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And returning, the apostles told Him all that they had done. And He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.


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But knowing [this], the crowds followed Him. And He received them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and He healed those who had need of healing.


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But the day began to wear away, and coming up the Twelve said to Him, Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and farms all around, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a deserted place.


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But He said to them, You give them [something] to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.


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(For they were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, Make them recline by fifties in a company.


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And He took the five loaves and the two fish. And looking up to Heaven, He blessed them and broke, and He gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them.


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And it happened [as] He was alone praying, the disciples were with Him. And He asked them, saying, Whom do the crowds say that I am?


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Answering, they said, John the Baptist; but some [say], Elijah, and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again.


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saying, The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.


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And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.


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For whoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for My sake, he shall save it.


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For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, the Son of man shall be ashamed of him when He shall come in His own and [in His] Father's glory, and that of the holy angels.


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But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God.


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And about eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James and went up into a mountain to pray.


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And as He prayed, the appearance of His countenance was altered, and His clothing [was] dazzling white.


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But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep. But fully awakening, they saw His glory, and the two men who stood with Him.


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And in their parting from Him, it happened that Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for [us] to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah; not knowing what he said.


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And as he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And they feared [as] they entered into the cloud.


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And when the voice occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and told no one in those days anything which they had seen.


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And behold, a man cried aloud from the crowd, saying, Teacher, I beseech You, look on my son, for he is my only-born son.


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And lo, a spirit takes him, and [he] suddenly cries out. And [it] throws him into convulsions, with foaming, and with pain departs from him, bruising him.


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And answering, Jesus said, O unbelieving generation, [one] having been perverted, how long shall I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.


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And as [he] was still coming, the demon violently convulsed and tore [him]. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father.


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And they were all amazed at the majesty of God. But as all were marveling at all things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples,


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Let these words sink down into your ears. For the Son of man shall be betrayed into [the] hands of men.


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But they did not understand this, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him of this word.


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And He said to them, Whoever shall receive this child in My name receives Me. And whoever shall receive Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all, he shall be great.


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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out demons in Your name. And we prevented him, because he does not follow us.


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And it happened in the fulfilling [of] the days of His taking up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.


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And [He] sent messengers before His face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him.


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And seeing, His disciples James and John said, Lord, do You desire [that] we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?


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For the Son of man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to save. And they went to another village.


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And it happened as they were going in the way, one said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.


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And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air [have] nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay [His] head.


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And another also said, Lord, I will follow You, but first allow me to take leave of those in my house.


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And Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.


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And after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, And He sent them two and two before His face into every city and place where He was about to come.


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Then He said to them, The harvest truly [is] great, but the laborers [are] few. Therefore pray [to] the Lord of the harvest that He may send forth laborers into His harvest.


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And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things [shared] by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not move from house to house.


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Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.


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Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented a long while ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you [also] rejects Him who sent Me.


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And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through Your name.


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Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.


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Yet do not rejoice in this, that the [evil] spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.


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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in Spirit and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from [the] sophisticated and cunning, and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing before You.


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All things are delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son will reveal [Him].


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And He turned to [His] disciples and said privately, Blessed [are] the eyes which see the things that you see.


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For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen [them], and to hear what you hear, and have not heard [them].


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And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?


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And answering, he said, You shall love [the] Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.


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And answering, Jesus said, A certain [man] went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who stripped him of his clothing and wounded him, and departed, leaving [him] half dead.


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And by coincidence a certain priest came down that way and seeing him, he passed by on the opposite [side].


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And in the same way a Levite, also being at the place, coming and seeing [him], he passed on the opposite [side].


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And coming near, [he] bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


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And going on the next day, he took out two denarii and gave [them] to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him. And whatever more you spend, when I come again I will repay you.


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And as they went, it happened that He entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house.


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But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.


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But one thing is needful, and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.


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And it happened [as] He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught His disciples.


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And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father, who [is] in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in Heaven, so also on the earth.


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and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.


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And He said to them, which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,


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And he answering from inside may say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise and give to you.


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I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needs.


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And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.


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For what father of you, [if] the son asks [for] bread, will he give him a stone? Or if [he asks] for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give [the] Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?


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And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it happened as the demon [was] going out, the dumb one spoke. And the people marveled.


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But knowing their thoughts, He said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And a house [divided] against a house falls.


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If Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons through Beelzebub.


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And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore they shall be your judges.


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But when one stronger than he comes, he overcomes him. He takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and he distributes his arms.


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When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest. And finding none, he says, I will return to my house from which I came out.


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And he goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first.


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And it happened [as] He spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice [and] said to Him, Blessed [is] the womb that bore You, and [the] breasts which You have sucked.


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But the crowds pressing on [Him], He began to say, This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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The queen of the south shall rise up in the Judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, One greater than Solomon [is] here.


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The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the Judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, One greater than Jonah [is] here.


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No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts [it] in a secret place, or under a grain-measure, but on a lampstand, so that they who come in may see the light.


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The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is [full of] light. But when [your eye] is evil, your body also [is full of] darkness.


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Therefore if your whole body [is] full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be [full of] light, as when the shining of a lamp enlightens you.


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And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.


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But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to leave the other undone.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unseen tombs and the men walking above are not aware of them.


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And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens grievous to be carried, and [you] yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Truly you bear witness that you consent to the deeds of your fathers. For they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.


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Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and persecute,


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so that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from [the] foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;


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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, [who] perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.


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Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in.


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And as He said these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw [Him] out concerning many things,


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lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, so that they might accuse Him.


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In the meantime, when there had gathered together an innumerable crowd of people, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known.


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Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.


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And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.


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But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.


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But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not fear, you are of more value than many sparrows.


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Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of man also shall confess him before the angels of God.


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And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, [it] shall not be forgiven.


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And when they bring you into the synagogues, and [to] rulers and authorities, take no thought as to how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say.


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And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.


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And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room in which to store my fruits?


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And he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and I will store all my fruits and my goods there.


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And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid [up] for many years. Take your ease, eat drink [and] be merry.


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But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?


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And He said to His disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious as to your life, what you shall eat; nor for the body, what you shall put on.


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Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?


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Consider the lilies, how they grow; they do not toil, they do not spin. And yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


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If then God so clothes the grass (which today [is] in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven) how much more [will He clothe] you, O little-faiths?


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For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you have need of these things.


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Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.


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And you yourselves be like men who wait for their lord, whenever he shall return from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.


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Blessed [are] those servants whom the lord will find watching when [he] comes. Truly I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them recline; and coming up he will serve them.


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And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find [it] so, blessed are those servants.


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And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.


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And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom [his] lord shall set over his houseservants, to give [them their] portion of food in season?


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But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk,


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the lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect, and at an hour when he does not know. And he will cut him apart, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.


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And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].


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But he not knowing, and doing [things] worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.


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For from now on, there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.


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


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And He also said to the crowd, When you see a cloud rise out of the west, immediately you say, There is a shower coming. And so it is.


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Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how [is it] that you do not discern this time?


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For as you go with your adversary to the judge, give pains in the way to be set free from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into the prison.


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And some were present at the same time reporting to Him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Do you suppose that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans because they suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were sinners above all men who lived in Jerusalem?


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He also spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard. And he came and sought fruit on it, and found none.


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And he said to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down, why does it encumber the ground?


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And answering, he said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and throw manure.


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And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together and was not able to be completely erect.


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And answering, the synagogue ruler, being angry because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is right to work. Therefore in them come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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And the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the sabbath loosen his ox or ass from the stall and lead [it] away, to give [it] drink?


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And ought not this [woman], being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath day?


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And when He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed. And all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.


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It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden. And it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in its branches.


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It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.


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Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.


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And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you;


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But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness!


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There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust out.


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And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline in the kingdom of God.


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The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying to Him, Go out and depart from here, for Herod will kill you.


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And He said to them, You go and tell that fox, Behold, today and tomorrow, I cast out demons and I complete cures, and the third [day] I will be finished.


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Yet I must walk today and tomorrow and the [day] following. For it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the [one] killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen [gathers] her brood under the wings, and you did not desire [it].


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Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And truly I say to you, You will not see Me until it come when you say, Blessed [is] He who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord.


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And as He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, it happened that they watched Him.


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And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath [day] ?


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And He answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?


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And He put forth a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose out the chief places, saying to them,


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When you are invited by anyone to a wedding, do not recline in the chief seat, lest a more honorable [man] than you may be invited by him.


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And he who invited you and him shall come and say to you, Give place to this man; and then you begin with shame to take the last place.


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But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then glory shall be to you before those reclining with you.


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And He also said to him who invited Him, When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers, or your kinsmen, or [your] rich neighbors; lest they also invite you again, and a recompense be made to you.


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and you shall be blessed, for they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.


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And one of those who reclined with [Him] heard these things, and [he] said to Him, Blessed [are] those eating bread in the kingdom of God.


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And he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, Come, for all things are now ready.


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And all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, I must go and see it. I beg you, have me excused.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I beg you, have me excused.


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And coming up that servant reported these things to his lord. And the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed, and the lame and the blind.


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And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel [them] to come in, so that my house may be filled.


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If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his [own] life also, he cannot be My disciple.


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For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first [and] count the cost, whether he may have [enough] to finish it;


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lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him,


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Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not first sit down [and] consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?


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Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks [conditions] of peace.


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It is not fit for the land, nor for manure, [but men] throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.


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What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it?


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And when he comes home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.


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I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.


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Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds [it] ?


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And when she has found [it], she calls [her] friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.


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And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming [to me]. And he divided [his] living to them.


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And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.


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And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.


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And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!


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I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you


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And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.


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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son.


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But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put [it] on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on [his] feet.


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And his elder son was in the field. And as he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing.


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And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him safe and sound.


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And answering he said to [his] father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave [me] a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.


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But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.


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It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.


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And He also said to His disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods.


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And he called him and said to him, What [is] this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.


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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.


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I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses.


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And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.


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And he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill and write eighty.


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And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.


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And I say to you, Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.


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He who is faithful in [the] least is also faithful in much. And he who is unjust in the least is also unjust in much.


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Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true [riches] to you?


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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give you that which is your own?


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No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.


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And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.


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The law and the prophets [were] until John. Since that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is pressing into it.


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Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery; and everyone marrying her who is put away from [her] husband commits adultery.


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There was a certain rich man who [was] customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.


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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.


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And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried.


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And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.


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And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us; so that they desiring to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass over to us from there.


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for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.


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And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose from [the] dead.


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And He said to the disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come. But woe [to him] through whom they come!


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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.


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Take heed to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.


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And if he trespasses against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.


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And the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this sycamine tree, Be rooted up and be planted in the sea! And it would obey you.


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But which of you who has a servant plowing or feeding will say [to him] immediately after he has come from the field, Come, recline?


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Will [he] not say to him, Prepare something [so that] I may eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink. And afterward you shall eat and drink.


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So likewise you, when you shall have done all the things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, for we have done what we ought to do.


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And seeing [them], He said to them, Go show yourselves to the priests. And it happened, as they went, that they were cleansed.


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And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation.


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And He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see [it].


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For as the lightning which lights up, flashing from the [one part] under heaven, [and] shines to the [other part] under heaven, so also shall the Son of man be in His day.


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They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until [the] day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed [them] all.


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So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;


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but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed [them] all.


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In that day he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, he who is in the field, let him not return to the things behind.


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Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose [his life] shall preserve it.


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I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.


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And they answered and said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Wherever the body [is], there the eagles will be gathered together.


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And he would not do so for a time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man,


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And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?


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I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. Yet when the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?


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And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:


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The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men [are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.


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And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up [his] eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!


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I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.


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And they also brought infants to Him, that He might touch them. But when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.


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But Jesus called them and said, Allow the little children to come to Me, and forbid them not. For of such is the kingdom of God.


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Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no way enter into it.


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You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother.


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And when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to [the] poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.


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And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, He said, How hardly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God!


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For it is easier [for] a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And He said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,


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who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and, in the world to come everlasting life.


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And He took the Twelve and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man will be accomplished.


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And they did not understand any of these things. And this saying was hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.


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And they who were in front rebuked him that he should be quiet. But he cried so much the more, Son of David! Have mercy on me.


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And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And when they saw, all the people gave praise to God.


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And he sought to see Jesus, to see who He was. And he could not because of the press, because he was little in stature.


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And he ran in front and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him. For He was to pass through that [way].


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And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him. And He said to him, Zaccheus! Hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.


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And Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And [in] anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore [it] fourfold.


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And Jesus said to him, This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.


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And as they heard these things, He added and spoke a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately.


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Therefore He said, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom for himself, and to return.


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But his citizens hated him. And they sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this one to reign over us.


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And when he had received his kingdom and had returned, then it happened that he commanded these servants to be called to him; the ones to whom he had given the silver; so that he might know what each had gained by trading.


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And he said to him, Well [done], good servant, because you have been faithful in a least thing, have authority over ten cities.


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For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.


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And he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked servant! You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I had not laid down and reaping what I did not sow.


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And why did you not give my silver on the [bank] table, and coming I might have exacted it with interest?


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For I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given. And from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken from him.


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But those who are my enemies, who did not desire that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.


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And it happened as He drew near Bethphage and Bethany, toward the mount called Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples,


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saying, Go into the village across [from you], and having entered, you will find a colt tied up, on which no one of men has yet sat. Untie it and bring [it].


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And if anyone asks you, Why are you untying [it]? You will say this to him, Because the Lord has need of it.


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And they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their garments on the colt. And they set Jesus on [it].


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And when He had come near, even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all [the] mighty works which they had seen,


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saying, Blessed [is] the King coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in [the] highest!


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And He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would cry out.


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saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.


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For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart to you, and will surround you, and will keep you in on every side.


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And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.


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saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.


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And He taught in the temple daily. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy Him.


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And on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and proclaimed the gospel, it happened that the chief priests and the scribes along with the elders came on [Him].


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And they spoke to Him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you do these things? Or who is he who gave you this authority?


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But if we say, From men, then all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.


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And He began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to vinedressers. And [he] went into a far country for a long time.


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And in season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that they should give him the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent [him] away empty.


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And again he sent another servant. And they also beat him and treated [him] shamefully, and sent [him] away empty.


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And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect [him] when they see him.


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But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.


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So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed [him]. What then shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He shall come and destroy these vinedressers and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard this, they said, Let it not be!


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And He looked at them and said, What then is this which is written, The] Stone which the builders rejected, the same has become [the] Head of [the] corner?


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Whoever shall fall on that Stone shall be broken, but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him the same hour. And [they] feared the people, for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.


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And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and do not accept the person of anyone, but truly teach the way of God.


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And He said to them, Therefore render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.


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And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and were silent.


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And certain of the Sadducees came, those speaking against a resurrection, [that it was] not to be. And they asked Him,


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saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone's brother dies, having a wife, and if he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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but they who shall be counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from [the] dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.


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Nor can they die [any] more, for they are equal to the angels, and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.


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But that the dead are raised, even Moses pointed out at the Bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.


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Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;


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who devour widows' houses, and make long prayers for a show; the same shall receive a more severe condemnation.


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For all these have cast in to the offerings of God from their abundance, but out of her poverty she has cast [in] all the living she had.


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[As to] these things which you see, days will come in which there shall not be left a stone on a stone, which shall not be thrown down.


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And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, but when shall these things be? And what [shall be] the sign when these things are about to take place?


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And He said, Take heed that you are not deceived, for many shall come in My name, saying, I AM! Also, The time has come! Do not go after them.


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But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for all these things must first occur, but the end [is] not at once.


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And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines and plagues. And there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven.


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But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute [you], delivering [you] up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake.


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For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.


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And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause [some] of you to be put to death.


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And let those in Judea flee to the mountains. And those in its midst, let them go out. And those in the open spaces, let them not go into her.


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But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.


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And they shall fall by [the] sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until [the] times of [the] nations is fulfilled.


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And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. And on the earth [will be] anxiety of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;


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men fainting from fear, and expecting those things which have come on the earth. For the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.


