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And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;


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Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth.


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These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou hast closely followed.


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For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.


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For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.


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Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.


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Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things.


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Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine; remain in them: for doing this, and thou shalt save thyself, and them hearing thee.


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And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.


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And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.


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And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.


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Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work.


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And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry:


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And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.


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I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach.


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If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.


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Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.


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I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending.


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Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.


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And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.


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If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;


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He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,


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Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.


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For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out.


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And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.


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For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.


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And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.


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Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.


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I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession;


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For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ:


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Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling;


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Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.


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To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;


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Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.


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O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:


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Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,


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To Timothy, dearly beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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I have grace to God, whom I serve from the forefathers in pure consciousness, as I have continual remembrance concerning thee in my prayers night and day;


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Receiving the report of unfeigned faith in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.


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By which I remind thee of the cause to light up the favor of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.


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Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;


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Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,


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And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news:


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By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.


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Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus.


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Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for many times he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my perplexity:


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(May, the Lord give to him to find mercy of the Lord in that day:) and in how many things he served in Ephesus, thou knowest better.


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And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.


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For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.


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Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.


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Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.


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Who concerning the truth missed their aim, saying the rising up has already been; and they subvert the faith of some.


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Truly the firm foundation of God has stood, having this seal, The Lord knows them being his. And, Let every one naming the name of Christ remove from iniquity.


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And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.


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If therefore any cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honour, consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good work.


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And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.


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And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,


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In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;


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That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.


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For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,


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Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,


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For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,


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And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith.


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And thou hast closely followed my doctrine, mode of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience,


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Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all.


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And remain thou in what things thou hast learned and hast been convinced of, knowing of whom thou hast learned;


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And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.


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All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:


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I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;


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Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsuffering and teaching.


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For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;


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And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.


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As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.


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For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.


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Alexander the coppersmith showed me much evil: (may the Lord give back to him according to his works:)


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But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.


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And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.


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Be earnest to come before winter Eubulus greets thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.


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Paul, servant of God, and sent of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the acknowledgment of the truth according to devotion;


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And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;)


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To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.


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For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:


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If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.


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For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.


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Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.


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Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.


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All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.


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They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.


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The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;


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Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.


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Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,


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The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.


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Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.


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Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;


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Expecting the blessed hope, and appearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;


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Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people, zealous of good works.


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Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work,


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For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.


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Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;


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Faithful the word, and I wish for thee to be assured of these things, that they having believed God might turn their thoughts to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.


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And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, be earnest to come to me at Nicopolis: for there have I chosen to pass the winter.


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PAUL, imprisoned of Jesus Christ, Timothy the brother, to Philemon, dearly beloved, and cooperating,


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So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus.


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For we have much grace and consolation upon thy love, for the bowels of the holy are refreshed by thee, brother.


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By love I beseech rather, being such as Paul an aged man, and now also the imprisoned of Jesus Christ.


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Whom I was wishing to retain to myself, that for thee he might serve me in the bonds of the good news:


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But without thy judgment I would do nothing; that good might not be as according to necessity, but according to free will.


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No more as a servant, but above a servant, a dearly beloved brother, especially to me, and how much rather to thee, also in the flesh, and in the Lord?


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I Paul wrote with my hand, I will pay back: that I say not to thee, for thou owest thyself to me also in addition.


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Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt do above what I say to thee.


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And at the same time also prepare for me a reception as a guest: for I hope that by your prayers I shall be given as a favor to you.


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At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times;


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Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;


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Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.


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For to which of the angels once said he, Thou art my Son, I have this day begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for Father, and he shall be to me for Son?


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And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.


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And truly to the angels of God he says, Who making his angels spirits, and his workmen flames of fire.


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And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.


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Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers.


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And, Thou, at the beginning, Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands:


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And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.


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And to which of the angels has he once said, Sit on my right hand, till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?


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Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?


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For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;


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How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;


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God confirming the testimony, together with signs and wonders, and various powers, and partitions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will.


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And somewhere a certain one testified, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him? or the son of man, that thou reviewest him?


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Thou didst render him some little while less than angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst place him over the work of thine hands:


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All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.


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But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.


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For it became him, for whom all things, and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the chief of their salvation by sufferings.


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For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,


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And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me.


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Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil;


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Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people.


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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, observe the sent and Chief Priest of our assent, Christ Jesus;


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For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it.


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And truly Moses faithful in his whole house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things to be spoken;


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And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.


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Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.


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See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.


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But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.


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In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation.


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And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?


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And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?


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Let us therefore fear, lest a solemn promise being left to come into his rest, any of you should seem to have failed.


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For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.


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For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.


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Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:


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Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts.


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Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.


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For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.


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And there is no creation invisible before him: and all things naked and exposed, neck and face to view, to the eyes of him with whom to us is the word.


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Having therefore a great chief priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold firmly the assent.


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For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.


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We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.


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For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:


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Being able to moderate the passions to the ignorant, and deceived; since he also is surrounded with weakness.


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So also Christ honoured not himself, to become chief priest; but he having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.


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Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;


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And being perfected, he became to all them lending a willing ear to him the origin of eternal salvation.


