THE HOUSE?

Thanks in advance? 🤙

https://gitworkshop.dev/repo/eBookUtility


From 33097dddbe296d435ba53d9fc860bb026def4090 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silberengel <153727378+SilberWitch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 23:30:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Readme updated to the new "Alexandria" name with more actualized screenshots.

---
 README.md | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c61910..6bafc6f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,19 +1,46 @@
-# indextr
+![Roman scrolls](https://i.nostr.build/M5qXa.jpg)

-indextr is a nostr knowledge base (NKB).
+# Alexandria

-## Requests for help and feedback
-- Rendering other note types. Heterogeneous articles can potentially include any other kind - 0, 1, 1808, 30023, sandboxed executable code, images with captions External API calls to other interactive services (e.g. music notes that play audio when clicking)
-- Article creation and uploading within the browser. Currently, articles are created and uploaded through NodeJS, would be nice for user entry fields.
-- Design requests
-# Screenshot
-- Home Page, Displays Kind 30040 and article metadata
-![home page](./images/homepage.png)
-- Article Page. Composes article from notes (kind 30041, but potentially any other renderable kind) listed from the 30040 event
-![article page](./images/article_page.png)
+Alexandria is a Nostr Knowledge Base (NKB) and a reader for long-form articles.

+## Features
+
+### Elegant Design
+
+As Alexandria is targeted toward those who are trying to focus on longer, more-complex content, the design has been stripped down of any distracting elements or unecessary details, so that the user can concentrate on the valuable information stored in the documents that they are viewing. Both light-mode and dark-mode are available.
+
+![Menu](https://i.nostr.build/4oAlm.png)
+
+![event display](https://i.nostr.build/KG2D2.png)
+
+![cards](https://i.nostr.build/Vwkl0.png)
+
+### Modular articles
+
+The specialty of this client is the ability to display long-form articles, particularly of the modular variety: event kinds [30040 and 30041](https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/wiki/topic/nkbip-01). It is also able to display wiki pages (event kind [30818](https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/wiki/topic/nip-54)) and normal long-form articles (event kind [30023](https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/wiki/topic/nip-23)).
+
+Modular articles are often referred to as the *Nostr eBook format*, with 30040 events containing the metadata and the ordered list of the 30041 notes, which contain the markdown-formatted content.
+
+### Write articles
+
+Alexandria features a markdown-upload facility, for you to transform your well-formatted text to Nostr events and publish them to your preferred relays. The GitCitadel relay is set as the default, to ensure that you have at least one relay that is sure to work.
+
+Simply make sure to structure the article content like so:
+
+```
+# title (mind the space)
+
+## topic1
+
+text that you want displayed as content
+
+## topic2
+
+more text
+
+```

-Still under development. Read more [here](https://github.com/limina1/indextr-principles/tree/main/details.md).
 ## Developing

 Once you've created a project and installed dependencies with `npm install` (or `pnpm install` or `yarn`), start a development server:
@@ -35,4 +62,4 @@ npm run build

 You can preview the production build with `npm run preview`.

-> To deploy your app, you may need to install an [adapter](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters) for your target environment.
+> To deploy your app, you may need to install an [adapter](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters) for your target environment.
\ No newline at end of file
--
libgit2 1.7.2


From f30f5a66dd0a54834419a9ae40e62f10b4e37692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silberengel <153727378+SilberWitch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 21:23:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Created a maintainers file and expanded the list to include the GitCitadel standard repos.

---
 maintainers.yaml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 maintainers.yaml

diff --git a/maintainers.yaml b/maintainers.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b3084f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+maintainers:
+- npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf
+- npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z
+relays:
+- wss://nostr.thesamecat.io
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# The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy

## 1 Timothy Introduction
St. Paul write this Epistle to his BELOVED TIMOTHY, being then bishop of Ephesus, to instruct him in the duties of a bishop, both in respect to himself and to his charge; and that he ought to be well informed of the good morals of those on whom he was to impose hands: Impose not hands lightly upon any man. He tells him also how he should behave towards his clergy. The Epistle was written about 33 years after our Lord’s Ascension; but where it was written is uncertain: the more general opinion is, that it was in Macedonia.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 1