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And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;


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Watch therefore, praying in every season that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which shall occur, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And [in] the days He was teaching in the temple. And [in] the nights He went out, and lodged in the mount called [the Mount] of Olives.


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And He said to them, Behold, when you have entered into the city, you will meet a man bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he enters.


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And you shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I shall eat the passover with My disciples?


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And He took bread and gave thanks, and He broke [it] and gave [it] to them, saying, This is My body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of Me.


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In the same way He took] the cup, after having dined, saying, This cup [is] the new covenant in My blood, which is being poured out for you.


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And truly the Son of man goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!


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And He said to them, The kings of the nations exercise lordship over them. And they who exercise authority on them are called benefactors.


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But you [shall] not [be] so: but the greater among you, let him be as the lesser, and he who governs, as [one] who serves.


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For which [is] the greater; he who reclines, or he who serves? [Is] it not he who reclines? But I am among you as He who serves.


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that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not. And when you are converted, strengthen your brothers.


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And He said, I say to you, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day before you shall deny knowing Me three times.


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And He said to them, When I sent you without purse and wallet and sandals, did you lack anything? And they said, Nothing.


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And He said to them, But now, he who has a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] wallet. And he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.


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For I say to you that this which is written must yet be accomplished in Me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors; for the things concerning Me have an end.


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And going out, according to [His] custom, He went to the Mount of Olives. And His disciples also followed Him.


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And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.


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And when He rose up from prayer and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping because of sorrow.


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And [as] He [was] yet speaking, behold a crowd! And he who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, went before them. And he drew near Jesus to kiss Him.


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And those around Him seeing what was about to occur, [they] said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword?


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And Jesus said to the chief priests and commanders of the temple, and the elders, who had come to Him, Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and staves?


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When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hand on Me. But this is your hour, and the authority of the darkness.


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And laying hold on Him, they led [Him] away and brought Him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.


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But a certain slave-girl saw him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked on him and said, This [man] was with him also.


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And after a little while another saw him and said, You also are of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not!


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And about an hour afterward, another confidently affirmed, saying, Truly this one was also with him, for he is a Galilean.


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And Peter said, Man, I do not know what you say. And immediately, while he still spoke, the cock crowed.


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And the Lord turned and looked on Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, Before the cock crows, you shall deny Me three times.


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And blindfolding Him, [they] struck Him on His face. And they asked Him, saying, Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?


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And when day came, the body of elders of the people, and the chief priests and the scribes, came together. And they led Him to the sanhedrin, saying,


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And they said, What need do we have for any witness? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth.


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And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.


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And Pilate asked Him, saying, Are you the king of the Jews? And He answered him and said, You say [it].


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And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.


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And knowing that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself was also at Jerusalem at that time.


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And seeing Jesus, Herod greatly rejoiced, for he had desired to see Him [for] a long [time], because he had heard many things about Him. And he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.


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And humiliating Him with his guardsmen, and mocking [Him] by putting luxurious clothing around Him, Herod sent Him again to Pilate.


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And that same day Pilate and Herod became friends with one another, for before they were at enmity [between] themselves.


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Pilate said to them, You have brought this Man to me as perverting the people. And behold, having examined [Him] before you, I have found no fault in this Man [regarding those things] of which you accuse Him;


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And he said to them the third [time], Why? What evil has He done? I have found no cause of death in Him, therefore I will chastise Him and let [Him] go.


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But they pressed [on him], with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.


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And he released to them [the one] who had been thrown into prison for sedition and murder, for whom they had asked. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.


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And as they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. And they laid the cross on him, that he might carry [it] after Jesus.


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And a great multitude of people were following Him, and of women who also were bewailing and lamenting Him.


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But turning to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.


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For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.


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And when they came to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified Him and the criminals there, one on [the] right, and one on [the] left.


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And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do. And parting His clothing, they cast lots.


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And the people stood watching. And also the rulers with them, scoffing, saying, He saved others, let Him save Himself, if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.


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And an inscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, since [you] are in the same condemnation.


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And we indeed justly so, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this Man has done nothing amiss.


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And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until [the] ninth hour.


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And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And when He had said this, He breathed out the spirit.


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And when the centurion saw what had been done, he glorified God, saying, Truly this Man was righteous.


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And all the crowd arriving together at this sight, beholding the things happening, struck their breasts and returned.


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And all those known to Him stood at a distance; and [the] women, those accompanying Him from Galilee, [were] seeing these things.


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this one was not assenting to their counsel and deed. [He was] from Arimathea, a city of the Jews; and he also himself waited for the kingdom of God.


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And he took it down and wrapped it in linen. And he laid it in a tomb that had been cut in the stone, in which no man had before been laid.


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And also women [were] following, who were accompanying Him out of Galilee, who watched the tomb, and how His body was placed.


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And they returned and [they] prepared spices and ointment. And they rested [on] the sabbath day according to the commandment.


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And [on] the first of the sabbaths, while still very early, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.


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And as they were much perplexed about it, it happened that, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.


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And as they were afraid, and bowed [their] faces down to the earth, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead?


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saying, The Son of man must be delivered into [the] hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?


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It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and the rest with them, who told these things to the apostles.


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And Peter arose and ran to the tomb, and stooping down he saw the linens lying alone. And he went away wondering to himself at what had happened.


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And behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, it being [about] sixty stadia from Jerusalem.


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And He said to them, What words [are] these that you have with one another [as] you walk, and are so sad?


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And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said to Him, [Are] you only a stranger in Jerusalem and have not known the things which have occurred there in these days?


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And He said to them, What things? And they said to Him, The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a man, a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,


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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to [the] judgment of death, and have crucified Him.


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But we had trusted that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.


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and when they did not find His body, [they] came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that He was alive.


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And some of those with us went to the tomb and found [it] even as the women had said. But they did not see Him.


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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.


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But they constrained Him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent. And He went in to stay with them.


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And it happened [as] He reclined with them, taking the loaf, He blessed [it], and breaking it, He gave to them.


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And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?


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And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found assembled the Eleven and those with them.


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And in the way they related the things happening, and how He had been known by them in breaking of the loaf.


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Behold My hands and My feet, that I am He! Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me have.


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And while they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, He said to them, Have you any food here?


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And He said to them, These [are] the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and [in] the Psalms about Me.


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And He said to them, So it is written, and so it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from [the] dead the third day,


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and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


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And behold, I send the promise of My father on you. But you sit in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.


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All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one [thing] came into being that has come into being.


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This one came as a witness, to bear witness concerning the Light, so that all might believe through him.


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But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,


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who were born, not of bloods, nor of [the] will of [the] flesh, nor of [the] will of man, but [were born] of God.


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And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of [the] Father, full of grace and of truth.


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John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, This was [He] of whom I spoke: He who comes after me has been before me, for He was preceding me.


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No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him].


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And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?


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And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then they said to him, Who are you so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say of yourself?


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He said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.


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And they asked him and said, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor that Prophet?


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He it is who, coming after me, who has been before me; of whom I am not worthy to loosen the thong of His sandal.


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The next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!


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And I did not know Him, but that He be revealed to Israel, therefore I have come baptizing with water.


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And John bore record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a dove, and He abode on Him.


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And I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, that One said to me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon Him, He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.


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Then Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, What do you seek? They said to Him, Rabbi (which is called, being translated, Teacher), where do you live?


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He says to them, Come and see. They came and saw where He lived, and stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.


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He first found [his] own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being translated, the Christ).


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And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus saw him, He said, You are Simon the son of Jonah; you shall be called Cephas (which translated is, A stone).


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The day after, Jesus desired to go forth into Galilee. And He found Philip and said to him, Follow Me.


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Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the law and the prophets, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.


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And Nathanael said to him, Can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.


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Nathanael said to Him, From where do You know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater [things] than these.


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And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Hereafter you shall see Heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.


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


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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water which was made wine (and did not know where it was from, but the servants who drew the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.


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And [he] said to him, Every man at the beginning sets forth good wine, and when men have drunk well, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now.


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This beginning of miracles Jesus did in Cana of Galilee. And [it] revealed His glory. And His disciples believed on Him.


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After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And they did not stay there many days.


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And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and the oxen. And He poured out the money-changers' money and overthrew the tables.


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And He said to those who sold doves, Take these things away from here. Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise.


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Then the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years building, and will you rear it up in three days?


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Therefore when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.


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And as He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the miracles which He did.


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He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no [man] can do these miracles which you do unless God is with him.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.


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Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second [time] into his mother's womb and be born?


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Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.


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The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what we have seen. And you do not receive our witness.


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If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things?


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And no one has ascended up to Heaven except He who came down from Heaven, the Son of man who is in Heaven.


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But even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up,


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For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.


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For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.


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He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.


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And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.


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For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.


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But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.


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After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. And [He] stayed there with them and baptized.


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And John was also baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.


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And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, behold, He baptizes, and all come to Him!


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He who has the bride is [the] bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Then my joy is fulfilled.


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He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all,


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He who believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.


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Therefore when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John


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Then He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with [His] journey, sat thus upon the well. [It] was about [the] sixth hour.


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Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews do not associate with Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.


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The woman said to Him, Sir, you have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where then do you have that living water?


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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children and his cattle?


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but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.


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The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband


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for you have had five husbands, and [he] whom you now have is not your husband. In that you spoke truly.


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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.


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Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither worship the Father in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem.


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But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.


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The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things.


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And upon this His disciples came and marveled that He talked with the woman. However, no one said, What do You seek, or why do You talk with her?


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Do you not say, It is] yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already.


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And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to life eternal, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.


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I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed upon Him because of the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.


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Then as the Samaritans had come to Him, they begged Him that He would stay with them. And He stayed there two days.


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And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying, for we have heard [Him] ourselves and know that this is truly the Christ, the Savior of the world.


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Then when He had come into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.


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Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.


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When He heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


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Jesus said to him, Go, your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went away.


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Then he asked of them the hour when he began to get better. And they said to him, Yesterday [at the] seventh hour the fever left him.


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So the father knew that [it was] at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole house.


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Now there is a pool at the Sheep Gate at Jerusalem, which [is] called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.


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In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, of blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.


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For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and troubled the water. Then whoever first stepped in after the troubling of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.


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When Jesus saw him lying, and knowing that he had spent much time, He said to him, Do you desire to be made whole?


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The infirm man answered Him, Sir, when the water is troubled, I have no one to put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.


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And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. And it was a sabbath on that day.


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Therefore the Jews said to him who had been healed, It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up the bed.


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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you are made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come to you.


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And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath day.


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Then, because of this, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the sabbath, but also said that God was His father, making Himself equal with God.


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Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself but what He sees the Father do. For whatever things He does, these also the Son does likewise.


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For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all the things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.


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For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of man makes alive whomever He wills.


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so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live.


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Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear His voice,


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and shall come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to the resurrection of condemnation.


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I can do nothing of My own self. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of [the] Father who has sent Me.


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There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.


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But I have greater witness than that of John, for the works which the Father has given Me that I should finish them, the works which I do themselves witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.


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And He sending Me, the Father Himself, has borne witness of Me. Neither have you heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape.


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You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And they are the ones witnessing of Me,


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I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me. If another shall come in [his] own name, him you will receive.


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How can you believe, [you who] receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that [comes] from God only?


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Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is [one] who accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.


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Then Jesus lifted up [His] eyes and saw a great crowd come to Him. He said to Philip, Where shall we buy loaves so that these may eat?


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Philip answered Him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not enough for them, that every one may take a little.


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There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these among so many?


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


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And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who had reclined; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.


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And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing is lost.


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Therefore they gathered and filled twelve handbaskets with fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over to those who had eaten.


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Then seeing the miracle that Jesus did, those men said, This is truly the Prophet, the [One] coming into the world.


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Therefore when Jesus perceived that they would come and take Him by force, that they might make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain alone [by] Himself.


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and entered into a boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.


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Then having rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the ship. And they were afraid.


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Then they willingly received Him into the boat. And immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.


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The following day, the crowd standing on the other side of the sea had seen that there was no other little boat there except that one into which His disciples had entered, and when they saw that Jesus did not go with His disciples into the little boat, but [that] His disciples had gone away alone,


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(however, other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the loaves, the Lord having given thanks),


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therefore, when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves also entered into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.


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And when they had found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, Rabbi, when did you come here?


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Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, You seek Me not because you saw the miracles, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.


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Do not labor [for] the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.


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Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe on [Him] whom He has sent.


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Therefore they said to Him, What sign do you show then, so that we may see and believe you? What do you work?


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Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you that bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.


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And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes on Me shall never thirst.


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All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the [one] who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.


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And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.


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And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.


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And they said, Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How now does this One say, I have come down from Heaven?


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No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Therefore everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me.


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I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he shall live forever. And truly the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.


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Then Jesus says to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.


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Whoever partakes of My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.


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This is the Bread which came down from Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; he who partakes of this Bread shall live forever.


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But knowing in Himself that His disciples murmured about it, Jesus said to them, Does this offend you?


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It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.


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But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from [the] beginning who they were who did not believe, and who is the one] betraying Him.


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And He said, Because of this I said to you that no one can come to Me unless it was given to him from My Father.


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From this [time] many of His disciples went back into the things behind, and walked no more with Him.


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But he spoke [of] Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon; for it was he who was about to betray Him, being one of the Twelve.


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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for He did not desire to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.


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Therefore His brothers said to Him, Move away from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the works that You do.


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For no one does anything in secret, while he himself seeks to be in public. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.


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And there was much murmuring among the crowd concerning Him, for some said, He is a good man; others said, No, but he deceives the crowd.


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If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.


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He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.


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Because of this Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers,) and you circumcise a man on the sabbath day.


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If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath day so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry at Me because I have made a man entirely sound on the sabbath day?


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But lo, he speaks publicly, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers truly know that this is the Christ indeed?


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Then Jesus cried in the temple as He taught, saying, You both know Me, and you know from where I come. And I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.


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And many of the crowd believed on Him, and said, When the Christ comes, will He do more miracles than these which this One has done?


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The Pharisees heard that the crowd murmured such things concerning Him. And the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.


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


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What saying is this that He said, You shall seek Me and shall not find [Me], and where I am, you cannot come?


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And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.


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He who believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.


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(But He spoke this about the Spirit, which they who believed on Him should receive; for [the] Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.)


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Has the Scripture not said that Christ comes from the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?


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Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have you not brought him?


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They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search the scriptures and see that a prophet has not been raised out of Galilee.


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And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him. And He sat down and taught them.


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And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman taken in adultery. And standing her in the midst,


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They said this, tempting Him so that they might have [reason] to accuse Him. But bending down, Jesus wrote on the ground with [His] finger, not appearing [to hear].


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But as they continued to ask Him, He lifted Himself up and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.


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And hearing, and being convicted by conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.


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And bending back up, and seeing no one but the woman, Jesus said to her, Woman, where are the ones who accused you? Did not one give judgment against you?


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Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear record concerning Myself, My witness is true. For I know from where I came, and where I go. But you do not know from where I came, and where I go.


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Then they said to Him, Where is your father? Jesus said to them, You neither know Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.


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Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as He taught in the temple. And no man laid hands upon Him, for His hour had not yet come.


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Then Jesus said again to them, I go away, and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.


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And He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.


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Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.


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Then they said to Him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, Even [the same] which I also say to you.


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I have many things to say and to judge of you, but He who sent Me is true, and I speak to the world those things what I heard of Him.


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Then Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall know that I AM, and that I do nothing of Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things.


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And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things which please Him.


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Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed.


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They answered Him, We are Abraham's seed and were never in bondage to anyone. How do you say, You will be made free?


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They answered and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus answered them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.


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But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.


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You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, [even] God.


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Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love Me, for I went forth and came from God; for I did not come of Myself, but He sent Me.


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You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from [the] beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.


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Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?


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Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets are dead, and you say, If a man keeps my Word, he shall never taste of death.


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Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets are dead; whom do you make yourself?


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Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say that He is your God.


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Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I should say I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I know Him and I keep His Word.