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Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.


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For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.


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And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.


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Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,


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Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment.


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For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit,


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And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.


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For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:


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And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.


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And we have been persuaded of you, dearly beloved, of better things, and connected with salvation, if we also thus speak.


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For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.


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And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:


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For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy.


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In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath:


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That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:


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Which we have as an anchor of the soul, unshaken and firm, and entering into that further within the veil.


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Where the forerunner, Jesus, went in for us, according to the order of Melchisedec, being a high priest forever.


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For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;


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To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;


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Without father, without mother, of unknown origin, neither having beginning of days, nor end of life; and likened to the Son of God;) remains a priest perpetually.


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And behold how great this one, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave the tenth of the first fruits.


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And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:


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And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises.


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If truly therefore completion were by the Levitical priesthood, (for the people received legislation by it,) what further need according to the order of Melchisedec for another priest to be raised, and not according to the order of Aaron?


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For it is manifest that our Lord has sprung out of Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing of the priesthood.


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And it is yet more abundantly manifest: that according to the resemblance of Melchisedec has another priest risen,


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Who according to the law of a fleshly command was not born, but according to the power of an indestructible life.


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(For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God.


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(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)


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Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them.


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For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;


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Who has no necessity according to the day, as the chief priests, before to bring up sacrifices for their own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having brought up himself.


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For the law establishes men chief priests having weakness; but the word of the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath, after the law, the Son, having been perfected forever.


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And the summary to the things spoken: We have such a chief priest, who sat on the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;


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For every chief priest is appointed to bring in gifts and sacrifices also: wherefore it is necessary also for this to have something which he might bring.


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For if truly he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests bringing in gifts according to the law;


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Who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was given an intimation of the divine will, being about to complete the tent: for, See, says he, thou make all things according to the type shewed thee in the mount.


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And now he has attained a more distinguished office, in how much also he is mediator of a better covenant, which was legislated upon better promises.


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For rebuking them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will complete for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant:


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Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.


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For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:


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And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.


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For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.


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For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy.


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Having the golden censer, and ark of the covenant surrounded on all sides with gold, in which was the golden urn having the manna, and Aaron's rod having budded, and the tables of the covenant;


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And above it the cherubs of glory overshadowing the propitiatory; of which it is not now to speak in turn.


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And these thus prepared, truly to the first tent the priests always came in, to complete the divine services.


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And into the second the chief priest alone once a year, not without blood, which he brings near for himself, and the errors of the people:


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This the Holy Spirit designating, the way of the holies had not yet been made manifest, the first tent yet having a standing:


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Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;


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Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment.


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And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation;


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Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance.


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For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh:


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How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?


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And for this he is mediator of a new covenant, that death having been, for redemption of the transgressions for the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


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For every command spoken according to law by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and he-goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and also the book, and he sprinkled all the people,


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And almost all things are purified according to the law with blood; and without blood-letting there is no remission.


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Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:


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Neither that he should offer himself many times, as the chief priest comes in to the holy places yearly with blood pertaining to others;


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(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.


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So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation.


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For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.


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For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.


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Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:


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Then said I, Behold, I am here (in the head of the book it was written of me,) O God, to do thy will.


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Farther back, saying, That sacrifice and bringing in and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou wouldest not, neither wert contented with; which are brought in according to law;


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Then he said, Behold, I am here to do, O God, thy will. He takes away the first, that he might set up the second.


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And truly every priest has stood daily, serving and bringing in many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:


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This the covenant which I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws upon their heart, and upon their minds will I write them;


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Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus,


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A way publicly declared and living, which he consecrated to us, through the veil, that is, his flesh;


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Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts be sprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.


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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom to some; but beseeching: and by so much the more, inasmuch as ye see the day drawing near.


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For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins,


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But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.


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Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy, having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace?


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For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.


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And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings;


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This, truly, being exposed to public view both by reproaches and pressures; and this, having been partakers of those thus overturned.


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For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.


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By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.


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By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks.


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By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God.


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And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.


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By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice.


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By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming.


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By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:


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By faith Sara also herself received power for the laying down of seed, and brought forth during the time of age, for she deemed him faithful having promised.


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Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.


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According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.


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And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.


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By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,


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By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons; and worshipped, upon the extremity of his rod.


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By faith Joseph, dying, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel: and charged concerning his bones.


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By faith Moses, born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw a shrewd child; and they were not afraid of the edict of the king.


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Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;


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Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.


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By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the king's wrath: for, as seeing the invisible, he was strong.


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By faith he has kept the pascha, and the pouring out of blood, lest he destroying the first born should touch them.


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By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians having tried were swallowed down.


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And what more do I say? for the time will fail me recounting of Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthae; David also, and Samuel, and the prophets:


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Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.


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Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.


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They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;


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(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.


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Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,


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Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.


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For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.


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And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:


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Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?


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For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.


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And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.


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And make straight wheel-ruts to your feet, lest the lame thing turned aside; and it should rather be healed.


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Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;


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For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.


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For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,


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And to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which they, having heard, implored that the word be not put before them:


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(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:


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But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,


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To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the just perfected,


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And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.