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:Introduction
He puts Timothy in mind of his charge and blesses God for the mercy he himself had received.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:2
To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:3
As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:4
Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:6
From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:7
Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:8
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:9
Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,  The law is not.... He means, that the just man doth good, and avoideth evil, not as compelled by the law, and merely for fear of the punishment appointed for transgressors; but voluntarily, and out of the love of God and virtue; and would do so, though there were no law.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:10
For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:11
Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which hath been committed to my trust.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:12
I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:13
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:14
Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:15
A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:16
But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:17
Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:18
This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:19
Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 1:20
Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 2

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:Introduction
Prayers are to be said for all men, because God wills the salvation of all. Women are not to teach.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:1
I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:2
For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:5
For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:  One mediator.... Christ is the one and only mediator of redemption, who gave himself, as the apostle writes in the following verse.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:6
Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.  A redemption for all.... He is also the only mediator, who stands in need of no other to recommend his petitions to the Father. But this is not against our seeking the prayers and intercession, as well of the faithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in heaven, for obtaining mercy, grace, and salvation, through Jesus Christ. As St. Paul himself often desired the help of the prayers of the faithful, without any injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:7
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:8
I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:9
In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:10
But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:11
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.  2:13.For Adam was first formed; then Eve.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:14
And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 2:15
Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 3

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:Introduction
What sort of men are to be admitted into the clergy. The church is the pillar of truth.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:1
A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:2
It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,  Of one wife.... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:3
Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:4
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:5
But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:6
Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.  A neophyte.... That is, one lately baptized, a young convert.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:7
Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:8
Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:9
Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:10
And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:11
The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:12
Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:13
For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:14
These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.  The pillar and ground of the truth.... Therefore the church of the living God can never uphold error, nor bring in corruptions, superstition, or idolatry.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 3:16
And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 4

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:Introduction
He warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of piety.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:1
Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.  Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats.... He speaks of the Gnostics, the Marcionites, the Eneratites, the Manicheans, and other ancient heretics, who absolutely condemned marriage, and the use of all kind of meat; because they pretended that all flesh was from an evil principle. Whereas the church of God, so far from condemning marriage, holds it a holy sacrament; and forbids it to none but such as by vow have chosen the better part: and prohibits not the use of any meats whatsoever in proper times and seasons; though she does not judge all kind of diet proper for days of fasting and penance.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:5
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:6
These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:7
But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:9
A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:10
For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:11
These things command and teach:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:13
Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:14
Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:15
Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 4:16
Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 5

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:Introduction
He gives him lessons concerning widows, and how he is to behave to his clergy.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:1
An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:2
Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:3
Honour widows that are widows indeed.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:4
But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:5
But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:6
For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:7
And this give in charge, that they may be blameless.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:8
But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:9
Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:10
Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:11
But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:12
Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.  Their first faith.... Their vow, by which they had engaged themselves to Christ.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:13
And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:14
I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:15
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:16
If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:17
Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:18
For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:19
Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:20
Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have fear.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:21
I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:22
Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins. Keep thyself chaste.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:23
Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thy frequent infirmities.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:24
Some men’s sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 5:25
In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

## 1 Timothy Chapter 6

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:Introduction
Duties of servants. The danger of covetousness. Lessons for the rich.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:1
Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:2
But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:3
If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:5
Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:7
For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:8
But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:9
For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:10
For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:11
But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:13
I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:14
That thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:15
Which in his times he shall shew, who is the Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings and Lord of lords:

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:16
Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:17
Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:18
To do good, to be rich in good works, to give easily, to communicate to others,

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:19
To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.

### 1 Timothy Chapter 6:21
Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.


# The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians

## 1 Thessalonians Introduction
Thessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul, having preached the Gospel, converted some Jews and a great number of the Gentiles: but the unbelieving Jews, envying his success, raised such a commotion against him that he, and his companion, Sylvanus were obliged to quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he heard that the converts in Thessalonica were under a severe persecution, ever since his departure; and lest they should lose their fortitude, he sent Timothy to strengthen and comfort them in their sufferings. In the meantime St. Paul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle, and also the second to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being the nineteenth after our Lord’s Ascension. These are the first of his Epistles in the order of time.

## 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:Introduction
He gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:1
Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians: in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:2
Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:3
Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:4
Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:5
For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:6
And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:7
So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:8
For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:9
For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

## 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:Introduction
The sincerity of the apostle’s preaching the gospel to them and of their receiving it.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:1
For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:2
But having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:3
For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:4
But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:5
For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:6
Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:7
Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:8
So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:9
For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:10
You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:11
As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:12
We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:13
Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:14
For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:16
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.  To fill up their sins.... That is, to fill up the measure of their sins, after which God’s justice would punish them. For the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.... That is, to continue on them to the end.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:17
But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:18
For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:19
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2:20
For you are our glory and joy.