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Then they took up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and went forth out of the temple, going through [the] midst of them, and passed on by.


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And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.


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And when He had spoken these things, He spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle. And He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.


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And He said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which translated is Sent). Therefore he went and washed and came seeing.


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Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before, that he was blind, said, Is this not he who was sitting and begging?


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He answered and said, A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And going and washing, I received sight.


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Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.


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Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinner, do such miracles? And there was a division among them.


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They said to the blind man again, What do you say about him, for he has opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet.


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But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him having received sight.


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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?


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But by what means he now sees, we do not know. Or who has opened his eyes, we do not know. He is of age, ask him. He will speak for himself.


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His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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Then a second time they called the man who was blind and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.


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He answered and said, Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that being blind, now I see.


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He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear [it] again? Do you also desire to be His disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know from where He is, and He has opened my eyes.


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But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.


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They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.


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Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, He said to him, Do you believe on the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, I have come into this world for judgment, that they who do not see might see, and that they who see might be made blind.


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And [those] of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we also blind?


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Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber.


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The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls [his] own sheep by name and leads them out.


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And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. For they know his voice.


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And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.


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I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.


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The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.


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But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.


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And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.


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No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from My Father.


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Others said, These are not words of one who has been possessed by a demon. A demon is not able to open [the] eyes of blind ones.


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Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, How long do you make us doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.


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Jesus answered them, I told you and you did not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.


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And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.


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My Father who gave [them] to me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck [them] out of My Father's hand.


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Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from My Father; for which of these do you stone Me?


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The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.


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do you say [of Him] whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?


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But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works so that you may know and believe that the Father [is] in Me, and I in Him.


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And He went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John baptized at the first, and He stayed there.


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And many came to Him and said, John indeed did no miracle, but all things that John said concerning this One were true.


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(And it was [that] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)


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When Jesus heard, He said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified by it.


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Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.


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The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, the Jews lately have sought to stone You, and do You go there again?


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of the world.


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He said these things; and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep.


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And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him.


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Then Thomas (he being called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him.


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Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life! He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live.


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She said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who has come into the world.


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And saying these things, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher has come and calls you.


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Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, [they] followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there.


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Then when Mary had come where Jesus was, seeing Him, Mary fell down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.


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Then when He saw her weeping, and also the Jews who came with her weeping, Jesus groaned in the spirit and troubled Himself.


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And some of them said, Was not this Man who opened the eyes of the blind able also to cause that even this one should not have died?


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Then Jesus, groaning in Himself again, came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who died, said to Him, Lord, by this time he stinks. For it is [the] fourth [day].


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Then they took away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up [His] eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.


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And I know that You hear Me always, but because of the people who stand by I said [it], so that they may believe that You have sent Me.


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And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with sheets, and his face was bound with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Untie him and let [him] go!


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Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.


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If we let him alone this way, all will believe on him. And the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.


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And one of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest of that year, said to them, You do not know anything at all,


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nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.


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And he did not speak this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;


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and not for that nation only, but also that He should gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.


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Therefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but He went away from there to a country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and continued there with His disciples.


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And the Jews' Passover was near. And many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.


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Then they sought Jesus, and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, What does it seem to you, that He will not at all come to the feast?


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And all the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commands, that if anyone knew where He was, he should make [it] known so that they might seize Him.


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Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was (who had died, whom He raised from [the] dead).


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Then they made a supper there for Him. And Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him.


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Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.


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He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put [in].


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Then a great crowd of the Jews learned that He was there. And they did not come for Jesus' sake only, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom He had raised from [the] dead.


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On the next day, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, a great crowd who had come to the Feast


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took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him. And [they] cried, Hosanna! Blessed [is] the King of Israel who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord!


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But His disciples did not know these things at the first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and [that] they had done these things to Him.


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Then the crowd witnessed, those who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from [the] dead.


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Then the Pharisees said among themselves, Do you see how you gain nothing? Behold, the world has gone after Him.


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Then these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we want to see Jesus.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.


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He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.


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If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.


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And My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour? But for this cause I came to this hour.


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Father, glorify Your name! Then there came a voice from the heaven [saying], I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.


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The crowd answered Him, We have heard out of the law that Christ lives forever. How do you say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?


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Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes.


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While you have the Light, believe in the Light so that you may become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and was hidden from them.


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so that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with [their] eyes nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Still, however, even out of the rulers, many did believe on Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;


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I have come [as] a Light into the world, so that whoever believes on Me should not remain in darkness.


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And if any one hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I do not come to judge the world, but to save the world.


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He who rejects Me and does not receive My words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.


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For I have not spoken of Myself, but [the] Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.


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And I know that His command is life everlasting. Therefore whatever I speak, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak.


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And before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come when He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved [His] own in the world, He loved them to [the] end.


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And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon to betray Him,


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Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into [His] hands, and that He had come from God and went to God,


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After that He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel with which He was girded.


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Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.


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Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has no need except to wash [his] feet, but is clean every whit. And you are clean, but not all.


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So after He had washed their feet and had taken His garments and had reclined again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you?


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If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, A servant is not greater than his master, neither is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.


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I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives Me. And he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.


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When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you shall betray Me.


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Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give the morsel when I have dipped [it]. And dipping the morsel, He gave [it] to Judas Iscariot, the [son] of Simon.


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For some thought, because Judas had the moneybag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy what we have need [of] for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.


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If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him.


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Little children, I am with you yet a little while. You shall seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come, so I now say to you.


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I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another.


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Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, where do You go? Jesus answered him, Where I go you cannot now follow Me, but you shall follow Me afterward.


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Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for My sake? Truly, truly, I say to you, The cock shall not crow until you have denied Me three times.


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In My Father's house are many mansions; if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.


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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.


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If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.


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Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father?


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Do you not believe that I [am] in the Father and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.


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Believe Me that I [am] in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works themselves.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater [works] than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.


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And whatever you may ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever,


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the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.


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Yet a little [while] and the world does not see Me any more. But you see Me. Because I live, you shall live also.


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He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.


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Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If a man loves Me, he will keep My Word. And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.


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He who does not love Me does not keep My words, and the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.


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But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.


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Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.


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You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you [again]. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I.


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I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world comes, and he has nothing in Me.


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But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has given Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go away from here.


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Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.


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Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither [can] you unless you abide in Me.


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I am the Vine, you [are] the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.


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If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned.


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If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.


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If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.


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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.


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You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.


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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


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Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.


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But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father.


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And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.


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They shall put you out of [the] synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.


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But I have told you these things so that when the hour shall come you may remember that I told you of them. And I did not say these things to you at the beginning because I was with you.


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But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you.


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And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.


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However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come.


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All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and will announce [it] to you.


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A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while], and you will see Me, because I go to the Father.


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Then His disciples said to one another, What is this that He says to us, A little [while] and you will not see Me, and again a little and you will see Me? And, Because I go to the Father?


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Then Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and said to them, Do you seek answers with one another concerning this, because I said, A little [while] and you shall not see Me; and again a little while, and you shall see Me?


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Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.


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The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.


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And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.


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And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give you.


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I have spoken these things to you in parables, but the time is coming when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but I will show you plainly of the Father.


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At that day you will ask in My name; and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,


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for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God.


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I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father.


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Now we know that You know all things and do not need that anyone should ask You. By this we believe that You have come forth from God.


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Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to [his] own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.


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I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.


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Jesus spoke these words and lifted up His eyes to Heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son so that Your Son also may glorify You,


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even as You have given Him authority over all flesh so that He should give eternal life to all You have given Him.


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And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.


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I have revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.


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For I have given to them the words which You gave Me, and they have received [them] and have known surely that I came out from You. And they have believed that You sent Me.


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I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.


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And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that [they] may be one as We [are].


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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.


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And now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world that they might have My joy fulfilled in them.


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I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.


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that they all may be one, as You, Father, [are] in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.


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I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.


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Father, I desire that [those] whom You have given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before [the] foundation of [the] world.


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O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me.


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And I made known to them Your name, and will make [it] known, so that the love [with] which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.


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Having spoken these words, Jesus went out with His disciples over the winter stream Kidron, where there was a garden. He and His disciples entered into it.


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Then Judas, having received a band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Then Jesus, knowing all things that were coming upon Him, went out and said to them, Whom do you seek?


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They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, I AM! And Judas who betrayed Him also stood with them.


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(that the word might be fulfilled which He spoke, [Of] those whom You have given Me, I have lost not one of them).


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Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. And the servant's name [was] Malchus.


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Then Jesus said to Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath. The cup which My Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?


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Then the band, and the chiliarch, and under-officers of the Jews together seized Jesus and bound Him.


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And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year.


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And Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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And Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That disciple was known to the high priest, and he went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.


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But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple went out, the one who was known to the high priest, and spoke to her who kept the door and brought Peter in.


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Then the girl who kept the door said to Peter, Are you not also [one] of this man's disciples? He said, I am not.


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And the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold. And they warmed [themselves]. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.


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Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where the Jews always resort, and I have said nothing in secret.


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And when He had spoken this way, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Do you answer the high priest so?


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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?


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And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Then they said to him, Are you not also [one] of his disciples? He denied and said, I am not.


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One of the servants of the high priest, being kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with him?


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Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium. And it was early. And they did not go into the praetorium, that they should not be defiled, and that they might eat the Passover.


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They answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, then we would not have delivered him up to you.


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Then Pilate said to them, You take him and judge him according to your law. Then the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death


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(that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He spoke signifying what death He was about to die).


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Then Pilate entered into the praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me. What have you done?


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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.


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Pilate then said to Him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say [it] that I am a king. To this [end] I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.


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Pilate said to Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him.


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But you have a custom that I should release one to you at the Passover. Then do you desire that I release to you the king of the Jews?


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And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put [it] on His head. And they put a purple robe on Him,


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Then Pilate went out again and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you so that you may know that I find no fault in him.


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Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And [Pilate] said to them, Behold the man!


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Then when the chief priests and under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify [Him]! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.


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And [he] went again into the praetorium and said to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Then Pilate said to him, Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you, and I have authority to release you?


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Jesus answered, You could have no authority against Me unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.


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From this [time], Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Then when Pilate heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement (but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha).


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And it was [the] preparation of the Passover, and about [the] sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold your king!


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But they cried out, Away with [him]! Away with [him]! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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Then he delivered Him up to them that He might be crucified. And they took Jesus and led [Him] away.


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And bearing His cross, He went out to a place called, [The Place] of a Skull (which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha)


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And Pilate wrote a title and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.


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Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write, the king of the Jews, but that he said, I am king of the Jews.


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Then when they had crucified Jesus, the soldiers took His garments and made four parts, one part to each soldier; and also [His] tunic. And the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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Therefore they said among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to find whose it shall be (that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among them, and for] my garment they cast lots). Therefore the soldiers did these things.


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And His mother stood by the cross of Jesus, and His mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


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Then when Jesus saw [His] mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son!


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Then He said to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her into [his] own [home].


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After this, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, I thirst.


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Then a vessel full of vinegar was set. And they filled a sponge with sour wine and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to His mouth.


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Then when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed [His] head and gave up the spirit.


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Then the Jews, because it was Preparation, begged Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the sabbath. For that sabbath was a high day.


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Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him.


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But one of the soldiers pierced His side [with] a lance, and instantly there came out blood and water.


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And he who saw bore record, and his record is true. And he knows that he speaks true, so that you might believe.


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For these things were done so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of Him shall be broken.


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And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews) begged of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave permission. Then he came and took the body of Jesus.


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And Nicodemus also came, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.


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Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it with linens with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury.


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And in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one yet had been placed.


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The first of the sabbaths Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, darkness still being [on it], and [she] saw the stone taken away from the tomb.


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Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.


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And the grave-cloth that was on His head [was] not lying with the linens, but was wrapped up in one place by itself.


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Therefore, then, that other disciple also went in, the [one] who came first to the tomb. And he saw and believed.


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And [she] saw two angels in white sitting there, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they said to her, Woman, why do you weep? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.


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And when she had said this, she turned backward and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.


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Jesus said to her, Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek? Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, Sir, if you have carried Him away from here, tell me where you have laid Him and I will take Him away.


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Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and Your Father, and [to] My God and your God.


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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had spoken these things to her.


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Then the same day at evening, being the first of the sabbaths, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Peace to you!


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And when He had said this, He showed them [His] hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.


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Of whomever sins you remit, they are remitted to them. Of whomever [sins] you retain, they are retained.


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The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I shall see the print of the nails in His hands, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.


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And after eight days the disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace to you!


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Then He said to Thomas, Reach your finger here and behold My hands; and reach your hand here and thrust [it] into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.


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Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen Me you have believed. Blessed [are] they who have not seen and have believed.


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And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.


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But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.


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After these things Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. And He revealed [Himself] this way:


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Simon Peter, and Thomas called [the] Twin, and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.


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Simon Peter said to them, I am going out to fish. They said to him, We will go with you also. They went out and entered into a boat immediately. And that night they caught nothing.


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But when the morning had come, Jesus stood on the shore. But the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.


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And He said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find. Therefore they cast, and now they no longer had [the] strength to draw, from the multitude of fish.


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Then that disciple whom Jesus loves said to Peter, It is the Lord! Then hearing that it is the Lord, Simon Peter girded on [his] coat (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.


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And the other disciples came in a little boat (for they were not far from land, only about two hundred cubits), dragging the net of fish.


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Then when they went up on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and a fish lying on [it], and bread.


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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of big fish, a hundred and fifty-three. And [though] there were so many, the net was not torn.


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Jesus said to them, Come, break fast. And none of the disciples dared to ask Him, Who are You? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This [is] now the three times Jesus was revealed to His disciples, [He] being risen from [the] dead.


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Then when they broke fast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.


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He said to him the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My sheep.


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He said to him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him a third [time], Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things, You know that I love You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished. But when you grow old, you shall stretch forth your hands and another shall gird you and carry [you] where [you] do not wish.


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He spoke this signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, Follow Me.


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Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following (the one who also leaned on His breast at supper, and said, Lord, who is he who betrays You?)


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Then this saying went abroad among the brothers, that that disciple should not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him, He shall not die, but, If I desire that he remain until I come, what [is that] to you?


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This is the disciple who testifies of these things and wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true.


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And there are also many things, whatever Jesus did, which, if they should be written singly, I suppose the world itself [could] not contain the books that would be written. Amen.


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until the day He was taken up, having given directions to the apostles whom He chose, through [the] Holy Spirit;


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to whom He also presented Himself living after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them through forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.


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And having met with [them], He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which you heard from Me.


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For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in [the] Holy Spirit not many days from now.


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Then, indeed, these coming together, they asked Him, saying, Lord, do You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?


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And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority.


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But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to [the] end of the earth.


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And saying these things, [as] they watched, He was taken up. And a cloud received Him out of their sight.


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And while they were looking intently into the heaven, He having gone, even behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them,


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who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the heaven? This same Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the way you have seen Him going into Heaven.


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Then they returned to Jerusalem from [the] mount Of Olive Grove, which is a sabbath day's [journey] from Jerusalem.


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And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, where Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [the son] of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of James;


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these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with [the] women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.


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And in those days Peter stood up in [the] midst of the disciples and said, ( the] number of names together [was] about a hundred and twenty,)


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Men, brothers, this Scripture must have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who seized Jesus.


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Indeed, then, this one purchased a field with the reward of unrighteousness. And falling headlong, he burst apart in [the] middle, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, so much so that that field is called in their own dialect, Akeldama, that is to say, Field of Blood.


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For it is written in [the] Book of Psalms, Let his estate become forsaken, and he not be living in it. And, Let another take his overseership.


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Therefore, it is right that one of these men who have companied with us all [the] time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John to that same day that He was taken up from us, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.


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And they gave forth their lots. And the lot fell upon Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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And suddenly a sound came out of the heaven as borne along by the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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But this sound occurring, the multitude came together and were confounded, because they each heard them speaking in his own dialect.


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And they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not these who speak all Galileans?


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,


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Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,


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But Peter, standing up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, Men, Jews, and all who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.


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And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.


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And in those days I will pour out My Spirit upon My slaves and My slave women, and they shall prophesy.