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See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:


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Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.


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And the Yet once more, makes manifest the transferring the things shaken, as of things made, that the things not being shaken might remain.


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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:


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Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.


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The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.


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Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:


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With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.


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For of whom the blood of the living ones is brought for sin into the holies by the chief priest, the bodies of these are burned without the camp.


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Wherefore also Jesus, that he might consecrate the people by his own blood, suffered without the camp.


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By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.


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And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.


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Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.


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Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.


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And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,


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Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.


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Ye know the brother Timothy having been set at liberty; with whom, if he come more speedily, I shall see you.


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If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.


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And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.


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For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings.


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Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.


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Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:


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Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.


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Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.


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Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:


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Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls.


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For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:


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And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.


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If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.


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Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.


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For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing;


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And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:


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Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?


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And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?


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If yet ye complete the royal law according to the writing, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:


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For he having said, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, said also, Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou commit not adultery, and dost kill, thou hast become a transgressor of the law.


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And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him?


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And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?


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But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works.


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And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God.


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And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?


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For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.


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Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they should yield to us; and we lead their whole body.


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Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will.


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So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames.


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(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.


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For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:


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With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God.


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Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.


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The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.


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Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.


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And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.


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Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members.


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Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.


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Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.


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And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.


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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.


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Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.


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Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit:


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(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)


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Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.


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Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.


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Ye have led a luxurious life upon the earth, and have rioted in luxury; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter.


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Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.


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Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.


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Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.


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Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.


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And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.


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Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord:


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And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.


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Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.


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Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.


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Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.


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Peter, sent of Jesus Christ, to the chosen strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,


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According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.


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Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,


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Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.


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By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:


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That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:


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Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:


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For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:


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Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.


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To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.


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Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;


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And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:


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Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers.


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Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God.


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Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:


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Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.


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For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:


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Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,


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As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:


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And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.


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Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed.


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Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,


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And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.


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And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:


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Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;


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Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.


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Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;


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Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.


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Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.


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For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.


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For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:


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Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;


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Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.


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For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.


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Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;


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Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement;


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But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price.


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For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands:


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(As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror.


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Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.


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And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:


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Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.


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For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:


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For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.


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And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:


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Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.


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For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:


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They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.


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By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ:


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Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers subjected to him.


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Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;)


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That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.


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For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:


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In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:


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For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.


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As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.


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If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen.


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Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:


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But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.


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If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.


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For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.


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For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?


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Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.


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The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:


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Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;


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Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.


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Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:


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Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.


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And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation.


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By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand.


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Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:


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As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:


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(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)


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And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;


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For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.


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Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:


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For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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Wherefore I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though having known, and being supported in the present truth.


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For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty.


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For having received from God the Father honour and glory, and such a voice brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.


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And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts:


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For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.


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And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.


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And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.


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For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;


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And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;


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And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;


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And just Lot, being harassed by the licentiousness of the lawless for the turning back, he delivered:


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(For the just one in seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, from day to day tried the just soul with lawless works;)


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The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;


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And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.


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Where angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not defaming judgment against them to the Lord.


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But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;


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Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you.


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Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:


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Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;


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And he had reprehension for his own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking in man's voice impeded the insanity of the prophet.


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These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.


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For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.


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Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve.


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For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.


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For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.


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And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.


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Now this, dearly beloved, the second epistle I write to you; in which I awaken your pure mind by putting in remembrance:


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To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:


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Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires,


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And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation.


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For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:


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And now the heavens and the earth, by the same word are stored up, being kept for fire to the day of judgment and of the perdition of irreligious men.


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And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.


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The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is longsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.


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And the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a loud noise, and the elements, suffering from excessive heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burned down.


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Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion,


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Expecting and seeking earnestly the presence of the day of God, during which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements going to be burned are melted away?


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Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.


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And the longsuffering of our Lord deem ye salvation; as also our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;


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As also in all the epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also the rest of the writings, to their own perdition.


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You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.


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And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.


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What was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our own hands felt, concerning the word of life;


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(And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and we testify, and announce to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)


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What we have seen and heard we announce to you, that ye also might have communion with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.


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And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him.


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If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:


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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin.


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If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.


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My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:


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Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him.


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Brethren, I write no new command to you, but an old command which ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word which ye heard from the beginning.


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Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines.


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And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.


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I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father.


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I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil.


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Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


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For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.


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Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.


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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us.


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I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.


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Who is a liar if not he denying that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, denying the Father and the Son.


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What therefore ye have heard from the beginning, let remain in you. If it remain in you what ye heard from the beginning, ye also shall remain in the Son, and in the Father.


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And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.


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And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he be manifested, we might have freedom of speech, that we be not shamed from him in his presence.


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See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.


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Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.


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He doing sin is of the accuser; for the accuser sins from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that he might loose the works of the accuser.


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Every one born of God does not sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, for he has been born of God.


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In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.


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Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just.


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We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.


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Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no manslayer has eternal life remaining in him.


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In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.


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And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?


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And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.


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And this is his command, That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us command.


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And he keeping his commands remains in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit he gave us.


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Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.


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In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God:


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And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.


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Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.


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We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.


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Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.


