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And says to them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as you be entered into it, you will find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.


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And if any man say to you, Why do you this? say you that the Lord has need of him; and straightway he will send him here.


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And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.


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And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.


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And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord:


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Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that comes in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.


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And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


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And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.


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And Jesus answered and said to it, No man eat fruit of you hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.


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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;


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And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house will be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.


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And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.


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And Peter calling to remembrance says to him, Master, behold, the fig tree which you cursedst is withered away.


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For truly I say to you, That whoever will say to this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and will not doubt in his heart, but will believe that those things which he says will come to pass; he will have whatever he says.


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Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.


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And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.


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And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,


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And say to him, By what authority do you these things? and who gave you this authority to do these things?


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And Jesus answered and said to them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we will say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him?


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But if we will say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.


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And they answered and said to Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering says to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.


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And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent to them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.


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Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last to them, saying, They will reverence my son.


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But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our's.


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What will therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.


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And have you not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:


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And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.


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And when they were come, they say to him, Master, we know that you are true, and care for no man: for you regard not the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?


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Will we give, or will we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt you me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.


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And they brought it. And he says to them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.


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Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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In the resurrection therefore, when they will rise, whose wife will she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Do you not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?


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For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.


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And as touching the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?


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And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?


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And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:


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And you will love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment.


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And the second is like, namely this, You will love your neighbour as yourself. There is none other commandment greater than these.


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And the scribe said to him, Well, Master, you have said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:


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And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.


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And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.


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And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?


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For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.


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David therefore himself calls him Lord; and where is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.


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And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,


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Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these will receive greater damnation.


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And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.


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And he called to him his disciples, and says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:


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For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.


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And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!


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And Jesus answering said to him, See you these great buildings? there will not be left one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.


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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign when all these things will be fulfilled?


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And when you will hear of wars and rumours of wars, be you not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end will not be yet.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there will be earthquakes in divers places, and there will be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.


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But take heed to yourselves: for they will deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues you will be beaten: and you will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.


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But when they will lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what you will speak, neither do you premeditate: but whatever will be given you in that hour, that speak you: for it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost.


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Now the brother will betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children will rise up against their parents, and will cause them to be put to death.


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And you will be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that will endure to the end, the same will be saved.


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But when you will see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:


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And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:


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For in those days will be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither will be.


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And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days.


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For false Christs and false prophets will rise, and will show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.


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But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light,


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And then will he send his angels, and will gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.


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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near:


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So you in like manner, when you will see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.


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But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.


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For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.


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Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:


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After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.


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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.


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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?


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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.


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For you have the poor with you always, and whensoever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.


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Truly I say to you, Wheresoever this gospel will be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.


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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said to him, Where will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the passover?


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And he sends forth two of his disciples, and says to them, Go you into the city, and there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.


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And wheresoever he will go in, say you to the goodman of the house, The Master says, Where is the guestchamber, where I will eat the passover with my disciples?


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And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said to them: and they made ready the passover.


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And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you which eats with me will betray me.


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The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.


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And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.


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Truly I say to you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus says to them, All you will be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.


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And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to you, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, you will deny me thrice.


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But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with you, I will not deny you in any wise. Likewise also said they all.


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And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he says to his disciples, Sit you here, while I will pray.


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And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.


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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.


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And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleep you? could not you watch one hour?


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Watch you and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.


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And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.


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And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And immediately, while he yet spoke, comes Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I will kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.


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And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.


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And Jesus answered and said to them, Are you come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?


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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.


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And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:


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And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.


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And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.


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And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.


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We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.


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And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?


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But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said to him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.


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And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And you also were with Jesus of Nazareth.


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But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what you say. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.


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And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely you are one of them: for you are a Galilaean, and your speech agrees thereto.


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And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said to him, Before the cock crow twice, you will deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.


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And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answer you nothing? behold how many things they witness against you.


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And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.


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And Pilate answered and said again to them, What will you then that I will do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?


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Then Pilate said to them, Why, what evil has he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.


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And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.


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And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.


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And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.


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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.


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And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.


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And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,


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Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.


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Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.


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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?


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And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.


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And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.


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There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;


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(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered to him;) and many other women which came up with him to Jerusalem.


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And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,


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Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.


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And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was cut out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.


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And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.


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And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came to the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.


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And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.


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And he says to them, Be not affrighted: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.


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But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there will you see him, as he said to you.


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And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.


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Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.


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Afterward he appeared to the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.


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And these signs will follow them that believe; In my name will they cast out devils; they will speak with new tongues;


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They will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.


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So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.


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And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.


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Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,


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Even as they delivered them to us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;


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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,


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THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.


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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.


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And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.


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And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,


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According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.


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But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elisabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.


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For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and will drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.


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And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.


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And Zacharias said to the angel, Whereby will I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.


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And the angel answering said to him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak to you, and to show you these glad tidings.


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And, behold, you will be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things will be performed, because you believe not my words, which will be fulfilled in their season.


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And when he came out, he could not speak to them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned to them, and remained speechless.


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And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.


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Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.


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To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.


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And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, you that are highly favoured, the Lord is with you: blessed are you among women.


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And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.


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He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David:


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And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Ghost will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which will be born of you will be called the Son of God.


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And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.


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And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:


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And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.


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For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.


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And blessed is she that believed: for there will be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.


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For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations will call me blessed.


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And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.


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And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.


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And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.


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And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child will this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.


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That he would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,


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And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest: for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;


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To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.


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And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing to Israel.


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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.


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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)


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And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.


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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.


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And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.


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And the angel said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people.


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And this will be a sign to you; You will find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.


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And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even to Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.


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And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told to them.


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And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;


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(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord;)


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And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.


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And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.


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And it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.


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And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,


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And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which will be spoken against;


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(Yea, a sword will pierce through your own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.


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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;


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And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.


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And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise to the Lord, and spoke of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.


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


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


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And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.


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But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.


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And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.


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And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said to him, Son, why have you thus dealt with us? behold, your father and I have sought you sorrowing.


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And he said to them, How is it that you sought me? wist you not that I must be about my Father's business?


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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,


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Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.


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And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;


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As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


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Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low; and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth;


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Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which brings not forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.


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He answers and says to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.


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And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what will we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.


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And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;


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John answered, saying to them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:


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Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.


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


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Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,


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And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.


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And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,


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Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,


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Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,


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Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,


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Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,


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Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,


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Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,


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Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,


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Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,


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Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Boo, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,


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Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,


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Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,


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Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,


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Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,


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Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,


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Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.


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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,


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Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.


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And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man will not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.


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And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.


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And the devil said to him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of them: for that is delivered to me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.


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And Jesus answered and said to him, Get you behind me, Satan: for it is written, You will worship the Lord your God, and him only will you serve.


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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down from hence:


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.


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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.


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And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,


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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,


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And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.


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And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?


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And he said to them, You will surely say to me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself: whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.