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And I will give wonders in the heaven above, and miracles on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious Day of the Lord.


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Men, Israelites, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by powerful works, and wonders and miracles, which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,


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this One given [to you] by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, [you] have taken and by lawless hands, crucifying [Him], you put Him to death;


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whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.


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For David speaks concerning Him, I foresaw the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.


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Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.


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Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of [the] fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit upon his throne,


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seeing this beforehand, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor would His flesh see corruption,


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Therefore being exalted to the right of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear.


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For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right [hand]


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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And hearing [this], they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?


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Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God shall call.


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And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.


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Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added about three thousand souls.


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And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of the loaves, and in prayers.


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And they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.


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And continuing with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they shared food with gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.


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And on the same [day] Peter and John went up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth [hour].


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And a certain man, who was lame from his mother's womb, was being carried. And they laid him daily at that temple gate which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered into the temple.


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But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!


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And taking him by the right hand, he lifted [him] up. And immediately his feet and ankle-bones received strength.


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And leaping up, he stood and walked and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.


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And they recognized him, that it was him who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


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And as the lame one who was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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And seeing [this], Peter answered the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you stare at us, as [though] we had made this man to walk by our own power or holiness?


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The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His son Jesus, whom you delivered up, denying Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let [Him] go.


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And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, this one whom you see and know, His name made firm. And the faith which came through Him has given him this perfect soundness before you.


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But those things which God before had shown by the mouth of all His prophets, [that] Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.


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Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from [the] presence of the Lord.


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whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by [the] mouth of His holy prophets since the world began.


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For Moses truly said to the fathers, The] Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet to you from your brothers, [One] like me. You shall hear Him in all things, whatever He may say to you.


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And it shall be [that] every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.


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And also all the prophets from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, have likewise foretold of these days.


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You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.


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Having raised up His son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities.


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And [as] they spoke to the people, the priests, and the temple commander, and the Sadducees came on them,


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being grieved that they taught the people, even to announce through Jesus the resurrection from [the] dead.


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[And they] laid hands on [them] and put [them] under guard until the next day, for it was already evening.


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and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.


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And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name have you done this?


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from [the] dead, in this [name] does this man stand before you whole.


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This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of [the] Corner.


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And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.


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But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlearned and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? For that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And we cannot deny [it].


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But, so that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, [that] they speak to no man in this name from now on.


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But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right before God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.


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So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way [as to] how they might punish them, because of the people. For all glorified God for that which was done.


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And being let go, they went to their own company and reported what the chief priests and elders had said [to them].


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And having heard, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, You [are] the God who made the heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that is in them;


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who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?


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The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.


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For truly, against Your holy child Jesus, whom You have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and [the] people of Israel, were gathered together


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And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your Word,


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by stretching forth of Your hand for healing, and miracles, and wonders may be done by the name of Your holy child Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken. And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness.


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And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul. And not one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own. But they had all things common.


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And the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power. And great grace was on them all.


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For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold [them] and brought the prices of the [things] that were sold,


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and they laid [them] down at the apostles' feet. And distribution was made to every man according as he had need.


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And Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being translated, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cypriot by race,


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And he kept back [part] of the price, his wife also knowing, and brought a certain part and laid [it] at the apostles' feet.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?


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While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it [not] in your own authority? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.


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And hearing these words, Ananias fell down [and] expired. And great fear came on all those who heard these things.


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And it was about the space of three hours afterward, when his wife (not knowing what was done) came in.


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And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the land [for] so much? And she said, Yes, [for] so much.


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Then Peter said to her, How [is it] that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband [are] at the door and they will carry you out.


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Then at once she fell down at his feet and expired. And the younger ones found her dead, and, carrying [her] out, buried her beside her husband.


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And many miracles and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.


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So as to carry out the sick into the streets and place [them] on cots and mattresses, so that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.


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And also a multitude came [from] the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick ones, and those being tormented by unclean spirits, who were all healed.


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And rising up, the high priest, and all those who were with him (which is the [sect] of the Sadducees) were filled with anger,


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And hearing, they went into the temple about dawn, and taught. But the high priest came, and those with him. And they called the sanhedrin together, and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, We indeed found the prison shut with all safety, and the keepers standing outside in front of the doors. But having opened it, we found no one inside.


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And when the high priest and the temple commander and the chief priests heard these things, they were bewildered about them, what this might be.


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But one came, reporting to them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.


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Then the commander went with the officers [and] brought them, not with force, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.


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saying, Did we not strictly command you [that] you not teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us.


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This One God [has] exalted [to be] a Ruler and Savior to His right [hand] in order to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel.


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And we are His witnesses of these things. And [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.


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Then there stood up one in the sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law honored among all the people. And he commanded the apostles to be put outside a little space.


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And he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do [regarding] these men.


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For before these days Theudas rose up, boasting himself to be somebody; a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves to him; who was slain. And all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered and brought to nothing.


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After this one, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the Registration, and drew away considerable people after him. Yet that one perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered.


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And now I say to you, withdraw from these men and let them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will come to nothing.


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And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating [them], they commanded not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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Then indeed they departed from [the] presence of the sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be shamed for His name.


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And every day in the temple, and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching the gospel: Jesus Christ.


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And in those days, the disciples having multiplied, a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews occurred, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving.


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And the Twelve called near the multitude of the disciples and said, It is not pleasing to us, leaving the Word of God, to serve tables.


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Therefore, brothers, look out among you seven [men] being witnessed to, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this duty.


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And the saying pleased all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch.


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And the word of God was increasing. And the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplying exceedingly; even a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.


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Then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and from Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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And they induced men [to be] saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.


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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes. And coming on, they seized him and brought him to the sanhedrin.


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And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.


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For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.


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And looking intently at him. all those sitting in the sanhedrin saw his face as if [it were the] face of an angel.


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And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.


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And He said to him, Go out from your land and from your kindred, and come into a land which I shall show you.


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Then he came out of [the] land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, he moved into this land in which you now dwell.


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And He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not [even] a foot-breadth. And [He] promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.


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And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress [it] four hundred years.


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And God said, I will judge the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, and after these things they will come out and will serve Me in this place.


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And He gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so [Abraham] fathered Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day. And Isaac [fathered] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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and plucked him out from all his afflictions, and He gave him favor and wisdom over against Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his household.


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But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction. And our fathers found no food.


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And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was made known to Pharaoh.


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and were carried over into Shechem. And they were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor [the father] of Shechem.


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But as the time was drawing near, of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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Dealing subtly with our race, this one oppressed our fathers, causing their infants [to be] exposed, [so as] not to be left alive.


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In this time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God, who was brought up three months in his father's house.


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And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it arose in his heart to look upon his brothers, the sons of Israel.


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And seeing one being wronged, he defended [him]. and avenged him who was oppressed and struck the Egyptian.


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For he thought his brothers [would] understand that God would give them deliverance by his hand. But they did not understand.


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And the next day he appeared to them [while] fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?


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And Moses fled at this word, and became a temporary resident in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.


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And forty years being fulfilled to him, [the] Angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush.


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And seeing [it], Moses marveled at the sight. And as he drew near to see, the voice of [the] Lord came to him:


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[saying], I [am] the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But Moses trembled and dared not look.


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Then the Lord said to him, Loosen the sandal on your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.


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I have seen, the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan; and I came down to pluck them out. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.


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This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? God has sent this one [to be] a ruler and a redeemer by [the] hand of [the] Angel who appeared to him in the Bush.


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He brought them out after he had worked wonders and miracles in [the] land of Egypt and in [the] Red Sea and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is that Moses who said to the sons of Israel, The] Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet to you from your brothers, [One] like me; you shall hear Him.


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This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,


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to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust [him] away and turned back again to Egypt in their hearts,


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saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us, for [as for] this Moses who brought us out of [the] land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their own hands.


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Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heavens, as it is written in [the] book of the Prophets: O house of Israel, have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness?


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Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made in order to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.


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The tabernacle of witness was among our fathers in the wilderness, as commanded [by God], speaking to Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.


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Which also having received it by inheritance with Joshua, our fathers, with Joshua, in taking possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David,


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Heaven [is] My throne and earth [is] My footstool. What house will you build Me, says [the] Lord, or what [is] the place of My rest?


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O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers [did], so you do.


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Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;


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And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts. And they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.


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But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, looking up intently into Heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.


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And throwing [him] outside the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid their clothes down at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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And Saul was consenting to his death. And in that day there was a great persecution on the church at Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house. And dragging men and women, he delivered [them] up to prison.


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And the people with one accord gave heed to those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the many miracles which he did.


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For out of those having unclean spirits, many came out, crying with loud voice. And many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.


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But a certain man called Simon had long been conjuring in the city, and amazing the nation of Samaria, claiming himself to be some great one.


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But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel, the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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Then Simon himself believed also, and being baptized, he continued with Philip. And seeing miracles and mighty works happening, he was amazed.


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And the apostles in Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to them;


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And when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,


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But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.


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Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.


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And answering Simon said, You pray to the Lord for me that none of these things which you have spoken may come on me.


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Then, indeed, having earnestly testified and having spoken the Word of the Lord also having preached the gospel [to] many villages of the Samaritans, they returned to Jerusalem.


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And the angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south, on the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is a deserted [place].


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And he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,


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And Philip ran there to [him] and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you indeed understand what you are reading?


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And he said, How can I unless some man should guide me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.


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And the content of the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so He opened not His mouth.


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In His humiliation His judgment was taken away, and who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I beg you, of whom does the prophet speak this? Of himself or of some other man?


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Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture and preached the gospel of Jesus to him.


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And as they passed along the way, they came on some water. And the eunuch said, See, here is water, what hinders me [from] being baptized?


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Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, it is lawful. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.


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And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him.


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And when they had come up out of the water, [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.


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But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.


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And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest


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and asked letters from him to Damascus to the synagogues; so that if he found any of the Way, whether they were men or women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.


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But in going, it happened as he drew near to Damascus, even suddenly a light from the heaven shone around him.


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And he said, Who are you, lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [It is] hard for you to kick against the goads.


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And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord [said] to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.


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And Saul was lifted up from the earth, his eyes were opened, but he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought [him] into Damascus.


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And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold me, Lord.


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And the Lord [said] to him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and inquire in [the] house of Judas for [one] called Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,


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and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting [his] hand on him so that he might receive his sight.


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And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.


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But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.


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And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, [he] said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with [the Holy Spirit.


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And instantly scales as it were fell from his eyes, and he instantly saw again. And rising up, he was baptized.


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But all who heard [him] were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and came here for that reason, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?


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But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this One is the Christ.


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And arriving in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join himself to the disciples. But they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought [him] to the apostles and told them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and argued with the Hellenists. But they seized him in order to kill him.


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Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they [were] increased.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you; rise up and spread for yourself! And he arose immediately.


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And in Joppa was a certain disciple named Tabitha (which translated is called Dorcas). She was full of good works and kind deeds which she did.


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And it happened in those days, becoming sick, she died. And washing her, they laid [her] in an upper room.


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And, because Lydda was near Joppa, hearing that Peter is in it, the disciples sent two men to him, begging [him] not to delay to come to them.


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And rising up, Peter went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made [while] she was with them.


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And putting them all out, Peter knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes. And when she saw Peter, she sat up.


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And he gave her [his] hand and lifted her up. And when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.


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[one] devout and fearing God, with all his household, both doing many merciful deeds to the people, and praying continually to God.


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About the ninth hour of the day he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!


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And he was gazing at him, and becoming terrified, he said, What is it, lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your merciful deeds have come up for a memorial before God.


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He is staying with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by [the] seaside. He will tell you what you must do.


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And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from those who waited on him continually.


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On the next day, as these went on [the] road, and drawing near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about [the] sixth hour.


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And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a sheet coming down to him, being bound at the four corners and let down to the earth;


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in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the heaven.


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And the voice [spoke] to him again the second [time], What God has made clean, you do not call common.


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And while Peter doubted within himself what the vision which he had seen might be, even behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had asked for Simon's house and stood on the porch.


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And [while] Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are looking for you.


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And going down to the men, those sent to him from Cornelius, Peter said, Behold, I am [the one] you are seeking. For what reason have you come?


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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man and [one] who fears God, and one of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.


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Then he called them in and lodged [them]. And on the next day Peter went away with them, and certain brothers from Joppa went with him.


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And the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.


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And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.


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Therefore I came without complaint, being sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me.


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing.


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And he said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your merciful deeds have been remembered before God.


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Therefore send to Joppa and call here Simon whose last name is Peter, he is staying in [the] house of Simon, a tanner by the seaside; who, when he comes, shall speak to you.


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Therefore I immediately sent to you, and you have done well [to] come. Now therefore we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded you by God.


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You know the word which [God] sent to the sons of Israel, preaching the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all!);


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that word which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed;


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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with [the] Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the Devil, for God was with Him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed [Him] and hanged [Him] on a tree;


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not to all the people, but to witnesses hand-picked before by God, [even] to us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from [the] dead.


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And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of [the] living and [the] dead.


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All the prophets give witness to Him, [that] through His name whoever believes in Him [shall] receive remission of sins.


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And those of the circumcision, who believed (as many as came with Peter), were astonished because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the nations also.


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Can anyone forbid water that these, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we, should not be baptized?


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And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay certain days.


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And the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the nations had also received the Word of God.


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I was in [the] city of Joppa praying. And in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a sheet coming down, let down from the sky by four corners. And it came even to me.


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When I had fastened my eyes on [it], I looked and saw four-footed animals of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and birds of the heaven.


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And the Spirit told me to go with them, not discriminating. And these six brothers [went] with me, and we entered the man's house.


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And he declared to us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa and call for Simon whose last name is Peter,


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And I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with [the] Holy Spirit.


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If God gave to them the same gift as to us, they] having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to prevent God?


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When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.


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Then, indeed, they who were scattered abroad by the persecution that rose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the Word to no one except the Jews.


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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.


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And the Word was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem. And they sent out Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch;


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who was glad when he had come and had seen the grace of God. And he exhorted all with purpose of heart to remain near to the Lord.


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For he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and faith. And many people were added to the Lord.


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And finding him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them a whole year they] were assembled in the church. And they] taught a considerable crowd. And the disciples were first called Christian in Antioch.


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And one of them named Agabus stood up and signified by the Spirit that there should be great famine over the world (which also happened in the [days] of Claudius Caesar).


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And the disciples, as any were prospered, determined each of them to send for ministry to those brothers who lived in Judea,


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And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he went further to seize Peter also. (And they were days of Unleavened [Bread].)


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And capturing [him], he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four sets of four soldiers to keep him; intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.


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And when Herod was about to bring him out, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Also guards were keeping the prison before the door.


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And behold! An angel of [the] Lord stood by, and a light shone in the building. And striking Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird yourself and put on your sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Throw your robe around you and follow me.


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And he went out and followed him. And he did not know that this happening through the angel was true, but thought he saw a vision.


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When they were past the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord. And they went out and passed on through one street. And immediately the angel departed from him.


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And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that [the] Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and [from] all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And thinking [about it], he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose last name was Mark; where many had gathered together to pray.


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And when she knew Peter's voice, she did not open the porch because of gladness, but running in she reported Peter [was] standing before the porch.


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And they said to her, You are mad. But she kept on saying that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.


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But, waving to them with his hand to be quiet, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go tell these things to James and to the brothers. And he departed and went into another place.


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And day coming, there was not a little stir among the soldiers, saying, What, then, became of Peter.


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And searching for him, and not finding [him], examining the guards, Herod commanded them to be led away to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed.


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And Herod was in bitter hostility with the men of Tyre and Sidon. But they came to him with one accord and, having made Blastus (who had charge of the king's bedroom) their friend, desired peace, because their country was fed by the king's [country].


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And on a certain day, Herod sat on his throne, dressed in royal clothing, and made a speech to them.


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And immediately the angel of [the] Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled the ministry, having taken with [them] John, whose last name was Mark.


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And in Antioch some among the existing church were prophets and teachers. (such as Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.


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[As] they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.


