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And she having stood at that hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake concerning him to all awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.


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And when they finished all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their city, Nazareth.


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And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.


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And when he was of twelve years, they having gone up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival:


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And having completed the days, in their returning the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not.


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And they, having supposed him to be in the caravan, came the way of a day, and sought him among kinsmen and among acquaintances.


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And it was after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of teachers, and hearing them, and inquiring of them.


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And having seen him, they were struck with awe: and his mother said to him, Child, why didst thou so to us? behold, thy father and I, grieving, have sought thee.


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And he said to them, For what have ye sought me? knew ye not that among the things of my Father I must be?


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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was placed under them: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.


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Know in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,


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Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of God was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.


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And he came into all the country round about Jordan, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for remission of sins;


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As it has been written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his footpaths straight.


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Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mount and hill shall be lowered; and the crooked shall be into straightness, and the rough into smooth ways.


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Then said he to the crowds coming out to be immersed by him, Generation of vipers, who indicated to you to flee from the anger about to come?


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Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say in yourselves, We have a father Abraham: for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones.


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And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.


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And he having answered, says to them, He having two coats, let him impart to him having none; and he having food, let him do likewise.


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And they making war asked him, saying, And what shall do? And he said to them, Shake none violently, neither make slanderous accusation; and be content with your pay.


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And the people awaiting, and all reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he may not be the Christ;


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John answered to all, saying, I truly immerse you with water; and he stronger than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to loose his shoes' strings: he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit and fire:


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Whose winnowing fan in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into his store; and the chaff he will burn down with inextinguishable fire.


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And Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod did,


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And it was in all the people having been immersed, and Jesus having been immersed, and praying, heaven was opened,


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And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son; in thee I was contented.


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And Jesus himself was beginning about thirty years, being, as was thought, the son of Joseph, of Eli,


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And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from Jordan, and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert,


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Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.


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And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, say thou to this stone that it might be bread.


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And Jesus answered to him saying, It has been written, That not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word of God.


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And the devil, bringing him into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable globe in an instant of time.


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And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for to me has it been delivered; and to whom I will I give it.


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And having answered him Jesus said, Retire behind me, Satan: for it has been written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him upon the small wing of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God; cast thyself down from hence:


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And upon hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou shouldest strike thy foot against a stone.


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And Jesus having answered said to him, That it has been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.


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And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a rumor went out concerning him through the whole country round about.


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And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read.


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And the book of Esaias the prophet was given to him. And having unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written,


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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised,


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And having folded the book and given back to the servant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the assembly were looking attentively upon him.


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And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph


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And he said to them, Directly will ye say to me this proverb, Physician, cure thyself: what things we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.


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And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;


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And many leprous were during Eliseus the prophet in Israel; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.


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And having risen up, they cast him without the city, and they brought him to the brow of the mount upon which their city was built, to hurt him down.


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And in the assembly was a man having the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice,


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Saying, Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy of God.


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And Jesus answered him, saying, Be then silent, and come Out of him. And the demon having thrown him into the midst, came out of him, not having injured him.


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And amazement was upon all, and they spake to one another, saying, What this word with authority and power he commands unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And having risen from the assembly, he went into Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was taken with a great fever; and they entreated him for her.


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And having stood over her, he censured the fever: and it left her: and having risen immediately she served them.


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And the sun setting, all as many as had sick ones with various diseases brought them to him; and he having put hands upon each one of them, cured them.


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And demons came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And answering he suffered them not to speak, for they knew him to be Christ.


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And it having been day, having gone forth he went into a deserted place: and the crowds sought him, and came to him, and detained him not to go from them.


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And he said to them, That also to other cities must I announce the good news, the kingdom of God: because for this have I been sent.


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And it was the crowd pressing close upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing near the lake of Gennesaret,


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And he saw two ships standing near the lake: and the fishermen having gone out of them, washed the fishing-nets.


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And having gone into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to sail out a little from land. And having sat down, he taught the crowds out of the ship.


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And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Sail out into the deep, and slacken your nets for fishing.


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And Simon having answered, said to him, Commander, wearied for the whole night, we took nothing: but at thy word I will slacken the net.


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And they nodded to partners, those in the other ship, that having come they should succor them. And they came and filled both ships, so that they were sinking.


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And Simon Peter fell upon his knees before Jesus, saying, Go out from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.


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And likewise also James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now thou shalt be capturing men.


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And it was in his being in one of the cities, and behold a man full of leprosy: and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon the face, supplicated him, saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me.


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And having put forth the hand, he touched him, saying, I will: be thou cleansed. And the leprosy departed from him.


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And he enjoined him to tell none: but having departed, show thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But the more the word passed through concerning him: and many crowds came together to hear, anti to be cured from their weaknesses.


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And it was in one of the days, and he was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was for healing them.


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And, behold, men bringing upon a bed a man who was affected with paralysis; and they sought to bring him, and set before him.


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And not finding how they might bring him in, for the crowd, having ascended upon the house, they put him down through the tiles, with the small couch, in the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason with themselves, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can remit sins but God alone?


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And Jesus having known their reflections, having answered, said to them, What do ye reason with yourselves in your hearts?


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And that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to remit sins, (he said to him affected with paralysis,) I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy conch, go into thy house.


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And immediately having risen before them, having taken up on what he lay, he went away to his house, honouring God.


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And amazement took them all, and they honoured God, and were filled with fear, saying, That we have seen wonderful things to day.


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And after these, he went out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting by the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me.


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And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house: and there was a great crowd of publicans and others who were sitting down with them.


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And the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Wherefore eat and drink ye with publicans and sinful?


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And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Those being in good health have no need of a physician; but they being ill.


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And they said to him, Wherefore do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make prayers, and likewise they of the Pharisees; and they to thee eat and drink.


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And he said to them, Ye cannot make the sons of the nuptial chamber fast, when the bridegroom is with them.


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But the days will come also, when the bridegroom shall be carried away from them; then shall they fast in those days.


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And he also spake to them a parable; That none put a piece of new garment, upon an old garment; and if not so, the new also splits, and the piece from the new agrees not with the old.


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And none put new wine into old wine-skins; and if not so, the new wine bursts the wine-skins, and it will be poured out, and the wine-skins will perish.


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And it was in the second first sabbath, he went through the standing corn; and his disciples pulled out the ears of corn, and ate, crumbling in small pieces with hands.


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And having answered to them, Jesus said, Have ye not read this, which David did when he hungered, and they being with him;


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How he went into the house of God, and took the loaves of the setting before, and ate, and gave also to those with him; which is not lawful to eat, except for priests alone?


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And it was also in another sabbath, he came into the assembly, and taught: and a man was there, and his right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and Pharisees observed him narrowly, if he will heal in the sabbath: that they might find accusation against him.


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And he knew their reflections, and said to the man having the withered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst. And having risen, he stood.


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Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you; What is lawful in the sabbath; to do good, or to do evil? to save the life, or destroy.


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And having looked round upon them all, he said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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And they were filled with want of understanding; and they discoursed with one another What they may do to Jesus.


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And it was in those days, he went out to the mount to pray, and he was passing the whole night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, he called to his disciples: and having chosen twelve from them, and he named them, the sent;


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And having come down with them, he stood upon a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the maritime country of Tyre and Sidon, they also came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;


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And he having lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Happy the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Happy are ye, when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reproach, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.


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Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets.


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Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.


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Woe to you when all men speak well of you! for according to these did their fathers to the false prophets.


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To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.


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And if ye love them loving you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful would love those loving them.


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And if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful do the same.


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And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things.


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But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.


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And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed.


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Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you.


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And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?


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And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye?


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Or how Canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out the mote in thine eye, thyself not beholding the beam in thine eye? O hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine own eye, and then shalt thou see through to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye.


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For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape.


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The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.


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He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock.


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And he having heard, and not having done, is like a man having built a house upon the earth, without a foundation; against which the river dashed, and immediately it fell; and the breaking of that house was great.


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And having heard of Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him, that having come, he would save his servant.


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And they approaching to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, That he is worthy to whom he will bestow this:


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And Jesus went with them. And now he being away not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not fit that thou shouldest come under my roof;


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Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come to thee: but speak in a word, and my servant shall be healed.


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For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself, and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes: and to my servant, Do this, and he does.


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And Jesus having heard these, wondered at him, and having turned to the crowd following him, he said, I say to you, Neither have I found so much faith in Israel.


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And it was in continuation he went to a city called Nain; and sufficient of his disciples went with him, and a great crowd.


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And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her.


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And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise.


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And fear took all; and they praised God, saying, That a great prophet has risen up among us; and That God has reviewed his people.


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And having called certain two of his disciples, John sent to Jesus, saying, Art thou he coming? or should we expect another?


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And the men, having approached to him, said, John the Immerser has sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he coming? or should we expect another?


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And in that same hour he cured many of diseases, and scourges, and evil spirits, and to many blind he conferred the favor to see.


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And Jesus having answered said to them, Having gone, announce to John what ye saw and heard; for the blind look up, the lame walk, the leprous are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor are announced good news.


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And the messengers of John having departed, he began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those in glorious clothing, and being in luxury, are in royal abodes.


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This is he of whom it has been written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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For I say to you, Among the begotten of women none is a greater prophet than John the Immerser; and the less in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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And all the people having heard, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with the immersion of John.


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And the Pharisees, and they pertaining to the law, rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not immersed by him.


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They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.


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The Son of man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a man, a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful.


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And a certain one of the Pharisees asked him that he would eat with him. And having come into the Pharisee's house, he reclined.


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And, behold, a woman in the city, who was sinful, knowing that he is reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, having brought an alabaster box of perfumed oil,


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And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil.


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And the Pharisee having called him, seeing, said within himself, This, if he were a prophet, had known who and what race of woman which had touched him: for she is sinful.


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And Jesus having answered, said to him, Simon, I have something to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, speak.


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And they not having to pay, he bestowed as a gift upon both. Which of them therefore will love him the more? Say thou.


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And Simon, having answered, said, I suppose, that to whom he bestowed more favor. And he said to him, Thou hast judged rightly,


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And having turned to the woman, he said to Simon, Thou seest this woman? I came into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: and she wet my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.


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For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.


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And it was afterwards, and he passed through city and town proclaiming and announcing good news, the kingdom of God; and the twelve with him,


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And certain women, who were cured from evil spirits and weaknesses, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went forth seven demons,


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And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them.


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The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it.


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And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear.


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And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.


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And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved.


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And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away.


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And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity.


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And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.


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None, having lighted a light, covers it with a vessel, or puts under a bed; but sets upon a candlestick, that they entering might see the light.


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For there is nothing hid, which should not be made manifest; nor concealed, which should not be made known, and come clear.


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See therefore how ye hear: for whoever should have, shall be given him; and whoever should not have, and what he seems to have shall be taken away from him.


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And it was announced to him, saying, Thy mother and thy brethren have stood without, wishing to see thee.


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And he having answered, said unto them, My mother and my brethren are they hearing the word of God, and doing it.


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And it was in one of the days, and he went into a ship, and his disciples: and he said to them, Let us pass through to the other side of the lake. And they led forth.


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And they sailing, he fell asleep: and a hurricane of wind came down upon the lake; and they were filled, and were in peril.


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And having come near, they awoke him, saying, Ruler ruler, we perish. And having risen, he censured the wind and heaving of water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said to them, Where is your faith And having feared, they wondered, saying to one another, Who then is this! that also commands the winds and the waters, and they listen to him!


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And he coming upon land, a certain man met him from the city, who had demons of long times, and put on no garment, and abode not in a house, but in the tombs.


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And having seen Jesus and cried out, he fell before him, and with a great voice said, What to me and thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I implore thee, thou wouldst not torment me.


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For he proclaimed to the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it snatched him: and he was bound with chains, and being guarded with fetters; and bursting the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the deserts.


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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is the name to thee? And he said, Legion: for many demons came into him.


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And a herd of numerous swine was there feeding on the mount: and they besought him that he would permit them to come into the swine. And he permitted them.


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And the demons having come out of the man, came into the swine: and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.


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And they feeding, having seen that done, fled, and having departed, proclaimed in the city and in the fields.


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And they went out to see that done; and came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting clothed, and being of sound mind, at the feet of Jesus; and they were afraid.


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And all the multitude of the country round about, of the Gadarenes, asked him to depart from them; for they were held fast by great fear: and he having gone into the ship, returned.


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And the man from whom the demons had gone out implored him to be with him: and Jesus loosed him, saying,


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Return to thy house and recount what God did to thee. And he departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city what Jesus did to him.


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And, behold, a man came, to whom the name of Jairus, and he was ruler of the assembly: and having fallen before the feet of Jesus, he besought him to come to his house:


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For an only daughter was to him, of about twelve years, and she was dying. And in his going the crowds pressed him.


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And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any.


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Having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: and immediately her flow of blood was stopped.


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And Jesus said; Who having touched me? And all denying, Peter said, and they with him: Ruler, the crowds hold with thee and press thee, and thou sayest, Who having touched me?


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And the woman having seen that she was not hid, came trembling, and having fallen before him, announced to him before all people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.


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He yet speaking, there comes a certain of the ruler of the assembly, saying to him, That thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Teacher.


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And having come into the house, he suffered not any to come in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father and mother of the child.


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And her parents were affected in mind: and he proclaimed to them, to tell no one that having been done.


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And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.


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And he said to them, Take away nothing for the way, neither rods, nor wallet, nor bread, nor silver; nor to have two coats apiece.


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And as many as should not receive you, having come out of that city, and shake off the cloud of dust from your feet for testimony against them.


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And having gone out, they went through the towns, proclaiming the good news, and healing every where.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard all done by him: and was in perplexity, for it was said by certain, that John had been raised from the dead.


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And by certain, that Elias has appeared; and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen.


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And Herod said, John I beheaded and who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him.


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And the sent, having returned, recounted to him what they did. And having taken them, he retreated apart in a desert place of the city, called Bethsaida.


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And the crowds having known, followed him: and having received them, he spake to them, of the kingdom of God, and healed them having need of cure.


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And the day began to decline: and the twelve having come near, said to him, Loose the crowd, that having departed into the towns round about and the fields, they might rest, and might find provisions; for here are we in a deserted place.


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And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, There are no more to us than five loaves and two fishes; except having gone we buy food for all this people.


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For they were about five thou sand men. And he said to his disciples, Place them reclining by fifty in a place for reposing.


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And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, be praised them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they all ate, and were satisfied: and that over and above having remained to them was taken up, twelve baskets of fragments.


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And it was in his being alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom do the crowds say me to be?


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And they having answered, said, John the Immerser; and others, Elias; and others, that a certain prophet of the ancients has risen up.


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Saying, That the Son of man must suffer many things, and be disapproved of by the more ancient and the chief priests and the scribes, and be slain, and be raised up the third day.


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And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me.


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For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.


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For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?


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For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he should come in the glory of himself, and of the Father, and of the holy messengers.


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And I say to you truly, certain are standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they should see the kingdom of God.


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And it was after these words about eight days, and having taken Peter and John and James, he went up into the mount to pray.


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And it was in his praying, the look of his face was another, and his clothing white, shooting forth lightning.


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And Peter and they with him were heavy with sleep: and having waked, they saw his glory, and two men standing with him.


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And it was in their having withdrawn from him, Peter said to Jesus, Ruler, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he says.


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And he saying these things, there was a cloud, and it overshadowed them: and they were afraid in their going into the cloud.


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And in there having been a voice, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and announced nothing to any one in those days, of what they had seen.


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And it was in the day following, they having come down from the mountain, there met him a great crowd.


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And, behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore thee look upon my son: for he is my only born.


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And, behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out; and it tears him with foam, and with difficulty withdraws from him, bruising him.


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And Jesus having answered said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you, and endure you I Bring hither thy son.


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And he yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tare him. And Jesus censured the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and gave him back to his father.


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And all were struck with amazement at the majesty of God. And all wondering at all which he did, Jesus said to his disciples,


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Put ye these words into your ears: for the Son of man is about to be delivered up into the bands of men.


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And they knew not this word, and it was hid from them, lest they should understand it: and they feared to ask him concerning this word.


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And he said to them, Whoever should receive this child in my name receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives him having sent me: for he being less among you all, the same shall be great.


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And John having answered said, Ruler, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name; and we hindered him, because he follows not with us.


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And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem.


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And he sent messengers before his face: and having gone, they came into a town of Samaritans, in order to prepare for him.


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And his disciples James and John having seen, said, O Lord, wilt thou that we should speak fire to come down from heaven, and destroy them, as also did Elias?


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For the Son of man came not to destroy men's souls, but to save them. And they proceeded into another town:


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And it was, they going in the way, a certain one said to him, I will follow thee wherever thou shouldest go forth, Lord.


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And Jesus said to him, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head.


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And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me having gone, first to inter my father.


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And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.


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And after these the Lord showed forth other seventy, and sent them together two and two before his face into every city and place, where he was about to come.


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Then said he to them, Truly the harvest much, and the laborers few: implore therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.


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And if truly the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: and if not so, it shall turn back to you.


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And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things of them: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.


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And the dust having cleaved to us from your city, we wipe off to you but know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn nigh to you.


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Woe to thee Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon were the powers having been in you, long since had they changed the mind, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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He hearing you hears me: and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.


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Behold, I give you power to tread above serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you.


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But in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names were written in the heavens.


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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I will acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes Father, for so was it benevolence before thee.


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All things were delivered me by my Father: and none knows who is the Son, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son would wish to reveal.


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For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to behold what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.


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And, behold, a certain skilled in the law stood up, tempting him, and saying, Teacher, what having done shall I inherit eternal life?


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And he having answered, said. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.


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And Jesus having replied said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers: and having stripped him, and laid on blows, they departed, leaving him half dead.


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And by accident a certain priest went down in that way: and having seen him, went on the opposite side.


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And likewise also a Levite, having been in the place, having come and seen him, went on the opposite side.


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And having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and having mounted him upon his own animal, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


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And upon the morrow, he having come forth, taking out two drachmas, he gave to the inn-keeper, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever thou spendest besides, I, in my coming back, will repay thee.


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And it was in their going forth, and he came to a certain town: and a certain woman by the name of Martha received him in her house.


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And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me.


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And Jesus having answered, said to her, Martha, Martha, thou hast care, and art confused about many things:


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And of one thing there is need: and Mary has chosen the good part which shall not be taken away from her.


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And it was in his being in a certain place praying, when he ceased, a certain of his disciples said to him Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.


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And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father he in the heavens, Holy be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be, as in heaven, also upon the earth.


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And remit to us our sins; for we ourselves also remit to everyone indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil.