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


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And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.


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And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.


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And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,


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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are; the Holy One of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.


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And they were all amazed, and spoke among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.


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And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered to them.


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Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.


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And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, You are Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.


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And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came to him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.


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And he said to them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.


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And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,


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And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.


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And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.


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Now when he had left speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.


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And Simon answering said to him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.


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And they beckoned to their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.


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When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.


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For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:


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And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from henceforth you will catch men.


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And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.


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And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be you clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.


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And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.


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And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.


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And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.


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And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?


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But that you may know that the Son of man has power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said to the sick of the palsy,) I say to you, Arise, and take up your couch, and go into your house.


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And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.


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And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.


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And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him, Follow me.


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And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.


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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?


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And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but your eat and drink?


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And he said to them, Can you make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?


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And he spoke also a parable to them; No man puts a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new makes a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agrees not with the old.


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And no man puts new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles will perish.


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And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.


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And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?


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And Jesus answering them said, Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry, and they which were with him;


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How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?


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And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.


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But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.


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Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?


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


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And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, he called to him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;


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And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;


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And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Blessed are you that hunger now: for you will be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you will laugh.


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Blessed are you, when men will hate you, and when they will separate you from their company, and will reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.


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Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers to the prophets.


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Woe to you that are full! for you will hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you will mourn and weep.


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And to him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that took away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.


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For if you love them which love you, what thank have you? for sinners also love those that love them.


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And if you do good to them which do good to you, what thank have you? for sinners also do even the same.


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And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.


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But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward will be great, and you will be the children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.


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Judge not, and you will not be judged: condemn not, and you will not be condemned: forgive, and you will be forgiven:


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Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, will men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete withal it will be measured to you again.


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


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And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?


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Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then will you see clearly to pull out the mote that is in your brother's eye.


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For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.


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A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


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He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.


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But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.


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And when he heard of Jesus, he sent to him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.


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And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:


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Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not yourself: for I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof:


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Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come to you: but say in a word, and my servant will be healed.


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


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When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said to the people that followed him, I say to you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.


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And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.


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Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.


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And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Arise.


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And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God has visited his people.


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And John calling to him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Are you he that should come? or look we for another?


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When the men were come to him, they said, John Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he that should come? or look we for another?


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And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and to many that were blind he gave sight.


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Then Jesus answering said to them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.


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And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the people concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?


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But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.


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This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which will prepare your way before you.


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For I say to you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.


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But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.


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And the Lord said, Whereunto then will I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?


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They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.


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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!


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And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.


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And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,


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And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.


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Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touches him: for she is a sinner.


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There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.


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And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?


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Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said to him, You have rightly judged.


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And he turned to the woman, and said to Simon, See you this woman? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet: but she has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.


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Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.


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And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgives sins also?


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And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,


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And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,


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And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered to him of their substance.


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And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:


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A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.


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And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.


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And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.


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


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Those by the way side are they that hear; then comes the devil, and took away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.


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They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.


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And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.


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But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.


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No man, when he has lighted a candle, covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed; but set it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.


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For nothing is secret, that will not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that will not be known and come abroad.


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Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever has not, from him will be taken even that which he seems to have.


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And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to see you.


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And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.


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Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.


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But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.


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And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said to them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him.


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And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.


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When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God most high? I beseech you, torment me not.


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(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)


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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.


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And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.


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Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.


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When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.


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Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.


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Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.


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Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,


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Return to your own house, and show how great things God has done to you. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done to him.


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And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.


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And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:


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For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.


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And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,


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Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.


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And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng you and press you, and say you, Who touched me?


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And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared to him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.


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While he yet spoke, there comes one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Your daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.


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But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she will be made whole.


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And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.


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Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.


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And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.


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And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.


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Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;


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And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.


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And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.


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And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.


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And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said to him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.


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But he said to them, Give you them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.


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For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.


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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.


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And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.


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And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?


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They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.


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


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And he said to them all, If any man will 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 will lose it: but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.


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For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he will come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.


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But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which will not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.


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And it came to pass about an 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 fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.


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But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.


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And it came to pass, as they departed from him, 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 Elias: not knowing what he said.


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While he thus spoke, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.


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And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.


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And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.


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And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech you, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.


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And, lo, a spirit took him, and he suddenly cries out; and it tears him that he foams again, and bruising him hardly departs from him.


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And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you, and suffer you? Bring your son here.


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And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare 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 mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,


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Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men.


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But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.


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And said to them, Whoever will receive this child in my name receives me: and whoever will receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same will be great.


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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name; and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.


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And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,


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And 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 when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?


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


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And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man 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 not where to lay his head.


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And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.


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


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After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, where he himself would come.


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Therefore said he to them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.


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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.


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But into whatever city you enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,


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Even the very dust of your city, which cleaves on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be you sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh to you.


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


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He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me.


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


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Behold, I give to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing will by any means hurt you.


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Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.


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All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.


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And he turned him 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 those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.


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


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And he answering said, You will 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 neighbour as yourself.


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And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.


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And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.


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But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,


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And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


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And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever you spend more, when I come again, I will repay you.


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Now it came to pass, as they went, 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 cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.


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


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And it came to pass, that, 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 which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.


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And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that 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 will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;


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And he from within will answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you.


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


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


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If a son will ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?


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And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spoke; and the people wondered.


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But he, knowing their thoughts, 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 be divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? because you say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.


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And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore will they be your judges.


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But when a stronger than he will come upon him, and overcome him, he took from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divides his spoils.


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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return to my house where I came out.


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Then goes he, and took to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.


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And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bare you, and the paps which you have sucked.


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And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there will no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.


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The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.


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The men of Nineve will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.


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No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.


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The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, 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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If your whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give you light.


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And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.


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


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But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.


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Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.


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And he said, Woe to you also, you lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.


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


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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 Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say to you, It will be required of this generation.


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Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.


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And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:


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In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, Beware you of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets will be proclaimed upon the housetops.


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And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.


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But I will forewarn you whom you will fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him.


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But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.


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Also I say to you, Whoever will confess me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:


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And whoever will speak a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him: but to him that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost it will not be forgiven.


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And when they bring you to the synagogues, and to magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you will answer, or what you will say:


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And one of the company said to him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.


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And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.


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And he thought within himself, saying, What will I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?


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And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.


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


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But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul will be required of you: then whose will those things be, which you have provided?


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And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you will eat; neither for the body, what you will put on.


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Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?


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Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; 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 clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?


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


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Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrups.


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And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.


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Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes will find watching: truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.


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And if he will come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.


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


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And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?


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But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and will begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;


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The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.


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And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes.


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But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him will be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.


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For from henceforth there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.


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The father will 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 said also to the people, When you see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway you say, There comes a shower; and so it is.


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You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?


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When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him; lest he hale you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.


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There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.