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Then these indeed sent out by the Holy Spirit went down to Seleucia. And from there they sailed to Cyprus.


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And when they were at Salamis, they announced the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as an assistant.


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And when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain conjurer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name [was] Bar-jesus;


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who was with the proconsul of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called for Barnabas and Saul and asked to hear the Word of God.


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But Elymas the conjurer (for so his name is, if translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.


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and said, O son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all craftiness, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of [the] Lord?


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And now, behold, [the] hand of the Lord [is] on you. And you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a while. And immediately a mist and a darkness fell on him, and he went about seeking [some to] lead him by the hand.


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Then, seeing the thing happening, the proconsul believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.


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And Paul and those around [him] sailed from Paphos and came to Perga of Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem.


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But going through from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and sat down.


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And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.


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And rising up and signaling with his hand, Paul said, Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, listen.


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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people in their residency in [the] land [of] Egypt, and He brought them out of it with a high arm.


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And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to them as an inheritance.


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And after that He gave [them] judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.


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And afterward they asked [for] a king. And God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of [the] tribe of Benjamin, [for] forty years.


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And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse [to be] a man after My own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.


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John having before proclaimed the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, before His coming.


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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Who do you think that I am? I am not [He]. But behold, One comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Men, brothers, sons of [the] race of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.


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For those living in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this One, and the voices of the prophets being read throughout every sabbath, condemning [Him], they fulfilled [the Scriptures].


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And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, taking [Him] down from the tree, they laid [Him] in a tomb.


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who appeared for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.


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this God has fulfilled to us their children, raising up Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, You are My Son, this day I have begotten You.


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And that He raised Him up from [the] dead, no more to return to corruption, He spoke in this way: I will give you the holy promises of David.


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For after he had served [his] own generation by the will of God, David fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.


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Therefore be it known to you, men, brothers, that through this One the forgiveness of sins is announced to you.


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And by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.


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Behold, you despisers, and marvel, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare [it] to you.


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And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations begged that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.


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And the synagogue being broken up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.


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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.


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But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary [for] the word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.


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For so the Lord has commanded us, [saying], I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth.


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And hearing, the nations rejoiced and glorified the Word of the Lord. And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.


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But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.


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And it happened in Iconium, they both went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spoke so as a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.


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Therefore they stayed a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of His grace, giving miracles and wonders to be done by their hands.


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And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,


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they were aware of [it] and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the country around them.


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And a certain man was sitting in Lystra, without strength in the feet, being lame from his mother's womb, who never had walked.


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This one heard Paul speaking; [and Paul], looking intently at him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,


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And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.


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And the priest of Jupiter, being before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, wishing to sacrifice with the crowds.


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But hearing [this], the apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out


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and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn [you] from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;


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And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving rain and fruitful season to us from heaven, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


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And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew [him] out of the city, supposing him to have died.


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But the disciples surrounding him, he rose up and came into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And preaching the gospel to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,


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confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having hand-picked elders for them in every church, and had prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord into whom they believed.


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And from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.


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And having arrived, and gathering the church they related all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the nations.


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And certain ones who came down from Judea taught the brothers, [saying], Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.


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Therefore dissension and not a little disputation occurring by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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And indeed being set forward by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brothers.


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And arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and [by] the apostles and elders. And [they] declared all things that God had done with them.


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But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command [them] to keep the law of Moses.


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And after much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days God chose among us [that] through my mouth the nations [should] hear the word of the gospel, and believe.


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Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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But we believe that through the grace of [the] Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, according to which manner they also believed.


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And all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had worked among the nations through them.


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Even as Simon has declared [how] God [at] the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.


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After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David [which] has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up,


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so those men who are left might seek after the Lord, and all the nations on whom My name has been called, says the Lord, who does all these things.


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Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those who have turned to God from among the nations,


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but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses from ages past has those in every city proclaiming him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.


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Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men from them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, whose last name was Barsabas; and Silas, chief men among the brothers.


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And they wrote these things by their hand: The apostles and elders and brothers [send] greeting to the brothers, from [the] nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.


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Because we have heard that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, Be circumcised and keep the law! (to whom we gave no such command);


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it seemed [good] to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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For it seemed [good] to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things:


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that you abstain from meats offered to idols, and [from] blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which, if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Be prospered.


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Then indeed they being let go, they came to Antioch. And gathering the multitude, [they] delivered the letter.


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And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words and confirmed [them].


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Also Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the gospel, the Word of the Lord, with many others also.


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And some days afterward, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have announced the Word of the Lord, to see] how they are holding to it.


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But Paul thought it well not to take that one with [them], he having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work.


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Then there was sharp feeling, so as to separate them from each other. And taking Mark, Barnabas sailed to Cyprus.


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was there, [the] son of a woman who was a Jewess and who believed. But [his] father [was] a Greek.


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Paul wanted him to go with him, and taking [him he] circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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And as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them the commandments to keep, the ones that were ordained by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.


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And coming through the Phrygian and the Galatian region; and by the Holy Spirit being forbidden to speak the Word in Asia;


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A certain man of Macedonia stood, begging him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us!


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And after he saw the vision, we immediately tried to go into Macedonia, gathering that the Lord had called us in order to preach the gospel [to] them.


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Then having set sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next [day] to Neapolis;


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and from there to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we continued spending time in that city some days.


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And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was usually made. And we sat down and spoke to the women who came together [there].


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And a certain woman named Lydia heard us, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God; whose heart the Lord opened, so that she attended to the things which were spoken by Paul.


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And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.


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And as we went to prayer, it happened that a certain girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.


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The same followed Paul and us and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are announcing to us the way of salvation.


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And she did this many days. But being distressed, and turning to the [demonic] spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour.


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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain went out, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged [them] to the market before the rulers.


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And bringing them near to the judges, they said, These men, being Jews, are exceedingly troubling our city.


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And the crowd rose up against them. And tearing off their clothes, the judges ordered [them] to be flogged.


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And after laying on them many stripes, they threw [them] into prison, commanding the jailor to keep them safely;


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who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.


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And toward midnight Paul and Silas prayed and praised God in a hymn. And the prisoners listened to them.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds were loosened.


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And being awakened, and seeing the doors of the prison being open, drawing a sword, the jailer was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.


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And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed from [their] stripes. And he was baptized, he and all his, immediately.


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And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before [them] and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.


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And the jailer spoke these words to Paul: The judges have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.


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But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw [us] into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out.


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And the floggers reported these words to the judges. And hearing that they were Romans, they were afraid.


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And coming they begged [them]. And bringing [them] out, [they] asked [them] to depart out of the city.


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And going out from the prison, [they] entered into [the house of] Lydia. And seeing the brothers, they comforted them and departed.


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And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.


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And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them and reasoned with them out of the Scriptures on three sabbaths,


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opening and setting forth that Christ must have suffered, and to have risen again from [the] dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ.


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And some of them believed and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, both a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks, and not a few of the chief women.


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But the disobeying Jews becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market-loafers, and gathering a crowd, they set all the city in an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, [they] sought to bring them out to the mob.


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And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brothers before the city judges, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too,


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whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.


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And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. They, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that [they received] the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily [to see] if those things [were so].


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But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.


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And then immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go towards the sea, but both Silas and Timothy stayed there.


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And those conducting Paul brought him to Athens. And receiving a command to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.


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Then indeed he addressed the Jews in the synagogue, and those worshiping, and daily in the market, to those happening to be [there].


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And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).


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And taking hold of him, they led [him] to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what [is] this new doctrine of which you speak?


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For you bring certain strange things to our ears, therefore we are minded to know what these things mean.


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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were [there] spent their time in nothing else except to tell or to hear something newer.)


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And standing in [the] middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see that you [are] fearful of gods in everything.


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For [as I] passed by and saw the things you worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you.


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The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,


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nor is served with men's hands, [as though] He needed anything, [since] He gives life and breath and all things to all.


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And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,


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to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though indeed [He] is not far from each one of us.


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For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.


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Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.


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Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,


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because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all [by] raising Him from [the] dead.


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And hearing [of] a resurrection of [the] dead, some indeed mocked; and others said, We will hear you again concerning this.


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But certain men joined themselves to him and believed; among whom [were] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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And finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy [with] his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) Paul came to them.


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And because [he] was of the same trade, he stayed and worked with them; for they were tentmakers by occupation.


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And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [is] the Christ.


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And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking [his] garment, he said to them, Your blood [is] on your own heads. I [am] pure from [it]. From now on I will go to the nations.


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And he departed from there and entered into [the] house of one named Justus, [one] worshiping God, whose house was next to the synagogue.


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And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house. And hearing this, many of the Corinthians believed and were baptized.


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And the Lord spoke to Paul in [the] night by a vision, Do not be afraid, but speak, and be not silent.


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But Gallio [being] pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,


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And Paul being about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.


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But if it is a question of a word and names, and [of] your law, you look [to it]. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things.


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And all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio did not care for any of these things.


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And Paul having remained many days more, taking leave of the brothers, he sailed from there into Syria. And Priscilla and Aquila were with him. And Paul had shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.


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And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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but took leave of them, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that is coming in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, God willing. And he sailed from Ephesus.


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And after he had spent some time [there], he departed and went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.


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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord. And [being] fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught the things of the Lord diligently, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla heard him, and they took him and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly.


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And intending to pass into Achaia, being encouraged, the brothers wrote to the disciples to welcome him; who, having arrived, very much helped those who had believed through grace.


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And it happened in the [time] Apollos was at Corinth, Paul [was] passing through the higher parts to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples,


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he said to them, Have you received [the] Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We did not so much as hear whether [the] Holy Spirit is.


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And Paul said, John truly baptized [with] the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into Him coming after him, that is, into Jesus Christ.


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And as Paul laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.


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And going into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened and did not believe, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of one Tyrannus.


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And this happened over two years, so that all those living in Asia heard the Word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that even handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin being brought onto the sick, the diseases were released, and the evil spirits went out of them.


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And certain from the strolling Jews, exorcists, undertook to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying, We adjure you [by] Jesus whom Paul preaches.


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And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leaped on them, and overcoming them he was strong against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.


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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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Also many of those practicing the curious arts, bringing together the books, burned [them] before all. And they counted the prices of them and found [it to be] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.


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After these things were ended, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have come there, I must also see Rome.


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And sending into Macedonia two who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he stayed in Asia for a time.


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For a certain silversmith named Demetrius was making silver temples of Artemis, providing not a little trade [for] the craftsmen.


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And assembling the workmen about such things, he said, Men, you know that from this trade is our wealth.


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And you see and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, he has perverted a huge crowd, saying that those which are made with hands are no gods.


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And not only is this dangerous to us, our share coming into dispute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted for nothing, and her magnificence is also about to be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.


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And hearing, and becoming full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of [the] Ephesians.


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And all the city was filled with confusion. And they rushed with one accord to the theater, keeping a firm grip on Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling companions of Paul.


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And some of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sent to him, begging [him] not to give himself into the theater.


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Then indeed others cried out, some other things; for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.


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And they dragged Alexander forward out of the crowd, the Jews thrusting him forward. And waving [his] hand Alexander desired to defend himself to the mob.


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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for two hours' [time], Great [is] Artemis of [the] Ephesians!


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And quieting the crowd, the town clerk said, Men, Ephesians! What one of you does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Artemis, and of That Fallen from the Sky?


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For you have brought these men, who are neither robbers of churches nor blasphemers of your goddess.


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Therefore if Demetrius and those craftsmen with him truly have a matter against anyone, the court days are [kept], and there are proconsuls. Let them plead against one another.


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For we are in danger to be accused of revolt concerning today; there being no cause by which we may give an account of this crowding together.


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And after the uproar had ceased, calling the disciples and greeting [them], Paul left to go into Macedonia.


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And spending three months [there], there [being] a plot against him by the Jews, being about to sail into Syria, he proposed to return through Macedonia.


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And Sopater of Berea accompanied him into Asia, and Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus as far as Asia.


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And after the days of Unleavened [Bread], we sailed away from Philippi and came to them at Troas [in] five days, where we stayed seven days.


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And on the first of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled to break bread, being about to depart on the morrow, Paul reasoned to them. And he continued his speech until midnight.


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And a certain young man named Eutychus [was] sitting on the window sill, Paul reasoning for a longer time, being overborne by sleep, he fell down from the third floor, and was taken up dead.


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And Paul went down and fell on him, and embracing [him] said, Do not be terrified, for his soul is in him.


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And going up, and breaking bread, and tasting, and conversing over a long [time], until daybreak, he went out thus.


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And going ahead onto the ship, we sailed to Assos, there intending to take in Paul; for so he had appointed, intending himself to go on foot.


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And we sailed from there and came the next [day] across from Chios. And the next [day] we arrived at Samos, and we stayed at Trogyllium. And the next [day] we came to Miletus.


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For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not lose time in Asia; for, if it were possible for him, he hastened to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.


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And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know how I was with you at all times, from [the] first day I arrived in Asia,


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serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and many tears and temptations happening to me through the plots of the Jews;


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[and] how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have shown you and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,


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testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And now, behold, I am going bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there,


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But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus [Christ], to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that you all will see my face no more, among whom I went proclaiming the kingdom of God.


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Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with [His] own blood.


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For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


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Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.


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Therefore watch and remember that [for the time] of three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.


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And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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Yea, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my needs, and to those who were with me.


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I have shown you all things, that working in this way we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.


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grieving most of all over the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they went with him to the ship.


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And it happened when it was time to sail, we having been torn away from them, running direct we came to Cos; and on the next [day] to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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And sighting Cyprus, and leaving it on the left, we sailed into Syria, and came down to Tyre. For the ship was to unload its cargo there.


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And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days; who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.


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But when it was [time to] finish the days, going out, we traveled on. [And they] with all [the] women and children went with us as far as outside the city. And we kneeled down on the shore and prayed.


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And giving parting greetings to one another, we went up into the ship; and they returned to their own things.


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And finishing the voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. And greeting the brothers, we stayed with them one day.


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And the next [day] those around [him] going out, Paul came to Caesarea. And entering the house of Philip the evangelist, [he] being of the seven, we stayed with him.


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And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these [things]: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the] nations.


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And when we heard these things, both we and those of [the] place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.


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Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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Also [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing Mnason, a certain Cypriot, an old disciple with whom we were to lodge.


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And having greeted them, he related one by one what things God had done among the nations by his ministry.


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And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the law.


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And they are informed concerning you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the nations to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise [their] children, nor to walk after the customs.


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What is it therefore? At all events a multitude will come together, for they will hear that you have come.


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taking them, be purified with them, and be at expense for them, so that they may shave [their] heads. And all may know that what they have been told about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Law.


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And as to the nations who believe, we joined in writing, judging them to observe no such things, except only that they keep themselves from both idol sacrifice, and blood, and a thing strangled, and [from] fornication.


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Then taking the men on the next day, being purified with them, Paul went into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of the purification, until an offering should be offered for each of them.


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And when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews who were from Asia, having seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,


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crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.


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(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city before, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)


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And all the city was moved, and the people ran together. And laying hands on Paul, they drew him outside of the temple. And immediately the doors were shut.


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And as they [were] seeking to kill him, the news came to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.


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[He] immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they quit beating Paul.


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Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains. And [he] demanded who he was and what he had done.


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And others cried something else in the crowd, and not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress.


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And when he came on the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the crowd.


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And as Paul was about to be led into the fortress, he said to the chiliarch, Is it lawful for me to say a thing to you? And he said, Do you know Greek?


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Then are you not the Egyptian who before these days caused a riot, and led four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?


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But Paul said, I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen [of] no small city. And I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people.


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And he allowing him, standing on the stairs, Paul signaled with [his] hand to the people. And much silence taking place, he spoke in the Hebrew dialect, saying:


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And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they all the more kept silence. And he said,


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I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today.


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as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from [them] to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.


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And it happened to me, traveling and drawing near to Damascus: suddenly, about midday, a great light out of the heaven shone around me.


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And they who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid. But they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.