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And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and should say to him. Friend, lend me three loaves;


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And he within, having answered, should say, offer not weariness to me: already has the door been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot having risen, give thee.


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I say to you, If also having risen he will not give him because of being his friend, yet for his effrontery, having risen, he will give him as many as he needs.


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And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.


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And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone? And if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.


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If then ye, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children; how much more the Father, he from heaven, will give the Holy Spirit to them asking him?


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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it was the demon having come out, the dumb spake; and the crowds wondered.


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And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is rendered desolate; and a house against a house falls.


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And if Satan also be divided against himself, how should his kingdom stand? for ye say by Beelzebul I cast out demons.


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And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast, out? for this shall they be your judges.


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And when a stronger than he, having come, conquers him, he takes away his complete armor in which he trusted, and distributes his spoils.


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When the unclean spirit comes out from a man, he passes through places wanting water, seeking rest; and not finding, he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.


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Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself; and having entered, they dwell there: and the last things of that man are worse than the first.


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And it was in his speaking these things, a certain woman of the crowd, having lifted up the voice, said to him, in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts. Happy the womb having borne thee, and breasts thou didst suck.


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And crowds being collected, he began to say, This is an evil generation: it seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.


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The queen of the south shall be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, more than Solomon here.


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The Ninevite men shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, more than Jonas here.


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And none, having lighted a lamp, puts in secret, neither under a bushel, but upon the chandelier, that they coming in should see the light.


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The light of the body is the eye; when therefore thine eye be plain, also thy whole body is clear: and when it be evil, also thy body dark.


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If therefore thy whole body clear, not having any part dark, the whole shall be clear, as when a lamp enlightens thee with its gleam.


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And in the speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him: and having come in he reclined.


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And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness.


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But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as concealed tombs, and men walking above know not.


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And a certain of the skilled in the law having answered, said, Teacher, speaking these things, and thou injurest us.


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And he said, And woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye load men with loads difficult to carry, and ye yourselves touch not one of the fingers to the load.


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Surely ye testify and assent to your fathers works: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their tombs.


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And for this said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and the sent, and of them shall they kill and drive out:


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That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation;


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From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.


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Woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye came not in yourselves, and those coming in ye hindered.


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And he saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to hold on greatly, and to put questions to him of many things:


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Upon which, myriads of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to speak to his disciples first, Keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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Therefore whatever ye have said in darkness shall be heard in light; and what ye spake to the ear in storehouses shall be proclaimed upon house-tops.


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And I say to you, my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these not having anything remaining to do.


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And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.


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But also the hairs of your head were all numbered. Therefore fear not: ye have the preeminence over many little sparrows.


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And I say to you, Every one who should acknowledge in me before men, also the Son of man will acknowledge in him before the messengers of God.


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And every one who shall say a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him: and to him blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be remitted.


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And when they bring you to assemblies, and beginnings, and powers, have no anxiety how or what ye allege for justification, or what ye say:


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And a certain one out of the crowd said to him, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.


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And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.


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And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits?


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And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things.


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And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.


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And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?


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And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.


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Consider the ravens: for they sow not neither do they reap; to them there is not store-house nor store; and God nourishes them: how much more have ye preeminence of the fowls?


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Consider the white lilies, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin; and I say to you, neither was Solomon in all his glory clothed as one of these.


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And if the grass, to day being in the field and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes; how much rather you, ye of little faith?


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For all these things the nations of the world seek for: and your Father knows that ye have need of these.


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Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.


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And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him.


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Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them.


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And if he should come in the second watch, and should come in the third watch, and find so, happy are those servants.


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And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined.


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And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?


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And if that servant should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come; and should begin to strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated;


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The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving.


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And that servant having known his lord's will, and not prepared, neither having done his will, shall be skinned with many.


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And he not having known, and having done things worthy of blows, shall be skinned with few. And to every one to whom much was given, shall much be required of him: and with whom they have deposited much, they will ask of him the more.


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And I have an immersion to be immersed with; and how am I pressed together till it should be finished!


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Father shall be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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And he said to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising from the descents, ye say quickly, A heavy shower of rain is coming; and it is so.


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O hypocrites, ye know to judge the face of the earth and of heaven; and how do ye not judge this time?


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For when thou retirest with thine adversary to the ruler, in the way give labor to be released from him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the avenger, and the avenger cast thee into prison.


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I say to thee, thou shouldest not come out thence, even till also thou shouldest give back the last small coin.


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And certain were present in that time announcing to him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.


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And Jesus having answered, said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinful above all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that these were debtors above all men dwelling in Jerusalem?


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And he spake this parable: A certain had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it, and found not.


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And he said to the vine-dresser, Behold, three years I am come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find not: cut it off; wherefore also does it leave the earth unemployed?


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And he having answered says to him, Lord, let it go also this year, till I shall dig round it, and cast dung:


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And, behold, there was a woman having a spirit of weakness eighteen years, and was bent together, and not able wholly to lift up the head.


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And having seen her, Jesus called to, and said to her, Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy weakness.


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And the ruler of the assembly having answered, feeling pain because Jesus cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd, Six days there are in which they ought to work; in those therefore, coming, be ye cured, and not the day of the sabbath.


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Then answered the Lord and said, Hypocrite, does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and leading away, give to drink?


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And this being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, behold, eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond the day of the sabbath


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And he saying these things, all opposed to him were ashamed: and the crowd rejoiced for all the glorious things done by him.


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It is like a kernel of mustard, which a man having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew, and became into a great tree; and the fowls of heaven encamped in its young shoots.


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It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.


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Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.


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From the time when the master of the house should rise up, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us: and having answered, he will say to you, I know not whence ye are:


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And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity.


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Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without.


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And they shall come from the risings, and the settings, and from north, and south, and they shall recline in the kingdom of God.


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In the same day certain Pharisees came near, saying to him, Come out, and go from thence: for Herod wishes to kill thee.


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And he said to them, Having gone, say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons, and complete cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I am completed.


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But I must go to day and to morrow and the following: for it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!


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Behold, your house is left to you a desert: and truly I say to you, That ye should not see me, until it should come when ye say, Praised he coming in the name of the Lord.


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And it was in his coining into the house of a certain of the Pharisees in the sabbath to eat bread, and they were observing him narrowly.


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And Jesus having answered, said to those skilled in the law and the Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to cure in the sabbath?


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And having answered, he said to them, Whose ass or ox of yours shall fall into a well, and will he not quickly pull it out on the sabbath day?


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And he spake a parable to the called, fixing his attention how they chose out the first places at table; saying to them,


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When thou art called to the nuptials, thou shouldest not recline in the first place at table; lest a more honourable than thou be called by him:


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And he having called thee and him, having come, shall say to thee, Give place to this; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take possession of the last place.


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But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee before them reclining with thee.


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And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee.


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And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just.


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And a certain of them having reclined together, having heard these things, said to him, Happy he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the called, Come; for all things are already prepared.


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And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I ask thee, have me pardoned.


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And approaching, that servant announced to his lord these things. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.


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And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the ways and hedges, and compel to come in, that my house may be filled up.


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If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.


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For which of you, wishing to build a tower, not first, having sat down, calculates the expense, if he have things for completion?


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Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?


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Neither for the land, nor is it fitted for the dunghill; they cast it without. He having ears to hear, let him hear.


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And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them.


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What man of you, having one hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes for the one lost, till he find it.


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And having come into the house, he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my lost sheep.


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I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.


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Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, lights not a lamp, and sweeps the house, and seeks diligently till she should find?


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And having found, she calls together female friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me; for I found the drachma which I lost.


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And the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of property falling. And he divided to them the property.


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And not many days after, having gathered all things, the younger son went abroad into a far off country, and there disposed his property, living in a profligate manner.


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And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into the fields to feed swine.


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And he eagerly desired to fill his belly with the fruits of the horntree which the swine ate: and none gave to him.


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And having come to himself, he said, Many hired of my father abound in loaves, and I am perishing with hunger!


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Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,


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And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.


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And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son.


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And the father said to his servants, Bring out the first robe, and clothe him; and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for the feet:


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For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.


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And his elder son was in the field: and coming, as he drew near the house, he heard a concert of music, and dances.


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And he said to him, That thy brother has come, and thy father has sacrificed the fatted calf; because he received him in good health.


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And he having answered said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never at any time passed by thy command: and never hast thou given me a kid, that I might be gladdened with my friends.


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And when this thy son, devouring thy property with harlots, came, thou hast sacrificed for him the fattened calf.


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And to be gladdened, and to rejoice, was fitting: for this thy brother was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found.


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And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods.


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And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward.


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And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.


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I have resolved what I will do, that, when I should be removed from the stewardship, they might receive me in their houses.


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And having called upon each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord.


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And he said, An hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thou thy book, and having quickly sat down, write fifty.


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Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy book, and write eighty.


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And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.


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And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of injustice; that, when ye fail, they might receive you into lasting tents.


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He faithful in the least, is also faithful in much: and he unjust in the least, is also unjust in much.


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No servant can serve two lords: for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will hold firmly to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God.


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The law and the prophets until John: from then the kingdom of God announces good news, and every one is forced into it.


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Every one loosing his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery: and every one marrying her having been loosed from the husband commits adultery.


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And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.


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And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;


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And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he having called out, said, Father Abraham, pity me, and send Lazarus, that he might dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.


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And besides all these, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed: so that they wishing to pass through thence to you could not; neither could they cross over from thence to us.


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For I have five brethren; that he might testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.


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And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if some one from the dead go to them, they will change the mind.


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And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither if any rise from the dead, will they be persueded.


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And he said to the disciples, It is impossible there come not causes of offence: and woe, through whom they come!


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It is profitable to him if the millstone of an ass were placed about his neck, and he cast into the sea, rather than he should offend one of these little ones.


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Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.


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And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go.


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And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you.


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And which of you having a servant ploughing or feeding, who will say to him having come out of the field, Quickly having come, recline?


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But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup, and, being girded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and after these, thou mayest eat and drink?


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So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done.


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And having seen, he said to them, Having gone, show yourselves to the priests. And it was in their retiring they were cleansed.


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And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:


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Neither shall they say, Behold here or, behold there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.


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And he said to the disciples, The days come when ye shall eagerly desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see.


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For as lightning, flashing out from that under heaven, shines to that under heaven; so also shall be the Son of man in his day.


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They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all.


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And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;


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In that day, whoever shall be upon the house, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he in the fields, likewise let him not turn back behind.


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Whoever should seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose it, shall preserve it alive.


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And having answered, they say to him, Where, Lord And he said to them, Where the body, there shall the eagles be gathered together.


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And he would not for a time: and after these he said in himself, And if I fear not God, and am not occupied about man;


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Yet because this widow produces fatigue to me, I will avenge her, lest in the end, coming, she give me a blow under the eyes.


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And shall not God do the avenging of his chosen, crying to him day and night, being slow to anger toward them?


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I say to you, that he will do their avenging swiftly. But the Son of man having come, shall he find faith upon earth


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And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:


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The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.


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And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.


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I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.


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And they also brought babes to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples having seen, censured them.


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And Jesus having called them, said, Leave the young children to come to me, and hinder them not: for of such is time kingdom of God.


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Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child should not enter into it.


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And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit eternal life?


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Thou knowest the commands, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, Thou shouldest not kill, Thou shouldest not steal, Thou shouldest not bear false testimony, Honour thy father and thy mother.


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And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.


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And Jesus having seen him being sorely grieved, said, With how much difficulty shall they having possessions come into the kingdom of God!


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For it is easier for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.


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And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there is none who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for sake of the kingdom of God,


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And taking the twelve, he said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things written by the prophets shall be completed to the Son of man.


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And they understood nothing of these things: and this word was hidden from them, and they discerned not the things spoken.


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And they going before censured him, that he be silent: and he so much the more cried out, O son of David, pity me.


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And he immediately saw again, and followed him, honouring God: and all the people having seen, gave praise to God.


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And having run before, he went up upon an Egyptian fig tree, that he might see him: for he was about to pass through that.


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And when he came to the place, having looked up, Jesus saw him, and said to him, Zaccheus, having hastened, come down; for to day must I remain in thine house.


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And Zaccheus having stood, said to the Lord, Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have made any false accusation against any one, I give back fourfold.


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And Jesus said to him, That to day salvation has been to this house, as he is also a son of Abraham.


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And they hearing these things, having added, he spake a parable, for he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that immediately the kingdom of God is about to be rendered visible.


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Then he said, A certain honourable man went into a country far off to take unto himself a kingdom, and to return.


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And having called his ten servants, he gave them ten coins, and said to them, Attend to business, till I come.


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And his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We wish not this to reign over us.


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And it was in his coming back, having received the kingdom, and he spake to have these servants called to him, to whom he gave the silver, that he might know who had attended to any business.


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And he said to him, Well, good servant: because thou west faithful in the least, be thou having power over ten cities.


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For I feared thee, for thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou layedst not down, and thou reapest what thou didst not sow.


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And he said to him, Out of thy month will I judge thee, O evil servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I sowed not:


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And wherefore gavest thou not my silver to the bankers, and I having come had received it with interest?


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And to those standing by he said, Take away from him the coin, and give to him having the ten coins.


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For I say to you, That to every one having shall be given; and from him not having, and what he has shall be taken away from him.


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But those mine enemies, not having wished me to reign over them, bring hither, and slaughter before me.


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And it was as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount called of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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Having said, Retire ye to the opposite town; in which entering, ye shall find a colt bound, upon which none of men at any time have sat: having loosed, bring him.


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And they brought him to Jesus: and having cast their garments upon the colt, they placed Jesus upon.


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And he already drawing near to the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples, rejoicing, began to praise God with a great voice for all the powers which they saw;


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Saying, Praised the king coming in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest ones.


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And having answered, he said to them, I say to you, that if these should be silent, the stones shall cry out.


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Saying, That if thou knewest, also thou, and also in this thy day, the things for thy peace! and now have they been hid from thine eyes.


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For the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and keep thee together from all sides,


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And they shall level thee with the ground, and thy children in thee; they shall not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the time of thine inspection.


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Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers.


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And he was teaching in the day in the temple. And the chief priests and scribes and the first of the people sought to destroy him,


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And it was in one of those days, he teaching the people in the temple, and announcing good news, there came forth the chief priests, and the scribes, and the more ancient,


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And they spake to him, saying, Say to us, by what authority doest thou these? or who is he having given thee this authority?


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And they reckoned up together to themselves, saying, That if we say, of heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?


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And he began to say to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it to farmers, and went abroad sufficient time.


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And in time he sent a servant to the farmers, that they give him from the fruit of the vineyard: and the farmers, skinning, sent him out empty.


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And he added to send another servant: and they also having skinned and dishonoured him, sent forth empty.


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And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do I will send my dearly beloved son: perhaps, having seen him, they will change.


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And the farmers having seen him, reasoned to themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance be ours.


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And having cast him without the vineyard, they killed. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He shall come and destroy these farmers, and give the vineyard to others. And having heard, they said, It may not be.


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And having looked upon them, he said, What then is this written, The stone which the builders disapproved of, this has been for the head of the corner?


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Every one having fallen upon that stone shall be crushed, and upon whomsoever it should fall, it shall winnow him.


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And the chief priests and scribes sought to lay hands upon him in the same hour; and they feared the people: for they knew he spake this parable against them.


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And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.


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And they asked him, saying. Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and thou receivest not the face, but teachest in truth the way of God:


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And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.


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And certain of the Sadducees having approached, speaking against there being a rising up, asked him,


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Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother die having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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And they having been deemed worthy to obtain that life, and the rising up of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:


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For neither can they die any more: for they are like to messengers; and are sons of God, being the sons of the rising up.


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And that the dead are raised, Moses made known at the bramble, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.


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And David himself says in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou from my right hand,


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Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers;


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Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.


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For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.


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And certain speaking of the temple, that it has been arranged with beautiful stones and decorations, he said,


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These which ye see, the days shall come, in which stone shall not be left upon stone, which shall not be loosened.


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And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore shall these be and what the sign when these should be about to be.


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And he said, See ye, be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, That I am; and the time has drawn near: therefore go not after them.


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And when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these must first be; but the end not immediately.


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And great earthquakes in places, and famines, and scourges shall be; and terrific objects and great signs shall be from heaven.


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And before all these shall they cast their hands upon you, and drive out, delivering to assemblies, and prisons, being brought before kings and leaders for my name's sake.


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For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand.


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And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death.


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Then let those in Judea flee to the mountain; and those in the midst of her withdraw; and let those in the countries not go into her.


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And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people.


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And they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and they shall be made captives in all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by all the nations, till the times of the nations should be completed.


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And signs shall be in the sun, and moon, and stars; and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and commotion resounding.


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Men losing breath for fear and expectation of things coming on the habitable globe: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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And these things beginning to be, get out of danger, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.


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And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.


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Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And the days he was teaching in the temple; and the nights, coming out, he lodged in the mount called of Olives.


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And having departed, he conversed with the chief priests and the generals, how he might deliver him to them.


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And he said to them, Behold, you having come to the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow ye him to the house where he goes in.


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And ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the room where I should eat the pascha with my disciples?


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For I say to you, no more should I eat of it, till when it should be completed in the kingdom of God.


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Having taken the bread, and returned thanks, he brake, and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you: this do ye for my remembrance.


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Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:


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And truly the Son of man goes according to that determined: but woe to that man by whom he is delivered up!


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And they began to seek together among themselves, which of them it should be that was about to do this thing.


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And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them; and they exercising power over them are called benefactors.


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For which the greater, he reclining, or he serving? is not he reclining and I am in the midst of you as he serving.


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That ye might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and might sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And I have supplicated for thee that thy faith fail not: and thou, when having turned back, confirm thy brethren.


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And he said, I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not utter a sound this day, before thou shalt thrice deny knowing me.


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And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did ye want any thing? And they said, Nothing,


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Then said he to them, But now, he having a purse, let him take up, and likewise a wallet: and he not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword.


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For I say to you, that this written must yet be finished in me, that, Also was he reckoned with the lawless: for also the things concerning me have an end.


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And having come out, he went, according to custom, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples followed him.


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Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done.


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And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.


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And he yet speaking, Behold a crowd, and he called Judas, one of the twelve, came before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him.


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And they about him, having seen that, going to be, said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword.


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And Jesus said to the chief priests, and generals of the temple, and the elders, having come to him, Have ye come out, as upon a robber, with sword and sticks?


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I being with you daily in the temple, ye stretched not forth the hands upon me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.


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And having taken, they brought him into the house of the chief priest. And Peter followed him far off.


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And having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and they having sat down together, Peter sat down in the midst of them.


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And a certain young girl having seen him sitting by the light, and looked intently upon him, said, And this was with him.