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


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


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He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.


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Then said he 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 encumbers(?) it the ground?


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And he answering said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I will dig about it, and dung it:


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And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.


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And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.


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And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?


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And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed 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 cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.


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


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Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.


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When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the door, and you begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and he will answer and say to you, I know you not where you are:


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Then will you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.


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But he will say, I tell you, I know you not where you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.


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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 you yourselves thrust out.


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


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The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying to him, Get you out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill you.


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And he said to them, Go you, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and tomorrow, and the third day I will be perfected.


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Nevertheless I must walk to day, and tomorrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill the prophets, and stone them that are sent to you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not!


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Behold, your house is left to you desolate: and truly I say to you, You will not see me, until the time come when you will say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.


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


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


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And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them.


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When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than you be bidden of him;


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And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.


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But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher: then will you have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with you.


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Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbours; lest they also bid you again, and a recompence be made you.


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And you will be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you will be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.


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And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he that will eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.


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


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused.


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So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then 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 halt, 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, that my house may be filled.


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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, 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, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?


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Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,


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Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?


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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an ambassage, and desires conditions of peace.


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It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.


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


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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, 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 will be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.


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Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?


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And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.


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Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.


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


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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.


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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 swine.


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And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave to him.


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And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, 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 yet 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 in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son.


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But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:


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For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.


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Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.


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


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And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve you, neither transgressed I at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:


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But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.


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It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.


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And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.


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And he called him, and said to him, How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.


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Then the steward said within himself, What will I do? for my lord took away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.


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


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So he called every one of his lord's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much owe you to my lord?


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


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Then said he to another, And how much owe you? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill, and write fourscore.


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And the lord commended the unjust steward, 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 to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.


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


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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?


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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who will 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 they which 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 preached, and every man presses into it.


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Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.


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There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:


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


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And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;


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And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees 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, 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 receivedst your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.


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And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.


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For I have five brethren; 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 hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.


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Then said he to the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe to him, through whom they come!


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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he 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 trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.


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And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you will 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 you plucked up by the root, and be you planted in the sea; and it should obey you.


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But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?


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And will not rather say to him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you will eat and drink?


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So likewise you, when you will have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.


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And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.


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And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:


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And when he saw them, he said to them, Go show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.


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And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not 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 will not see it.


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For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so will also the Son of man be in his day.


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They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.


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Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;


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But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.


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In that day, he which will be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.


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


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And they answered and said to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.


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And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;


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And will not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?


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I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?


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And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:


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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.


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And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote upon 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 every one that exalts himself will be abased; and he that humbles himself will be exalted.


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And they brought to him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.


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But Jesus called them to him, and said, Suffer 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 will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will in no wise enter therein.


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


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Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you will 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 will they that have riches 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 man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,


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Then he took to him 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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For he will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:


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And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.


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And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:


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And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, You son of David, have mercy on me.


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


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And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.


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And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.


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And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at your house.


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And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.


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And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.


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And Jesus said to him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as 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 nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.


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


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And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said to them, Occupy till I come.


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


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And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.


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And he said to him, Well, you good servant: because you have been faithful in a very little, have you authority over ten cities.


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For I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that you layedst not down, and reap that you did not sow.


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And he says to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:


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Therefore then gave not you my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?


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For I say to you, That to every one which has will be given; and from him that has not, even that he has will be taken away from him.


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But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring here, and slay them before me.


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And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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Saying, Go you into the village over against you; in the which at your entering you will find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him here.


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And if any man ask you, Why do you loose him? thus will you say to him, Because the Lord has need of him.


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


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And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;


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Saying, Blessed be the King that comes 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 hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.


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Saying, If you hadst known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.


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For the days will come upon you, that your enemies will cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,


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And will lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.


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


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And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,


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And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,


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And spoke to him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you these things? or who is he that gave you this authority?


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we will say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed you him not?


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But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.


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Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.


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And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.


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And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.


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Then said the lord of the vineyard, What will I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.


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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.


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So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.


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And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?


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Whoever will fall upon that stone will be broken; but on whomsoever it will fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.


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And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that you say and teach rightly, neither accept you the person of any, but teach the way of God truly:


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And he said to them, Render therefore to Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and to God the things which be God's.


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And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.


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Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,


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


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But they which will be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:


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Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.


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Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.


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Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;


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Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same will receive greater damnation.


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For all these have of their abundance cast in to the offerings of God: but she of her penury has cast in all the living that she had.


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As for these things which you behold, the days will come, in the which there will not be left one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.


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And they asked him, saying, Master, but when will these things be? and what sign will there be when these things will come to pass?


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And he said, Take heed that you be not deceived: for many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draws near: go you not therefore after them.


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But when you will hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.


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And great earthquakes will be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs will there be from heaven.


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But before all these, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into 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 will not be able to gainsay nor resist.


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And you will be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you will they cause to be put to death.


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And when you will see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.


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Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.


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But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.


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And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem will be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.


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And there will be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;


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Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven will be shaken.


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And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh.


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So likewise you, when you see these things come to pass, know you that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.


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And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.


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Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.


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And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him to them.


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And he said to them, Behold, when you are entered into the city, there will a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in.


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And you will say to the goodman of the house, The Master says to you, Where is the guestchamber, where I will eat the passover with my disciples?


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And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.


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Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.


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And he said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.


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But you will not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that does serve.


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For whether is greater, he that sits at meat, or he that serves? is not he that sits at meat? but I am among you as he that 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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And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:


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But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you are converted, strengthen your brethren.


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And he said, I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day, before that you will thrice deny that you know me.


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And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked you any thing? And they said, Nothing.


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Then said he to them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.


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For I say to you, that this that 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 he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.


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Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but your, be done.


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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 while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him.


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When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said to him, Lord, will we smite with the sword?


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Then Jesus said to the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be you come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?


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When I was daily with you in the temple, you stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.


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Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.


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And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.


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But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.


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


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And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.


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And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, Before the cock crow, you will deny me thrice.


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And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote you?


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And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,


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


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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 Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.


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And as soon as he knew that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.


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And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.


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And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.


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And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.


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Said to them, You have brought this man to me, as one that perverts the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof 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: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.


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And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.


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And he released to them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.


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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.


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And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.


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


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For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.


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And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.


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Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.


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


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And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If you be Christ, save yourself and us.


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But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation?


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And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man has done nothing amiss.


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And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.


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Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.


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And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.


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And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.


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(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.


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And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was cut in stone, wherein never man before was laid.


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And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.


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And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.


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Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.


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And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:


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And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said to them, Why seek you 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 other women that were with them, which told these things to the apostles.


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Then arose Peter, and ran to the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.


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And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.


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And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.


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And he said to them, What manner of communications are these that you have one to another, as you walk, and are sad?


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And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said to him, Are you only a stranger in Jerusalem, and have not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?


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And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was 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 be condemned to death, and have crucified him.