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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise and go into Damascus. And there it shall be told you all things which are appointed for you to do.


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And I did not see, because of the glory of that light; being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.


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coming to me and standing by, said to me, Brother Saul, look up! And the same hour I looked up on him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth.


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And now what do you intend? Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.


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And I saw Him say to me, Hurry and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.


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And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating those who believed on You throughout the synagogues.


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And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was poured out, I also was standing by and consenting to his death, and holding the garments of those who killed him.


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And they listened to him until this word, and [then] they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.


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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying for him to be examined by scourging, so that he might know why they cried out so against him.


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And as they stretched him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?


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And hearing, coming near the centurion reported to the chiliarch, saying, Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.


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And the chiliarch answered, With a great sum I bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was even born [free].


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Then immediately, those being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also was afraid, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.


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On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from [his] bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, [he] set [him among them.


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And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.


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Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?


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Then Paul said, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest; for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.


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But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.


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And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided.


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For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.


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And there arose a great cry. And the scribes [who were] on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.


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And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring [him] into the fortress.


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And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.


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And when [it] became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.


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And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.


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Now therefore you, with the sanhedrin, inform the chiliarch that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly regarding him. And we are ready to put him to death before he comes near.


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And hearing of the ambush, Paul's sister's son, having come near, and entering into the fortress, he reported to Paul.


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And calling one of the centurions, Paul said, Bring this young man to the chiliarch, for he has a certain thing to tell him.


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So he took him and brought [him] to the chiliarch and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.


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And laying hold of his hand, and drawing aside privately, the chiliarch asked [him], What is [it] that you have to tell me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him.


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But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.


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So the chiliarch sent away the young man commanding, Tell no one that you have shown these things to me.


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And he called two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night.


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This man was taken by the Jews and would have been killed by them. Then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.


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And being minded to know the charge for which they accused him, I brought him down to their sanhedrin;


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whom I found be accused of questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds.


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And it being revealed to me that a plot against the man was about to be [executed] by the Jews, I immediately sent him to you, commanding his accusers also to say before you what [they had] against him. Farewell.


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Then, indeed, taking up Paul, as it was commanded them, the soldiers brought [him] by night to Antipatris.


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And when they had come to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, [they] presented Paul before him also.


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And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that [he was] from Cilicia,


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he said, I will hear you when your accusers have also come. And [he] commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.


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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and [with] a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.


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Since we enjoy great quietness by you, and very worthy deeds are done to this nation due to your forethought, in everything and everywhere, most noble Felix, we accept with all thankfulness.


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For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,


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commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him, you yourself may know about all these things of which we accuse him.


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But the governor motioning to him to speak, Paul answered; Understanding you as being a judge of this nation many years, I cheerfully defend myself [as to] the things concerning myself.


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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor making a gathering of a crowd; not even in the synagogues, nor throughout the city.


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But I confess this to you, that after the Way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.


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And I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of [the] dead, both of the just and unjust.


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Among which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult.


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Or else let these themselves say if they have found anything unjust in me while I stood before the sanhedrin,


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unless it may be for this one voice that I cried out standing among them, that concerning a resurrection of [the] dead I am being judged by you today.


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And having heard these things, Felix put them off, knowing more accurately of the Way, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch has come down, I will examine the things concerning you.


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And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let [him] have liberty, and not to forbid anyone of his own to minister or come to him.


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Then after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go for this time, but taking time later, I will call for you.


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He also hoped that silver would be given him by Paul, that he might free him. Therefore [he] also frequently sent for him [and] talked with him.


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But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.


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asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.


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Then he said, those having power among you may go down with [me]. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him.


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And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.


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And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove.


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Defending himself, [Paul] said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.


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But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?


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But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.


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For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go.


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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, A certain man has been left in bonds by Felix,


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about whom, when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring judgment against him.


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To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before he being accused may have the accusers face to face, and have had freedom to answer for himself concerning the accusation.


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Therefore, when they had come here, without any delay I sat on the judgment seat the next [day] and commanded the man to be brought,


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but they had certain questions about [their] own demon-worship, and about a certain Jesus dying, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.


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And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters.


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But Paul having appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, I also would like to hear the man myself. And he said, Tomorrow you shall hear him.


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And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp and had entered into the auditorium with both the chiliarchs and principal men of the city, also Festus commanding, Paul was brought out.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those men present with us, you see this one about whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.


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But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him,


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about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to [my] lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write.


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And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense:


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Concerning all of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I think myself happy being about to make defense before you today,


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you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.


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Truly, then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which was at first among my own nation at Jerusalem,


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who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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to which [promise] our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.


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I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,


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which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote.


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And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled [them] to blaspheme; and [being] exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.


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In which pursuit also traveling to Damascus with authority and power of decision from the chief priests,


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at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me.


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And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? [It is] hard for you to kick against the goads.


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But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you;


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in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.


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But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known [the command] to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance


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Then having obtained help from God, I stand until this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen;


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whether the Christ was] liable to suffer, whether first by a resurrection of the] dead He was going to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.


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And he defending himself [with] these things, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you rave! Your many letters turn [you] to insanity.


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For the king understands about these things, to whom I speak, even being bold of speech. For I am persuaded that not any of these things are hidden [from] him, nothing. For the doing of this was not in a corner.


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And Paul said, I would pray to God, both in a little and in much, that not only you, but also all hearing me today to become as I also am, except for these bonds.


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And he having spoken this, the king and the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them rose up.


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And withdrawing, they spoke with one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.


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And when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' cohort.


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And boarding a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail alongside Asian places, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, being with us.


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And on the next [day] we were landed at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul courteously and gave [him] liberty to go to his friends to receive care.


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And sailing slowly many days and with difficulty, coming abreast of Cnidus; the wind not allowing us; we sailed close to Crete, across from Salmone.


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And coasting along with difficulty, we came to a place named Fair Havens, near which was a city, Lasea.


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And much time having been used up, and the voyage already being dangerous, because the Fast was now already past, Paul warned [them],


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saying, Men, I perceive that this voyage is about to be with much harm and loss, and not only much cargo and of the ship, but also of our souls.


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But the centurion was rather persuaded by the helmsman and the shipmaster, than by the things spoken by Paul.


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And the port not being fit to winter in, the most of them advised to set sail from there, if by any means they might be able to get to Phoenix to winter; [which is] a port of Crete, looking toward [the] southwest and northwest.


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And a south wind blowing softly, thinking to have obtained [their] purpose, lifting [anchor], they sailed along close beside Crete.


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And the ship being seized, and not being able to beat against the wind, giving way we were borne along.


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which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the sandbanks of Syrtis, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.


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And neither sun nor stars appearing in many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, now all hope that we would be saved was taken away.


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But there being much fasting, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, O men, being obedient to me [you] ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to have come by this harm and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there will be no casting away of life among you, only of the ship.


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saying, Fear not, Paul! You must stand before Caesar. And behold! God has given you all those who sail with you.


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Therefore, men, be of good cheer, for I believe God, that it will be so, according to the way it was told me.


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But when [the] fourteenth night came, we being carried about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors thought that they drew near some country.


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And sounding they found it twenty fathoms; and moving a little further, and sounding again, they found [it] fifteen fathoms.


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And fearing that we would fall on rocks, and casting four anchors out of [the] stern, they wished day to come.


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But the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, pretending to be about to cast out anchors from [the] prow,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.


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And until day was about to come, Paul begged all to take food, saying, This [is] the fourteenth day that you continued waiting without food, having taken nothing.


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Therefore I beg you to take [some] food, for this is for your deliverance. For not a hair of your head shall perish.


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And saying these things, and taking bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and breaking, he began to eat.


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And when day came, they did not recognize the land. But they discovered a certain bay with a beach, into which they were minded, if they were able, to drive the ship.


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And casting off the anchors, they left [them] in the sea; at the same time they loosened the rudder bands and hoisted up the foresail to the wind and held to the shore.


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And coming on a place between two seas, they drove the vessel. And indeed the prow sticking fast, [it] remained unmovable. But the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.


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And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.


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But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from [their] purpose and commanded those who could swim, to throw [themselves] overboard, to go out on the land.


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And the rest [went], some on boards and others on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened that all were saved on the land.


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And the foreigners showed us not the common kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold.


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And Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laying [them] on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and fastened on his hand.


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And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live.


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But they expected him to be about to become inflamed, or to fall down dead suddenly, But over much [time] expecting and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.


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In the [quarters] about that place were lands to the chief of the island, whose name was Publius. Welcoming us, [he] lodged us courteously three days.


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And it happened the father of Publius was lying down, suffering fevers and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and praying and laying on his hands, he healed him.


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Then this taking place, the rest who were having infirmities in the island also came, and were healed.


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[They] also honored us with many honors. And on [our] setting sail, they laid on the things of [our] needs.


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And after three months we sailed in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian with an ensign, The Twin Brothers.


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Going around from there we arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind coming on, we came to Puteoli on the second,


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And the brothers from there hearing of us, [they] came to meet us as far as [the] market-place of Appius, and Three Taverns. Seeing them, thanking God, Paul took courage.


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And when we came into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the camp commander. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself, with a soldier guarding him.


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And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans


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But the Jews speaking against [it], I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not as having anything to accuse my nation.


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For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with [you]. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.


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And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came declared or spoke anything evil of you.


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But we think [it] right to hear from you what you think. For truly as concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.


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And they having appointed him a day, many came to him in [his] lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them the things concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning until evening.


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And disagreeing with one another, they were let go, Paul saying one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,


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saying, Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching those things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom, [and] without hindrance.


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who was marked out the Son of God in power, according to [the] Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from [the] dead;


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by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;


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to all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be] saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you


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always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.


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For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.


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But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.


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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is [the] power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.


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For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.


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For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness,


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because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed [it] to them.


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For the unseen things of Him from [the] creation of [the] world [are] clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, [even] His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.


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Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But [they] became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.


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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.


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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of [their] hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.


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For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.


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For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.


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And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.


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And even as they did not think fit to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,


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being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; [being] full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, [becoming] whisperers,


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backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing [them].


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Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.


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And, O man, the [one] judging those who do such things, and practice them, do you think this, that you shall escape the judgment of God?


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Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?


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But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,


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indeed to those who with patience [in] good work [are] seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.


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But to those who indeed disobeying the truth out] of self-seeking, and obeying unrighteousness, will be] anger and wrath,


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tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.


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But He [will give] glory, honor and peace to every man who works good, to [the] Jew first and also to [the] Greek.


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For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.


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For it is not the hearers of the Law who [are] just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.


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For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;


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who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing one another,


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.


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Therefore the [one] teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The [one] preaching not to steal, do you steal?


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The [one] saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The [one] detesting idols, do you rob temples?


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For circumcision truly profits if you keep [the] Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, circumcision becomes uncircumcision.


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If then the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?


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And the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the Law, shall it not judge you, who through letter and circumcision [become] transgressors of the Law?


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but he [is] a Jew who [is one] inwardly, and circumcision [is] of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise [is] not from men, but from God.


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Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged.


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But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)


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And not [rather], (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? [Their] condemnation is just.


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What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all [with] being under sin,


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They are all gone out of the way, [they] have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one.


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Their throat [is] an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, [the] poison of asps [is] under their lips;


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But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,


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because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law [is] the knowledge of sin.


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But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;


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even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,


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whom God has set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;


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for the display of His righteousness at this time, for Him to be just and, forgiving the [one] being of the faith of Jesus.


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Then where [is] the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.


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But to him not working, but believing on Him justifying the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.


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Even as David also says of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works,


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[Is] this blessedness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.


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How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith [while still] uncircumcised; so that he might be [the] father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be imputed to them also;


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and a father of circumcision to those not of the circumcision only, but also to those walking by the steps of the faith of our father Abraham during uncircumcision.


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For the promise that he should be the heir of the world [was] not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.


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Therefore [it is] of faith so that [it might be] according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the] faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all


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(as it has been written, I have made you a father of many nations) --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things [which] do not exist as [though they] do exist.


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[For he] who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, So your seed shall be).


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And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.


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He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,


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but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;


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Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.


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And hope does not make [us] ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through [the] Holy Spirit given to us.


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For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one.


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For if [when] we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.


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And not only [so], but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.


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Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:


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But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;


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but the free gift [shall] not [be] also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which [is] of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.


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And the free gift [shall] not [be] as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment [was] of one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offenses to justification.


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For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)


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Therefore as by one offense [sentence came] on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift [came] to all men to justification of life.


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For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.


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But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,


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so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from [the] dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.


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For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be [in the likeness] of His resurrection;


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knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [Him] in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.


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knowing that when Christ was raised from [the] dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.


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Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Do not yield your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as [one] alive from [the] dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.


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Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.


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But thanks [be] to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from [the] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.


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I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members [as] slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.


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What fruit did you have then [in those things] of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things [is] death.


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But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.


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For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law; that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?


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For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of [her] husband.


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So then [if], while [her] husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, [so that] she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.


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So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, [even] to Him raised from [the] dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.


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But now we having been set free from the Law, having died [to that] in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not [in] oldness of the letter.


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What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.


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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin [was] dead.


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Then has that [which is] good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear [to be] sin, working death in me by [that which is] good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.


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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but [how] to perform [that which is] good I do not find.


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but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.


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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.


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[There is] therefore now no condemnation to those [who are] in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;


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so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


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For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.


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because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can [it be].


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But you are not in the flesh, but in [the] Spirit, if [the] Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not [the] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.


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And if Christ [is] in you, indeed the body [is] dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of the [One] who raised up Jesus from [the] dead dwells in you, the [One] who raised up Christ from [the] dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.


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For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through [the] Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.


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For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father!


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And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with [Him], we may also be glorified together.


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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be revealed in us.


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For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected [it] on hope


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that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.


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And not only [so], but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.


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For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope [for it] ?


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Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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And He searching the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.


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And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [His] purpose.


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For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be [the] First-born among many brothers.


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But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, those He also justified. And whom He justified, these He also glorified.


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Truly [He] who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?


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Who [is] he condemning? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather also [who is] raised, who is also at [the] right [hand] of God, who also intercedes for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


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As it is written, For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter.


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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,


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nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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I tell [the] truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in [the] Holy Spirit,


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For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,


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who are Israelites; to whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service [of God], and the promises;


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whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.


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nor because they are the seed of Abraham [are they] all children. But, In Isaac shall your Seed be called.


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That is, not the children of the flesh [are] children of God; but the children of the promise [are] counted for a seed.


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(for [the children] had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,)


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For He said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


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So then [it is] not of the [one] willing, nor of the [one] running, but of God, the [One] showing mercy.


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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.


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No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed [it], Why have you made me this way?


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Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?


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[What] if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;


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and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;


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As He also says in Hosea, I will call those not My people, My people; and those not beloved, Beloved.


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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. You [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.


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Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.


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For [He is] bringing [the] matter to an end, and cutting short in righteousness, because [the] Lord will make a short work on the earth.


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And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.


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What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.


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Why? Because [it was] not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone;


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as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame.


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For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.


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For Moses writes [of] the righteousness [which] is of the Law, The man who does those things shall live by them.


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But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;


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But what does it say? The word is near you, [even] in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the word of faith which we proclaim;


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Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from [the] dead, you shall be saved.


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For with [the] heart [one] believes unto righteousness, and with [the] mouth [one] confesses unto salvation.


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For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call on Him.


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How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without preaching?


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And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful [are] the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, their voice went out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.


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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by [those who are] no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.


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But Isaiah [is] very bold and says, I was found by those who did not seek Me, I became known to those who did not ask after Me.


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But to Israel He says, All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobeying and gainsaying people.


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I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be [said]! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.


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God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,


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Lord, they killed Your prophets and dug down Your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.


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But what does the Divine answer say to him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.


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Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.


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But if by grace, then [it is] no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it is] of works, then it is no more of grace; otherwise work is no more work.


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What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained [it], and the rest were hardened


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even as it is written, God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing until this day.


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And David said, Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.


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I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.