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In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him.


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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.


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And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.


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In this has love been completed with us, that we might have freedom of speech in the day of judgment: for as he is, so are we in this world.


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Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love.


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If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?


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Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving him having begotten, loves him also begotten of him.


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For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith.


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This is he having come by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water alone, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is testifying, for the Spirit is truth.


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For three are testifying (in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.


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And three are testifying in the earth,) the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three are for one.


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If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony of God which he has testified concerning his Son.


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He believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself: he not believing God has made him a liar; for he has not believed the testimony which God has testified of his Son.


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These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have eternal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.


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And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:


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And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.


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If any see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and sinning will give him life to them sinning not to death. There is a sin to death: I say not of that, that he should ask.


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We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.


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And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.


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The elder to the chosen mistress in truth; (and not I only, but also all and to her children, whom I love they having known the truth;)


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There shall be with you grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth, and love.


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I was greatly rejoiced that I found of thy children walking about in the truth, as we received a command from the Father.


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And now I entreat thee, mistress, not as writing a new command, but what we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.


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And this is love, that we walk about according to his commands. This is the command, That as ye heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.


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For many cheats come into the world, they not acknowledging Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the cheat and antichrist.


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Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward.


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Every one passing by, and not remaining in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He remaining in the teaching of Christ, the same also has the Father and the Son.


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If there come any to you, and bring not this teaching, receive ye him not into the household, and to rejoice tell him not:


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Having many things to write to you, I was not willing by paper and ink: but I hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to month, that our joy might be filled up.


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Dearly beloved, I pray above all things that thou succeed and be in good health, as thy soul succeeds.


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For I was greatly rejoiced, the brethren coming and testifying to thy truth, as thou walkest about in the truth.


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Who testified to thy love before the church: thou shalt do well, having sent them forward worthily of God.


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Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church.


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Dearly beloved, imitate not evil, but good. He doing good is of God: and he doing evil has not seen God.


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It has been testified to Demetrius by all, and by the truth itself: and we also testify; and know that our testimony is true.


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And I hope presently to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name.


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Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the consecrated in God the Father, and the kept in Jesus Christ, the called:


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Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.


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For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And I wish to remind you, ye having once known this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed them not having believed.


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Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.


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As Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, debauched in like manner to these, and having gone away after other flesh, are set before a sample of eternal fire, enduring punishment.


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And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.


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But Michael the archangel, when fighting with the accuser, discussed concerning the body of Moses, dared not to bring the judgment of defamation, but said, May the Lord censure thee.


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And these truly what things they know not they defame: and what things naturally, as irrational animals, they know, in these they corrupt themselves.


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Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.


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These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;


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Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.


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And also of these prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,


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To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him.


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These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.


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For they said to you that in the last time shall be deceivers, going according to the eager desires of their impieties.


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And to him able to watch yourselves from falling, and to place blameless before his glory with transport of joy,


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To the only wise God our Saviour, glory and majesty, and strength and power, also for now and for all times. Amen.


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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must be with speed; and he signified having sent by his angel to his servant John:


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Happy he reading, and they hearing the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it, for the time is near.


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John to the seven churches which in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from him who being, and who was, and who coming; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne.


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And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,


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And he made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him the glory and strength for the times of times.


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Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they who goaded him: and all the tribes of the earth shall lament on account of him. Yes, Amen.


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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who being, and who was, and who coming, the Omnipotent Ruler.


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I John, and your brother, and partaker in pressure, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, I was in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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I was in the Spirit In the day pertaining to the Lord, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,


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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.


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And I turned back to see the voice which spake with me. And having turned back, I saw seven gold chandeliers;


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And in the midst of the seven chandeliers one like to the Son of man, dressed in a garment descending to the feet, and girded at the breast with a golden girdle.


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And his feet as brass of Lebanon, as refined by fire in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.


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And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power.


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And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he put his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid; I am the first and the last:


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And he living, and I was dead; and, behold, I am living for the times of times, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death.


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The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches.


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To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;


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I know thy works, and thy fatigue, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked: and thou hast tried them saying they are sent, and are not, and thou Last found them liars:


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And thou hast borne, and thou hast patience, and for my name hast thou been wearied, and thou hast not been broken by toil.


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Therefore remember whence thou hast fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent.


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He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God.


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And to the messenger of the church of the Smyrnians write; Thus says the first and the last, who was dead and he lived;


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I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary.


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Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.


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He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death.


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And to the messenger to the calling out in Pergamos write: Thus says he having the sharp two-mouthed sword;


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I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan: and thou holdest my name, and hast not denied my faith, and in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness, who was slain with you, where Satan dwells.


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But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.


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He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving.


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And to the messenger of the church among the Thyatirians write; Thus says the Son of God, having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like the brass of Lebanon;


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I know thy works, and love, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last more than the first.


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But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.


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Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them committing adultery with her into great pressure, except they repent of their works.


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And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works.


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And say to you, and to the rest among the Thyatirians, as many as have not this teaching, and who know not the burden of Satan, as they say; I will cast no other burden upon you.


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And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen-ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father.


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And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: Thus says he having the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead:


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Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.


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Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.


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Thou hast a few names also in Sardis which stained not their garments; and they shall walk about with me in white things: for they are worthy.


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He conquering, the same shall be surrounded in white garments; and I will not wipe out his name from the book of life, but I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his messengers.


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And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write; Thus says the holy, the true, he having the key of David, he opening, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens;


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I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.


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Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but they lie; behold, I will make them that they come and worship before thy feet, and they should know that I have loved thee.


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For thou didst keep the word of my patience, and I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, about to come upon the whole habitable globe, to try them dwelling upon the earth.


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He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name.


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And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;


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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling.


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For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;


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I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.


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Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.


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He conquering, will I give to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.


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After these things I saw, and, behold, a door opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me; saying, Come up here, and I will show thee what things must be after these.


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And instantly I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne.


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And he sitting was like the vision to a jasper stone and a sardine; and a rainbow round about the throne, like the vision to an emerald.


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And round about the throne twenty-four thrones; and sitting upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders, surrounded with white garments; and they had golden crowns upon their heads.


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And from the throne go forth lightnings, and thunders, and voices: and seven torches of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.


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And before the throne a sea of glass like crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.


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And the first living creature like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature having the face as a man, and the fourth living creature like a spreading eagle.


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And the four living creatures, one by itself, had six wings together round about; and within full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who was, and who being, and who coming.


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And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him sitting on the throne, and to him living forever and ever,


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The twenty-four elders will fall before him sitting on the throne, and will worship him living forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they are, and they were created.


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And I saw upon the right hand of him sitting upon the throne, a book written within and behind, sealed with seven seals.


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And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals?


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And none was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look upon it.


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And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals.


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And I saw, and, behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth.


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And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each harps, and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the holy.


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And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open its seals: for thou wert slain, and didst purchase us to God by thy blood from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;


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And I saw, and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders: and their number was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands;


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Saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and praise.


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And every creature which is in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth, and upon the sea, which are, and all things in them, heard I saying, To him sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, praise, and honour, and glory, and strength, for the times of times.


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And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell and worshipped him living for the times of times.


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And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as the voice of thunder, Come and see.


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And I saw and behold a white horse: and he sitting upon him having a bow; and a crown was given to him: and he went forth conquering, and that he might conquer.


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And another horse came forth fiery red: and it was given to him sitting upon him to take peace from the earth, and that they should slaughter one another: and a great sword was given to him.


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And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a black horse, and he sitting upon him having a balance in his hand.


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And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a drachma, and three measures of barley for a drachma; and thou shouldest not injure the oil and the wine.


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And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come and see.


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And I saw, and behold a pale horse: and he sitting above him the name to him Death, and Hades follows with him. And power was given to them to kill upon the fourth of the earth, with sword, and by famine, and by death, and by wild beasts of the earth.


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And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of the slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had:


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And they cried with a great voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood of them dwelling upon earth


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And to each were given white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till also their fellowservants be filled up, about to be killed, as also they.


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And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great shaking; and the sun was black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as blood;


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And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, shaken by a great wind.


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And the heaven was separated as a book turned round; and every mount and isle were moved from their places.


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And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the rich, and the captains of thousands, and the powerful, and every servant, and every one free, hid themselves in caves and in rocks of the mountains;


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And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:


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And after these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind blow not upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.


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And I saw another angel having come from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to injure the earth and the sea,


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Saying, Injure not the earth, neither the sea, neither the trees, until we should seal the servants of God upon their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of the sealed: an hundred and forty-four thousand sealed of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand sealed.


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Of the tribe of Aser twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Nepthalim twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Manasses twelve thousand sealed.


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Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand sealed.


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Of the tribe of Zabulon twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.


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After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which none could number it, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, having put round white robes, and palm trees in their hands;


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And crying with a great voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb.


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And all the angels stood round about the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God,


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Saying, Amen: praise, and glory, and wisdom, and gratitude, and honour, and power, and strength, to our God for ever and ever. Amen.


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And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they.


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And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.


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Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he sitting upon the throne will dwell among them.


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They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat.


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For the Lamb in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall guide them to living fountains of water: and God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes.


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And another angel came and was placed by the altar, having a golden censer; and many perfumes were given him, that he might give to the prayers of the holy upon the golden altar before the throne.


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And the smoke of the perfumes went up, with the prayers of the holy, from the angel's hand before God.


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And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast into the earth: and there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.


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And the seven angels having the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound the trumpets.


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And the first angel sounded the trumpet, and there were hail and fire mingled with blood, and it was cast into the earth: and a third of the trees were burned down, and all green grass was burned down.


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And the second angel sounded the trumpet, and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third of the sea was blood;


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And the third of the creatures which in the sea, died, those having souls; and the third of the ships were destroyed.


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And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as a torch, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;


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And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third of the waters is into wormwood; and many of men died of the waters, for they were rendered bitter.


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And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, and the third of the sun was stricken, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars; that a third of them might be darkened, and the day shone not, a third of it, and the night likewise.