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But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.


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And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.


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And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.


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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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And they drew nigh to the village, where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.


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But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.


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And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.


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


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And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,


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And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and says to them, Peace be to you.


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Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have.


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And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.


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And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus 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 preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


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And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.


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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:


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


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John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.


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No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.


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And this is the record 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 Elias? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then said they to him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What say you 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 said the prophet Esaias.


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And they asked him, and said to him, Why baptize you then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?


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John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you, whom you know not;


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He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.


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The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which took away the sin of the world.


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And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.


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And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.


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And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said to me, Upon whom you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.


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Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and says to them, What seek you? They said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwell you?


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


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


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And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, You are Simon the son of Jona: you will be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.


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Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.


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


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!


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Nathanael says to him, Where know you me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that 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, believe you? you will see greater things than these.


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And he says to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Hereafter you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.


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And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.


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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not where it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,


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And says to him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now.


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


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


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And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:


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


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And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.


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


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When therefore he was 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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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.


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The same 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 that you do, except God be with him.


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


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Nicodemus says 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, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.


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The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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


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


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And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.


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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 sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.


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He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not 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 light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.


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For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


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But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are done in God.


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After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.


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And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to 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 that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.


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He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.


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He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.


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He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son will not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.


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When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,


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


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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.


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Then says the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the 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 says to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?


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Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?


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But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will 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 said you truly.


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


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Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you will neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.


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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.


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


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And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her?


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Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.


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


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I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entered into their labours.


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.


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So when the Samaritans were come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.


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And said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.


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Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans 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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So Jesus came again into 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 was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.


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Jesus says to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went his way.


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Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. 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 the which Jesus said to him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house.


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Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.


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In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.


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


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When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he says to him, Will you be made whole?


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The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, 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 on the same day was the sabbath.


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The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.


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And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.


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Afterward Jesus finds 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 did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.


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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.


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Then answered Jesus 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 what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.


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For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.


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That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honours not the Son honours not the Father which has sent him.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and will not come into condemnation; but is 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 will hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear will live.


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Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves will hear his voice,


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And will come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.


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I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.


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There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesss 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 to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.


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Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.


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I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another will come in his own name, him you will receive.


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How can you believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that comes from God only?


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Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.


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And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.


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When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come to him, he says to Philip, Where will we buy bread, that these may eat?


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Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.


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There is a lad here, which has five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?


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And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.


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And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.


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When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.


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Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.


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Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.


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When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.


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


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So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship: and they were afraid.


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Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land where they went.


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The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;


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(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh to the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)


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When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.


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And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when came you 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 did eat of the loaves, and were filled.


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Labour not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.


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They said therefore to him, What sign show you then, 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 gave you not 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 that comes to me will never hunger; and he that believes on me will never thirst.


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And this is the Father's will which has 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 that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.


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And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?


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No man can come to me, except the Father which 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 will be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me.


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I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he will live for ever: and 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 said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.


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Whoever eats 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 by the Father: so he that eats me, even he will live by me.


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This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread will live for ever.


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Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?


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When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them, Does this offend you?


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It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.


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But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.


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


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He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.


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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brethren therefore said to him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that your disciples also may see the works that you do.


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For there is no man that does any thing in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.


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The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.


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But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.


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And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceives the people.


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If any man will do his will, he will know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.


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He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


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


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If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?


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But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?


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Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know where I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.


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And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?


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The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.


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Then said the Jews among themselves, Where will he go, that we will not find him? will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?


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What manner of saying is this that he said, You will seek me, and will not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come?


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


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He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.


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(But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)


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Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?


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Then came the officers 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 of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee arises no prophet.


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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 when they had set her in the midst,


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This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.


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So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.


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And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.


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When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you?


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Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know where I came, and where I go; but you cannot tell where I come, and where I go.


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Then said they to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.


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These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.


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Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you will seek me, and will 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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I said therefore to you, that you will die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he, you will die in your sins.


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Then said they to him, Who are you? And Jesus says to them, Even the same that I said to you from the beginning.


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I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.


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Then said Jesus to them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then will you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.


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And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.


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Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;


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They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say you, You will be made free?


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I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.


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They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to 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 that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.


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You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be 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 proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.


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You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not 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 answered the Jews, and said to him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?


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Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my saying, he will never taste of death.


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Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom make you yourself?


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Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honours 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 know him not, I will be a liar like to you: but I know him, and keep his saying.


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Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.


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When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,


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And said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.


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The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?


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He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and 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 mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.


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


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They say to the blind man again, What say you of him, that 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 received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.


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


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


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These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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Then again called they the man that was blind, and said to him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.


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He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.


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He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: therefore would you hear it again? will you also be his disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that you know not from where he is, and yet he has opened mine eyes.


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Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and does his will, him he hears.


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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 when he had found him, he said to him, Do you believe on the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.


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And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said to him, Are we blind also?


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Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.


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To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.


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


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


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This parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them.


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I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture.


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The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.


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But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and left the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.


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And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one fold, and one shepherd.


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No man took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.


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Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?


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Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long do you make us to doubt? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly.


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Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: 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 will never perish, neither will any man pluck them out of my hand.


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My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.


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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?


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The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God.


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Say you 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 believe not me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.


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And many resorted to him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spoke of this man were true.


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(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)


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When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.


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When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.


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These things said he: and after that he says to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.


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And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe; nevertheless let us go to him.


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Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, to his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.


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Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.


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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet will he live:


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She says to him, Yes, Lord: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.


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And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for you.


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The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the grave to weep there.


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Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you hadst been here, my brother had not died.


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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.


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And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?


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Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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Jesus said, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, says to him, Lord, by this time he stinks: for he has been dead four days.


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Then they took away the stone from the place 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 knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me.


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And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let him go.


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


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If we let him thus alone, all men 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, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said to them, You know nothing at all,


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


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


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


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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence to a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.


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And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.


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Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast?


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Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him.


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Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.


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There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.


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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


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This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.


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Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.


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On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,


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Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord.


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These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.


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The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.


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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive you how you prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.


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The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.


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He that loves his life will lose it; and he that hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.


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If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there will also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.


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Now is my soul troubled; and what will I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour.


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Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.


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The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him.


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The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides for ever: and how say you, 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 is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.


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While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.


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That the saying of Esaias 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; 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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Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:


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And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.


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He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same will judge him in the last day.


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For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.


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And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to me, so I speak.


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Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end.


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And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;


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Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;


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After that he pours water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.


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Peter says to him, You will never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me.


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Jesus says to him, He that is washed needs not save 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 was set down again, he said to them, Know you what I have done to you?


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Truly, truly, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.


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I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He that receives whomsoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.


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When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.


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Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I will give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.


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For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.


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Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.


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


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A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.


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Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where go you? Jesus answered him, Where I go, you can not follow me now; but you will follow me afterwards.