## 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:Introduction
The apostle’s concern and love for the Thessalonians.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:1
For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to remain at Athens alone.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:2
And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:3
That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:4
For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:5
For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:6
But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us as we also to see you:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:7
Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:8
Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:9
For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God,

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:10
Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face and may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith?

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:11
Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:12
And may the Lord multiply you and make you abound in charity towards one another and towards all men: as we do also towards you,

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3:13
To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

## 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:Introduction
He exhorts them to purity and mutual charity. He treats of the resurrection of the dead.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:1
For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:2
For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:4
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:5
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:6
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:7
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:8
Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:9
But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:10
For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:11
And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man’s.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:12
And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:13
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:14
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:15
For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment and with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ shall rise first.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:16
Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:17
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.

## 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:Introduction
The day of the Lord shall come when least expected. Exhortations to several duties.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:1
But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you:

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:3
For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:4
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:5
For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:6
Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:7
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:9
For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:10
Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:11
For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:12
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you;

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:13
That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work’s sake. Have peace with them.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:14
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.  The unquiet.... That is, such as are irregular and disorderly.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:15
See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:16
Always rejoice.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:18
In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:19
Extinguish not the spirit.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:20
Despise not prophecies.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:21
But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:22
From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:23
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:24
He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:26
Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:27
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

### 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:28
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.


# The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle

## 1 Peter Introduction
The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine concerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all persons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commands submission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a virtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with such apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which its writer, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he calls Babylon, about fifteen years after our Lord’s Ascension.

## 1 Peter Chapter 1

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:Introduction
He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true faith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many tribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness of God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:4
Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:5
Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:6
Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:7
That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:8
Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:9
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:10
Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:11
Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:12
To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:13
Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:14
As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:15
But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:16
Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:17
And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one’s work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:18
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:20
Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:21
Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:22
Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

### 1 Peter Chapter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

## 1 Peter Chapter 2

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:Introduction
We are to lay aside all guile and go to Christ the living stone, and, as being now his people, walk worthily of him, with submission to superiors and patience under sufferings.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:1
Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:3
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:4
Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God:

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:5
Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:6
Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:7
To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:8
And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:10
Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:12
Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:13
Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God’s sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:14
Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:15
For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:16
As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:19
For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:20
For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:21
For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

### 1 Peter Chapter 2:25
For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

## 1 Peter Chapter 3

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:Introduction
How wives are to behave to their husbands. What ornaments they are to seek. Exhortations to divers Virtues.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:1
In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:2
Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:3
Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:4
But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:5
For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:6
As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:8
And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:10
For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:11
Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:12
Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:13
And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:14
But if also you suffer any thing for justice’ sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:16
But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:17
For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:18
Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:19
In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:  Spirits that were in prison.... See here a proof of a third place, or middle state of souls: for these spirits in prison, to whom Christ went to preach, after his death, were not in heaven; nor yet in the hell of the damned: because heaven is no prison: and Christ did not go to preach to the damned.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:20
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:21
Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Whereunto baptism, etc.... Baptism is said to be of the like form with the water by which Noe was saved, because the one was a figure of the other. Not the putting away, etc.... As much as to say, that baptism has not its efficacy, in order to salvation, from its washing away any bodily filth or dirt; but from its purging the conscience from sin, when accompanied with suitable dispositions in the party, to answer the interrogations made at that time, with relation to faith, the renouncing of Satan with all his works; and the obedience to God’s commandments.

### 1 Peter Chapter 3:22
Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

## 1 Peter Chapter 4

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:Introduction
Exhortations to cease from sin, to mutual charity, to do all for the glory of God, to be willing to suffer for Christ.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:1
Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins:

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:2
That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:3
For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:5
Who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:6
For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: That they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh: but may live according to God, in the Spirit.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:7
But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:8
But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:9
Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:10
As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:11
If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:12
Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:13
But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:14
If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or a coveter of other men’s things.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:16
But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in that name.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:17
For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:18
And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?  Scarcely.... That is, not without much labour and difficulty; and because of the dangers which constantly surround, the temptations of the world, of the devil, and of our own corrupt nature.

### 1 Peter Chapter 4:19
Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.

## 1 Peter Chapter 5

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:Introduction
He exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and recommends to all humility and watchfulness.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:1
The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s sake but voluntarily:

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:3
Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:4
And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:5
In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:6
Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:8
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:9
Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:11
To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:12
By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein you stand.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:13
The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you. And so doth my son, Mark.

### 1 Peter Chapter 5:14
Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.