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And I saw, and heard one angel flying in the midst of heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, to them dwelling upon earth from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels, about to sound the trumpet!


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And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit.


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And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well.


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And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


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And it was said to them that they should not injure the grass of the earth, neither any green, nor any tree; except the men only which have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.


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And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tortured five months: and their torture as the torture of a scorpion, when he should strike a man.


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And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.


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And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces.


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And they had coats of mail, as coats of mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war.


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And they have tails as scorpions, and goads were in their tails: and their power to injure men five months.


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And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss, the name to him in Hebrew Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.


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And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,


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Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels bound in the great river Euphrates.


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And the four angels were loosed, prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, that they might kill the third of men.


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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them sitting upon them, having fiery coats of mail, and of deep purple, and sulphurous: and the horses' heads as lions' heads; and out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke and sulphur.


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By these three were the third of men killed, from fire, and from smoke, and from brimstone, coming forth out of their mouths.


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For their powers are in their month, and in their tails: for their tails like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure.


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And the rest of men who were not killed by these blows, neither repented of the works of their hands, that they should not worship evil spirits, and images of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood: which neither can see, neither hear, neither walk:


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And they repented not of their slaughters, nor of their charms, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.


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And I saw another strong angel coming down from heaven, surrounded with a cloud: and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:


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And he had in his hand a small book opened: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the earth,


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And he cried with a great voice, as a lion roars: and when he cried, the seven thunders spake their voices.


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And when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Seal what the seven thunders spake, and thou mayest not write these.


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And sware by him living for ever and ever, who created the heaven, and all in it, and earth, and all things in it, and the sea, and all in it, that time shall be no more:


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But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he should be about to sound the trumpet, and the mystery of God should be finished, as he announced the good news to his servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the little book opened in the hand of the angel having stood upon the sea and upon the earth.


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And I came forth to the angel, saying to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take, and eat it up; and it shall render thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth shall it be sweet as honey.


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And I took the small book from the angel's hand, and I was eating it; and in my mouth was as honey, sweet: and when I ate it, my belly was bitter.


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And a reed was given me like rod: and the messenger stood, saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them worshipping in it.


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And the court-yard that without the temple throw out, and thou mayest not measure it: for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.


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And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, surrounded with sackcloth.


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These are the two olive trees, and the two chandeliers which having stood before the God of the earth.


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And if any would injure them, fire goes forth out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any would injure them, so must he be put to death.


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These have power to shut up heaven, that the rain should not wet in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every blow, as often as they wish.


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And when they should finish their testimony, the wild beast coming up out of the abyss shall wage war with them, and shall conquer them, and kill them.


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And their slain bodies upon the spacious way of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.


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And they from the people and tongues and nations shall see their slain bodies three days and a half, and they shall not suffer their slain bodies to be put into tombs.


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And they dwelling upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and shall be gladdened, and shall send gifts to one another; for these two prophets tortured them dwelling upon the earth.


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And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God came upon them, and they stood upon their feet: and great fear fell upon those beholding them.


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And they heard a great voice from heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.


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And in that hour was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell, and there were slain in the shaking seven thousand names of men: and the rest were terrified, and they gave glory to the God of heaven.


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And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.


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And the twenty four elders, which before God sitting upon their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,


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Saying, We return thanks to thee, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who being, and who was, and who coming; for thou hast taken thy great power, and reigned.


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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the holy, and to them fearing thy name, the small and great; and to destroy them destroying the earth.


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And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and shakings, and great hail.


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And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman surrounded by the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:


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And another sign was seen in heaven; and behold a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.


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And his tail draws the third of the stars of heaven, and he cast them into the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman about to bring forth, that when she should bring forth he might devour her child.


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And she brought forth a son, a male, who is about to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her child was snatched up to God, and his throne.


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And the woman fled into the desert where she has a place prepared from God, that they might nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.


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And war was in heaven; and Michael and his angels waged war against the dragon; and the dragon waged war and his angels,


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And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


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And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night.


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And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their souls till death.


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For this rejoice, ye heavens, and they dwelling in them. Woe to them inhabiting the earth and the sea! for the devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he drove out the woman who brought forth the male.


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And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly to the desert, to her place, where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.


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And the serpent cast after the woman water out of his mouth as a river, that he might make her torn away by a river.


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And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed down the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.


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And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went out to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw coming up from the sea a wild beast, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.


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And the wild beast which I saw was like a panther, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.


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And I saw one of his heads as slaughtered to death; and his deathblow was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.


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And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the wild beast: and they worshipped the wild beast, saying, Who like the beast? who shall be able to war with him.


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And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months.


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And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tent, and them dwelling in heaven.


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And it was given him to make war with the holy, and to conquer them: and power was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.


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And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.


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If any bring together to captivity he shall proceed into captivity: if any shall kill with sword, he shall be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faith of the holy.


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And I saw another wild beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.


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And all the powers of the first beast he does before him, and he makes the earth and all dwelling in it that they should worship the first wild beast, whose death-blow was healed.


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And he does great signs, that also he might make fire come down from heaven to the earth before men,


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And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived.


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And it was given him to give spirit to the image of the wild beast, that the image of the wild beast might speak, and might make as many as should not worship the image of the wild beast that they be killed.


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And he makes all, small and great, and rich and poor, and free and servants, that he should give them a stamp upon their right hand, or upon their foreheads:


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And that no one could buy or sell, except he having the stamp, or the name of the wild beast, or the number of his name.


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Here is wisdom. Let him having intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number Six hundred and sixty-six.


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And I saw, and, behold, a Lamb standing upon mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder: and I heard the voice of harp players playing on their harps:


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And they sing as a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and none could learn the song, except the hundred forty-four thousand, purchased from the earth.


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There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the lasting good news to announce to them dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,


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Saying with a great voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come: and worship ye him having made the heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.


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And another angel followed, saying, She fell, Babylon fell, the great city, for all nations has she given to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.


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And the third angel followed them, saying with a great voice, If any worship the wild beast and his image, and receive the stamp upon his forehead, or upon his hand,


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And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb:


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And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever: and they have no rest day and night, those worshipping the wild beast and his image, and if any receive the stamp of his name.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Happy the dead who dying in the Lord from henceforth: Yes, says the Spirit, that they might cease from their fatigues; and their works follow with them.


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And I saw, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud he sitting like the Son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.


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And another angel went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up.


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And another angel came forth out of the temple which in heaven, the same also having a sharp sickle.


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And another angel came forth from the altar, having power over fire; and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and harvest the grapes of the vineyard of the earth; for her grapes were fully ripe.


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And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and harvested the earth's vineyard, and cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God.


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And the winepress was trodden under foot without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the horses' bridles, from sixteen hundred stadia.


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And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful, seven angels having the seven last blows; for in them was the wrath of God finished.


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And I saw as a sea made of glass mingled with fire: and they conquering from the wild beast, and from his image, and from his stamp, and from the number of his name, standing upon the sea made of glass, having harps of God.


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And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.


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Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy justices were made manifest.


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And the seven angels came forth out of the temple, having the seven blows, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and being girded about the breasts with golden girdles.


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And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, living forever and ever.


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And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and none could come into the temple, till the seven blows of the seven angels were finished.


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And I heard a great voice out of the temple saving to the seven angels, Go forward, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God in the earth.


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And the first went forth, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and a bad and evil sore was upon the men having the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image.


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And the second angel poured out his vial into the sea; and it was blood as of a dead body: and every living soul died in the sea.


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And the third angel poured out his vial into the rivers, and into the fountains of waters; and it was blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Just, O Lord, art thou, who being, and who was, and who wilt be, for thou didst judge these things.


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For they poured out the blood of the holy, and of the prophets, and thou didst give them blood to drink i for they are worthy.


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And I heard another from the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, true and just thy judgments.


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And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and it was given him to parch up men with fire.


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And men were parched up with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, having power over these blows: and they repented not to give him glory.


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And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain,


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And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work.


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And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings of the risings of the sun might be prepared.


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And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the wild beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.


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For they are the spirits of demons, doing signs, to go out upon all the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable globe, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.


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(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)


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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and a great voice went out from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.


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And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great shaking, such as was not since the time men were upon earth, such a great shaking.


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And the great city was in three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the wrath of his anger.


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And great hail, as the weight of a talent, comes down from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God for the blow of the hail; for its blow is exceedingly great.


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And one of the seven angels having the seven vials, came and spake with me, saying to me, Come; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot sitting upon many waters:


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With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry.


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And he brought me away in the spirit into the desert: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet wild beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman surrounded with purple and scarlet, and covered with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurity of her harlotry:


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And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.


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And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.


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And the angel said to me, Why didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the wild beast lifting her up, having seven heads and ten horns.


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The wild beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up from the abyss, and go forward to perdition: and they dwelling upon the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the wild beast that was, and is not, although he is.


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And there are seven kings: five fell, and one is; the other has not yet come; and when he should come, he must remain a little.


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And the wild beast which was, and is not, and this is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes forward into perdition.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which took not yet the kingdom; but take power as kings one hour with the beast.


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These will wage war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they with him called, and chosen, and faithful.


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And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the wild beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and they shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire.


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For God gave to their hearts to do his purpose, and to do one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.


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And after these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was enlightened from his glory.


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And he cried with a great, strong voice, saying, She fell, Babylon the great fell, and became the dwelling of devils, and the prison of every unclean spirit, and the prison of every unclean and detested bird.


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For of the wrath of the wine of her fornication have all nations drunk, and the kings of the earth were debauched with her, and the wholesale merchants of the earth were rich from the power of her luxury.


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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.


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Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double things according to her works: in the cup in which she mixed, mix to her double.


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As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.


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Therefore in one day shall her blows come, death, and grief, and famine; and she shall be burned down in fire: for strong the Lord God judging her.


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And weep for her, and lament over her, shall the kings of the earth having been debauched with her, and having led an insolent life, when they see the smoke of her burning,


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Standing from far off for fear of her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment came.