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Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake? Truly, truly, I say to you, The cock will not crow, till you have denied me thrice.


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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; that where I am, there you may be also.


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If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him.


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Jesus says to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?


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Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of myself: but the Father that 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' sake.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I go to my Father.


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And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;


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Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and will be in you.


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Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.


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He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me will be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.


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Judas says to him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.


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He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.


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But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will 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, give I 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 come again to you. 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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But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.


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Every branch in me that bears not fruit he took away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, 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, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.


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I am the vine, you are the branches: He that 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 a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, 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 will ask what you will, and it will be done to you.


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If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.


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These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.


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Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of 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 will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.


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If you were of the world, the world would love his 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 lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.


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But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.


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If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.


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But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.


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But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me:


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They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he does God service.


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But these things have I told you, that when the time will come, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not to you at the beginning, because I was with you.


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Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you.


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Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he will not speak of himself; but whatever he will hear, that will he speak: and he will show you things to come.


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All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he will take of mine, and will show 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 said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he says to us, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me: and, Because I go to the Father?


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Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said to them, Do you enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will 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 will be turned into joy.


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A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.


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And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no man took from you.


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And in that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever you will ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.


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These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but I will show you plainly of the Father.


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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 am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.


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Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.


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Behold, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you will be scattered, every man to his own, and will leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.


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These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.


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These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:


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As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as 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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And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.


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I have manifested your name to the men which you gave me out of the world: your they were, and you gave them 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 did send me.


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And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, 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 gave 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 come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.


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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: 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 will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you lovedst me before the foundation of the world.


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O righteous Father, 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 have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.


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When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.


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And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus often resorted thither with his disciples.


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Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them, Whom seek you?


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They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.


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Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.


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Then said Jesus to Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, will I not drink it?


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And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.


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Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.


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But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known to the high priest, and spoke to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.


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Then says the damsel that kept the door to Peter, Are not you also one of this man's disciples? He says, I am not.


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And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; 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 ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.


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And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answer you the high priest so?


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And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore to him, Are not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.


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One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did not I see you in the garden with him?


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Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.


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They answered and said to him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to you.


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Then said Pilate to them, Take you him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:


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Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall 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 would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.


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Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.


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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find in him no fault at all.


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But you have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover: will you therefore that I release to you the King of the Jews?


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And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,


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Pilate therefore went forth again, and says to them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.


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Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate says to them, Behold the man!


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When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Take you 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 went again into the judgment hall, and says to Jesus, Where are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Then says Pilate to him, Speak you not to me? know you not that I have power to crucify you, and have power to release you?


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Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me to you has the greater sin.


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And from thenceforth 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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When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is 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 says to the Jews, Behold your King!


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But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Will I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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And he bearing his cross went forth into 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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This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.


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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.


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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it will be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.


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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.


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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he says to his mother, Woman, behold your son!


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Then says he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.


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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.


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Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.


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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.


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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


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Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.


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But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.


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And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knows that he says true, that you might believe.


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For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him will not be broken.


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And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.


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And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.


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Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.


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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.


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There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.


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The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulchre.


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Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.


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So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.


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And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.


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But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,


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And sees two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they say to her, Woman, why weep you? She says to them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they have laid him.


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And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, why weep you? whom seek you? She, supposing him to be the gardener, says to him, Sir, if you have borne him hence, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus says to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, 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 day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace be to you.


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And when he had so said, he showed to them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.


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Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted to them; and whose soever 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, Except I will see in his hands the print of the nails, 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 again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you.


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Then says he to Thomas, Reach here your finger, and behold my hands; and reach here your hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.


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Jesus says to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.


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And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:


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But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through his name.


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After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise showed he himself.


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.


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Simon Peter says to them, I go a fishing. They say to him, We also go with you. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.


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But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.


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And he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and you will find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.


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Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat to him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.


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And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.


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As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.


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Jesus says to them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who are you? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.


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So when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He says to him, Feed my lambs.


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He says to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He says to him, Feed my sheep.


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He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Love you me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.


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Truly, truly, I say to you, When you were young, you gird yourself, and walkedst where you would: but when you will be old, you will stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you, and carry you where you would not.


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This spoke he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he says to him, Follow me.


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Then Peter, turning about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrays you?


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Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not to him, He will not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?


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This is the disciple which 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 other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.


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Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen:


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To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:


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And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, says he, you have heard of me.


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For John truly baptized with water; but you will be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.


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When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, will you at this time restore again 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 power.


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But you will receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.


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And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;


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Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.


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Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.


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And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.


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These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


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And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)


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Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.


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Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.


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For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.


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Therefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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Beginning from the baptism of John, to that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.


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And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, which know the hearts of all men, show whether of these two you have chosen,


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That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.


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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 there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.


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And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,


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Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about 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, You men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and hearken to my words:


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And it will come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams:


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And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they will prophesy:


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And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:


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The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:


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You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:


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Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:


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Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.


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For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:


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Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.


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Men and brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre 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 on his throne;


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He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.


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Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.


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For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand,


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what will 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 for the remission of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.


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For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God will call.


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And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.


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Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.


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And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.


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And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,


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Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.


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And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;


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Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.


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And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.


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And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.


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And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.


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And as the lame man which 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 when Peter saw it, he answered to the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?


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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, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.


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And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yes, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.


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But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.


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Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord.


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Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.


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For Moses truly said to the fathers, A prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like to me; him will you hear in all things whatever he will say to you.


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And it will come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, will be destroyed from among the people.


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Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.


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You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed will all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.


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To you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.


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And as they spoke to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,


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Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.


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Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.


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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, were gathered together at Jerusalem.


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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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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them, You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,


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If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;


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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, even by him does this man stand here before you whole.


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Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.


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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.


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Saying, What will we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.


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But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.


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But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you more than to God, judge you.


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So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.


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And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, you are God, which have made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:


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Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen 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 of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, 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 your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


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And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.


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And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.


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Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,


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And 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 by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,


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And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, 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 to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?


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Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was it not in your own power? why have you conceived this thing in your heart? you have not lied to men, but to God.


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And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.


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And Peter answered to 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 them which have buried your husband are at the door, and will carry you out.


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Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.


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And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.


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Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.


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There came also a multitude out of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.


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Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,


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And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.


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Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.


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Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.


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Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.


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Saying, Did not we straitly command you that you should not teach in this name? and, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.


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Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.


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And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to them that obey him.


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Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;


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And said to them, You men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do as touching these men.


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For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.


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After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.


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And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:


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And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.


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And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.


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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.


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Therefore, brethren, look you out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.


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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:


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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to 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 them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.


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And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,


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And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:


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For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered us.


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And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.


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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,


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And said to him, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I will show you.


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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.


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And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.


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And God spoke on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.


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And the nation to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that will they come forth, and serve me in this place.


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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.


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And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.


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Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.


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And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known to Pharaoh.


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Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.


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And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.


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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.


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In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:


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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.


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And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:


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For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.