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And after a little another having seen him, said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.


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And about the space of one hour a certain other assured himself, saying, of a truth this also was with him: for he is a Galilean.


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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, he yet speaking, the cock uttered a sound.


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And the Lord having turned, looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, That before the cock utters a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice.


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And having covered him, they struck his face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy who it is having struck thee.


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And when it was day, the council of elders of the people was gathered together, and the chief priests and scribes, and they brought him to their council,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a King.


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And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? And he having answered, said to him, Thou sayest.


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And they were strong, saying, That he stirs up the people, teaching through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.


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And having known that he is from Herod's authority, he sent him to Herod, he being in Jerusalem in those days.


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And Herod having seen Jesus, rejoiced greatly: for he was wishing a long while since to see him, for hearing many things of him: and he hoped to see some sign done by him.


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And Herod having set him at nought with his troops, and having mocked, putting about him shining clothing, sent him out to Pilate.


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And also Pilate and Herod were friends in that day with one another: for they were before being in enmity with each other.


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Said to them, Ye have brought to me this man, as perverting the people: and, behold, I having examined him before you, have found nothing blameworthy in this man, of what things ye bring an accusation against him:


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But neither Herod: for I sent you forth to him; and, behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him.


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And he said to them the third time, For what evil has he done I have found no cause of death in him: therefore, having corrected him, I will loose.


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And they were urgent with great voices, asking for him to be crucified. And their voices and the chief priests overcame.


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And he loosed to them him cast into prison for sedition, and slaughter, which they demanded; and delivered Jesus to their will.


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And as they led him away, seizing upon Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they laid the cross upon him, to carry after Jesus.


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And a great multitude of people followed him, and of women, and who were lamenting bitterly, and bewailing him.


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And having turned towards them Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.


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For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck.


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And when they came to the place called Kranium, there they crucified him, and the evil doers, truly one from the right, and one from the left.


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And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.


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And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also who with them were deriding, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he is Christ, the chosen of God.


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And there was also an inscription written upon him, in letters Greek, Roman, and Hebrew; THIS IS KING OF THE JEWS.


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And the other having answered, censured him, saying, Shouldest thou not fear God, for thou art in the same judgment?


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And truly we justly; for we receive things worthy of what we have done: and this has done nothing out of place.


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And Jesus having cried with a great voice, said, Father, into thy hands will I commit my spirit: and having said these, he expired.


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And the centurion having seen that having been done, honoured God, saying, Surely this man was just.


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And all the crowds having been to this viewing, seeing the things done, striking their breasts, returned.


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And all his acquaintance stood afar off, and the women having followed him together from Galilee, seeing these.


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(The same was not set together in the counsel and deed of them;) from Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.


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And having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and put it in a tomb cut in stone, where none was ever laid.


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And the women having followed, which had come to him out of Galilee, saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.


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And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumed oils; and truly the sabbath were they at rest according to the command.


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And in one of the sabbaths, in the depth of the dawn of day, they came to the tomb, bringing spices which they had prepared, and certain with them.


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And it was in their being perplexed for this, and, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:


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And they having, been afraid, and bending the face to the earth, they said to them, Why seek ye the living with the dead.


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Saying, That the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and be raised up the third day.


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And they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the rest with them, who said these things to the sent.


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And Peter having risen, ran to the tomb; and having stooped, saw the linen bandages lying alone, and he departed, wondering in himself at what was done.


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And, behold, two of them were going in the same day to a town being about sixty stadia from Jerusalem, the name of which Emmaus.


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And it was in their conversing and seeking out together, and Jesus himself, having drawn near, went with them.


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And he said to them, What words these which, walking about, ye discuss with one another, and are of gloomy aspect?


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And one having answered, to whom the name Cleopas, said to him, Sojournest thou alone in Jerusalem, and knowest not the things done in it in these days?


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And Jesus said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarite, who was a man, a prophet, powerful in work and words before God and all the people:


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And we hoped that this is he about to redeem Israel: but also with all these things, to day it brings the third day from which these things were.


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And not finding his body, they came, saying also to have seen a vision of messengers, who say he is living.


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And certain of them with us departed to the tomb, and found so as the women said: and him they saw not.


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And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:


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And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained clearly to them in all the writings concerning himself.


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And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us: for it is near eve, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them.


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And it was in his reclining at table with them, having taken bread, he praised, and having broken, bestowed upon them.


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And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us, as he spake to us in the way, and as he opened the writings to us.


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And having risen the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those with them.


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And they speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and he says to them, Peace to you.


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And he said to them, Why have ye been troubled? and wherefore do reflections come up in your hearts?


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See my hands and my feet, for I am he; feel, and see: for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.


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And he said to them, These the words which I spake to you, being yet with you, for all things must be completed, written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me.


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And he said to them, That so has it been written, and so was it necessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:


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And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem.


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And, behold, I send the solemn promise of my Father upon you: and do ye sit in the city of Jerusalem, till ye be clothed with power from on high.


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This came for testimony, that he might testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through him.


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And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:


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And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.


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John testifies for him, and he tried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He coming after me was before me: for he was before me.


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None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared.


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And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that they might ask him, Who art thou?


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And they asked, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou a prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we might give answer to them having sent us. What sayest thou for thyself?


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He said, I the voice of him crying in the desert, Make ye straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.


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And they asked him, and said to him, Why immersest thou then, if thou art not Christ, neither Elias, neither a prophet?


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This is he coming after me, who was before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loose the strings of his shoes.


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In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world.


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And John testified, saying, That I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it remained up on him.


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And I knew him not: but he having sent me to immerse in water, this said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shouldest see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, this is he immersing in the Holy Spirit.


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And Jesus having turned, and seen them following, says to them, What seek ye? They said to him, Rabbi, (It says, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou.


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He says to them, Come and see. They came and saw where he remains, and they remained with him that day: and it was about the tenth hour.


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He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found Messias, which is, being interpreted, Christ.


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And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus having looked upon him, said, Thou art Simon son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, interpreted, Peter.


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And Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus, son of Joseph, him from Nazareth.


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, Behold truly an Israelite, in whom is no deceit!


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Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou thou shalt see greater than these.


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And he says to him, Amen, amen, I say to you, From henceforth shall ye see heaven opened, and the messengers of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.


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And six stone water buckets were placed there, according to the purification of the Jews, containing each two or three measures.


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And when the superintendent of the feast tasted the wine having been water, and knew not whence it is: (and the servants knew, having drawn the water;) the superintendent calls the bridegroom,


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And says to him, Every man sets good wine first; and when they be intoxicated, then inferior: thou hast kept the good wine till now.


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This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.


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After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.


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And having made a scourge of ropes, he cast all out of the temple, also sheep, and oxen; and poured out the small coin of money-changers, and overturned the tables;


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And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.


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Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?


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When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them; and they believed the writing, and the word which Jesus spake.


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And when he was in Jerusalem at the pascha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did.


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He came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God: for none can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Amen, amen, I say to thee, Except any one be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.


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Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born, being an old man? he cannot come in a second time to his mother's belly, and be born.


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Jesus says to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, Except any one be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot come into the kingdom of God.


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The wind, where it wills, blows, and its voice thou hearest, but thou knowest not whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one having been born of the Spirit.


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Truly, truly, I say to thee, that what we know, we speak, and what we have seen we testify; and ye receive not our testimony.


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If I spake to you earthly things, and ye believe not, how, if I speak to you heavenly things, will ye believe.


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And none has ascended to heaven, except he having descended from heaven, the Son of man, he being in heaven.


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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.


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For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him.


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He believing in him is not judged: and he not believing has been already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.


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And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.


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For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.


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But he doing the truth comes to the light, that his works might be manifested, that they are wrought in God.


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After these Jesus came and his disciples into the Judean land; and there he tarried with them, and immersed.


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And John was also immersing in Aenon near Salim, for many waters were there: and they came near and were immersed.


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And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou hast testified, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.


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He having the bride is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy for the bridegroom's voice: therefore this my joy has been completed.


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He coming from above is above all, he being of the earth is of earth, and speaks of earth: he coming from heaven is above all.


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He believing in the Son has eternal life: and he not believing the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him.


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Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,


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Then comes he to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.


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And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.


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Then says the Samaritan woman to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest of me to drink, being a Samaritan woman? for the Jews have no intercourse with the Samaritans.


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And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.


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The woman says to him, Lord, thou hast no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?


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Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals.


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But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.


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The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Thou sayest well, That I have no husband:


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Our fathers worshipped in this mount; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where they must worship.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, that the hour comes, when neither in this mount, neither in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.


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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such worshipping him.


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The woman says to him, I know that Messias comes, called Christ: when he should come, he will announce all things to us.


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And upon this his disciples came, and they wondered that he spake with the woman: yet none said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?


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Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest.


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And he reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life: that he sowing might rejoice together and he reaping.


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I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him for the woman's word testifying, That he told me all which I ever did.


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When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to remain with them: and he remained there two days.


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And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.


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When therefore he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all which he did in Jerusalem in the festival: for they also came to the festival.


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Then came Jesus again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain royal one, whose son was sick in Capernaum.


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He, having heard that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went away to him, and asked him that he would go down and heal his son: for he was about to die.


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Jesus says to him, Go; thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and he went.


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Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was attended to. And they said to him, That yesterday the seventh hour the fever left him.


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Then the father knew that in that hour in which Jesus said to him, That thy son lives: and he believed, and his whole house.


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And there is in Jerusalem, at the sheep place a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, having five porches.


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For a messenger at a time went down into the pool, and troubled the water: then he having first stepped in after the troubling of the water became healthy, by whatever malady a long while since he was laid.


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Jesus having seen the same lying down, and having known that it was already much time, says to him, Wilt thou be well?


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He being sick answered him, Lord, I have no man, that, when the water was troubled, he might cast me into the pool: and in which I am coming, another steps down before me.


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And quickly the man was well, and he took up his couch, and walked: and the sabbath was in that day.


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Then said the Jews to him healed, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to take up thy couch.


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After these, Jesus finds him in the temple, and he said to him, Behold, thou hast become well: sin no more, lest something worse be to thee.


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And therefore the Jews drove out Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these in the sabbath.


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For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, for not only did he loose the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.


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Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can of himself do nothing, except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he should do, also these does the Son likewise.


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For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all which himself does: and he will show him greater than these, that ye might wonder.


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That all should honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He honouring not the Son, honours not the Father having sent him.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, That he hearing my word, and believing him having sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment; but has passed from death to life.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, That the hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they hearing shall live.


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Wonder not at this: for the hour comes, in which all they in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall go forth;


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I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.


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And I have greater testimony than of John: for the works that the Father gave me that I might finish them, the same works that I do, testify of me, that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father having sent me, he has testified of me. Nor have ye at any time heard his voice, or seen his form.


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Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.


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I have come in the name of my Father, and ye receive me not: if another should come in his own name, him will ye receive.


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How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone?


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Then Jesus having lifted up the eyes, and seen that a great crowd comes to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these might eat?


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Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should take some little.


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There is one little boy here, who has five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are these among so many?


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And Jesus said, Make the men recline. And there was much grass in the place. Then the men reclined, the number about five thousand.


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And Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, distributed to his disciples, and the disciples to the reclining; and likewise of the small fishes, as many as they wished.


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And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, Gather the fragments remaining over, that nothing should be lost.


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Then gathered they, and filled twelve baskets of the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over to them having eaten.


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Then the men, having seen the sign which Jesus did, said, That this is truly the prophet coming into the world.


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Then Jesus having known that they were about to come and carry him of forcibly, that they might make him king, departed again to the mount alone.


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And having entered into a ship, they came beyond the sea to Capernaum. And already was there darkness, and Jesus had not come to them.


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Then having urged forward about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they behold Jesus walking upon the sea, and being near the ship: and they were afraid.


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The morrow, the crowd standing beyond the sea having seen that no other small vessel was there, except that one into which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus entered not with his disciples into the small vessel, but his disciples departed alone;


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(But also other small vessels came out of Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, the Lord having returned thanks:)


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When the crowd therefore saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also entered into ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but for that ye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied.


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Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.


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Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye should believe in him whom he has sent.


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Then said they to him, What sign doest thou, that we might see, and believe thee? what workest thou?


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Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you bread from heaven; but my Father gives you true bread from heaven.


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And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst.


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And this is the will of the Father having sent me, that all which he has given me, I should not loose of it, but raise it up in the last day.


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And this is the will of him having sent me, that every one seeing the Son, and believing in him, should have eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.


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And they said, Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? how then says he, That I have come down from heaven?


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None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore having heard and learned of the Father, comes to me.


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This is the bread which coming down from heaven, that whoever should eat of it, and he should not die.


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I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.


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Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.


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He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.


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As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father: also he chewing me, the same also shall live through me.


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This is the bread which having come down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and died: he chewing this bread shall live forever.


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And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you?


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It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.


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But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they are not believing, and who he is going to deliver him up.


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And he said, Therefore have I said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him of my Father.


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And he spake of Judas Iscariot, of Simon: for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.


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And Jesus walked after these in Galilee: for he wished not to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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Then said his brethren to him, Go away thence, and retire to Judea, that also thy disciples might see thy works which thou doest.


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For none does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in freedom of speech. If thou do these, make thyself manifest to the world.


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And much murmuring was for him in the crowds: some truly said, That he is good: and others said, No; but he deceives the crowd.


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If any desire to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself.


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He speaking from himself, seeks his own glory: but he seeking the glory of him having sent him, he is true, and no injustice is in him.


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Moses has given you circumcision; (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and in the sabbath ye circumcise a man.


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If a man receive circumcision in the sabbath, that the law of Moses be not loosed; rage not at me, because I made a man wholly well on the Sabbath.


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And, behold, he speaks in freedom of speech, and they say nothing to him. Not at any time knew the rulers truly, that this is truly Christ?


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Then cried Jesus in the temple, teaching, and saying, And ye know me, and ye know whence I am: and I have not come of myself, but he having sent me is true, whom ye know not.


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And many of the crowd believed on him, and said, That Christ, when he should come, will he do more signs than these which he did?


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The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things of him; and the Pharisees and chief priests sent servants that they might seize him.


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Then said the Jews among themselves, Where is he about to go, that we shall not find him? is he not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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What is the word which he spake, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find: and where I am, ye cannot come?


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In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.


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(This spake he of the Spirit which they believing in him were about to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet; for Jesus was not yet honoured.)


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Said not the writing, That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was, Christ comes?


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Then came the servants to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why did ye not bring him.


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They answered and said to him, And art thou not of Galilee? Search, and see: for a prophet has not risen out of Galilee.


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And again in the morning he was present in the temple, and all the people came to him; and having sat down, he taught them.


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And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,


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And this said they, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his fingers upon the earth.


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And when they continued asking him, having lifted up the head, he said to them, Let him faultless among you, first cast a stone at her.


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And they having heard, and being convicted by consciousness, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.


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And Jesus having lifted up the head, and seen none but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are they accusing thee? has none condemned thee.


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Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.


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Jesus answered and said to them. Though I testify of myself; my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and where I retire; but ye know not whence I came and where I retire.


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Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye had known my Father also.


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These words spake Jesus in the royal treasury, teaching in the temple: and no one seized him; for his hour had not yet come.


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Then said Jesus again to them, I retire, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I retire, ye cannot come.


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And he said to them, Ye are from below I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.


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I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins.


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Then said they to him, Who art thou? And Jesus said to them, In the beginning, he which I spake to you.


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Many things have I to speak and judge of you; but he having sent me is true; and what things I have heard from him these say I to the world.


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Then said Jesus to them, When ye lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am, and I do nothing of myself; but as my Father taught me, these I speak.


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And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him.


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Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples.


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They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free?


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They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works.


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And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.


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Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.


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Then said Jesus to them, If God were your Father, ye had loved me: for I went forth from God, and came; for I have not come of myself, but he sent me.


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Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.


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Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?


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Then said the Jews to him, Now we have known that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any keep my word, he shall never taste of death.


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Thou art not greater than our father Abraham, who died; and the prophets died: whom makest thou thyself?


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Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father honouring me; whom ye say, that he is your God:


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And ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.


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Then lifted up they stones that they might cast upon him: and Jesus was hid, and he went forth out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and so he passed by.


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Jesus answered, Neither did this sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God might be manifested in him.


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Having said these, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay upon the eyes of the blind,


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And said to him, Retire, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is interpreted, Sent.) He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.


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Then the neighbors, and those seeing him before that he was blind, said, Is not this he sitting and begging?


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He answered and said, A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Retire to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and having gone and washed, I saw again.


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Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he saw again. He said to them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.


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Then said certain of the Pharisees, This man is not from God, for he keeps not the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man do such signs? And a division was among them.


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They say to the blind again, What sayest thou of him, for he opened thine eyes? He said, That he is a prophet.


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Then the Jews believed not of him that he was blind, and saw again, until they called the parents of him having looked up.


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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom ye say that be was born blind how then does be now see.


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But how he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: he has age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.


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These said his parents, for they feared the Jews: for already had the Jews agreed, that if any should acknowledge him Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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Then called they the man of a second time, who was blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful.


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He answered them, I told you already, and ye heard not: why wish ye to hear again? ye wish not also to be his disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, For in this is it wonderful, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes.


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They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without.


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Jesus heard that they cast him without; and having found him, said to him, Believest thou in the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind.


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We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber.


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To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.


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And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.


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And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.


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I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture.


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The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.


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But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.


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And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd.


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No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command received I of my Father.


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Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech.


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Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me.


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And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.


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My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.


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Jesus Answered them, Many good works I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye stone me.


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The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself God.


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Whom the Father consecrated, and sent into the world, say ye that thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God.


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And if I do, though ye believe me not, believe the works: that ye might know, and believe, that the Father in me, and I in him.


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And again he departed beyond Jordan to the place where John was first immersing; and he remained there.


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And many came to him, and said, That truly John did no sign: but all which John said of him was true.


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(And Mary was she having anointed the Lord with perfumed oil, and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)


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And Jesus having heard, said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that by it the Son of God be honoured.


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When therefore he heard that he is sick, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days.


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of the day? If any walk in the day, he stumbles not, for he sees the light of this world.


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These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him.


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Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we might die with him.


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And many of the Jews were come to them about Martha and Many, that they might console them for their brother.


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She says to him, Yes, Lord: I have believed that thou art Christ, the Son of God, he coming into the world.


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And having said these, she departed and called Mary her sister secretly, having said, The Teacher is come, and calls thee.


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Then the Jews being in the house with her, and consoling her, having seen Mary, that she rose quickly and went forth, followed her, saying, That she retires to the tomb, that she might weep there.


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Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou wert here, my brother had not died.