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But if their slipping away [is] the riches of [the] world, and their default is [the] riches of [the] nations, how much more their fullness?


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For if their casting away [is the] reconciling of [the] world, what [is] the reception except life from [the] dead?


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For if the firstfruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]; and if the root [is] holy, also the branches.


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And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,


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do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, [it is] not you [that] bears the root, but the root bears you.


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Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not [be] high-minded, but fear.


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Behold then [the] kindness, and [the] severity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.


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And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.


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For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive [tree], and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive [tree]; how much more these [being] according to nature will be grafted into [their] own olive-tree?


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For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.


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And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.


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Indeed as regards the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes.


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O [the] depth of [the] riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] His judgments, and His ways past finding out!


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I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.


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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what [is] that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.


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For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.


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Then having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;


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or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.


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minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not be wise within yourselves.


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not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay, says [the] Lord.


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Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For [in so] doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.


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Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.


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So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.


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For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.


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For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.


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For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.


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Therefore give to all [their] dues; to the [one due] tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute [is due], fear to whom fear [is due], and honor to whom honor [is due].


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For: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not lust; and if [there is] any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


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This also, knowing the time, that [it is] already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we believed.


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The night [is] far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.


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Let us walk becomingly, as in [the] day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.


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Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.


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Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.


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One indeed esteems a day above [another] day; and [another] esteems every day [alike]. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.


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He who regards the day regards [it] to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard [it] to the Lord. He who eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to [the Lord, and gives God thanks.


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For both if we live, we live to [the] Lord; and if we die, we die to [the] Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.


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For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of [the] dead and living.


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But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.


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For it is written, As] I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.


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Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.


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I know and am persuaded in [the] Lord Jesus, that nothing by itself [is] common; except to him who esteems anything to be common, [it is] common.


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But if your brother is grieved with [your] food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.


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for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in [the] Holy Spirit.


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Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed [are] clean, but [it is] bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.


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[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [anything] by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.


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Do you have faith? Have [it] to yourself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.


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But, the one doubting, if he eats, [he] has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that [is] not of faith is sin.


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For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.


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For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.


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And may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus,


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so that with one mind [and] one mouth you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] to the fathers,


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and that the nations might glorify God for [His] mercy, as it is written, For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name.


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And again Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust.


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And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of [the] Holy Spirit.


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And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.


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But, brothers, I wrote to you boldly, as reminding you in part, because of the grace that is given to me by God,


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that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.


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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for [the] obedience of the nations in word and deed,


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in power of miracles and wonders, in power of [the] Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.


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Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;


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but as it is written, To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand.


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But now, having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you,


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whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For [in] traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.


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For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem.


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Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.


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Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain.


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And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of [the] blessing of the gospel of Christ.


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But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me,


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that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;


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that you receive her in [the] Lord, [as] becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.


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who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.


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Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Christ.


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Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.


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Greet Herodion my kinsman. Greet those who are of the [household] of Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.


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Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in [the] Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in [the] Lord.


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And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.


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For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches [they] deceive the hearts of the simple.


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For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise [as] to good, and simple toward evil.


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And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.


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Gaius my host, and the host of me and the whole church, greets you. Erastus the steward of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother.


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Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of [the] mystery, having been unvoiced during eternal times;


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but now has been made plain, and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith;


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to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called out with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.


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He shall also confirm you to [the] end, [that you may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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But I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.


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For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.


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But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.


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And I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides these, I do not know if I baptized any other.


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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.


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For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, [it is] the power of God.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones.


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Where [is the] wise? Where [is the] scribe? Where [is the] lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world [by] wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.


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But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is] the power of God and the wisdom of God.


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For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh [are called], not many mighty, not many noble.


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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;


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and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;


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But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;


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And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.


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And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the] Spirit and of power,


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But, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nothing.


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But we speak [the] wisdom of God in a mystery, which God has hidden, predetermining it before the world for our glory;


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which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).


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But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.


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But God has revealed [them] to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.


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For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.


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But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.


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These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the] Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.


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But the natural man does not receive the things of [the] Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.


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And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.


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I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able [to bear it]; nor are you able even now.


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For you are yet carnal. For in that [there is] among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and [do you not] walk according to men?


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Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?


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So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive [his] own reward according to [his] own labor.


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According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds [on it]. But let every man be careful how he builds [on it].


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each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare [it], because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.


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If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.


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If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.


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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.


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whether it is Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours,


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But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,


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for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is [the] Lord.


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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.


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And these things, brothers, I have [in a figure] transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think [of men] above that which is written, so that no one of you may [be] puffed up against one another.


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For who makes you to differ [from another]? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive [it], why do you boast as [if you] had not received it?


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Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned [as kings] without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.


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For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.


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We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but you [are] wise in Christ. We [are] weak, but you [are] strong. You [are] honorable, but we [are] despised.


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Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.


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being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all [things] until now.


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For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.


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For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in [the] Lord, who shall remind you [of] my ways which are] in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.


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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills. And I will not know the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.


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On the whole it is reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have [his] father's wife.


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And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.


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For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already [as though I were] present [concerning] him who worked out this thing;


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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with my spirit; also, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.


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Therefore let us keep [the] feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.


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yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.


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But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother [and is] either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.


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Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?


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Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?


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If, then, you truly have judgments of [the things] of this] life, set those who are least esteemed in the church [to judge].


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For I speak to your shame. [Is it] so [that] there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?


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Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?


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Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,


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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit [the] kingdom of God.


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And such were some of you. But you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.


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Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.


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Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? Let it not be!


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Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against [his] own body.


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Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,


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for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.


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The wife does not have authority over [her] own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority [over his] own body, but the wife.


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Do not deprive one another, unless [it is] with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.


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For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.


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But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband. And a husband is not to leave [his] wife.


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But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him put her away.


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And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.


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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.


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But if the unbelieving one separates, let [him] be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such [cases], but God has called us in peace.


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For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save [your] husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save [your] wife?


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But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.


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[Was] any called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised.


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Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you, but if you are able to become free, use [it] rather.


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For he who is called a slave in [the] Lord is a freed man of [the] Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.


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But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from [the] Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.


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But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.


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But this I say, brothers, The time [is] short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.


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And they who weep are as [though they did] not weep. And they who rejoice are as [though they did] not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did] not possess.


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And they who use this world are] as not abusing [it], for the fashion of this world is passing away.


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But I desire you to be without anxiety. The [one] who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to [the] Lord, how to please the Lord.


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The wife and the virgin [are] different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please [her husband.


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And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is right, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.


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But if anyone thinks [it] behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past [her] prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.


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But [he] who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over [his] own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.


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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives, but if her husband sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.


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But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have [the] Spirit of God.


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But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.


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Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that [there] is no other God except one.


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For though there are those who are called gods, whether in Heaven or in earth (as there are many gods and many lords),


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but [there is] to us [only] one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.


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But this knowledge [is] not in all. But some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now, and their conscience being weak is defiled.


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But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.


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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.


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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?


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And sinning in this way against [your] brothers, and wounding their conscience, being weak, you sin against Christ.


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Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.


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Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in [the] Lord?


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If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in [the] Lord.


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Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?


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Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Does God take care for oxen?


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Or does He say [it] altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow [in] hope, and so that he who threshes [in] hope should be partaker of his hope.


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If others have a share of [this] authority [over] you, rather [should] not we? But we have not used this authority, but we endured all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.


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Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.


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But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for [it is] good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.


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For though I preach the gospel, no glory is to me. For necessity is laid on me; yea, woe is to me if I do not preach the gospel!


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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.


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What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.


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For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.


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And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, [I became] as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.


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To those who are outside Law, [I became] as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under [the] law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.


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To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all [men], so that I might by all means save some.


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Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.


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And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.


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And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.


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and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.


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Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.


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And all these things happened to them [as] examples; and [it] is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.


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No temptation has taken you but [what is] common to man; but God [is] faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear [it].


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The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?


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But [I say] that the things which the nations sacrifice, [they] sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.


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You cannot drink [the] cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of [the] Lord's table and of a table of demons.


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All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.


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If any of those who do not believe invite you [to a feast], and if you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.


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But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed [it], and for conscience' sake; for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fullness of it;


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conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?


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


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But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines as I delivered [them] to you.


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But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.


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But every woman who prays or prophesies with [her] head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.


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For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But [if it] is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.


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For a man indeed ought not to have [his] head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is [the] glory of [the] man.


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For as the woman [is] of the man, even so the man [is] also through the woman; but all things of God.


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But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her in place of a veil.


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But in enjoining this, I do not praise [you], because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.


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For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.


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For do you not have houses [in which] to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise [you]!


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For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;


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And giving thanks, He broke [it] and said, Take, eat; this is My body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of Me.


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In the same way [He took] the cup also, after supping, saying, This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.


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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until He shall come.


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So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink [this] cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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But when we are judged, we are chastened by [the] Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.


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But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.


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Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by [the] Spirit of God says Jesus [is] a curse, and [that] no one can say that Jesus [is] Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.


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For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom; and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;


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and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.


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But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.


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For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, [are] one body; so also [is] Christ.


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For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit.


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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?


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And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?


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If all the body [were] an eye, where [would be] the hearing? If all hearing, where [would be] the smelling?


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And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


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And those [members] of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around [them]. And our unpresentable [members] have more abundant propriety.


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For our presentable [members] have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the [member] having need;


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that there not be division in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care for one another.


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And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with [it]; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].


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And God set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of languages.


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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become [as] sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.


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And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.


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And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor], and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing.


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Charity never fails. But if [there are] prophecies, they will be abolished; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be abolished.


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When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.


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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.


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For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.


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I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater [is] he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.


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But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?


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Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?


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So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what [is] being said? For you will be speaking into the air.


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Therefore if I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to him speaking, and he speaking [will be] a foreigner to me.


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Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual [things], seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound


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What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.


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Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?


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yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.


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In the law it is written, By other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and even so they will not hear Me, says the Lord.


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So that tongues are not a sign to those who believe, but to those who do not believe. But prophesying [is] not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.


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Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?


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But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.


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And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on [his] face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.


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Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.


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If one speaks in a language, [let it be] by two, or [at] the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.


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But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.


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Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the Law also says.


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And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in a church.


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If anyone thinks to be a prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that they are a commandment of the Lord.


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And, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;


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by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.


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For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,


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Afterward He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until this present day, but also some fell asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles and am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.


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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which [was] toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.


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But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from [the] dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation [is] worthless, and your faith [is] also worthless.


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And we are also found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ; whom He did not raise if the dead are not raised.


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But each in [his] own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's at His coming;


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then [is] the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.


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For He put all things under His feet. But when He says that all things have been put under [His feet], it is plain that [it] excepts Him who has put all things under Him.


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But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.


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Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of [the] dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of [the] dead?


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If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if [the] dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!


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And what you sow, you do not sow the body that [is] going to be, but a bare grain (perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest).


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All flesh [is] not the same flesh; but one [kind of] flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fish, and another of birds.


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[There are] also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly [is] truly different, and that of the earthly different;


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one glory of [the] sun, and another glory of [the] moon, and another glory of [the] stars; for [one] star differs from [another] star in glory.


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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


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And so it is written, The first man, Adam, became a living soul, the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.


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Such the earthy [man], such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly [Man], such also the heavenly ones.


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And according as we bore the image of the earthy [man], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [Man].


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And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit [the] kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.


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in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.


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But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.


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On the first of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, storing up what ever he is prospered, so that there may be no collections when I come.


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And when I come, whomever you shall approve by [your] letters, I will send them to bring your gift to Jerusalem.


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And it may be that I will stay with you, and even spend the winter with you, so that you may set me forward wherever I go.


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For I do not desire to see you now in passage, but I am hoping to stay some time with you, if the Lord permits.


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But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he works the work of the Lord, even as I [do].


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Therefore let not any despise him, but set him forward in peace, so that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.


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As regards [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not altogether [his] will that he come now. But he will come when he has opportunity.


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But I exhort you, brothers. You know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they appointed themselves to ministry to the saints.


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The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in [the] Lord, with the church that is in their house.


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.


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Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,


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He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


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And if we are troubled, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, being worked out in [the] endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; if we are comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation.


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And our hope of you [is] certain, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.


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For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.


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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;


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who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver [us],


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with you also helping together by prayer for us, so that the gracious gift by many persons be [the cause of] thanksgiving through many for us.


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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.


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For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,


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even as you have recognized us [in] part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and to be brought on my way toward Judea by you.


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Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was, yes!


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For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?


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And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the [ones] of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.


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For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.


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But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, except in part; so that I not overbear all of you.


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so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.


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For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.


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But to whom you forgive anything, I also [forgive]. For if I forgave anything, for your sakes I forgave [it] to him in the person of Christ;


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I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.


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Now thanks [be] to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.


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to the one [we are] the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.


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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, like some, epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?


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[it] having been made plain that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, not having been written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of [the] heart.


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not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God;


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who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.


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But if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters in stone was with glory (so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his face), which was being done away;


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For if the ministry of condemnation [is] glorious, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.


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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.


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And we are not like Moses, [who] put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of the thing being done away.


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(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.


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But we all, with [our] face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.


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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but [by] the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.


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in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.


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For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.


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For [it is] God who said, Out of darkness Light shall shine; who shone in our hearts to [give] the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;


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in every [way] having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;


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having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;


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always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.


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For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.


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For we, having the same spirit of faith (according as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken); we also believed and therefore speak,


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knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall also raise us up by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.


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For all things [are] for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.


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For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward [man] is being renewed day by day.


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For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,


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we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which [are] seen [are] not lasting, but the things which [are] not seen [are] everlasting.


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For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven;


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For we who are in [this] tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.


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And He who has worked in us for this same thing [is] God, who also [is] giving to us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;


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then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.


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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done] through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.


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Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.


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For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have [it] to [answer] those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.


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and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.


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So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know [Him so.


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So that if any one [is] in Christ, [that one is] a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.


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And all things [are] of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;


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whereas God was in Christ reconciling [the] world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us.


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Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.


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For He has made Him who knew no sin, [to be] sin for us, that we might become [the] righteousness of God in Him.


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(For He says, In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you; Behold, now [is] the accepted time. Behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)


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but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,


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in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right [hand] and on the left,


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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, [yet] possessing all things.


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Do not be unequally yoked together [with] unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness [have] with lawlessness? And what partnership does light [have] with darkness?


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And what agreement does Christ [have] with Belial? Or what part does a believer [have] with an unbeliever?


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And what agreement does a temple of God [have] with idols? For you are the temple of [the] living God, as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean [thing]. And I will receive you


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Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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I do not speak [this] to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts for [us] to die together, and to live together.


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My boldness of speech [is] great toward you; my glorying on your behalf [is] much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.


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For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, [with] fightings [on the] outside, and fears [on the] inside.


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And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted over you, telling us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.


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Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.


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For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.


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For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but [also] defense; but [also] indignation; but [also] fear; but [also desire; but [also] zeal; but also] vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.


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Then, though I wrote to you, [it was] not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.


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Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort, and we rather rejoiced more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.


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For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth.


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And his tender feelings are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, as you received him with fear and trembling.


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And, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given among the churches of Macedonia;


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that in much testing of trouble, the overflowing of their joy, and the depth of their poverty, abounded to the riches of their generosity.


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with much beseeching, begging us [that they might] receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.


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And not as we hoped, but first [they] gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through [the] will of God,


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for us to call on Titus, that even as he began before, so he would also complete this grace to you also.


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But even as you abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us; you should abound in this grace also.


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I do not speak according to command, but through the eagerness of others, and testing the trueness of your love.


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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.


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And in this I give [my] judgment; for this is profitable for you, who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing a year ago.


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But now also finish the doing [of it], so that, as [there was] a readiness to will, so also the finishing, [giving] out of [what] you have.


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For if the eagerness is present, [it is] acceptable according to [what] one has, [and] not according to [what] one does not have.


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but by equality in the present time; your abundance for their need, that their abundance also may be for your need; so that there may be equality;


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as it is written, He [gathering] much, he had nothing left over; and he [gathering] little did not have less.


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and not only [so], but also he having been chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself, and [as a witness of] your eager mind;


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And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which [I have] in you.


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If anyone inquires of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellow-worker for you, or [of] our brothers, [they are] the messengers of the churches, [the] glory of Christ.


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Therefore show them a proof of your love and of our boasting toward you in the presence of the churches.


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For I know your eagerness, of which I boast to Macedonia on your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused the greater number.


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Yet I sent the brothers, lest our boasting (which [is] on your behalf) should not be in vain, that, as I said, you may be ready.


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[I say this] lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.


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Therefore I thought [it] necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of] blessing, and not as of covetousness.


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But [I say] this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.


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Each one, as he purposes in his heart, [let him give]; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.


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And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;


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Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness


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For the ministry of this service not only supplies the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,


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through the proof of this ministry [they] glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,


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And I myself, Paul, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ; I, who indeed to look upon [am] lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.


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But I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be daring against some, who thought [of] us as walking according to flesh.


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For the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,


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pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ;


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Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself that he [is] Christ's, let him think this again as to himself, that as he [is] Christ's, even so we [are] Christ's.


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For even if I also should boast somewhat more fully of our authority (which the Lord has given us for building up, and not for pulling you down) I will not be put to shame;


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For indeed they say, the letters [are] weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence [is] weak, and his speech is contemptible.


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Let such a one think this, that, such as we [are] in word by letters, being absent, such [we will be] also in deed when we are present.


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For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not perceptive.


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But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure distributed to us, to reach even to you.


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For we do not overstretch ourselves as [though] not reaching to you. For we also came to you in the gospel of Christ;


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not boasting beyond measure in the labors of others, but having hope that the growing faith among you will be increased according to our rule, to overflowing;


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For I am jealous [over] you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present [you as] a pure virgin to Christ.


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But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.


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For if, indeed, the [one] coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or [if] you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure [these.


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But even if [I am] unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in every way [I] have been clearly revealed to you in all things.


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Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?


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And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome [to you], and I will keep myself.


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The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia.


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But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.


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For such ones [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.


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Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.


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Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.


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What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.


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For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes [from you], if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in the face.


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I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I [am] more! [I have been] in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.


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Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.


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I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from [my] race; in dangers from [the] heathen; in dangers in [the] city; in dangers in [ the] wilderness; in dangers on [the sea; in dangers among false brothers.


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[I have been] in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;


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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of [the] Damascenes, desiring to lay hold of me.


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Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of [the] Lord.


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I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in [the] body, I do not know; or outside of [the] body, I do not know; God knows) such a one [was] caught up to [the] third Heaven.


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that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not allowed for a man to utter.


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For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as [being] beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;


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and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty.


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And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.


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Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.


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I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.


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Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miracles and in wonders, and by works of power.


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For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.


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Behold, a third [time] I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved [the] less.


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I begged Titus and sent with [him] the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we] not walk] in the same steps?


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Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.


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For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and [that] I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow [there be] strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;


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lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.


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I am coming to you this third [time]. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.


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I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second [time] and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.


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Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me (who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you;


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for even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by [the] power of God. For indeed even we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by [the] power of God toward you),


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examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?


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But I pray to God [for] you not to do evil, none. And not that we may appear approved, but that you should do the good things, though we are deemed to be reprobates.


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Therefore I write these things while absent, lest being present I may not deal sharply [with you] according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.


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Finally, brothers, rejoice. Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves; mind the same thing; be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.


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Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),


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who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,


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I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into [the] grace of Christ, to another gospel,


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But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.


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As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.


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For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.


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And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.


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For you heard my manner of life when [I was] in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing [zeal], and ravaged it.


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And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.


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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called [me] by His grace,


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to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;


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Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.


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But only they were hearing that he who then persecuted us, now preaches the faith which he once ravaged.


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Then through fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.


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And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those [seeming to be] pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.


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But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;


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to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming [important] conferred nothing to me.


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But on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted [with] the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter to the circumcision;


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and knowing the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave right hands of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we [go] to the nations, but they to the circumcision.


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For before some came from James, he ate with the nations. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so as even Barnabas was led away with their dissembling.


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But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel [the] nations to judaize?


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knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith [in] Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.


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But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we also were found [to be] sinners, [is] Christ therefore a minister of sin? Let it not be [said]!


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I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; [yet] no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And [that] life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.


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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through law, then Christ died without cause.


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O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before [your] eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?


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This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of [the] law, or by hearing of faith?


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Then He supplying the Spirit to you and working powerful works in you, [is it] by works of [the] law, or by hearing of faith?


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And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, [saying], In you shall all nations be blessed.


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For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed [is] everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them.


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But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God [is] clear, for, The just shall live by faith.


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed [is] everyone having been hanged on a tree);


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so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even [among] mankind, no one sets aside or adds to [it].


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And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your Seed, which is Christ.


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And I say this, A covenant having been ratified by God in Christ, the Law (coming into being four hundred and thirty years after) does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.


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For if the inheritance [is] of Law, [it is] no more of promise; but God gave [it] to Abraham by way of promise.


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Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come [to those] to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.


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[Is] the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be [said]! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.


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But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


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But before faith came, we were kept under Law, having been shut up to the faith about to be revealed.


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There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


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But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;


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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, coming into being out of a woman, having come under Law,


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And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


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But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?


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and you did not despise my temptation in my flesh, nor did you spurn [it]. But you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.


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What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, [you] would have given [them] to me.


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They are zealous for you, [but] not well. But they [only] desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.


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But [it is] good to be zealous always in [a] good [thing], and not only in my being present with you.


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For it is written: Abraham had two sons, the one out of the slave-woman, and one out of the free woman.


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But, indeed, he out of the slave-woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise;


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which things are being allegorized; for these are the two covenants, one indeed from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery, which is Hagar.


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For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children.


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For it is written, Rejoice, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, you not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate than she having the husband.


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But then even as he born according to flesh persecuted him [born] according to the Spirit, so it is] also now.


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But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the slave-woman and her son; for in no way shall the son of the slave-woman inherit with the son of the free woman.


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Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.


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I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will think nothing else, but that he troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.


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And I, brothers, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the offense of the Cross has ceased.


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For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not [use] the liberty for [an] opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another.


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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.


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Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,


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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.


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But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.


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For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.


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So then as we have time, let us work good toward all, especially toward those of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to look well in [the] flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.


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For they themselves, having been circumcised, do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.


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But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision [has] any strength, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.


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And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy [be] upon them and upon the Israel of God.


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus.


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;


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according as He chose us in Him before [the] foundation of [the] world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,


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having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,


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to [the] praise of [the] glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the [One] having been loved.


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In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,


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having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,


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for an administration of the fullness of times, to head up all things in Christ, both the things in Heaven, and the things on earth, [even] in Him,


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in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,


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in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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who is the earnest of our inheritance, to [the] redemption of the purchased possession, to [the] praise of His glory.


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that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in [the] knowledge of Him,


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the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,


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and what [is] the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength


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which He worked [in] Christ in raising Him from [the] dead, and He seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,


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far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.


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And He has put all [things] under His feet and gave Him [to be] Head over all [things] to the church,


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in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience;


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among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.


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so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.


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For we are [His] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.


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Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past [were] in [the] flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;


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and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.


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For He is our peace, He making us both one, and [He] has broken down the middle wall of partition [between us],


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having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments [contained] in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace [between them];


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and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.


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Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,


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and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being [the] chief cornerstone,


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which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,


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that the nations should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partaker of His promise in Christ through the gospel.


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Of this [gospel] I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.


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This grace is given to me ( who am] less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,


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and to bring to light what [is] the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;


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so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;


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and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.


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Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,


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I therefore, the prisoner in [the] Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,


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(Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?


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He who descended is the same also as He who ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.)


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And truly He gave some [to be] apostles, and some [to be] prophets, and some [to be] evangelists, and some [to be] pastors and teachers,


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for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.


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And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;


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so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.


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But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, [even] Christ;


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from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to [the] effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.


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This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in [the] vanity of their mind,


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having the understanding darkened, being alienated [from] the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.


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For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,


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And you should put on the new man, who according to God [was] created in righteousness and true holiness.


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Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.


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Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands the thing which [is] good, so that he may have [something] to give to him who needs.


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Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any [is] good to building up [in respect of] need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.


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Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.


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And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.


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And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.


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For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,


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For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous [one] (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


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Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.


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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest [is] light.


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speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;


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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ [is] the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.


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Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in everything.


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that He might present it to Himself [as] the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.


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For no man ever yet hated his [own] flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.


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For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh.


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But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.


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And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.


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Slaves, obey [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;


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not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] heart,


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(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether [he is] a slave or a freeman).


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And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.


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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].


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Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.


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Therefore stand, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness


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Above all, take the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.


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praying always with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.


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And pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,


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But, so that you also may know my affairs [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in [the] Lord, shall make known to you all things,


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whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs and [that] he might comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.


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being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ,


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even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.


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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and [in] all perception;


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that you may distinguish [between] things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,


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being filled [with the] fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


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But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things [which happened] to me have fallen out rather to [the] furtherance of the gospel;


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And most of the brothers in [the] Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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Those, indeed, preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.


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What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice.


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For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and [the] supply of [the] Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.


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But if [I] live in [the] flesh, this [is] the fruit of [my] labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.


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For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.


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And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith,


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Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your [affairs], that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,


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and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. [For this is] to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.


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For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,


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If [there is] therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies,


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then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, [being] of one accord and of one mind.


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[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.


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but made Himself of no reputation, and took [upon Himself] the form of a servant, and was made in [the] likeness of men.


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And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself [and] became obedient unto death, even [the] death of the cross.


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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under [the] earth;


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and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to [the] glory of God [the] Father.


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Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.


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so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,


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holding forth the word of life, so that I may rejoice with you in [the] day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.


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Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.


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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know [your state].


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Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.


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For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.


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because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.


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Finally, my brothers, rejoice in [the] Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you [it is] safe.


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For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;


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though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.


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I was circumcised [the] eighth day, of [the] stock of Israel, [of the] tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, [I was] a Pharisee;


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But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them [to be] dung, so that I may win Christ


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and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through [the] faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,


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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;


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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.


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My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one [thing I do], forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,


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Let us therefore, as many as [are] perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.


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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us [for] a pattern.


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(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, [as] the enemies of the cross of Christ;


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whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, [those] who mind earthly things.)


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For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, [the] Lord Jesus Christ,


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who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.


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Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in [the] Lord, beloved ones.


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And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names [are] in the Book of Life.


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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.


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And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.


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Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things [are] honest, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] lovely, whatever things are] of good report; if there is] any virtue and if [there is] any praise, think on these things.


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Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.


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But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.


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I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.


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Now you Philippians know also that in [the] beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone.


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But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [which you sent], an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.


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to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,


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which has come to you as [it has] also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,


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even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,


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For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled [with] the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,


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that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,


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being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,


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giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.


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[For He] has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated [us] into the kingdom of His dear Son;


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For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.


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And He is [the] Head of the body, the church, who is [the] Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.


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And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.


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And you, who were once alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled


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in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight,


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if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [are] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard [and] which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,


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who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which [is] the church;


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of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;


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the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.


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[For to them] God would make known what [are] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,


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whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.


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For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in [the] flesh,


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that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;


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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.


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rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.


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in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,


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buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.


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And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,


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blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.


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Having stripped rulers and authorities, He made a show of them publicly, triumphing [over] them in it.


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Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.


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Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause [being] vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


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and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.


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If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as [though] living in [the] world, are you subject to [its] ordinances:


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[These] things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the] body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh.


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If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at [the] right hand of God.


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Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),


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But now also put off all [these] things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth.


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and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to [the] image of Him who created him,


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where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave [or] freeman, but Christ [is] all things in all.


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Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,


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forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any. As Christ forgave you, so also you [do].


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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.


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And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and [the] Father by Him.


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Slaves, obey [your] masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.


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knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve [the] Lord Christ.


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But he who does wrong shall receive [justice] for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.


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Masters, give to [your] slaves what [is] just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.


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praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,


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Let your speech [be] always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.


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Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in [the] Lord, will make known to you all things about me.


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I sent [him] to you for this very purpose, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts,


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along with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known to you all things here.


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Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him),


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and [greetings from] Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone [are my] fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.


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Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.


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For I bear him record that he has a great zeal for you and for those [who are] in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.


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And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the [letter] of Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in [the] Lord, that you fulfill it.


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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the] Thessalonians, in God [the] Father and in [the] Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,


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For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind [of men] we were among you for your sake.


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And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, welcoming the word in much affliction, with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,


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For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.


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For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the] living and true God,


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and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from [the] dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.


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But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.


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but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted [with] the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.


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For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God [is] witness.


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Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be [so] with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.


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So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.


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For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. [For] laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.


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even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children,


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And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received [the] Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed [it as] the Word of God, not as a word of men, but [as] it is, truly [the] Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.


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For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by [your] own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;


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who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and [being] contrary to all men,


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forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to [the] uttermost.


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But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face.


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For what [is] our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] you not even [to be] in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?


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And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,


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so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.


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For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know.


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For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain.


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But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news [of] your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),


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then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs;


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For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy [with] which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,


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night and day praying exceedingly for [me] to see your face and to perfect the things lacking in your faith?


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And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,


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in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.


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For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort [you] in [the] Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more [and more].


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not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord [is the] avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified).


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But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.


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And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more [and more],


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and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do [your] own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,


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But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.


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For we say this to you by the Word of [the] Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.


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For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.


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Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the] clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.


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For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.


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But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on [the] breastplate of faith and love and [the] hope of salvation [for] a helmet.


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And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in [the] Lord, and who admonish you,


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Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.


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See [that] none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.


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And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;


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so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.


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For [this is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,


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and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,


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in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,


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when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.


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Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,


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that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,


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that you should not be soon shaken [in] mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as [if] the Day of Christ is at hand.


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Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For [that Day shall not come] unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,


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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.


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For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he [is] now holding back until it comes out of the] midst.


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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,


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and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.


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But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth,


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Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.


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Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,


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Finally, my brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course and be glorified, even as [it] also is] with you.


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And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all [do] not have] the faith.


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And we have confidence in [the] Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.


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Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.


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For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave ourselves disorderly among you,


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neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you


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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.


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For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.


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Now we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.


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And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Savior, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,


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to Timothy, [my] own son in [the] faith. Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,


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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the] nurture of God in faith).


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But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,


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knowing this, that the law [is] not made for a righteous one, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,


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for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine,


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And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who strengthened me, because He counted me faithful, putting [me] into the ministry--


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the [one] who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did [it] in unbelief.


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Faithful [is] the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.


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But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.


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Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, [the] only wise God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit to you, [my] son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before [about] you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,


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Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.


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First of all, then, I exhort [that] supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks be made for all men,


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for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.


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To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of [the] nations, in faith and truth.


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In the same way also, I desire that women adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and sensibleness, not [adorned] with braiding, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,


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But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.


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Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,


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But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.


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Likewise the deacons [are to be] reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,


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For they having served well gain a good grade for themselves, and much boldness in the faith, those in Christ Jesus.


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But if I should delay, that you may know how you ought to behave in the house of God, which is [the] church of the living God, [the] pillar and foundation of the truth.


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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among nations, believed on in [the] world, and received up into glory.


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But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,


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forbidding to marry, [saying] to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.


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Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.


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For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.


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For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.


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Let no one despise your youth, but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders.


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Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.


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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to [their] forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.


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But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her] hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.


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But if anyone does not provide for [his] own, and especially [his] family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.


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well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work.


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And with it all they also learn [to be] idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.


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Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.


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If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.


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Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and doctrine.


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For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox treading out grain, and, The laborer [is] worthy of his reward.


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I charge [you] before God and [the] Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.


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Do not lay hands quickly on anyone, neither be partaker of [the] sins of others. Keep yourself pure.


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Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.


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Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and those who are otherwise cannot be hidden.


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Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.


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And those who have believing masters, let them not despise [them] because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things.


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If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness,


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he is proud, knowing nothing. [He is] sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,


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meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.


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But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.