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And the next day he showed himself to them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, you are brethren; why do you wrong one to another?


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But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?


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And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.


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When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, 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. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.


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Then said the Lord to him, Put off your shoes from your feet: for the place where you stand is holy ground.


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I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. 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? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.


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He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is that Moses, which said to the children of Israel, A prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like to me; him will you hear.


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This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give to us:


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To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,


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Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is 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 works of their own hands.


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Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?


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Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.


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Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.


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Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, to 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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You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.


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Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:


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But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


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And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.


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And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.


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And Saul was consenting to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.


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And the people with one accord gave heed to those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.


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For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.


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But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:


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To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.


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But when they believed Philip preaching 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 when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.


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Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John:


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(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)


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And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,


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But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.


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Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.


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Then answered Simon, and said, Pray you to the LORD for me, that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me.


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And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.


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And the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is desert.


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And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,


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And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understand you what you read?


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And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.


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The place 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 opened he not his mouth:


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In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who will declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray you, of whom speaks the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?


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And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what does hinder me to be baptized?


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And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. 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 went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.


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And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, 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 in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.


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And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,


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And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:


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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 pricks.


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And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the city, and it will be told you what you must do.


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And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.


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And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.


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And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prays,


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And has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.


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Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:


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But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:


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And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you in the way as you came, has sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.


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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.


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And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.


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But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came here for that intent, 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 which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.


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And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.


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Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.


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And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.


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And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you whole: arise, and make your bed. And he arose immediately.


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Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.


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And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.


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And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent to him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.


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Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.


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But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body 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, presented her alive.


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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,


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A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.


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He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.


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And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God.


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He lodge with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he will tell you what you ought to do.


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And when the angel which spoke to Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;


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On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:


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And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:


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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.


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Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,


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Then Peter went down to the men which were sent to him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom you seek: what is the cause therefore you are come?


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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words of you.


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Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.


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And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.


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And he said to them, You know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come to one of another nation; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.


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Therefore came I to you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent you have 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 said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.


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Send therefore to Joppa, and call here Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he comes, will speak to you.


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The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)


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That word, I say, you know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;


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How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of 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; whom they killed and hanged on a tree:


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Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink 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 which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.


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To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins.


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And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.


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Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?


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And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.


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And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.


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I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:


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Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.


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And, behold, immediately there were three men already come to the house where I was, sent from Caesarea to me.


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And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:


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And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;


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Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but you will be baptized with the Holy Ghost.


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Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?


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When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance to life.


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Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but to the Jews only.


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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spoke to the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.


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Then tidings of these things came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.


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Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord.


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For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added to the Lord.


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And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.


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And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.


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Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:


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And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)


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And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.


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Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church to God for him.


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And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.


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And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals. And so he did. And he says to him, Cast your garment about you, and follow me.


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And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.


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When they were past the first and the second ward, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.


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And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, 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 when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.


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And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.


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And they said to her, You are mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.


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But he, beckoning to them with the hand to hold their peace, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go show these things to James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.


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And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.


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And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.


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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration to them.


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And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.


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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.


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So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed to Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.


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And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.


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And when they had gone through the isle to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:


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Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.


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And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?


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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.


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Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.


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But when they departed 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, You men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.


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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, give audience.


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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.


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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.


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And after that he gave to them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.


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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.


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And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which will fulfil all my will.


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When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.


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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.


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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.


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And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.


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God has fulfilled the same to us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.


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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.


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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:


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Be it known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:


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And by him all that 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 wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.


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And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.


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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious 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 spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.


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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.


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For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.


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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, 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 honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.


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And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.


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But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.


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Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony to the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.


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And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,


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They were ware of it, and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the region that lies round about:


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And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:


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The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,


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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.


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Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.


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Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,


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And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:


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Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


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And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.


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Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,


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Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.


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And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.


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And thence 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 when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.


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And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.


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When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy to all the brethren.


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And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.


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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.


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And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them, Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.


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And God, which knows the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did to us;


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Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.


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Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, 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 is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:


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That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who does all these things.


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Therefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:


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But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.


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Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:


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And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting to the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.


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Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, You must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:


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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 Ghost, and to us, to lay upon 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 will do well. Fare you well.


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So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:


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And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.


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And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren to the apostles.


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Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.


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And some days after Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.


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But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.


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And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed to Cyprus;


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Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:


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Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.


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And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.


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Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.


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And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel to them.


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Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;


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And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.


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And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spoke to the women which resorted thither.


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And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended to the things which were spoken of Paul.


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And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.


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And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:


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The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show to us the way of salvation.


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And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.


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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace to the rulers,


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And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,


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And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.


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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:


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Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.


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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 every one's bands were loosed.


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And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.


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And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.


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And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.


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And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.


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But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? nay truly; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.


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And the serjeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.


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And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.


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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:


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And Paul, as his manner was, went in to them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,


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Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and 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 consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.


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But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.


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And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also;


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Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.


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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.


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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.


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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.


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And they that conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.


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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.


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Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.


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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.


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And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?


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(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)


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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.


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For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I to you.


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God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;


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Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;


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And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;


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That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:


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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.


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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.


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Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.


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And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.


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Howbeit certain men clave to him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came to them.


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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and done: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.


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And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.


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And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.


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And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.


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And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.


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Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:


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And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,


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And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O you Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:


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But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look you to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.


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Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.


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And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having 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 bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that comes in Jerusalem: but I will return again to you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.


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And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and 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 diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him to them, and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly.


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And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:


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For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.


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And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,


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He said to them, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said to him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.


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Then said Paul, John truly baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.


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And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.


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And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.


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And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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So that from his body were brought to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.


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Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.


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And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.


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So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.


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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen;


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Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.


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Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:


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So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.


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And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.


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And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.


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And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent to him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.


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Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not therefore they were come together.


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And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence to the people.


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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.


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And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knows not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?


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Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.


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For you have brought here these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.


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Therefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.


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For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.


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And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.


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And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.


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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.


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And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.


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And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.


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When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.


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And we went before to ship, and sailed to Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.


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And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.


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For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.


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And when they were come to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,


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Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:


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And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have showed you, and have taught you publickly, 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 go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me there:


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But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.


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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost 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 departing will grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


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Also of your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.


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Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.


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And now, brethren, 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 them which are sanctified.


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Yes, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to them that were with me.


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I have showed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.


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Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.


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And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes, and from thence to Patara:


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Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.


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And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.


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And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.


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And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.


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And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came to Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.


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And when he was come to us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Ghost, So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.


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And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.


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Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.


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And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.


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And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:


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And they are informed of you, that you teach all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.


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Them take, and purify yourself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning you, are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.


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As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.


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Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.


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And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,


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Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.


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(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, 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 they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.


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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.


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Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.


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Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.


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And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.


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And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.


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And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to you? Who said, Can you speak Greek?


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Are not you that Egyptian, which before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?


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But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech you, suffer me to speak to the people.


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And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,


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(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he says,)


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I am truly a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.