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Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping having come with her, was heavy in spirit, and troubled himself,


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And certain of them said, Could not he having opened the eyes of the blind, have made that this should not die?


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Then Jesus again being heavy in himself, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was laid upon it.


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Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he already smells: for it is the fourth day.


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Then took they away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes above, and said, Father, I return thee thanks that thou didst hear me.


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And I knew that thou always hearest me: but for the crowd standing round I said, that they might believe that thou didst send me.


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And the dead came out, bound feet and hands with bandages; and his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let him retire.


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Then gathered together the chief priests and Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.


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If we let him thus go, all will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away also our place and nation.


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Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not.


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And this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;


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And not for the nation alone, but that also the children of God, scattered, should be gathered into one.


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Jesus then walked no more with freedom of speech among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.


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And the Jews' pascha was near: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the pascha, that they might purify themselves.


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Then sought they Jesus, and said with one another, standing in the temple, What seems it to you, that he should not come to the festival.


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And also the chief priests and Pharisees had given a command, that if any know where he is, he should make known, that they might take him.


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Then Jesus, six days before the pascha, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus the dead, whom he raised from the dead.


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Then made they him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of them reclining at table with him.


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Then Mary having taken a pound of perfumed oil of spikenard, very precious, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs: and the house was filled with the smell of the perfumed oil.


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And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.


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Then a great crowd of Jews knew that he is there: and they came not for Jesus alone, but that also they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.


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Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to the meeting to him, and cried, Praised he coming in the name of the Lord, King of Israel.


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And these the disciples knew not at first: but when Jesus was honoured, then remembered they that these were written of him, and they did these things to him.


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The crowd therefore testified which being with him, that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead.


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Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Ye see that ye aid nothing; behold, the world has departed after him.


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These then came to Philip, him of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, except a kernel of wheat, having fallen into the earth, should die, it remains alone: and if it should die, it brings forth much fruit.


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He loving his soul shall lose it; but he hating his soul in this world, shall guard it for life eternal.


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If any one would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be my servant: and if any one serve me, him will the Father honour.


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Now has my soul been troubled; and what should I say? O Father, save me from this hour: but for this came I to this hour.


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Father, honour thy name. Then came a voice from heaven, I have also honoured, and will again honour.


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Then the crowd, having stood and heard, said it was thunder: others said, A messenger has spoken to him.


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The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ remains forever: and how sayest thou That the Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?


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Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have light, lest darkness overtake you: and he walking in darkness knows not where he retires.


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While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye might be the sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and having departed, he was hid from them.


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That the word of Esaias the prophet might be completed, which he spake, Lord, who believed our report? and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart: lest they see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and should turn back, and I should heal them.


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Yet nevertheless also many of the rulers believed in him; but on account of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge, lest they should be excluded from the synagogue:


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And if any hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.


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He rejecting me, and not receiving my words, has him judging him: the word which I spake, that shall judge him in the last day.


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For I spake not of myself; but the Father having sent me, he gave me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.


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And I know that his command is life eternal: therefore what I speak, as the Father said to me, so I speak.


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And before the feast of the pascha, Jesus knowing that his hour had come that he should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.


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And supper having been, the devil having already cast into the heart of Judas Iscariot, of Simon, that he should deliver him up;


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Jesus knowing that the Father has given all things to him into the hands, and that he came out from God, and retired to God;


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He arises from supper, and lays down the garments; and having taken a linen cloth, he girded himself.


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Then casts he water into a washing vessel, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe with the linen cloth with which he was girded.


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Peter says to him, Thou shouldest never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Except I wash thee, thou hast no part with me.


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Jesus says to him, He washed has no need but to have the feet washed, but is wholly clean: and ye are clean, but not all.


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When therefore he washed their feet; and took his garments, going to recline again, he said to them, Knew ye what I have done to you?


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If therefore, I washed your feet, the Lord and Teacher; ye also ought to wash the feet of one another:


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Truly, truly I say to you, The servant is not greater than his Lord; neither the sent greater than he having sent him.


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I say not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the writing might be completed, He chewing bread with me lifted up his heel against me.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He receiving whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he receiving me receives him having sent me.


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These things Jesus having spoken, was troubled in spirit, and he testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.


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Jesus answers, This is he to whom I, having dipped a small morsel, shall bestow. And having dipped the small morsel, he gives to Judas Iscariot, of Simon.


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And after the small morsel then came Satan into him. Then says Jesus to him, What thou doest, do quickly.


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For some thought, since Judas had the small coffer, that Jesus says to him, Purchase of what we have need for the festival; or, that he might give something to the poor.


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Little children, yet a little am I with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, That where I retire, ye cannot come; and I say to you now.


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A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.


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Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where retirest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I retire, thou shalt not be able to follow me now; and afterwards thou shalt follow me.


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Jesus answered, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me Truly, truly, I say to thee, The cock shall not utter a sound, till thou deny me thrice.


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In my Father's house are many dwellings: and if not, I had said to you. I go to prepare a place for you.


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And if I go and prepare a place for you, again I come, and I will receive you to myself; that where I am, ye might be also.


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Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, except by me.


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Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?


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Believest thou not that I in the Father, and the Father is in me? the words which I speak to you, I speak not of myself: and the Father remaining in me does the works.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He believing in me, the works which I do shall he do also; and greater than these shall he do; for I go to my Father.


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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever;


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The Spirit of truth; which the world cannot receive, for it sees it not, neither knows: and ye know it; for it shall remain with you, and shall be in you.


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He having my commands, and keeping them, the same is he loving me: and he loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.


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Judas says to him, not Iscariot, Lord, how has it been that thou art about to make thyself manifest to us, and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him.


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He not loving me will not keep my words: and the word which ye hear is not of me, but of the Father having sent me.


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But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.


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Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be timid.


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Ye have heard that I said to you, I retire, and I am coming to you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.


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But that the world might know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, so I do. Arise ye, let us go thence.


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Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.


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Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me.


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I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.


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If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.


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If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.


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If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love.


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These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.


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I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you.


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Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.


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If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


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Remember the word which I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they expelled me, they will also expel you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.


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If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father.


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And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me:


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They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God.


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But these have I spoken to you, that when the hour should come, ye should remember them, for I said to you. And these I said not to you from the beginning, for I was with you.


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But I say the truth to you; it is profitable to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Intercessor shall not come to you; and if I go, I will send him to you.


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And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.


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All things which the Father has are mine: therefore said I, he shall take of mine, and announce to you.


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A little while, and ye see me not: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, and because I retire to the Father.


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Then said of his disciples to one another, What is this which he says to you, A little, and ye see me not: and again, a little, and ye shall see me: and, Because I retire to my Father?


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Then knew Jesus that they wished to ask him, and he said to them, For this seek ye with one another that I said, A little while, and ye see me not; and again a little, and ye shall see me.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.


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A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world.


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And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you.


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And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, That whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.


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Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.


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These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father.


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I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.


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Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any ask thee: by this we believe that thou earnest forth from God.


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Behold, the hour comes, and has now come, that ye be scattered, each to his own, and leave me alone: and I am not alone, for the Father is with me.


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These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.


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These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee:


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As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life.


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And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.


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And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was.


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I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.


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For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.


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And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we.


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When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed.


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And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them.


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I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.


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That all might be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that they also be one in us; that the world might believe that thou sentest me.


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I in them, and thou in me, that they might be perfected in one: and that the world might know that thou sentest me, and lovedst them, as thou lovedst me.


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O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.


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And I made known to them thy name, and I will make known: that the love with which thou lovedst me might be in them, and I in them.


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Jesus having said these, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Kedron, where was a garden, into which he came, he and his disciples.


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And Judas also knew the place, he delivering him up: for Jesus was many times gathered there with his disciples.


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Then Judas, having taken a band and attendants from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lights and torches and weapons.


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They answered him, Jesus the Nazarite. Jesus says to them, I am. And Judas also, he delivering up, was standing with them.


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Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. And the name to the servant was Malchus.


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Then said Jesus to Peter, Put thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it.


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And led him away to Annas first; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the chief priest that year.


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And Caiaphas was he having counselled the Jews, that it is profitable for one man to be destroyed for the people.


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And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple: and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and came together with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest.


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And Peter stood before the door without. Then went out the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and spake to her guarding the door, and brought in Peter.


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Then says the young girl guarding the door to Peter, Art not thou also of this man's disciples? He says, I am not.


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And the servants and attendants stood, having made a heap of burning coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.


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Jesus answered him, I spake with freedom of speech to the world: I always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews were always come together; and I spake nothing in secret.


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And he having said these things, one of the attendants standing by gave Jesus a blow with a rod, having said, Answerest thou the chief priest so?


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And Simon Peter was standing, and warming himself. Then said they to him, Art thou not also of his disciples he denied, and said, I am not.


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Says one of the chief priest's servants, being of his family whose ear Peter cut off, Saw I not thee in the garden with him?


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Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha.


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Then said Pilate to them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. Then said the Jews to him, It is not lawful for us to kill any one:


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That the word of Jesus might be completed which he spake, giving a sign by what death he was about to die.


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Then came Pilate again into the pretorium, and asked Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the King of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Much less am I a Jew; thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee to me: What didst thou?


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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence.


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Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one being of the truth hears my voice.


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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, again went he out to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault in him.


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But a custom is to you, that I loose one to you in the pascha: will ye therefore I should loose to you the King of the Jews.


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And the soldiers having twined a crown of thorns, put upon his head, and they put round him a purple robe,


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Then again went out Pilate without, and says to them, See, I lead him to you without, that ye might know that in him I find no fault.


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Then went forth Jesus without, bearing a crown of thorns, and a purple garment. And he says to them, Behold the man!


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When therefore the chief priests and attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them, Take ye him, and crucify; for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, for he made himself the Son of God.


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And went into the pretorium again, and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Then says Pilate to him, Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to loose thee.


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Jesus answered, Thou hast no power against me, if it were not given thee from above: therefore he delivering me to thee has greater sin.


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From this Pilate sought to loose him: and the Jews cried out, saying, If thou loose this, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Then Pilate having heard, brought Jesus without, and sat upon the judgment seat, in a place called Paved with ornamental stones; in Hebraic, Gabbatha.


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And it was the preparation of the pascha, and about the sixth hour: and he says to the Jews, Behold your King!


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And they cried, Take away, take away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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And they took Jesus, and led away: and bearing his cross he went out into a place called Kranium, which in Hebraic is called Golgotha:


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And Pilate also wrote a title, and put upon the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARITE, KING OF THE JEWS.


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Then read many of the Jews this title: for the place was near the city where Jesus was crucified: and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Roman.


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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.


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Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part: and also the coat: and the coat was unsewn through the whole, having been woven from above.


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Then said they to one another, Let us not divide it, but let us draw lots for it, whose it shall be: that the writing might be completed, saying, They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my clothing cast they the lot. Then truly did the soldiers these things.


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And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.


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Jesus then having seen the mother, and the disciple standing near, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!


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Then says he to the disciple, Behold thy mother And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.


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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already completed, that the writing might be finished, says, I thirst.


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Then was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, put upon hyssop, and brought near to his mouth.


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When Jesus therefore took the vinegar, he said, It has been finished: and having bent the head, he delivered up the spirit.


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Then the Jews, that the bodies remain not upon the cross in the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for great was the day of that sabbath,) asked Pilate that their legs be broken, and they be taken away.


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And he having seen has testified, and his testimony is true: and he knows that he says true, that ye might believe.


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And after these, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, in secret, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might takeaway the body of Jesus: and Pilate conceded. He came then, and took the body of Jesus.


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And Nicodemus also came, he having come to Jesus at first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.


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Then took they the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen bandages with spices, as the custom is to the Jews to prepare a body for interment.


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And in the place where he was crucified, was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was ever laid.


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And in one of the sabbaths comes Mary Magdalene in the morning, there yet being darkness, to the tomb, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb.


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Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They took away the Lord from the tomb; and we know not where they laid him.


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And they two ran together: and the other disciple ran before, swifter than Peter, and came first to the tomb.


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And the napkin, which was upon his head, not lying with the linen bandages, but separately inwrapped in one place.


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Then, therefore, went in also the other disciple, having first come to the tomb, and he saw, and believed.


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And Mary stood near the tomb weeping without: therefore as she wept, she stood stooping into the tomb,


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And sees two messengers in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus was laid.


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And they say to her, Woman, why weepest thou? She says to them, Because they took away my Lord, and I know not where they laid him.


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And having said these, she was turned back, and sees Jesus standing, and she knew not that it is Jesus.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, why weepest thou a whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it is the gardener, says to him, Lord, if thou didst bear him away, say where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus says to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: and go thou to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God.


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Mary Magdalene comes announcing to the disciples that she has seen the Lord, and he said these to her.


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Then it being evening, in that one day of the sabbaths, and the doors shut where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace to you.


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And having said this, he showed them his hands, and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord.


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Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.


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Then said the other disciples to him, We have seen the Lord. And he said to them, Except I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.


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And after eight days again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them: Jesus comes, the doors shut, and said, Peace to you.


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Then says he to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and see my hands; and bring thy hand, and put into my side: and be not unbelieving, but believing.


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Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: happy they not having seen, and having believed.


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Then truly many other signs did Jesus also before his disciples, which are not written in this small book:


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But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name.


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After these things Jesus again manifested himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias and so he made manifest.


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and they of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.


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Simon Peter says to them, I retire to fish. They say to him, We also go with thee. They came forth, and went up into the ship quickly; and in that night they caught nothing.


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And morning being already come, Jesus stood on the sea-shore: yet the disciples knew not that it is Jesus.


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And he said to them, Cast the net to the right parts of the ship, and ye shall find. Therefore they cast, and were no more able to draw it, from the multitude of fishes.


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Then that disciple says, whom Jesus loved, to Peter, It is the Lord. Then Simon Peter having heard that it is the Lord, girded round the upper garment, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the sea.


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And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as from two hundred cubits) dragging the net of fishes.


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When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up, and drew the net upon the earth, full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty-three: and being so many, the net was not split.


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And Jesus says to them, Come, dine. And none of the disciples dared to inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it is the Lord.


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Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.


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Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep.


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He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.


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Truly, truly, I say to thee, when thou west younger, thou didst gird thyself and walk where thou wouldest; and when thou shalt grow old, thou shalt stretch out thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou wilt not.


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And this he said, signifying by what death he shall honour God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.


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And Peter having turned back, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also reclined in the supper upon his breast, and said, Lord, who is he delivering thee up.


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Then went out the word to the brethren, That this disciple dies not: and Jesus said not to him, That he dies not; but, If I will him to remain till I come, what to thee?


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This is the disciple testifying of these, and having written this: and we know that his testimony is true.


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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they be written every one, neither do I suppose the world itself will receive the books written. Amen.


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Truly the first word had I made of all things, O Theophilus, of which Jesus began to do and also to teach,


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To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:


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And, being collected together, he enjoined them not to be separated from Jerusalem, but to wait for the solemn promise of the Father, which ye heard of me.


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For John truly immersed in water; and ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit not after these many days.


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Truly they therefore having come together, asked him, saying, Lord, if in this time thou wilt restore the kingdom of Israel?


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And he said to them, It is not yours to know the times and occasions, which the Father fixed in his own power.


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But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.


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And as they were looking intently to heaven, he going, behold, two men were standing before them in white raiment;


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And they said, Galilean men, why stand ye looking to heaven this Jesus, taken up from you to heaven, so shall he come which manner ye saw him going to heaven.


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Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olive, which is near Jerusalem, having the way of a sabbath.


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And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James.


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All these were persevering unanimously in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary mother of Jesus, with his brethren.


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And in these days Peter having risen in the midst of the disciples, said, (also the crowd of names together was about an hundred and twenty,)


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Men, brethren, this writing must be filled up, which the Holy Spirit spake before by mouth of David concerning Judas, being guide to them having taken Jesus.


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Truly this therefore purchased a place from the wages of iniquity; and being bent forward, he brake in pieces in the midst, and all his entrails were poured out.


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And it was known to all dwelling in Jerusalem; so that that place was called in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, The place of blood.


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For it has been written, in the book of Psalms, Let his country-house be a desert, and let none be dwelling in it: and his inspection may another take.


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Therefore must there, of these men having come with us in all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and came out among us,


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Having begun from the immersion of John, unto the day which he was taken up from us, be one of these a witness with you of his rising up.


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And having prayed, they said, Thou, O Lord, knowing hearts of all, spew forth one of two which thou hast chosen,


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To take the lot of this service and sending forth, from which Judas passed by, to go to his own place.


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And he gave their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was voted together with the eleven sent.


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And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter.


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And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, circumspect men, from every nation of those under heaven.


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And there having been this voice, the multitude came together, and were disturbed, for each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.


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And all were affected in mind and wondered, saying to one another, Behold, are not these speaking Galileans.


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,


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And Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near Cyrene, and Romans arriving as strangers, and Jews, and strangers,


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And Peter, having stood with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Men Jews, and all ye dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and hear ye my words:


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And it shall be in the last days, says God, I pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elder dream dreams:


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And also upon my servants and upon my maids in those days will I pour out from my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:


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And I will give wonders in heaven above, and signs upon the earth below; blood, and fire, and steam of smoke:


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and distinguished day of the Lord come:


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Men, Israelites, bear these words; Jesus the Nazarite, a man elected by God for you by powers and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, (as also ye yourselves know:)


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This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:


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Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death: as it was not possible for him to be holden of it.


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For David says about him, I saw beforehand the Lord before me always, for he is of my right hand, that I be not moved:


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For this my heart was gladdened, and my tongue was transported with joy; and yet also shall my flesh encamp in hope:


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For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption.


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Men, brethren, it is permitted to speak with freedom of speech to you of the patriarch David, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us even till this day.


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Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him, of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit upon his throne:


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Foreknowing, he spake of the rising up of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption.


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Therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which ye now see and hear.


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For David ascended not into the heavens: and he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my right hand,


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know certainly, that God made him Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.


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And having heard, they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the sent, What shall we do, men, brethren?


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And Peter said to them, Repent, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.


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And with many other words he appealed earnestly and besought, saying, Be ye saved from this crooked generation.


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Then truly they having gladly received his word were immersed: and in that day were added about three thousand souls.


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And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.


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And in the day persevering unanimously in the temple, and breaking bread in the house, they partook of food with lively joy and simplicity of heart,


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Praising God, and having favor with the whole people. And in the day the Lord added the saved to the church.


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And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple;


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And Peter said, Silver and gold are not to me; but what I have, this I give thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, arise and walk.


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And having taken him by the right hand, he raised: and immediately his feet and ankles were rendered firm.


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And springing forth he stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and springing, and praising God.


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And they knew him, that this was he sitting for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that having happened to him.


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And the lame healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran to them in the porch called Solomon's, much amazed.


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And Peter, having seen, answered to the people, men, Israelites, why wonder ye at this? or why look ye intently at us, as by our own power or devotion having made him to walk?


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The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose.


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And by faith of his name, this, whom ye see and know, his name made firm, and faith which by him, gave him this completeness before you all.


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But God, announced these things beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so completed.


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Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;


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Whom heaven must truly receive till time of restoration of all which God spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets from forever.


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For Moses truly said to the fathers, That a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear according to all whatever he speak to you.


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And all the prophets from Samuel, and those in order, as many as spake, also announced beforehand these days.


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Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God set with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all families of earth be praised.


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To you first God, having raised up his child Jesus, sent him praising you, in turning away each from your wickedness.


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And they speaking to the people, the priests, and commander of the temple, and the Sadducees, resisted them,


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And it was on the morrow, their rulers, and elders, and scribes, were gathered together at Jerusalem,


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And Annas, chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the lineage of the chief priest.


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Be it known to all you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in this he stands before you whole.


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And salvation is in no other: for neither is another name given under heaven among men, in which we must be saved.


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And seeing the freedom of speech of Peter and John, and comprehending that they are illiterate men, and private individuals, they wondered; and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.


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Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that truly a known sign has been by them, manifest to all them dwelling in Jerusalem: and we cannot deny.


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But that it be not more and more exposed to the wind among the people, let us threaten them with a threat, to speak no more in this name to any man.


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And having called them, they enjoined them universally not to utter neither to teach in the name of Jesus.


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And Peter and John having answered to them, said, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye.


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And they having made additional threats, loosed them, finding nothing how they might chastise them, for sake of the people: for all honoured God for that having been done.


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And having been loosed, they came to their own, and announced to them what the chief priests and elders said.


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And they, having heard, lifted up the voice unanimously to God, and said, Sovereign, thou God having made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things which in them:


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Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things.


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Kings of the earth stood up, and rulers were gathered together upon one and the same, against the Lord, and against his Christ.


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For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel,


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And now, Lord, look upon their threats: and give to thy servants, with all freedom of speech to speak thy word,


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In thy stretching out thy hand for healing; and signs and wonders to be for the name of thine holy child Jesus.


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And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spake the word of God with freedom of speech.


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And the heart and soul of the multitude of them believing were one: and not one said any of the things being to him to be his own; but all were common to them.


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And in great power the sent gave back testimony of the rising up of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.


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For neither was any in want among them: for as many as were possessors of farms or houses, selling, brought the prices of things sold,


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And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,


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And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent.


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And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm.


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Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God.


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And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things.


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And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much.


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And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out.


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And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband.


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And by the bands of the sent were many signs and wonders among the people; (and all were unanimously in Solomon's porch.


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So that the sick were brought into the streets, and laid upon beds and couches, that Peter coming, even the shadow might overshadow certain of them.


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And a multitude also came together of them all around the cities to Jerusalem, bringing the sick, and the molested by unclean spirits: who were all healed.


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And the chief priest having risen, and all they with him, (the sect being of the Sadducees,) they were filled with zeal,


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And a messenger of the Lord by night opened the doors of the prison, and having brought them forth, said,


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And having heard, they came in by morning to the temple, and taught. But the chief priest having approached, and they with him, called the council together, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison for them to be brought.


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And the attendants having come near, found them not in the prison, and having returned, they announced,


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Saying, That we truly found the prison shut with all security, and the watch standing without before the doors: and having opened, we found none within.


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And when the priest and captain of the temple and chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt of them, what this might be.


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And a certain one having come near, announced to them, saying, That, behold, the men which ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.


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Then the commander having gone with attendants, brought them, not with force: for they feared the people, lest they might be stoned.


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Saying, Did we not announce to you by order, not to teach by this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye desire to bring upon us this man's blood.


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The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew with your own hands, having hung him upon a tree.


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This, God exalted, a Chief and Saviour, with his right hand to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.


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And a certain Pharisee having risen up in the council, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honoured by all the people, urged to put the sent without a little while.


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And he said to them, Men, Israelites, attend to yourselves on account of these men, what ye are about to do.


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For before these days Theudas arose, saying himself to be somebody: which a number of men followed, about four hundred, who was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were destroyed, and were for nothing.


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After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.


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And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed:


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And by him they were persuaded: and having called the sent, having stripped, they enjoined not to speak in the name of Jesus, and loosed them.


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Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured.


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And every day in the temple, and at the house, they ceased not teaching and announcing the good news, Jesus the Christ.


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And in those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily service.


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And the twelve having called the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing for us, having left the word of God, to serve tables.


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Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need.


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And the word pleased before all the multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:


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And the word of God increased: and the number of disciples was multiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and a great crowd of priests listened to the faith.


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And certain of them arose from the synagogue, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrian, and of them from Cilicia and Asia, seeking out with Stephen.


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Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.


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And they roused together the people, and elders, and scribes, and having stood against, they seized him, and brought to the council,


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And set false witnesses, saying, This man ceases not speaking defaming words against this holy place, and the law:


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For we have heard him saying; That Jesus the Nazarite shall abolish this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.


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And all they sitting in the council, having looked intently upon him, saw his face as the face of a messenger.


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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye: The God of glory was sent to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,


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And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.


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Then having come out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran: and thence, after his father died, he transplanted him into this land, in which ye now dwell.


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And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.


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And God spake thus, That his seed shall be dwelling in a strange land; and it shall subjugate them, and inflict evil four hundred years.


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And the nation which they serve will I judge, said God: and after these shall they go out, and shall serve me in this place.


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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.


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And a famine came upon the whole land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great pressure: and our fathers found no food.


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And in the second time, Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race was manifest to Pharaoh.


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And they transported him to Sychem and put him in the tomb which Abraham was satisfied with for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor of Sychem.


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And as the time of the solemn promise drew near, which God aware to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.


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He having deceived our race by sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fathers, to make their babes cast out, that they should not breed.


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In which time Moses was born, and he was shrewd to God, who was nourished up three months in his father's house:


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And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works.


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And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel.


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And having seen a certain one injured, he defended, and did vengeance for him harassed, having struck the Egyptian,


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And he supposed his brethren to understand that God by his hand gives them salvation: and they understood not.


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And the following day he was seen to those contending, and he compelled them to peace, having said, Men, ye are brethren; wherefore injure ye one another?


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And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble.


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And Moses having seen, wondered at the sight: and he coming near to observe attentively, the voice of the Lord was to him,


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I the God of thy fathers, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses being trembling, dared not observe attentively.


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And the Lord said to him, Loose the shoes of thy feet: for the place in which thou standest is holy land.


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Having seen, I saw the injury of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to take them away. And now came, I will send thee into Egypt.


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This Moses which they denied, having said, Who set thee ruler and judge? this, God sent, a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the messenger having been seen to him in the bramble.


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He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years.


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This is Moses, having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear.


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This is he having been in the church in the desert with the messenger speaking to him in Mount Sina, and our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:


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To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,


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Having said to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has been to him.


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And they made a calf in those days, and brought up a sacrifice to the image, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.


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And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,


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And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon.


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The tent of testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as he speaking set to Moses, to make it according to the type which he had seen.


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Which also our fathers having received brought in with Jesus in the possession of nations, which God drove out from our fathers' face, even to the days of David;


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Heaven a throne to me, and earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build to me? says the Lord: or what the place of my rest?


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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.


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Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:


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And being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked intently to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,


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And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.


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And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.


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And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep.


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And Saul was assenting to his murder. And in that day was a great expulsion upon the church in Jerusalem; and all were scattered up and down in the countries of Judea and Samaria, except the sent.


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And the crowds unanimously attended to things spoken by Philip, in their hearing and seeing the signs which he did.


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For of many having unclean spirits, crying with a great voice, they came out: and many affected with palsy, and the lame, were healed.


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And a certain man, Simon by name, was before in the city using magic, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be somebody great:


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And when they believed Philip announcing the good news of the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were immersed, both men and women.


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And Simon also himself believed: and having been immersed, he was persevering with Philip, beholding the signs and great powers having been, they were astonished.


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And the sent in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John:


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(For not yet was it fallen upon any of them: only they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus.)


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And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them,


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Saying, Give me also this power, that upon whomsoever I put hands, he might receive the Holy Spirit.


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And Peter said to him, May thy silver be for ruin with thee, for thou thoughtest the gift of God to be purchased for money.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee.


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And Simon having answered, said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that nothing which ye have spoken come upon me.


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Truly therefore, they having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced good news to many towns of the Samaritans.


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And a messenger of the Lord spake to Philip, saying, Arise, and go at noon in the way going down from Jerusalem to Gaza, (this is desert.)


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And having risen, he went: and, behold, an Ethiopian man, an eunuch of great power of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come going to worship in Jerusalem,


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And Philip running near, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and he said, Truly knowest thou what thou readest?


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And he said, How can I, except somebody guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up to sit with him.


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And the passage of the writing which he read was this, As a sheep for slaughter was he brought; and as a lamb before him shearing it dumb, so he opened not his mouth:


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In his humiliation was his judgment taken away: and his generation who shall recount? for his life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch having answered Philip, said, I pray thee, of whom speaks the prophet this of himself or of some other?


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And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.


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And as they went in the way, they came to some water: and the eunuch said, Behold water; what hinders me to be immersed?


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And Philip said, If thou believest from the whole heart, it is lawful. And having answered, he said, I believe the Son of God to be Jesus Christ.


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And he ordered the chariot to stand: and both went down into the Water, both Philip and the eunuch: and he immersed him.


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And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more: for he went his way rejoicing.


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And Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he announced the good news to all of the cities, even till he came to Cesarea.


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And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and murder against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the chief priest,


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He asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he find certain men being of the way, and also women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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And in going, it was he drawing near to Damascus: and suddenly a light from heaven flashed with lightning around him:


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And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out?


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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou drivest out: hard for thee to kick against goads.


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And he trembling and amazed said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do? And the Lord to him, Arise, and come into the city, and it shall be spoken to thee what thou must do.


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And Saul was raised up from the earth; and his eyes being opened, he saw no one: and leading him by the hand, they brought him to Damascus.


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And a certain disciple was in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I, Lord.


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And the Lord to him, Having risen, go thou to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays,


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And he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and having put hand upon him, so that he might look up and see again.


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And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evils he did to thy holy ones in Jerusalem:


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And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel:


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And Ananias departed, and came into the house; and having put hands upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, he seen to thee in the way which thou earnest, so that thou mightest look up, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.


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And quickly there fell from his eyes as scales: and he immediately looked up, and having risen, he was immersed.


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And all they hearing were affected in mind, and said: Is not this he having laid waste in Jerusalem those calling upon this name, and he has come here for this, that he might bring them having been bound to the chief priests?


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And Saul was the more strengthened, and confounded the Jews dwelling in Damascus, demonstrating that this is the Christ.


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But this project was known to Saul. And they observed narrowly the gates day, and also night, that they might kill him.


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And the disciples having taken him by night, put through the wall, having let down in a wicker basket.


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And Saul being present in Jerusalem, tried to join himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple.


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And Barnabas having taken him, brought him to the sent, and recounted to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he spake freely in the name of Jesus.


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And he was with them going in and going out in Jerusalem, and speaking freely in the name of the Lord Jesus.


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Then truly the churches through the Whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria, had peace, being built up; and going in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied.


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And he found there a certain man, Eneas by name, lying upon a bed of eight years, who was affected with palsy.


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And Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus Christ heals thee; arise, and cover thyself. And he arose quickly.


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And in Joppa was a certain disciple by name Tabitha, which interpreted is called Dorcas: she was full of good works and alms which she did.


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And it was in those days, having been sick, she died; and having washed, they laid her in an upper room.


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And Lydda being near Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in it, sent to him two men, beseeching not to hesitate to pass through even to them.


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And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them.


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And Peter having put them all without, having set the knees, prayed; and having turned back to the body he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and having seen Peter, sat up.


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And having given her the hand, he raised her up, and having called the holy ones and the widows, he placed her living before them.


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Religious, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying God always.


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He saw in a vision manifestly about the ninth hour of the day a messenger of God having come in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.


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And having looked at him intently, and being afraid, he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms went up for remembrance before God.


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He is received as guest with a certain Simon a currier, to whom is a house by the sea: he shall speak to thee what thou must do.


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And when the messenger speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his servants, and a religious soldier of those persevering with him;


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And the morrow, these traveling, and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour:


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And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth:


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In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven.


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And as Peter was doubting in himself what the vision might be which he saw, and behold, the man sent from Cornelius having asked for Simon's house, stood at the gate,


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And Peter having come down to the men sent from Cornelius to him, said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what the cause for which ye are present?


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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, and witnessed of by the whole nation of the Jews, received intimation of the divine will by a holy messenger to send for thee to his house, and hear words of thee.


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Therefore having called them in, he received as guests. And on the morrow Peter came forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa came with him.


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And the morrow he came to Cesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and friends by relationship.


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And he said to them, Ye know that it is violating law for a man a Jew to join himself, or come near to a strange tribe: and God shewed me to call no man common or unclean.


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And therefore came I without contradiction, having been sent for; therefore I inquire for what word ye sent for me?


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And Cornelius said, From the fourth day till this hour I was fasting; and the ninth hour praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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Therefore send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he is received as guest in the house of Simon the currier by the sea: who, being present, shall speak to thee.


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From this therefore sent I to thee: and thou didst well being present. Now therefore are all we present before God, to hear all commanded thee of God.


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The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, announcing good news, peace through Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)


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The word ye know, having been through the whole of Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the immersion which John preached;


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Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power; who passed through doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.


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And ye are witnesses of all which he did in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they killed, having hanged upon wood:


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Not to all people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after his rising from the dead.


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And he enjoined us to proclaim to the people, and to testify that this is he appointed by God, Judge of the living and the dead.


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To him all the prophets testify, for all believing on him to receive remission of sins through his name.


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And believers of the circumcision were affected in mind, as many as came with Peter, that also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.


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Much less can any hinder water, for these not to be immersed, who received the Holy Spirit as also we?


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And he commanded them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. Then asked they him to remain certain days.


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And the apostles and brethren, those being in Judea, heard that the nations also received the word of God.


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I was in the city Joppa, praying: and in a deep trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descending as a great linen napkin, let down from heaven by four beginnings; and it came even to me:


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Upon which having looked intently, I observed, and saw quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven.


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And the spirit said to me to come with them, discussing nothing. And these six brethren came also with me, and we came to the man's house:


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And he announced to us how he saw a messenger in his house, having stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon, surnamed Peter.


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And I remembered the word of the Lord, when he said, John truly immersed with water; but ye shall be immersed with the Holy Spirit.


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If therefore God gave the like gift to them as also to us, having believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; how was I able to hinder God.


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And having heard these, they were silent, and honoured God, saying, For also God gave the nations repentance to life.


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Therefore truly those dispersed by the pressure having been on account of Stephen, passed through even to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except the Jews only.


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And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus.


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And the word was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem concerning them: and they sent Barnabas to pass through even to Antioch.


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Who, having been present, and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and besought them all, with purpose of heart, to remain to the Lord.


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For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a crowd sufficient were added to the Lord.


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And having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it was for a whole year they were assembled together in the churches, and taught a sufficient crowd. And the disciples were Christians by divine intimation first in Antioch.


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And one of them having risen, Agabus by name, signified by the Holy Spirit a great famine was about to be upon the whole habitable globe: which was during Claudius Caesar.


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And certain of the disciples, as he was able, determined, each of them, to send for service to the brethren dwelling in Judea:


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And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)


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And having seized, he put him in prison, having delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to watch him; wishing after the pascha to bring him to the people.


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Truly therefore was Peter kept in prison: and prayer was made continually by the church to God for him.


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And when Herod was about to bring him before, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the watch before the door kept the prison.


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And, behold, the messenger of the Lord stood before, and a light shone in the dwelling: and having struck Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from the hands.


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And the messenger said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy small sandals. And he did so. And he said to him, Put round thy garment, and follow me.


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And having come out, he followed him; and knew not that it is true that being done by the messenger; and seemed to see a vision.


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And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.


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And Peter being as himself, said, Now know I truly that the Lord sent his messenger, and took me out of the hands of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And being conscious, he came to the house of Mary mother of John, surnamed Mark; where were sufficient assembled, and praying.


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And having known Peter's voice, from joy she opened not the gate, and running, announced Peter to stand before the gate.


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And they said to her, Thou art mad. And she was strengthened to have it so. And they said, It is his messenger.


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And having shaken with the hand at them to be silent, he related to them how the Lord brought him out of prison. And he said, Announce these things to James, and the brethren. And having come out, he went to another place.


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And Herod having sought him, and not found, having examined the watch, commanded them to be removed. And having come down from Judea to Cesarea, he tarried.


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And Herod was fighting with violent animosity, with Tyrians and Sidonians: but they came unanimously to him, and having conciliated Blastus, him over the king's bed-chamber, they asked peace; for their country was nourished from the king's.


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And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them.


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And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having completed the service, and taken with them John, surnamed Mark.


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And certain prophets and teachers were in the church being in Antioch; as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.


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Therefore these truly, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.


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And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John a servant.


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And having passed through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, the name to him Barjesus:


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Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paul, an intelligent man; he having called Barnabas and Saul, sought anxiously to hear the word of God.


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And Elymas the magician withstood them, (for so was his name interpreted,) seeking to turn the proconsul from the faith.


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O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?


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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun till the time. And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness; and going about he sought leading by hand.


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Then the proconsul having seen that done, he believed, being struck with amazement at the teaching of the Lord.


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And having been brought from Paphos, they about Paul came to Perga of Pamphylia: and John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.


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And they having passed from Perga, approached Antioch of Pisidia, and having come into the synagogue on the day of the sabbaths, they sat down.


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And after reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if the word of encouragement is in you to the people, speak.


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And Paul having risen, and shaken with the hand, said, Men, Israelites, and ye fearing God, hear ye.


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God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in sojourning the land of Egypt, and with high arm brought them out of it.


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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he gave them to inherit this land by lot.


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And thence they desired a king; and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.


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And having removed him, he raised up to them David for king; to whom also having testified, he said, I found David of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who shall do all my desires.


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John having proclaimed before the face of his coming the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John completed the course, be said, Whom think ye me to be? I am not. But, behold, he comes after me, whose shoes of the feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Men, brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent.


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For they dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, and the voices of the prophets which being read in every sabbath, having judged, they filled up.


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And when they finished all things written concerning him, having taken down from the wood, they put in a tomb.


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Who was seen for many days to them having come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.


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For this has God completed to us, their children, having raised up Jesus; as it has also been written in the second Psalms, Thou art my Son; to day have I begotten thee.


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And that he raised him from the dead, no more about to return to corruption, so he said, That I will give you the holy, faithful things of David.


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For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:


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And from all which ye could not be justified by Moses' law, every one believing in him is justified.


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See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, which ye would not believe if any recount to you.


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And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations besought to have these words spoken in the sabbath between.


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And the synagogue having been dissolved, many of the Jews and strangers worshipping, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.


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And the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled with envy, and spake against the things said by Paul, contradicting and defaming.


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And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.


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For so has the Lord commanded us, I have set thee for a light of the nations, for thee to be for salvation even to the last of the earth.


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And the nations having rejoiced, honoured the word of the Lord: and they believed, as many as were drawn out for eternal life.


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And the Jews urged on the worshipping and distinguished women, and the first men of the city, and they raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they cast them out of their bounds,


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And it was in Iconium according to the same, went they into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude of the Jews and also of Greeks believed.


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Therefore truly they remained a sufficient time speaking freely in the Lord, he testifying to the word of his grace, and giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.


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And the multitude of the city was divided: and some truly were with the Jews, and some with the sent.


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And when there was a violent effort of the nations, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to be insolent, and to stone them,


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Being conscious, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the country round about:


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And a certain man in Lystra, not having strength in the feet, sat, being lame from his mother's belly, who had never walked:


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He having heard Paul speaking, who having looked intently upon him, and seen that he has faith to be cured,


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And the crowds having seen what Paul did, lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, Gods likened to men came down to us.


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And Jupiter's priest, being before their city, having brought bulls and crowns to the gates, wished to sacrifice with the crowd.


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And Barnabas and Paul, the sent, having heard, having rent their garments, rushed in among the crowd, crying out,


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And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:


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And surely indeed he left not himself without witness, doing good, having given us rain from heaven, and fruitful times, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


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And Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and stoned Paul, drew out of the city, supposing him to be dead.


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And the disciples having surrounded him, having risen, he came into the city: and the morrow he came out with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And having announced that city the good news, and made disciples sufficient, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,


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And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.


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And having chosen them elders in the church, having prayed with fasting, they set them before the Lord, in whom they had believed.


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And thence they sailed away to Antioch, thence were they delivered by the grace of God to the work which they completed.


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And having arrived, and gathered the church together, they announced what God did with them, and that he opened the door of faith to the nations.


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And certain having come down from Judea taught the brethren, That except ye be circumcised by Moses custom, ye cannot be saved.


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Therefore dissension and no small discussion having been to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas to go up, and certain others of them, to the sent and elders in Jerusalem about this question.


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Truly therefore the sent by the church passed through Phenice and Samaria, relating the turning back of the nations: and they made great joy to all the brethren.


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And having arrived at Jerusalem they were received by the church, and the sent and elders, and they announced what God did with them.


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And certain of them from the sect of the Pharisees having believed, rose up, saying, That they must be circumcised, and to enjoin to keep the law of Moses.


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And much discussion having been, Peter having risen up, said to them, Men, brethren, ye know that from ancient days God chose among us, through my month for the nations to hear the word of good news, and believe.


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Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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And all the multitude were silent, and heard Barnabas and Paul, recounting what signs and wonders God did in the nations through them.


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After these will I return, and rebuild the tent of David, having fallen; and its things undermined will I rebuild, and set it upright:


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So that they remaining of men might seek out the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, making all these.


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But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.


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For Moses of ancient generations has them proclaiming him in every city, being read in the synagogues in every sabbath.


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Then it seemed fitting to the sent and the elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren:


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Having written by their hand thus; The sent and elders and brethren to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia from the nations, health:


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Since we heard that certain of us having come out have troubled you with words, destroying your souls, saying, To be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we sent no word:


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It seemed fitting to us, having been unanimous, to send to you chosen men with our dearly beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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For it seemed fitting to the Holy Spirit, and to us, for no more burden to be put upon you but the necessities of these;


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To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.


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Truly therefore having been loosed, they came to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they gave up the epistle:


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And Judas and Silas, they also being prophets, through much speech consoled the brethren, and supported.


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And Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and announcing good news, with many others, the word of the Lord.


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And after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Now having turned back, let us review our brethren in every city in which we announced the word of the Lord, how they hold.


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But Paul deemed worthy, having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and not having come with them to the work, not to take him with them.


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Therefore there was an incitement, so that they separated from one another: and Barnabas, having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus;


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And Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been delivered to the grace of God by the brethren.


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And he arrived at Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timothy, son of a certain woman, a faithful Jewess; and of a Greek father:


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Him Paul wished to go forth with him; and having taken, he circumcised him, on account of the Jews being in those places: for all knew his father that he was a Greek.


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And as they were going through the cities, they delivered them the orders to watch, having been determined by the sent and the elders in Jerusalem.


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And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,


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And a vision was seen to Paul by night; A certain man, a Macedonian, was standing, beseeching him, and saying, Having passed to Macedonia, help us.


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And when he saw the vision, we quickly sought to come out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to announce good news to them.


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Therefore having been conveyed from Troas, we ran straight forward to Samothracia, and the following day to Neapolis;


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And thence to Philippi, which is the first city of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in that city passing certain days.


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And the day of the sabbaths we came out of the city by the river, where prayer was customary to be; and having sat down, we spake to the women come together.


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And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a dealer in purple garments, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to things spoken by Paul.


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And when she was immersed, and her house, she besought, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having come into my house, remain. And she forced us.


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And it was we going for prayer, a certain young girl having the spirit of Python met us, who furnished much gain to her lords, prophesying:


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She having followed Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who announce to us the way of salvation.


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And this did she for many days. And Paul, having been exercised, and having turned back to the spirit, said, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.


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And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,


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And having brought them to the generals, they said, These the men who cause disturbance to our city, being Jews,


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And the crowd set together against them: and the generals having rent their garments, commanded to scourge with rods.


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And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely:


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Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood.


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And suddenly was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were let loose.


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And the jailor being awakened, and having seen the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the imprisoned to have fled.


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And Paul called with a great voice, saying, Thou shouldest do no injury to thyself; for we are all here.


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And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed out the blows; and was immersed, he and all his, immediately.


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And having brought them up to his house, he set a table before, and rejoiced with the entire household, having believed God.


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And the jailor announced these words to Paul, That the generals have sent that ye be loosed: now therefore having come out, go in peace.


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But Paul said to them, Having stripped us publicly not condemned, being Roman men, they cast into prison and now do they cast us out secretly? not so; but having come themselves, let them bring us out.


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And the bearer of the rod announced these words to the generals: and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans.


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And having come out of prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen the brethren, they encouraged them, and they came forth.


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And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:


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And according to custom to Paul, he went in to them, and upon three sabbaths discussed with them from the writings,


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Opening and setting before, that it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and rise from, the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus, whom I announce to you.


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And certain of them were persuaded, and were assigned by lot to Paul and Silas; and of worshipping Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the first women.


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And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.


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And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here;


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Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus.


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And the brethren quickly sent out both Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who arriving went away to the synagogue of the Jews.


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And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.


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And when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that also in Berea the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating the crowd.


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And quickly the brethren sent away Paul to go as by the sea: and both Silas and Timothy remained there.


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And they conveying Paul brought him even to Athens: and having taken a command to Silas and Timothy that now they might come to him most speedily, they departed.


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And Paul waiting for them among the Athenians, his spirit was excited in him, seeing the city being addicted to idol worship.


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Therefore truly he discussed in the synagogue with Jews, and those worshipping, and in the assembly in every day with those being present.


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And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.


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And having taken him, they brought upon Mars' hill, saying, Can we know what this new teaching is, spoken by thee?


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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we wish therefore to know what these things may be.


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(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)


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And Paul having stood in the midst of Mars' hill, said, Men, Athenians, I see that in all things ye have a superstitious fear of divinity.


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For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.


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God having made the world and all things in it, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made by hands;


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Nor is served by men's hands, standing in need of anything, he giving to all life, and breath, and all things.


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And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;


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To seek the Lord, if perchance indeed they have felt for him, and found, although not being far from each one of us:


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For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.


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Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like.


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Therefore truly, God having overlooked the times of ignorance, now announces to all men everywhere to repent:


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Wherefore he set a day, in which he is about to judge the habitable globe in justice by the man whom he appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised him from the dead.


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And having heard of the rising up of the dead, they treated with mockery; and said, We will hear thee again concerning this.


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And certain men having joined him, believed: among whom also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.


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And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; (for Claudius had ordered all Jews to be separated from Rome:) came to them.


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And because being of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought: for they were by trade tentmakers.


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And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was oppressed in spirit, testifying to the Jews Jesus Christ.


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And they opposing, and blaspheming, having shaken off the garments violently, he said to them, Your blood upon your head; I clean: from now will I go to the nations.


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And having gone away thence, he came to the house of a certain Justus by name, worshipping God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue.


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And Crispus, ruler of the synagogue, believed the Lord with his whole house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptised.


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And the Lord said through a vision by night to Paul, Fear not, but speak, and thou shouldest not be silent:


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For I am with thee, and none shall attack thee to injure thee: for much people are to me in this city.


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And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews arose unanimously against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,


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And Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If therefore it were truly any injustice or wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against the word, I should have borne with you:


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But if it is a question of the word, and names, and law, according to you, see ye yourselves; for I will not be judge of these.


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And all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, ruler of the synagogue, beat before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of these.


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And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.


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And Paul arrived at Ephesus, and left those of his: and he having come into the synagogue, discussed with the Jews.


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But he took leave of them, saying, I must at any rate do the coming festival in Jerusalem: and I will again return to you, God willing. And he was conveyed from Ephesus.


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And having made a certain time, he came out, passing in order the Galatian country and Phrygia, supporting all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being able in the writings.


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He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and boiling up in the spirit, he spake and taught attentively the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.


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And he began to speak freely in the synagogue: and Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, took him, and set forth to him the way of God more accurately.


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And he wishing to pass through to Achaia, the brethren having encouraged, wrote to the disciples to receive him: who having arrived, profited much them having believed through grace:


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And it was in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having passed through the higher parts, came to Ephesus: and having found certain disciples,


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He said to them, Having believed, have ye received the Holy Spirit? And they said to him, But neither heard we if there be a Holy Spirit.


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And Paul said, John truly immersed the immersion of repentance, saying to the people, that they should believe on him coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.


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And Paul having laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.


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And having come into the synagogue, he spake freely, discoursing for three months, and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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And when certain were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, discoursing in the day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.


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And this was for two years: so that all dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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So that also upon the sick were brought from his body napkins or aprons, and diseases were removed from them, and evil spirits came out of them.


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And certain of the wandering Jews, exorcists, undertook to call over them having evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims.


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And the man leaping upon them in whom the evil spirit was, and having overpowered them, he was strong against them, so that naked and wounded they fled out of the house.


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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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And sufficient of them having done unnecessary things, having brought books together, burned before all: and computed their prices, and found fifty thousand of silver.


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And when these were completed, Paul proposed in spirit, having passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying, That after have been there, I must also see Rome.


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And having sent into Macedonia two of them serving him, Timothy, and Erastus, he stopped a season in Asia.


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For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making the silver temples of Diana, furnished no little work to artificers;


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Whom having collected together and the workmen of such things, he said, Men, ye know that out of this work is our good food.


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And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands:


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And not only this part is in danger to us to come to reproach; but also the temple of the great goddess Diana to be reckoned for nothing, and her greatness also about to be destroyed, whom the whole of Asia and the habitable globe worship.


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And the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed unanimously into the theatre, having taken away together Gains and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's companions of the journey.


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And certain also of the chief of Asia, being friends to him, having sent to him, besought not to give himself into the theatre.


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Others truly cried some other things: for the church was confused; and the most knew not for what they had come together.


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And they forced Alexander out of the crowd, the Jews having put him forward. And Alexander having shaken the hand, wished to justify himself to the people.


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And having known that he is a Jew, there was one voice from all crying for about two hours, Great the Diana of the Ephesians.


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And the scribe having calmed the crowd, says, Men, Ephesians, for who is the man that knows not the city of the Ephesians, being temple keeper of the great goddess Diana, and sent by Jove?


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Therefore these things not being refuted, it is necessary for you to be restrained, and to do nothing rash.


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If truly therefore Demetrius, and the artificers with him, have a word against any, the court days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them prosecute one another.


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For we are also in danger to be called in question for this day, being no cause for which we shall be able to give back word of this confederation.


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And after the uproar was ceased, Paul having called the disciples, and greeted, he came out to go into Macedonia.


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And having passed through those parts, and having besought them by much speech, he came into Greece.


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And having made three months; an insidious plot having been for him by the Jews, being about to sail to Syria, there was a purpose to return through Macedonia.


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And there agreed with him as far as Asia Sopater a Berean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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And we sailed forth after the days of unleavened from Philippi, and came to them in Troas up to five days; where we tarried seven days.


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And in one of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled together to break bread, Paul conversed with them being about to go forth the morrow; and he continued the word until midnight.


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And a certain young man by name Eutychus, sitting in the window, borne down by deep sleep, Paul conversing more and more, fell down below from the third story, and was taken up dead.


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And Paul having gone down, fell upon him, and embracing, said, Be not disturbed, for his soul is in him.


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And having gone up, and broken bread, and tasted, and conversed for a sufficient time, till the light, so he went forth.


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And we having gone before to the ship, sailed to Assos, there being about to take up Paul: for so had he ordered, being about himself to go on foot.


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And from thence having sailed away, the following day we arrived over against Chios; and the other day we approached to Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, the following day we came to Miletus.


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For Paul determined to sail to Ephesus, as it might not be to him to spend the time in Asia: for he hastened, if it were possible to him, to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.


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And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I embarked for Asia, how I was with you all the time.


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Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:


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How I concealed nothing of things profitable, not to announce to you, and teach you publicly, and in the houses,


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Testifying to both Jews, and Greeks, repentance towards God, and the faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And now, behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things going to happen to me in it;


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But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that all ye shall see my face no more, among whom I passed through, proclaiming the kingdom of God.


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Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.


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For I know this, that there shall come in after my departure grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock.


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Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.


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And now I commit you, brethren, to God, and to the word of his grace, being able to build up, and give you inheritance among all the consecrated.


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I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.


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Grieving chiefly for the word which he spake, that they are about to see his face no more. And they sent him forward to the ship.


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And it was, as we were conducted forth, torn asunder from them, having run straight forward, we came to Coos, and in continuation to Rhodes, and thence to Patara:


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And having been shown Cyprus, and left it at the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and were conveyed to Tyre: for thither was the ship discharging the lading.


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And having found disciples, we remained there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem.


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And it was when we accomplished the days, having come out we went; all sending us forward, with wives and children, even to without the city: and having placed the knees upon the seashore, we prayed.


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And we having finished the voyage from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais, and having greeted the brethren, we remained one day with them.


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And the morrow, they about Paul having come out, came to Cesarea: and having come to Philip's house, bearer of good news, being of the seven, we remained with him.


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And having come to us, and lifted up Paul's girdle, and bound his hands and feet, he said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle, shall the Jews so bind in Jerusalem, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the nations.


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And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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And there came also with us of disciples from Cesarea, bringing with whom we should be received as guests to a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an ancient disciple.


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And having greeted them, he recounted to each one what things God had done among the nations through his service.


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And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law:


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And they were taught about thee, that thou teachest apostasy from Moses, all the Jews among the nations, saying, they are not to circumcise children, nor walk in the customs.


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Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law.


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And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.


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Then Paul having taken the men, in the following day having been purified with them, went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification, till an offering be brought for each one of them.


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And when the seven days were about completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, embroiled all the crowd, and put hands upon them,


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Crying out, Men, Israelites, help: This is the man, teaching all, everywhere, against the people, and the law, and this place: and yet also brought the Greeks into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.


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(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian whom they thought that Paul had brought into the temple.)


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And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people: and having taken up Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and quickly the doors were shut.


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And seeking to kill him, a rumor went up to the captain of a thousand of the band, that the whole of Jerusalem had been embroiled.


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Who having taken out of it the soldiers and centurions, he ran down to them: and they having seen the captain of a thousand and the soldiers, ceased striking Paul.


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Then the captain of a thousand, having drawn near, took him, and commanded to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.


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And other cried what other in the crowd: and not being able to know certainly for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the camp.


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And when he was upon the steps, it happened, he was borne by the soldiers for the violence of the crowd.


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And being about to be brought into the camp, Paul says to the captain of a thousand, Is it lawful for me to speak anything to thee? and he said, Hast thou knowledge in Greek?


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Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?


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And Paul said, I am truly a man a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen of no undistinguished city: and I beseech of thee to give way for me to speak to the people.


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And having given way, Paul standing upon the steps, shook with the hand to the people. And being much silence, he spake in the Hebrew dialect, saying,


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I am truly a Jew, a man born in Tarsus, of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the exactness of the fathers' law, being zealous of God, as all ye are this day.


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As also the chief priest testifies of me, and all the council of elders: and whose letters to the brethren having received, I went to Damascus, going to bring there the bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.


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And it was to me going, and drawing near to Damascus about noon, suddenly much light from heaven flashed around me,


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And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarite, whom thou drivest out.


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And they being with me truly saw the light, and were terrified; but they heard not the voice of him speaking to me.


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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Having risen, go to Damascus; and there shall be told thee of all which has been arranged for thee to do.


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And when I saw not from the glory of that light, led by the hand of them being with me I came to Damascus.


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Having come to me, and stood, said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And the same hour I looked up to him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers took thee in hand, to know his will, and to see the Just, and hear the voice from his mouth.


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And now what art thou about to do having risen, be immersed and wash away thy sins, having called upon the name of the Lord.


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And saw him saying to me, Hasten, and come quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony of me.


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And I said, Lord, these know that I was imprisoning and skinning in the synagogues them believing on thee:


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And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself was standing by, and assenting to his murder, and watching the garments of them murdering him.


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And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voices, saying, Take away such a one from the earth: for it is not suitable for him to live.


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The captain of a thousand commanded him to be brought to the camp, having spoken to examine him by scourges; that he might know for what cause they exclaimed so against him.


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And as he held him before with thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful to scourge a man a Roman, and uncondemned?


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And the centurion having heard, having come near announced to the captain of a thousand, See what thou art about to do: for this man is a Roman.


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And the captain of a thousand having come near, said to him, Tell me if thou art a Roman. And he said, Yes.


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And the captain of a thousand answered, I obtained this citizenship for much capital. And Paul said, And I have been born.


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Then quickly they about to examine him withdrew from him: and the captain of a thousand was afraid, knowing that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him.


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And on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty that why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from bonds, and commanded the chief priests and the whole of their council to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him among them.


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And Paul, having looked intently to the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived as a citizen in all good conscience to God till this day.


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Then said Paul to him, God is about to strike thee, thou wall covered with dust: and sittest thou judging me according to law, and commanded me to be struck illegally?


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And Paul said, I knew not, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it has been written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.


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And Paul having known that one part is of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, cried in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee: for the hope and rising up of the dead am I judged.


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And he having spoken this, there was a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.


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For truly the Sadducees say there is no rising up, neither messenger, nor spirit: and the Pharisees acknowledge both.


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And there was a great cry: and the scribes of the Pharisees' part, having risen, struggled with obstinacy, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but if a spirit or messenger spake to him, we should not contend against God.


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And there being much dissension, the captain of a thousand, having dreaded lest Paul be torn asunder by them, commanded the army, having gone down, to snatch him from the midst of them, and bring into the camp.


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And the following night the Lord, having stood by him, said, Take courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou also testify at Rome.


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And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul.


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Who having come to the chief priests and elders, said, By an anathema, we anathematized ourselves, to taste of nothing till we kill Paul.


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Now therefore do ye exhibit to the captain of a thousand, with the council, so that to-morrow he might bring him down to you, as about to examine more accurately the things concerning him: and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.


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And Paul's sister's son having heard of the ambuscade, having approached, and come into the camp, announced to Paul.


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And Paul having called one of the centurions, said, Bring this young man to the captain of a thousand; for he has something to announce to him.


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Then truly having taken him, he brought to the captain of a thousand, and says, Paul, the bound, having called me, asked to bring this young man to thee, having something to say to thee.


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The captain of a thousand, having taken his hand, and having withdrawn in private, inquired, What is it which thou hast to announce to me?


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And he said, That the Jews agreed together to ask thee, so that to-morrow thou mightest bring down Paul to the council, as about to inquire something more accurately about him.


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Therefore thou shouldest not be persuaded by them: for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him, who anathematized themselves, neither to eat or drink till they should kill him: and now are they prepared, expecting a promise from thee.


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Truly then the captain of a thousand discharged the young man, having enjoined him, Tell none that thou hast shown these things to me.


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And having called two certain of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they go to Cesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred having held spears in the right hand, at the third hour of the night;


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And to bring forward cattle to set Paul upon, that they might carry through safely to Felix the leader.


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This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them: having stood with an army, I took him away, having learned that he is a Roman.


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Whom I found accused of questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or of bonds.


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And the plot about to be by the Jews, having been made known to me against the man, for this I sent to thee, having also commanded the accusers to say things against him to thee. Farewell.


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Then truly the soldiers according to that appointed them, having taken up Paul, brought by night to Antipatris.


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Who having come into Cesarea and given up the letter to the leader, they also placed Paul before him.


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I will hearken to thee, he said, when also thine accusers should be present. And he commanded him to be watched in Herod's pretorium.


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And after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who exhibited to the leader against Paul.


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Attaining much peace by thee, and good actions being to this nation by thy foresight altogether and everywhere, we accept, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.


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For having found this man a scourge, and moving sedition to all Jews in the habitable globe, and standing in the first rank of the sect of Nazarites:


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And who attempted to profane the temple: whom we also seized, and wished to judge according to our law.


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Having commanded his accusers to come to thee: by which thou thyself shalt be able, having examined, to know of all these of which we accuse him.


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And Paul answered, the leader having nodded to him to speak, Knowing from many years thee being judge to this nation, more cheerfully do I justify things concerning myself:


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Thou being able to know that not more than twelve days are to me from which I went up, going to worship in Jerusalem.


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And neither in the temple found they me discussing with any, or making a revolt of the crowd, neither in synagogues, nor in the city:


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And this I confess to thee, that according to the way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things written in the law and the prophets:


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Having hope to God, which they themselves also admit, a rising from the dead about to be, both of just and unjust.


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In which they found me purified in the temple, not with the crowd, nor with uproar, and certain Jews from Asia.


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Or of this one voice, which I cried standing with them, That of the rising up of the dead I am judged this day by you.


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And having heard these, Felix deferred them, knowing more accurately the things of the way, having said, When Lysias captain of a thousand shall come down, I will examine narrowly things concerning you.


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And having appointed a centurion to keep Paul, and to have a setting at liberty, and to hinder none of his own to serve or come to him.


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And after certain days, Felix, having been present with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, sent for Paul and heard him of the faith in Christ.


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And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.


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And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.


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And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.


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Asking favor against him, that he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambuscade to kill him in the way.


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Therefore the able among you, he says, having gone down together, if there be anything in this man, let them accuse him.


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And having tarried with them more than ten days, having gone down to Cesarea, on the morrow, having sat upon the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.


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And he having come, the Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood round about, bringing many and heavy charges against Paul, which they could not prove.


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He justifying himself, That neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned any thing.


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And Festus, wishing to render a favor to the Jews, having answered Paul, said, Wilt thou, having gone up to Jerusalem, there be judged by me of these things?


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And Paul said, At Caesar's judgment seat am I standing where I must he judged: I injured the Jews nothing, as thou also knowest better.


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For if truly I act with injustice, and have done anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing of which these accuse me, no one can yield me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then Festus, having conversed with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar, to Caesar shalt thou go.


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And certain days having intervened, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Cesarea, having saluted Festus.


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And as they tarried there many days, Festus set up to the king the things of Paul, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:


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About whom, I being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews exhibited, asking judgment against him.


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To whom I answered, That it is not the custom to Romans to yield up any man to destruction, before that the accused may have the accusers before the face, and take place for defence for the accusation.


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Therefore, they having come here together, having made no delay, in order having sat upon the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be brought.


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But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of a certain Jesus, having died, whom Paul declared living.


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And I doubting at the question concerting this, said, If he be willing to go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things.


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And Paul having appealed for him to be kept for the determination of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I send him to Caesar.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, I wished myself also to hear the man. And he said, Tomorrow thou shalt hear him.


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Therefore the morrow, Agrippa having come, and Bernice, with much display, and having come into the hall, also with captains of thousands, and men of the city being in eminence, and Festus having commanded, Paul was brought.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men being present with us, ye behold this, of whom all the multitude of Jews addressed me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out he must no more live.


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And I discovering nothing he has done worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Augustus, I judged to send him.


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Of whom I have not anything certain to write to the lord. Wherefore I brought him to you, and especially to thee, king Agrippa, so that, examination having been, I should have some thing to write.


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And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul defended himself, having stretched out the hand:


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Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, king Agrippa, I deem myself happy, being about to defend myself to thee this day:


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Especially thee being judge of all the customs among the Jews, and also of the questions: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.


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Therefore truly my manner of life from youth, having been from the beginning in my nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews know:


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Knowing me beforehand, from a former period, if they would testify, that according to the most strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.


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And now in the hope of the solemn promise having been made to the fathers by God, I stand, being judged,


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To which our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to arrive. For which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews.


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I therefore truly thought to myself, I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarite.


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Which I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the holy ones I shut up in prison, having received authority from chief priests; and they taken up, I carried down a vote.


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And in all the synagogues, many times punishing them, I compelled to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I drove out even also to cities without.


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The middle of day, I saw in the way, O king, a light from heaven, above the brilliancy of the sun, having shone around me, and those going with me.


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And we having all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard for thee to kick against goads.


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But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee;


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To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.


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But to them in Damascus first, and Jerusalem, and all the country of Judea, and to the nations, announcing to change the mind, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of change of mind.


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Therefore having obtained assistance from God, till this day do I stand, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what both the prophets and Moses spake being about to be:


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That Christ exposed to suffering, that first from the rising of the dead, he is about to announce light to the people, and nations.


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And he defending himself by these, Festus said with a great voice, Thou art frenzied, Paul; many letters turn thee to madness.


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And he says, I am not frenzied, most excellent Festus; but I speak the words of truth and soundness of mind.


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For the king knows of these, to whom speaking freely I speak: for I am persuaded that none of these are unknown to him; for these were not done in a corner.


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And Paul said, I would pray to God also in little, and in much, not only thee, but also all hearing me this day to become such, of what kind I also am, besides these bonds.


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And having withdrawn, they spake to one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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And when it was determined for us to sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain others bound to a centurion named Julius, of Augustus' band.


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And having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, being about to navigate places in Asia, we were conveyed; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


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And another day we were brought down to Sidon. And Julius having treated Paul affectionately, gave him up, having gone to his friends to obtain care.


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And in many days sailing slowly, and with difficulty having come to Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, to Salmone;


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And, with difficulty sailing by it, we came to a certain place called The fair havens; to which the city Lasea was near.


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And a suitable time having intervened, and sailing being already dangerous, for the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,


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Saying to them, Men, I see that with violence and much damage, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives, the voyage is about to be.


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But the centurion was rather persuaded by the pilot and the shipmaster, than by the things spoken by Paul.


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And the harbor being not suitable for passing the winter, the greater part took counsel to be conveyed from thence, if perhaps having arrived at Phenice, they may be able to pass the winter; a harbor of Crete, looking to the south west and to the country.


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And the south wind having blown softly, having thought to have obtained the purpose, hoisting up near, they sailed by Crete.


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And having run under a certain island called Clauda, with difficulty were we able to be commanding the boat:


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Which having taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they might fall through into the quicksand, having loosened the vessel, so were they borne away.


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And we being exceedingly tempest tossed, the following day they made a casting of the cargo overboard;


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And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest impending, finally all hope for us to be saved was removed.


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And there being much abstinence from food, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, Truly it was fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not to be conveyed from Crete, and gain this violence and damage.


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And now I advise you to be cheerful: for there shall be no throwing away of soul from you, but of the ship.


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Saying, Fear not, Paul; Thou must stand before Caesar: and, behold, God has bestowed on thee as a gift all these sailing with thee.


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And when it was the fourteenth night, we being carried up and down in Adria, at midnight the sailors supposed some country brought near them;


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And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms; and having removed a little, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms.


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And fearing lest perhaps we might fall through into rough places, having cast four anchors from the stern, prayed for day to come.


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And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having loosened the boat to the sea, for a pretext as about to extend the anchors from the prow,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these should remain in the ship, ye cannot be saved.


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And till it was about to be day, Paul besought all to take food, saying, Awaiting this day the fourteenth day, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing.


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Wherefore I beseech you to take food: for this is for your salvation: for not a hair of the head of one of you shall fall.


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And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat.


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And when it was day, they knew not the land: and they observed a certain deep bay having a coast, into which they resolved, if able, to push the ship.


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And having in removed the anchors, they let go into the sea, at the same time having let loose the bonds of the rudders, and having lifted up the mizen mast, they held with the blast to the coast.


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And having fallen into a place between two seas, they caused the ship to strike; and truly the prow, fixed firmly, remained undisturbed, but the stern was loosed by force of the waves.


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But the centurion wishing to save Paul, hindered from the resolution; and he commanded those being able to swim, having cast off first, to come to land:


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And the rest, truly some on boards, and some on certain things from the ship. And so it was, all were saved upon the land.


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And the foreigners bestowed upon us no ordinary kindness: for having lighted a pile of wood, they received us all on account of the impending rain, and for the cold.


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And Paul having collected together a multitude of dried sticks, and placed upon the pile of wood, a viper, having come forth out of the heat, seized his hand.


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And when the foreigners saw the wild beast hanging on his hand, they said to one another, This man is altogether a murderer, whom, saved from the sea, vengeance suffered not to live.


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And they expected him about to be inflamed, or to fall down dead suddenly: and they waiting for much, and seeing nothing extraordinary coming to him, changing their opinions, they said he was a god.


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And with them about that place was landed property to the first of the island, by name Publius; who having received us, lodged us with friendship three days.


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And it was the father of Publius lay, held fast with fever and dysentery: to whom Paul, having come in and prayed, laid hands upon him, and healed him.


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And after three months we were conveyed in a ship, having wintered in the island, of Alexandria, marked, Sons of Jove.


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Whence having come round, we arrived at Rhegium: and after one day the south wind having come up, we came the second day to Puteoli:


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Where having found brethren, we were besought by them to tarry yet seven days longer: and so we came to Rome.


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And thence the brethren, having heard of us, came out to our meeting as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom Paul having seen, having returned thanks to God, took courage.


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And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander of the camp: but to Paul it was permitted to remain by himself with a soldier watching him.


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And it was after three days Paul called together them being first of the Jews: and they having come together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I having done nothing against the people, or customs of the fathers, I was delivered in bonds from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.


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And the Jews saying against, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; as having nothing to accuse my nation.


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For this cause therefore I besought to see you, and to speak: for, for the hope of Israel am I surrounded by this chain.


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And they said to him, We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, nor any of the brethren having been present announced or spoke any evil of thee.


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And we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest: for truly of this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.


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And having appointed him a day, many came to him to the lodging; to whom testifying, he set forth the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morn to eve.


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And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,


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Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive:


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For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.


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Proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom of speech, unimpeded.


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Determined the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the rising up of the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord:


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To all being in Rome, beloved of God, called holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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First, I return thanks to my God by Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is announced in the whole world.


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For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;


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For I long to see you, That I might impart to you some spiritual grace, in order for you to be firm;


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And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.


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For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to all believing; both to the Jew first, and the Greek.


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For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.


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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;


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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:


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Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.


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And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.


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Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves:


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Who changed the truth of God into a falsehood, and reverenced and served the creation above him creating, who is praised forever. Amen.


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Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:


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Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.


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And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;


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Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,


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Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,


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Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.


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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same.


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And thinkest thou this, O man, judging them doing such things, and doing the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?


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Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dost thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?


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And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;


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To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:


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But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,


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Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek;


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But glory, and honour, and peace, to every one working good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek:


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For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;


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For when nations, not having the things of the law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having the law, are law to themselves:


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Which show the work of the law Written in their hearts, their consciousness testifying together, and between one another thoughts accusing or also excusing;)


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In the day when God shall judge the concealed things of men according to my good news by Jesus Christ.


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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.


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Speaking not to commit adultery, committest thou adultery? abhorring images, committest thou sacrilege?


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For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.


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Therefore if uncircumcision watch the justification of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?


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And shall not uncircumcision by nature, completing the law, judge thee, which by letter and circumcision a transgressor of the law?


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But he in concealment, a Jew; and circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose approbation not of man, but of God.


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It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.


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And if our injustice shall recommend the justice of God, what shall we say God not unjust bringing in anger? (I speak as man).


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And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.


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What advantage therefore have we? Not in any way: for we before accused both Jews and Greeks, all to be under sin.


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All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.


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Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:


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And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.


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Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.


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But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets;


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And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction:


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Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God;


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For the manifestation of his justice now in time: for him to be just, and justifying him of the faith of Jesus.


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And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice.


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This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice.


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How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them:


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And father of circumcision to them not of circumcision only, but also to them, walking in order in the tracks of the uncircumcision, of the faith of our father Abraham.


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For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.


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Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,


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(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.


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Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be.


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And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb:


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And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;


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But also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to them believing upon him having raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;


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By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.


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For scarcely for the just will any one die: yet for the good perhaps some also would venture to die.


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For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.


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And not only, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.


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Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:


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But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be.


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But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.


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And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification.


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For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.)


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Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life.


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For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.


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That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?


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Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.


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For if grown together we have been in the likeness of his death, but also shall we be of the resurrection:


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Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin.


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Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.


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Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice?


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And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered.


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(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration.


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And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.


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For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives?


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For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.


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Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.


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Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.


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And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.


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What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.


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Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command.


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For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.


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And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.


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I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.


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Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:


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That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.


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Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.


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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.


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And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you.


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For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.


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For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.


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And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.


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For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.


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That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.


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And not only, but also they having the first fruits of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption as a son, the redemption of our body.


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For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope?


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And likewise also the Spirit takes hold together, and assists our weaknesses: for what we would pray for as we ought, we know not, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.


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And he searching hearts knows what the thought of the Spirit, for according to God he supplicates for the holy ones.


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And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.


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For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.


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And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified.


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Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all?


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Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


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As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.


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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be,


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Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:


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Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;


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Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen.


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And not as that the word of God has fallen through. For not they all of Israel, they which of Israel:


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That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed.


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For this the word of solemn promise, According to this time will I come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.


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(For not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that according to choice the purpose of God might remain, not of works, but of him calling;)


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I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.


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For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.


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Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hast thou made me so.


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Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour.


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And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction:


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And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory.


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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.


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And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:


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For finishing and cutting short the word in justice: for the Lord will make the word cut short upon the earth.


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And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, as Sodom had we been, and as Gomorrha had we been likened.


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What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith.


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Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone;


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As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.


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For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.


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And the justice of faith says thus, Thou shouldest not say in thy heart, Who shall go up to heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)


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But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim;


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For if thou confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.


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For no distinction is of the Jew and also of the Greek: for the same Lord of all being rich to all calling upon him.


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How then shall they call upon whom they believed not? and how shall they believe whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without him proclaiming?


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And how shall they proclaim, except they be sent? as has been written, How beautiful the feet of them announcing good news, peace, of them announcing good things!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Surely, in all the earth went out their sound, and their words to the end of the habitable globe.


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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will make you jealous of not a nation, and by a shortsighted nation will I anger you.


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And Esaias is very confident, and says, I was found of them not seeking me; I was manifested to them not asking for me.


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And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.


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I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.


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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying,


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Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.


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But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal.


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And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.


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What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.


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(As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day.


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And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them:


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I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous.


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And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness?


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(For I speak to you the nations, inasmuch as truly I am the sent of the nations, I highly value my service:


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And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;


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Act not proudly to the young shoots. And if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.


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Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:


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Behold then the goodness and severity of God: truly upon the fallen, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou continue in goodness: otherwise shalt thou also be cut off.


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And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.


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For if thou according to nature wert cut out of the wild olive tree, and against nature wert grafted into the cultivated olive tree: how much more these, according to nature, shall be grafted into their own olive tree.


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For I will not ye should not know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be wise with yourselves; for hardness from part has been to Israel, till the filling up of the nations come in.


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And so all Israel shall be saved: as has been written, The Deliverer shall come out of Sion, and turn away profanation from Jacob.


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Truly concerning the good news, enemies for you: and concerning the selection, beloved for the fathers.


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For as also ye, when ye were disobedient to God, but now ye have been commiserated by the unbelief of these:


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O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! His judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out!


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I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.


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And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.


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For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.


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And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith;


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Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.


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Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.


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Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.


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If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head.


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Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God.


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So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment.


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For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it:


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For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil.


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Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.


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For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet; and if any other command in this word it is summed up, in it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


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And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed.


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The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.


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As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.


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Let not him eating despise him not eating: and let not him not eating judge him eating: for God has received him.