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And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more:


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The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble,


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And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,


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And the harvest fruit of the eager desire of thy soul departed from thee, and all fat and brilliant things departed from thee, and thou shouldest find them no more.


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The wholesale merchants of these things, having been rich from her, shall stand from far off for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning,


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And saying, Woe, woe, the great city, surrounded with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! for in one hour was so great riches laid waste.


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And every pilot, and all the crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from far off,


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And they cast earth upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all having ships in the sea were rich by her value! for in one hour was she rendered a desert.


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Rejoice over her, O heaven, and the holy sent, and the prophets; for God judged your judgment of her.


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And one strong angel lifted up a stone as a great millstone, and cast into the sea, saying, Thus with excitement shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and be found no more.


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And the voice of harp players, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters, should be heard in thee no more; and every artist of every art be found no more in thee; and the voice of the millstone should be heard no more in thee;


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And the light of the lamp no more should shine in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, should no more be beard in thee: for thy wholesale merchants were leaders of the earth: for with thy charms were all nations led astray.


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And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the holy, and of all those slain upon the earth.


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And after these things I heard the great voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, to the Lord our God:


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For true and just his judgments: for he judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her harlotry, and he avenged the blood of his servants from her hand.


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And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell and worshipped God sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.


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And a voice from the throne came out, saying, Praise our God, all his servants, and they fearing him, also small and great.


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And I heard as the voice of the vast multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of powerful thunders, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, reigned.


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Let us rejoice, and be transported with joy, and let us give glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb came, and his wife prepared herself.


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And it was given her that she put on fine linen, pure and shining: for fine linen is the justification of the holy.


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And he says to me, Write, Happy they called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words of God.


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And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See, not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren having the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he sitting upon him called Faithful and True, and in justice he judges and makes war.


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And his eyes as a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems; having a name written, which no one knows, except himself.


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And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.


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And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds flying in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves to the supper of the great God;


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That ye might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses, and of them sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and servants, and of small and great.


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And I saw the wild beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to war with him sitting upon the horse, and with his army.


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And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.


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And the rest were killed by the sword of him sitting upon the horse, coming out of his mouth: and all birds were satiated from their flesh.


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And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.


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And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,


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And he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed a little time.


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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given them: and the souls of them beheaded with an axe for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who worshipped not the wild beast, nor his image, and took not the stamp upon their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


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And the rest of the dead returned not again to life even till the thousand years be finished. This the first rising up.


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Happy and holy he having a part in the first rising up: over these has the second death no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.


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And he shall go forth to deceive the nations that in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for war: whose number as the sand of the sea.


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And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and they surrounded the camp of the holy, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.


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And the devil deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where are the wild beast and false prophet, and they shall be tortured day and night for ever and ever.


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And I saw a great white throne, and him sitting upon it, from the face of whom the earth and the heaven fled; and there was found no place for them.


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And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is of life: and the dead were judged from the things written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and first earth passed away; and the sea was no more.


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And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.


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And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.


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And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed.


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And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.


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And he said to me, It has been. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him thirsting of the fountain of the water of life gratuitously.


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But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,


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And there came to me one of the seven angels having the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.


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And he brought me away in the spirit upon a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,


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Having the glory of God: and her luminary like a most precious stone, as jasper stone, shining like crystal;


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And having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and the names inscribed, which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:


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From the sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates.


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And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.


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And he speaking with me had a golden reed that he might measure the city, and her gates, and her wall.


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And the city lies quadrangular, and her length is so large, such also the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, at twelve thousand stadia. Her length, breadth, and height are equal.


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And the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald:


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The fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a sardius; the seventh, a chrysolyte; the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a hyacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.


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And the twelve gates twelve pearls; each one of the gates was of one pearl: and the broad way of the city pure gold, as transparent amber.


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And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in her: for the glory of God enlightened her, and her light the Lamb.


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And the nations of the saved shall walk about in her light: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into her.


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And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.


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And he showed me the pure river of the water of life, shining as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.


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In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations.


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And there shall be no more curse: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his servants shall serve him:


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And night shall not be there; and they have no need of a lamp, and the light of the sun; for the Lord God shall enlighten them: and they shall reign for ever and ever.


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And he said to me, These words faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show to his servants what must be with speed.


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And I John seeing these things, and hearing. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel pointing out to me these things.


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And he says to me, See, not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them keeping the words of the prophecy of this book; worship God.


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And he says to me, Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this book: for the time is near.


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He being unjust, let him be unjust yet: and he being filthy, let him be filthy yet: and the just, let him do justice yet: and the holy, let him be holy yet.


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Happy they doing his commands, that their power shall be in the tree of life, and they might come in at the gates to the city.


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And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.


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I Jesus sent mine angel to testify these things to you, to the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the shining and morning star.


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And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him hearing say, Come. And let him thirsting come. And let him wishing, take the water of life freely.


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For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, If any add to these things, God will add to him the blows written in this book:


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And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.