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As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound to Jerusalem, for to be punished.


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And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh to Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.


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And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.


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And I said, What will I do, LORD? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it will be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do.


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And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.


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And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,


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Came to me, and stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive your sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see that Just One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.


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And now why tarry you? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;


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And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and get you 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 imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on you:


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And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that killed him.


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And they gave him audience to this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.


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The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know therefore they cried so against him.


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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?


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When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what you do: for this man is a Roman.


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And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.


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Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.


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On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty therefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.


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And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.


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Then said Paul to him, God will smite you, you whited wall: for sit you to judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?


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Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, You will not speak evil of the ruler of your people.


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But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.


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And when he had so said, 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 that were of the Pharisees' part 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 when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.


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And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.


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And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till 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 slain Paul.


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Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.


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And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.


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Then Paul called one of the centurions to him, and said, Bring this young man to the chief captain: for he has a certain thing to tell him.


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So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me to him, and prayed me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.


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Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that you have to tell me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire you that you would bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.


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But do not you yield to them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.


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So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See you tell no man that you have showed these things to me.


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And he called to him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;


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This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.


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And when I would have known the cause therefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:


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Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.


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And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to you, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before you what they had against him. Farewell.


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Who, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.


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And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;


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I will hear you, said he, when your accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.


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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.


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And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by you we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done to this nation by your providence,


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Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious to you, I pray you that you would hear us of your clemency a few words.


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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:


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Who also has gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.


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Commanding his accusers to come to you: by examining of whom yourself may take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.


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Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that you have been of many years a judge to this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:


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Because that you may understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.


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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:


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But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:


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And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.


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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.


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Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.


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Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,


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Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.


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And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain will come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.


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And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come to him.


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And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which 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 judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.


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He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: therefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.


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But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.


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Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.


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And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.


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But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.


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Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.


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And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.


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And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.


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While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.


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But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?


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Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as you very well know.


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For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Have you appealed to Caesar? to Caesar will you go.


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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:


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About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.


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To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.


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Therefore, when they were come here, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.


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But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.


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And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.


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But when Paul had appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.


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Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, you will hear him.


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And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.


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But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.


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Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.


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For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.


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Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:


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I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I will answer for myself this day before you touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:


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Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.


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My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;


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Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straight sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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To which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.


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I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.


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Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.


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And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to strange cities.


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At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.


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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me? it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.


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But rise, and stand upon your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and of those things in the which I will appear to you;


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To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.


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But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.


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Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:


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That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.


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And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are beside yourself; much learning does make you mad.


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For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.


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And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.


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And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:


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And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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Then said Agrippa 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 into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.


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And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


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And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go to his friends to refresh himself.


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And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;


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And, hardly passing it, came to a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.


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Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,


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And said to them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.


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Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.


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And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lies toward the south west and north west.


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And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.


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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.


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And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.


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But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there will be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.


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Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.


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But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;


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And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.


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Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.


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And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved.


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And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.


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Therefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there will not an hair fall from the head of any of you.


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And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.


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And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.


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And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.


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And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.


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But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:


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And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.


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And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.


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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.


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And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffers not to live.


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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.


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In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.


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And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.


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Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.


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And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.


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And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:


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Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.


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And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.


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And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.


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And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said to them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.


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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.


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For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.


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And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the brethren that came showed or spoke any harm of you.


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But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.


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And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.


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And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,


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Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing you will hear, and will not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive:


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For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest 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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Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.


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Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.


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Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;


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And declared to be the Son of God with 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, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:


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To all that be 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 always in my prayers;


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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, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;


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Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.


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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.


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For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just will 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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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:


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Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.


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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.


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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:


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Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.


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For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change 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 one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.


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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;


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Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,


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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.


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Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do the same things.


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But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.


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And think you this, O man, that judge them which do such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?


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Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?


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But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;


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To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:


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But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,


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Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;


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But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:


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For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law;


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For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:


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Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)


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And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,


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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.


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You therefore which teach another, teach you not yourself? you that preache a man should not steal, do you steal?


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You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?


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For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.


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Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?


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And will not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?


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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:


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But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.


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God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.


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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who took vengeance? (I speak as a man)


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For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?


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And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.


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What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;


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They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.


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Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:


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Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.


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Therefore by the deeds of the law there will no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.


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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;


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Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all them that 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 for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;


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To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.


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Seeing it is one God, which will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.


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But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.


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Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works,


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Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.


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How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also:


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And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.


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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, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only 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 is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were.


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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So will your seed be.


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And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:


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He staggered not 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 will be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;


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By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.


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And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.


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For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.


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For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.


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And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.


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Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:


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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.


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But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.


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And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.


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For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)


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Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon 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 will many be made righteous.


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Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:


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That as sin has reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like 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 planted together in the likeness of his death, we will be also in the likeness of his resurrection:


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Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.


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Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.


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Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?


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But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.


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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness.


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What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.


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But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.


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Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?


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For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.


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So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.


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Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death.


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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.


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What will we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You will not covet.


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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, done in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.


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Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.


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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 find not.


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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 which is 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 them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after 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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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.


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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after 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 be.


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But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.


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And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.


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For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you will 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, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.


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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.


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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us.


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For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,


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Because the creature itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.


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And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, 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 a man sees, why does he yet hope for?


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Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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And he that searches 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 them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.


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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.


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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.


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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?


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Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.


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Who will separate us from the love of Christ? will 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 accounted as sheep for the 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, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:


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Who are Israelites; to whom pertains 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 as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.


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Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:


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Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac will your seed be called.


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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.


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(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)


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For he says 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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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I 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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Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?


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Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?


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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering 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 afore prepared to glory,


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As he says also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.


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And it will come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there will they be called the children of the living God.


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Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant will be saved:


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For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.


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And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like to Gomorrha.


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What will we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.


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But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.


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Therefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;


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As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whoever believes on him will not be ashamed.


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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 describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which does those things will live by them.


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But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)


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But what says it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;


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That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


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For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.


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For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him.


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How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how will they hear without a preacher?


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And how will they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.


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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.


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But Esaias is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.


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But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people.


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I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


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Lord, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.


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But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.


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And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.


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What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.


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(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.


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And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence to them:


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I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.


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Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?


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For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?


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And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were graffed in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;


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Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:


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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also will be cut off.


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And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, will be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.


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For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more will these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?


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And so all Israel will be saved: as it is written, There will come out of Sion the Deliverer, and will turn away ungodliness from Jacob:


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As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's 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, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.


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And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


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For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.


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Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;


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Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.


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Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.


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Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.


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Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.


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Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.


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Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist will receive to themselves damnation.


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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you will have praise of the same:


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For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.


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For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.


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Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.


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For this, You will not commit adultery, You will not kill, You will not steal, You will not bear false witness, You will not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You will love your neighbour as yourself.


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And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.


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The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.


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Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.


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But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.


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Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him which eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.


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Who are you that judge another man's servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.