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Who art thou judging another's servant? to his own lord he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand: for God is powerful to make him stand.


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For one truly judges day above day: and one judges every day. Let each one be perfectly certain in his own mind.


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He minding the day, minds to the Lord; and he not minding the day, to the Lord he minds not. He eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he not eating, to the Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks to God.


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For whether we live, to the Lord we live: and whether we die, to the Lord we die: therefore whether we live, and whether we die, we are of the Lord.


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For, for this Christ also died, and also arose, and returned again to life, that he might also reign over the dead and the living.


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And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.


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For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God.


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Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.


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I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.


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And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.


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So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another.


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Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence.


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Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.


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And he being judged if he eat, has been condemned for not of faith; and everything not of faith is sin.


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For Christ also pleased not himself, but as has been written, The reproaches of them reproaching thee fell upon me.


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For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.


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And may the God of patience and his consolation give you to mind the same in one another according to Christ Jesus:


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And I say Jesus Christ has become the servant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers:


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And the nations to glorify God for mercies; as has been written, For this will I acknowledge to thee in the nations; and I will play on, the harp to thy name.


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And again Esaias says, The root shall be of Jesse, and he having risen to rule over the nations; upon him shall the nations hope.


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And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.


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And I am persuaded my brethren, and I myself for you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, tilled with all knowledge, being able also to remind one another.


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For me to be the, workman of Jesus Christ to the nations, offering in sacrifice the good news of God, that the bringing forward of the nations be acceptable, consecrated in the Holy Spirit.


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For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work,


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By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.


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And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:


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But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.


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And now having no more place in these climes, and having an anxious desire to come to you from many years.


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Whenever I go into Spain, I will come to you, for I hope passing through to see you: and by you to be sent forward there, if first from part I might be filled with you.


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For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem.


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For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.


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And I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the completion of the praise of the good news of Christ.


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And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by love of the Spirit, to fight together with me in prayers for me to God;


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That I might be saved from the unbelieving in Judea; and that my service for Jerusalem be acceptable to the holy ones;


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That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself.


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Who for my soul have laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations.


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And the church in their house. Embrace my beloved Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.


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Embrace Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are distinguished among the sent, who also have been in Christ before me.


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Embrace Tryphen a and Tryphosa, wearied in the Lord. Embrace Persis the beloved, who was much wearied in the Lord.


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Embrace Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy ones with them.


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And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.


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For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.


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For your obedience has come to all. Therefore I rejoice for you: and I wish you truly to be wise to good, and pure to evil.


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And the God of peace will rub together Satan under your feet swiftly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you.


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Gains my guest, and of the whole church, embraces you. Erastus steward of the city embraces you, and Quartus the brother.


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And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,


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And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:


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To the church of God being in Corinth, to the consecrated in Christ Jesus, to the Called holy ones, with all calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:


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And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge.


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For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.


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And this I say, that each of you says, I truly am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.


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For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.


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For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.


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For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.


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Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.


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And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness;


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For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:


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But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;


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And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:


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And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:


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And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.


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And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power.


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But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:


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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory:


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Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.


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But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him.


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And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.


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For who of men knows the things of men except the spirit of man in him? so also the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.


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And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.


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Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.


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And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.


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I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able.


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For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?


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For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?


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And he planting and he watering are one: and each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.


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According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon.


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The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.


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If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.


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If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.


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Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.


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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or about to be; all are yours;


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For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.


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Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.


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And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.


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For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?


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Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.


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For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.


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We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured.


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Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.


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And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up.


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Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.


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For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.


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Therefore sent I Timotheus to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches.


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And I will come to you swiftly, if the Lord will, and I shall know not the word of those puffed up, but the power.


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In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.


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And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.


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For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.


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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:


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Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.


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And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.


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And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.


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Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments?


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Therefore truly, if ye have judgments pertaining to the cares of life, set them counted as nothing in the church.


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For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother?


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Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?


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Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,


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Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.


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And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.


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Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.


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Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.


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Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.


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Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?


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For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.


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The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife.


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Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.


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For I will all men to be as also myself. But each has his own favor of God, the one truly thus, and the other thus.


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And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.


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And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:


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And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.


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And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away.


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And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away.


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For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.


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And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.


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For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save the husband or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save the wife?


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Except as God divided to each, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.


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Whoever was called circumcised? let him not be drawn to himself. Whoever was called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.


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A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.


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For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.


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But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.


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Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a release. Hast thou been loosed from a wife seek thou not a wife.


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And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.


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And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;


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And they weeping, as not weeping; and they rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and they buying, as not possessing.


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But I will you to be free from care. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:


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The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.


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And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away.


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And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.


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And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well.


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The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


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And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God.


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And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.


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Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.


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For also though they are called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon the earth, (for there are many gods, and many lords,)


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But to us one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things, and we by him.


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But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.


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And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want.


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For if any one see thee having knowledge reclining in the idol's temple, shall not his consciousness, being weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices to idols;


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Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord.


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Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?


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Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?


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For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?


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Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope.


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If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ.


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Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?


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But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.


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For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!


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For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.


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What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.


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And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;


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To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,


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I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.


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Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.


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And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.


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But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.


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And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;


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And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ.


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And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.


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Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.


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And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.


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No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.


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The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ?


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See ye Israel according to the flesh: are not they eating the sacrifices mutual participators of the altar?


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What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?


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But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.


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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.


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All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.


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And if any one of the unbelieving call you, and ye wish to go; every thing set before you, eat, interrogating nothing through consciousness.


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And if any one say to you, This is sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for him making it known, and consciousness: for of the Lord the earth, and its fulness:


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And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness.


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As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.


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And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions.


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And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God.


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And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved.


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For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.


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For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.


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For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe.


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For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not.


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For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread:


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And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance.


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Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance.


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Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate.


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Wherefore I make known to you, that none speaking in the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema: and none can say Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit.


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For truly to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;


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And to another performances of powers; and to another discriminations of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:


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For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ.


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For also in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or free; and we have all been given to drink into one Spirit.


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The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


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And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum.


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And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour:


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And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer together; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.


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And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues.


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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal.


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And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.


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And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.


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Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,


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It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;


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Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed.


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When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.


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For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.


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For he speaking in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God: (for none hears; and in the spirit he speaks mysteries.)


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And I will ye all to speak with tongues, and rather that ye prophesy; for greater he prophesying, than he speaking with tongues, unless he interpret accurately, that the church receive building up.


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And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?


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As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known?


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So also ye, except by the tongue ye give an evident word, how shall the speaking be known? for ye shall be speaking into the air.


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If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me.


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So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.


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What therefore is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind: I will play on the harp in the spirit, and I will play also on the harp in the mind.


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When if thou praise in the spirit, how shall he filling the place of the private individual say Amen at thy thanksgiving) since he knows not what thou sayest.


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But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.


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It has been written in the law, That in other tongues and in other lips will I speak to this people; and not so will they hear me, says the Lord.


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So that tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving: and the gift of prophecy, not to the unbelieving, but to the believing.


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If therefore the whole church come together upon the same, and all speak with tongues, and the private individual, or unbelieving, come in, will they not say that ye are enraged?


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And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all:


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And so the hidden things of his heart are made manifest; and so having fallen upon the face, he will worship God, proclaiming that God is truly with you.


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Therefore, what is it brethren when ye come together, every one of you has a Psalms, has teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretatior. Let all things be for the building of the house.


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And if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.


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Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law.


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And if they will learn anything, let them ask their own husbands in the house; for it is shameful for women to speak in the church.


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If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord.


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And I make known to you, brethren, the good news which I announced to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stood;


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By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.


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For I delivered to you among the first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the writings;


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Then was he seen by above five hundred brethren once for all; of whom the most remain till now, and some also are laid to rest.


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For I am the least of the sent, who am not fit to be called sent, for I drove out the church of God.


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And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.


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And if Christ is proclaimed that he arose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no rising up of the dead?


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And we are also found false witnesses of God; for we testified for God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if therefore the dead are not raised.


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Then the end, when he should deliver up the kingdom to God, and the Father; when he should leave unemployed every beginning and every authority and power.


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For he subjected all things under his feet. And when he said that all things have been subjected, it is manifest that without him having subjected all things to him.


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And when all things be subjected to him, then also shall the Son himself be subjected to him having made all things subject to him, that God might be all things in all.


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For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?


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If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.


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Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.


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And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body going to be, but the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat, or some of the rest:


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Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things.


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And celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but truly one the glory of the celestial, and another that of the terrestrial.


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One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory.


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It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body.


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So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.


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And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.


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Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed,


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In an atom, in the twinkling of the eye, in the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


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And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory.


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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.


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And concerning the collection for the holy ones, as I appointed to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.


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According to one day of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, treasuring up that which he is prospered in, that when I come there be no collections.


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And when I be present, whom ye approve by letters, these will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.


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And perhaps with you I shall abide, or also pass the winter, that ye might send me forward wherever I go.


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For I will not see you now in coming forward; but I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit.


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And if Timotheus come, see ye that he be with you fearlessly: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also.


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Therefore no one should despise him: and send ye him forward in peace, that he might come to me: for I expect him with the brethren.


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And concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren: and the will was not altogether that he should come now; and he will come when he should have leisure.


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And I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they arranged themselves for service to the holy ones,)


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And I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and: that they have filled up your necessity.


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Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:


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Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort:


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Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.


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And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.


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And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.


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For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:


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And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:


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Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;


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And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us.


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For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.


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For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;


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As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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And by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia, to come to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.


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Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay.


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.


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Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.


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And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.


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For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.


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So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.


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And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;


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I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.


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Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place.


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Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.


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Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?


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Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.


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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;


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Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.


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And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed.


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For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling.


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And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed:


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But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant remains not uncovered; for in Christ it is left unemployed.


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And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.


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But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.


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In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.


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For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body.


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For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.


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And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak;


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For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.


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Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day.


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For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;


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We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal.


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For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.


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Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:


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And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.


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Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.


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For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.


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Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.


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For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart.


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For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:


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And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.


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So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we know no more.


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And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;


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For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.


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For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.


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(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)


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But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,


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In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,


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As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed;


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As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.


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Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?


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And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.


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Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.


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And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.


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Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together.


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Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.


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For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.


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And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you.


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Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us.


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For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.


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For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.


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Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.


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Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all.


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For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.


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And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him.


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That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.


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Praying us with much entreaty that we receive the grace and participation of the service for saints.


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So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also.


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But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.


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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.


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And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.


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And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.


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But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:


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And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveler with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness:


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And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.


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Whether for Titus, my companion and co-worker to you: or our brethren, the sent of the churches, the glory of Christ.


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Therefore the manifestations of your love, and of your boasting for us, shew ye to them, and to the face of the churches.


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For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.


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And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:


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Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.


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Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.


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And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises.


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And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:


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And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)


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For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God;


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By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;


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And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:


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And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh.


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(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)


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Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;


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And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed.


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See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.


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For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:


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(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)


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Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed.


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For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.


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And we boast not of things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure divided to us, to reach even also to you.


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For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ:


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Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance,


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For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.


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And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.


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For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.


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And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.


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Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?


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And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.


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The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.


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And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.


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No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.


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Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.


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What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting.


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For ye bear, if any reduce you to bondage, if any devour, if any receive, if any be lifted up, if any skin you on the face.


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I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also.


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Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.


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Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;


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In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren;


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In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.


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I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven.


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That he was carried off into paradise, and heard words not to be told, which it was not permitted man to speak.


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For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.


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And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.


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And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.


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Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.


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For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice.


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Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.


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And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.


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I called for Titus, and sent with a brother. Has Titus taken advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps?


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Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.


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For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:


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Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.


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I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:


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For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.


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Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?


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And I pray to God that ye do nothing evil; not that we appear tried, but that ye do good, and we be as untried.


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For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.


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As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.


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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit with you all. Amen.


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Paul, sent, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, having raised him from the dead;)


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Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:


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I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:


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Which is not another; except some are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ.


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But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema.


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As we said before, also now say I again, If any announce to you good news above what ye received, let him be anathema.


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For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.


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For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste:


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And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.


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And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace,


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To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood:


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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them sent before me; but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.


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And only they had heard, That he then driving us out, now announces the good news, the faith which he then felt the absence of.


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And I went up according to revelation, and placed before them the good news which I proclaim in the nations, but apart to them highly esteemed, lest I run in vain, or ran.


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And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:


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To whom we yielded in subjection, not for an hour; that the truth of the good news might remain with you.


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And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:


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But on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of uncircumcision, as Peter of circumcision;


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(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)


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And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.


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For before certain came from James, he ate with the nations: and when they came, he drew down, and separated himself, being afraid of them of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.


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But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?


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Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


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And it; seeking to be justified in Christ, we were found also ourselves sinners, is Christ therefore the servant of sin? It may not be.


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I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.


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O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?


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This only wish I to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?


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He therefore furnishing you the Spirit, and working the powers in you, is it from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?


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And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised.


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For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them.


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:


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That the praise of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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Brethren, I speak according to man; Although a man's covenant, having been confirmed, none annuls, or orders an addition.


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And to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ.


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And I say this, the covenant confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, having been after four hundred and thirty years, does not annul, to neglect the promise.


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What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.


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The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law.


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But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.


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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male and female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.


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And I say, for as long time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, being lord of all;


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And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


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But then truly, not having known God, ye were in a servile condition to them not being gods by nature.


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And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition.


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And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.


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What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me.


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They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.


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But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.


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Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar.


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For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children.


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For it has been written, Be cheered, O barren, bearing not; break out and cry, she travailing not: for many more the children of the desolate than she having a husband.


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But what says the writing? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free.


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Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love.


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I have trusted to you in the Lord, that ye will have nothing different in mind; and he troubling you shall bear judgment, whoever he be.


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And I, brethren, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I. yet driven out? therefore the offence of the cross is left unemployed.


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For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another.


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For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.


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And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,


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Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.


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For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.


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Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.


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As many as: wish to have an agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should be driven out for the cross of Christ.


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For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.


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And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.


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Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the holy ones being in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:


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Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ:


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As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:


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Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,


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In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;


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Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:


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For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:


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In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:


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In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,


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Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory.


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That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge:


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The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,


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And what the surpassing greatness of his power to us believing, according to the action of the might of his strength,


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Which he performed in Christ, having raised him from the dead, and he sat on his right hand in the heavenlies,


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Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:


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In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:


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Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.


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That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.


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For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.


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Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;


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That ye were in that time without Christ alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:


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For he is our peace, having made both one, and having loosed the middle partition wall of the enclosure;


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The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace;


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And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the enmity in it:


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Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow citizens of the holy, and the household of God;


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Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;


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Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:


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For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:


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Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power.


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To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.


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And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:


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That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;


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That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height;


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To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.


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And to him being able to do above all things more abundantly above what we ask or think, according to the power being energetic in us,


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Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called,


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(And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?


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He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.)


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And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers;


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For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:


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Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.


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That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;


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From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.


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Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,


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Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;


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Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.


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For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;


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Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.


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He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.


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Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.


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Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:


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And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.


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And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.


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And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;


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For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


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Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.


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Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord;


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For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.


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That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.


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For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:


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For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.


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But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.


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And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.


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Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;


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Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:


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Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free.


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And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him.


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For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.


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For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand.


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Over all, having taken the shield of faith, in which ye shall be able to quench all the inflamed darts of evil.


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By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:


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And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,


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And that ye also might know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus will make all things known to you, the dearly beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord:


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Whom I sent to you for this same, that ye might know the things concerning us, and he might comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:


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Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:


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As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.


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And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;


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And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly.


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For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.


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For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.


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And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not.


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For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)


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And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith:


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Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news;


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And terrified in nothing by them being hostile to you: which to them is truly an indication of destruction, and to you of salvation, and this from God.


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For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;


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If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,


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Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind.


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Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.


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And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.


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Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name:


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That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth


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Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.


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That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;


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Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.


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But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all.


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And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy quickly to you, that I also be courageous, having known the things concerning you.


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And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow-soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you.


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For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.


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Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow.


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Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.


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As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me is not slothful, and to you safe.


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For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh.


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Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:


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Circumcision done the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;


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But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,


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And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:


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To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death;


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Not that I have already attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.


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Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,


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Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.


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Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.


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(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:


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Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)


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For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:


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Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.


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Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved.


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And I also ask thee, worthy yoke fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life.


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Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.


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And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


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As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.


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And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.


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And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time.


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Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.


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And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want.


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And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone.


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And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.


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To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;


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Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:


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As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;


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For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;


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For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;


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In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy.


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Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:


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For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him:


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And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all.


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And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.


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In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:


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If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;


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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.


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Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;


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The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:


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To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:


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Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ Jesus:


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For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;


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That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;


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For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.


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Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.


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See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.


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In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;


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Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.


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And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;


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Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross.


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Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it.


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Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:


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Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,


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And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.


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If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,


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Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.


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If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.


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Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:


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And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.


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And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:


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Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all.


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Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;


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(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)


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And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.


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And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.


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Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:


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Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.


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And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons.


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Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;


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Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.


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All things concerning me shall Tychicus make known to you, a dearly beloved brother, and a faithful servant and fellowservant in the Lord:


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Whom I sent to you for this same, that he might know the things concerning you, and comfort your hearts;


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With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here.


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Aristarchus my fellowcaptive greets you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (for whom ye received commands: if he come to you, receive him;)


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And Jesus, called Justus, they being of the circumcision. These only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, which were a consolation to me.


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Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.


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For I bear testimony to him, that he has much zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.


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And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it.


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;


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For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.


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And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit:


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For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.


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For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;


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And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.


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But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.


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But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:


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For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:


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Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.


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So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.


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For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.


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As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying,


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For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.


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For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:


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They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;


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Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.


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And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire.


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Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us.


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For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?


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And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith


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For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know.


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For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.


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And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:


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For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;


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And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:


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To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.


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Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.


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Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified.


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For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.


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And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.


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For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound;


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And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;


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And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.


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For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.


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For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:


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Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord.


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For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.


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And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.


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And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;


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And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.


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And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:


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We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;


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So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:


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(A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:


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And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power,


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In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:


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Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;


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When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.


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For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:


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So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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And we ask you, brethren, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our assembling together to him,


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For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.


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Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;


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Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.


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For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst.


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And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:


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And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.


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And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:


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Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.


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And our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, also our Father, having loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope in grace,


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As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:


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And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do.


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And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.


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Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:


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For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.


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And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.


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And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.


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Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;


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To Timothy, genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,


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Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:


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(And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:


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Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.


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Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,


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For fornicators, unchaste, manstealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;


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And I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, having strengthened me, for he deemed me faithful, having set me in the service;


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Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.


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Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first.


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But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life.


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And to the King of times, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, honour and glory for the times of times. Amen.)


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This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;


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Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:


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Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.


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I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men;


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For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity.


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For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.


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And likewise the women in well arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing;


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And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.


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And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.


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Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;


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Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;


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And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.


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Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;


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For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus.


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And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.


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And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.