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One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.


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He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.


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For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.


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For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.


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But why do you judge your brother? or why do you set at nought your brother? for we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.


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For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.


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Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.


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I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


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But if your brother be grieved with your meat, now walk you not charitably. Destroy not him with your meat, for whom Christ died.


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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.


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Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.


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For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offence.


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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.


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Have you faith? have it to yourself before God. Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows.


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And he that doubts is damned if he eat, because he eats not of faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.


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For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached you fell on me.


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For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.


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Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:


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Now I say that Jesus Christ was 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 Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.


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And again, Esaias says, There will be a root of Jesse, and he that will rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles trust.


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Now 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 Ghost.


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And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.


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Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,


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That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.


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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not done by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,


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Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.


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Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:


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But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they will see: and they that have not heard will 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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Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.


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For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.


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It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.


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When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.


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And I am sure that, when I come to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, 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 them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;


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That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she has need of you: for she has been a succourer of many, and of myself also.


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Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.


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Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia to Christ.


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Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.


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Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.


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Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.


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Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.


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For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.


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For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple concerning evil.


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And the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.


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Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you, and Quartus a brother.


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Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,


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But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, 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 at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:


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Who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, 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 of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.


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Now this I say, 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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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.


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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.


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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.


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For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:


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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 base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:


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But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:


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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not 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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Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:


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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory:


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Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, 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, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.


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But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.


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For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.


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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.


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Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.


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But the natural man receives not 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, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.


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I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.


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For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as 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 every man?


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So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.


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Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labour.


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According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.


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Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work of what sort it is.


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If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself will be saved; yet so as by fire.


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If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.


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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He took the wise in their own craftiness.


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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;


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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yes, I judge not mine own self.


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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then will every man have praise of God.


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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.


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For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you hadst not received it?


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Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.


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For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made 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 honourable, but we are despised.


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Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;


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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day.


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For though you have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.


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For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.


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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.


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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.


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And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.


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For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,


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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:


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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 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 must you needs go out of the world.


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But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.


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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?


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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?


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If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.


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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?


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Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?


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Know you not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,


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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will 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 all things are not expedient: 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 will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.


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Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? will I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.


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What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, says he, will be one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.


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What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which 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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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.


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The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.


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Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.


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For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.


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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.


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But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.


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And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not 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 were your children unclean; but now are they holy.


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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.


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For what know you, O wife, whether you will save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you will save your wife?


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But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.


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Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.


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For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.


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Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.


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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.


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But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.


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But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;


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And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;


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But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:


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There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that 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 upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.


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But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.


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Nevertheless he that stands stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.


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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


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But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.


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Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies.


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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.


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For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)


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But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.


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Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol to this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.


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But meat commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.


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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.


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For if any man see you which have knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, will not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;


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Therefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother to offend.


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Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?


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If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are you in the Lord.


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Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?


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Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses, You will not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?


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Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.


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If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.


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Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?


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But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.


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For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!


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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.


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What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.


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For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.


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And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;


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To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.


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To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.


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Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.


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And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.


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But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.


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Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;


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And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.


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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.


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Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.


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Now all these things happened to them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.


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There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, 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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What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?


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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils.


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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.


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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.


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If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.


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But if any man say to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:


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Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?


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Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.


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Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, 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 that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.


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For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.


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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.


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Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, that 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 be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.


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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.


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For in eating every one took before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.


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What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What will I say to you? will I praise you in this? I praise you not.


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For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:


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And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.


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After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.


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Therefore whoever will eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.


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And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.


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Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.


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For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;


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To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:


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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 by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.


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If the foot will 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 will 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 the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were 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 honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.


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For our comely parts have no need: but God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.


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That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.


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And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.


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And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.


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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.


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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.


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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.


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Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they will fail; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will vanish away.


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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.


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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then will I know even as also I am known.


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For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God: for no man understands him; howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries.


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I would that you all spoke with tongues but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.


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Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what will I profit you, except I will speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?


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And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or harped?


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So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how will it be known what is spoken? for you will speak into the air.


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There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.


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Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.


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Even so you, forasmuch as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.


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What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.


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Else when you will bless with the spirit, how will he that occupies the room of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what you say?


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Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.


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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be you children, but in understanding be men.


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In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the Lord.


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Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.


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If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?


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But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:


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And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.


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How is it then, brethren? when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edifying.


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If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.


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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.


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Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also says the law.


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And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.


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If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.


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Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;


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By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.


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For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;


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After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain to this present, but some are fallen asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet 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 bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.


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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.


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But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.


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Then comes the end, when he will have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put down all rule and all authority and power.


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For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.


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And when all things will be subdued to him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.


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Else what will they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?


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If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what benefits it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.


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Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.


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And that which you sow, you sow not that body that will be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:


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All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.


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There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.


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There is 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 was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.


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Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.


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As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.


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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.


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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.


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So when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.


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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do you.


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Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.


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And when I come, whomsoever you will approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality to Jerusalem.


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And it may be that I will abide, yes, and winter with you, that you may bring me on my journey wherever I go.


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Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.


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Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come to me: for I look for him with the brethren.


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As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he will have convenient time.


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I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)


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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.


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The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute 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 which 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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Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.


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And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.


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And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so will you be also of the consolation.


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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:


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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which 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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You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.


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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 conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.


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For we write none other things to you, than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you will acknowledge even to the end;


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As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are our's 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 of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.


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When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yes yes, and nay nay?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yes and nay, but in him was yes.


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And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them 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 affliction 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 any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.


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So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.


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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.


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To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;


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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me of the Lord,


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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.


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Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.


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To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.


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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?


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Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.


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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;


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Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.


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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:


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For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.


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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excells.


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And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:


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But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.


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But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.


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But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation 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 them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.


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For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.


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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light 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, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.


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Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.


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For we which live are alway delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.


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We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;


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Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also by Jesus, and will present us with you.


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For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.


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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.


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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;


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While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.


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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.


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Now he that has done us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:


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We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.


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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad.


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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.


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For we commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.


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For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:


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And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him which died for them, and rose again.


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Therefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.


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Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.


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And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;


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To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.


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Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God.


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For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.


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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.


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(For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)


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But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,


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By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,


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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.


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Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?


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And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.


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Therefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.


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Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.


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Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.


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For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.


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And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.


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Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us in nothing.


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For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.


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For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it done in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what revenge! In all things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.


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Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.


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Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.


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For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.


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And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.


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How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.


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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.


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And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.


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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.


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Therefore, as you abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.


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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.


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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.


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And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.


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Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you have.


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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and not according to that he has not.


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But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:


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As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.


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And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:


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And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.


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Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.


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Therefore show you to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.


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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.


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Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready:


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Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.


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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.


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But this I say, He which sows sparingly will reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully will reap also bountifully.


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Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, 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 you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:


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(As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains for ever.


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Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)


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For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings to God;


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Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them, and to all men;


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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:


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But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.


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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)


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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;


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Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.


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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:


