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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the tribunal of the company that all Jerusalem was in an uproar


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who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them; and when they saw the tribunal and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.


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Then the tribunal came near and took him and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains and demanded [to know] 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 fortress.


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And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers because of the violence of the people.


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And as Paul was to be led into the fortress, he said unto the tribunal, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?


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Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days made an uproar and led four thousand men out into the wilderness that were murderers?


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But Paul said, I am certainly a Jew, a citizen of Tarsus, a city known in Cilicia; and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.


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And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke unto [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 said,)


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I am indeed 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 truth of the law of the fathers, zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.


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As also the prince of the priests bears me witness, and all the estate of the elders, from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring those who were bound there unto Jerusalem to be punished.


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And it came to pass that, as I made my journey and was come near unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.


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And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?


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And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I Am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou dost persecute.


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And those that were with me saw indeed the light and were afraid, but they did not hear the voice of him that spoke to me.


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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise and go into Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.


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And when I could not see for the clarity of that light, being led by the hand of those 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 witness of all the Jews who dwelt [there],


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came unto me and stood and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee that thou should know his will and see that Just One and should hear the voice of his mouth.


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And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy 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 rapture of understanding


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and saw him saying unto me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.


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And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and in every synagogue beat those that believed on thee;


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and when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting unto his death and kept the raiment of those that slew him.


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And they gave him audience unto 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 tribunal commanded him to be brought into the fortress and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know why they cried out so against him.


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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto 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 tribunal, saying, Take heed what thou doest, for this man is a Roman.


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And the tribunal answered, With a great sum I obtained this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born.


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Then straightway those who should have tormented him departed from him, and the tribunal was also afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman and because he had bound him.


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On the next day, because he wanted to know of certainty the cause for which he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from [his] bands and commanded the princes of the priests and all their council to appear and brought Paul down and set him before them.:


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Then 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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And the prince of the priests, Ananias, commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.


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Then Paul said unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whitewashed wall, for dost thou sit to judge me after the law and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?


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Then Paul said, I did not know, brethren, that he was the prince of the priests, for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy 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, and 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 tribunal, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring [him] into the fortress.


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And the night following the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou also bear witness at Rome.


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And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together and they vowed under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.


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And they came to the princes of the priests and the elders and said, We have made a vow of anathema that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.


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Now therefore ye with the council signify to the tribunal that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though ye would enquire something more certain concerning him, and we, before he arrives, are ready to kill him.


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And when Paul's sister's son heard of their ambush, he went and entered into the fortress and told Paul.


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Then Paul called one of the centurions unto [him] and said, Bring this young man unto the tribunal, for he has a certain thing to tell him.


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So he took him and brought [him] to the tribunal and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto [him] and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who has something to say unto thee.


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Then the tribunal took him by the hand and went [with him] aside privately and asked [him], What is that thou hast to tell me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee that thou would bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though they would enquire something more certain of him.


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But do not believe them, for more than forty of them lie in wait [to ambush] him, who have vowed under a curse that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him, and now they are ready, looking for a promise from thee.


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So the tribunal [then] let the young man depart and charged [him, See thou] tell no one that thou hast showed these things to me.


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And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night


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This man was taken of the Jews and should have been killed by them; then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.


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And when I desired to know the cause of why they accused him, I brought him forth into their council,


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whom I found 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 the Jews lay [in] wait to [ambush] the man, I sent straightway to thee and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee 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 thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgement hall.:


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And after five days Ananias, the prince of the priests, 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 thee we enjoy great peace and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy prudence,


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Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou would hear us of thy 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 prince of the seditious 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 unto thee; by examining of whom thou may take knowledge of all these things, of which we accuse him.


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Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself;


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because thou art able to understand that there have been but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem 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 unto thee, that after the way which they call [a] sect, 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 shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.


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And for this reason do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense 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 out 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, he deferred them, saying, I shall have more information regarding [that] way, when Lysias the tribunal shall come down, [Then] 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 own to minister or come unto him.


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And after certain days when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard of him the faith which is in Christ.


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And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go away for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.


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He hoped also that money should have been given him from Paul, that he might loose him; therefore he sent for him many times and communed with him.


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But after two years Felix received Porcius Festus as successor; and Felix, wanting to win the grace of the Jews, 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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Then the prince of the priests and the principals of the Jews informed him against Paul and besought him,


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asking for grace against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, they placing an ambush 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 [there].


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Let them, therefore, said he, who among you are able, go down with [me] and accuse this man, if there is anything in him.


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And when he had tarried among them no more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea and the next day, sitting on the judgement seat, commanded Paul to be brought.


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And when he was come, the Jews who 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 sinned [in] anything at all.


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But Festus, willing to ingratiate himself with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou 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 judgement seat, where I ought to be judged; to the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.


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For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if there are none of these things of which these accuse me, no one may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.


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Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.


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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto 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 princes of the priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring [to have] vengeance 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 the one who is accused is face to face with his accusers and is given license 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 next day I sat on the judgement 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, who 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 unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.


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Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.


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And the next day when Agrippa was come and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the tribunals and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought forth.


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Then Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye 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 unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.


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For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the crimes [laid] against him.:


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Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand and answered for himself:


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I esteem myself blessed, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee concerning all the things of which I am accused of the Jews,


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especially [because I know] thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; therefore, I beseech thee to hear me patiently.


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My manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was among my own nation at Jerusalem, is known of all the Jews,


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who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most perfect sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, constantly 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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Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the 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 unto foreign 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 those who journeyed with me.


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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me? [It is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.


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But rise and stand upon thy feet, for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in which I will appear unto thee;


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to open their eyes [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.


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but I announced first unto those 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, doing works worthy of repentance.


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Having, therefore, obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said should come:


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that the Christ should suffer [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto this people and to the Gentiles.


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And as he spoke these things and [answered] for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.


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For the king knows of these things, before whom I also 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 desire before God that by little or by much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.


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And when he had said these things, the king rose up and the governor and Bernice and those 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 Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed unto Caesar.:


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But when it was determined that we should sail unto Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto [one] named Julius, a centurion of the Augustus company.


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And entering into the ship, 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 unto 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 allowing us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone,


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and, passing it with difficulty, came unto a place which is called The Fair Havens, near which 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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saying, 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, many were in agreement to depart from there also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice [and] winter [there, which is] a port of Crete and lies toward Africa and the west.


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And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained [their] purpose, raising [sails], they sailed close by Crete.


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And when the ship was caught up [by it] and could not resist against the wind, [the ship] was taken by [the wind and] drifted.


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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into Syrtis, struck 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 lost.


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Then after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete to have avoided this harm and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person's life among you, but only of the ship.


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saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, behold, God has given thee all those that sail with thee.


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And when the fourteenth night was come as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, 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 fall 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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And while the day was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have waited and continued fasting, having taken nothing.


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Therefore I pray you to take [some] food, for this is for your [salvation and] health, for there shall not one 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 did not recognize the land, but they discovered a certain gulf with a shore, into which they decided, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.


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And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed [themselves] unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore.


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But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.


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But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, frustrated this counsel and commanded that those who 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 were all saved [by making it] to land.:


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And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a [great] fire and received all of us 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, a viper came 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 does not suffer [him] to live.


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But they were waiting to see when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly; but after they had waited 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 a principal 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 dysentery, 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 gifts; 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 ensign was Castor and Pollux.


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And having gone around, we came to Rhegium, and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli,


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And from there, 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 praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed 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 principals of the Jews together, and when they were come together, he said unto 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 unto Caesar, not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.


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For this cause therefore I have called for you, to see [you] and to speak with [you]: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.


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And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came showed or spoke any harm of thee.


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But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest; for as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.


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And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him into [his] lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, procuring to persuade them of that concerning Jesus, the Christ, out of the law of Moses and [out of] the prophets, from morning until evening.


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And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken this word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,


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saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall 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, unto you that this saving health of God is sent unto 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 liberty, without hindrance.:


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who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection from the dead), of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.


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By whom we have received the grace and the apostleship, to [cause] the faith to be obeyed among all the Gentiles in his name,


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to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints; ye have grace and peace of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus, the Christ.


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First, I thank my God through Jesus, the Christ, regarding you all, that your faith is preached in all the world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I always remember you 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 unto you.


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Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that many times I purposed to come unto you (but up until now I have been unable) 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 the Christ; for it is [the] power of God [to give] saving health to every one that believes: to the Jew first and also to the Greek.


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For in him is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.


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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of men, who hold back the truth with injustice;


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For the invisible things of him, his eternal power and divinity, are clearly understood by the creation of the world and by the things that are made so that there is no excuse;


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because having known God, they did not glorify [him] as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.


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and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for [the] likeness of [an] image of corruptible man and of birds and of fourfooted beasts and of serpents.


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Therefore God also gave them over to the lusts of their own hearts for uncleanness, to contaminate 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 all ages. Amen.


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For this cause God gave them up unto shameful affections, for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;


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and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.


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And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, 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 having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.:


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Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for in that which thou dost judge another, thou dost condemn thyself; for thou that judgest [others] doest the same things.


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For we are sure that the judgment of God is according to [the] truth against those who do such things.


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And dost thou think this, O man, that judgest those who do such things and [doest the same], that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?


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Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?


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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,


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to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;


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but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.


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Tribulation and anguish [shall be] upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;


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For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law


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for when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature that which is of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves;


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which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, accusing and also excusing their reasonings one with another)


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in the day when God shall judge that which men have covered up, according to my gospel by Jesus, the Christ.


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and dost know [his] will and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,


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and art confident that thou thyself art [a] guide of the blind, [a] light of those who [are] in darkness,


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an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of children, who hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.


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Thou, therefore, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?


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Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that dost abhorr idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?


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For circumcision verily profits if thou keep the law, but if thou art a rebel to the law, thy circumcision is made [into] a foreskin.


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Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his foreskin be counted for circumcision?


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And that which is by nature foreskin, but keeps the law perfectly, shall judge thee who with the letter and with the circumcision art rebellious to the law.


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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is done outwardly in the flesh;


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but he [is] a Jew who 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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For what if some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief have made the truth of God without effect?


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No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.


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And if our iniquity commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Shall [for this reason] God be unjust who sends punishment? (I speak as a man.)


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For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why even so am I also judged as a sinner?


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And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom 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 no one 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 all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.


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For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.


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But now, without the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets:


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the righteousness, that is, of God by the faith of Jesus, the Christ, for all and upon all those that believe in him, for there is no difference;


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whom God purposed for reconciliation through faith in his blood for the manifestation of his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, by the patience of God,


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manifesting in this time his righteousness that he [only] be the just [one] and the justifier of him that is of the faith of Jesus.


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seeing [it is] one God who shall justify the circumcision by faith and [the] uncircumcision by faith.


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For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.


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But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.


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Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God doth attribute righteousness without works,


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Is this blessedness, therefore, only upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as 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 circumcision as [a] sign, as [a] seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had, yet] being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised believers, that it might be counted unto them also as righteousness,


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that [he be] the father of the circumcision: not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also unto those who walk in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before he was circumcised.


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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 by faith, that [it might be] by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all [the] seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,


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as it is written, As a father of many Gentiles have I placed thee before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as those that are.


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Who believed to wait against [all] hope, that he might become the father of many Gentiles, according to that which had been spoken [unto him], So shall thy seed be.


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And he did not weaken in faith: he considered not his own body now dead when he was about one hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb;


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he doubted not the promise of God, with unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,


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but for us also to whom it shall be [so] reckoned, that is, to those that believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,


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by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory [of the sons] of God.


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And not only [this], but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;


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and the hope shall not be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto 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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But God increased the price of his charity toward us in that while we were yet sinners the Christ died for us.


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For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled with God by the death of his Son, much more, [now] reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.


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And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.


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Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.


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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even in those that did not sin after the manner of the rebellion of Adam, who is a figure of him that was to come.


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But not as the offense, so also [is] the gift. For if through the offense of [that] one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one man, Jesus the Christ, has abounded unto many.


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Nor was it in the same manner as by one sin, likewise also the gift; for the judgment truly [came] of one [sin] unto condemnation, but grace [came] of many offenses unto justification.


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For if by one offense, death reigned [because] of one [man]; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.


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Therefore, in the same manner that by the iniquity of one [guilt came] upon all men unto condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, [grace came] upon all men unto justification of life.


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For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.


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Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,


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so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.:


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For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also walk in newness of life.


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For if we have been planted together [in him] in the likeness of his death, we shall 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 we should not serve sin any longer.


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knowing that the Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.


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Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.


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Neither present your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.


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Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?


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Thank God that, although ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;


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I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.


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What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.


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But now freed from sin and made servants to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life.


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Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man [only] as long as he lives?


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For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.


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So then if, while [her] husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man.


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Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.


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For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.


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But now we are free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.


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What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for [neither] would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.


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Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.


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So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.


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Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.


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For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the [good] that I desire [is what] I do; but what I hate, that [is what] I do.


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And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.


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but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.


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The grace of God, by Jesus, the 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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So that now, [there is] no condemnation to those who are in Christ, Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For that which was impossible to the law, 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 according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For those that are according to the flesh know the things that are of the flesh; but those that are according to the Spirit, the things that are of the Spirit.


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because the prudence of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.


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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person is not of him.


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But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] alive because of righteousness.


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And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.


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For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.


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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to be in fear [again], but ye have received the Spirit of adoption [of sons], whereby we cry, Abba, Father.


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and if sons, also heirs certainly of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with [him] that we may be also glorified together [with him].


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For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.


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For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,


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with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.


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And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [that is to say], the redemption of our body.


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For in hope we are saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, he does not wait for.


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And likewise also the Spirit helps our weakness; for we know not how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes entreaty for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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But he that searches the hearts knows what is the desire of the Spirit, that according to [the will of] God, he makes entreaty for the saints.


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And we [now] know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called [to be saints].


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For [unto] those whom he knew beforehand, he also marked out beforehand [the way] that they might be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.


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And unto those whom he did mark out beforehand [the way], to these he also called; and to whom he called, these he also justified; and to whom he justified, these he also glorified.


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He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also give us all things with him?


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Who [is] he that condemns [them]? Christ, Jesus, is he who died [and], even more, he that also rose again, who furthermore is at the right hand of God, who also makes entreaty for us.


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Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? [shall] tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?


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(As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)


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Therefore I am certain 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 creature shall be able to separate us from the charity of God, which is in Christ, Jesus our Lord.:


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For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,


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who are Israelites, to whom [pertains] the adoption [as sons] 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 is the Christ, who is God over all things, blessed for all the ages. Amen.


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Not as though the word of God has been deficient. For not all the descendants of Israel are Israelites;


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neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are all sons, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.


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That is, Those who [are] sons of the flesh, these [are] not the sons of God; but those who [are] sons of the promise [are] counted in the generation.


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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 saith 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 saith of Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.


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Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?


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Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?


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[What] if God, desiring to show [his] wrath and to make his power known, endured with much meekness the vessels of wrath, prepared for death,


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As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.


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And it shall come to pass [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.


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Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved;


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when the consumption comes to an end, righteousness shall overflow, because a short sentence will the Lord execute upon the earth.


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And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of the hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom and been made like unto Gomorrha.


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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, that is to say, the righteousness which is by faith,


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and Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.


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Why? Because [they followed it] not by faith but, as it were, by the works (of the law); therefore, they stumbled on the stumblingstone;


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as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock [that will cause some] to fall, and whosoever believes in him shall not be ashamed.:


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Brethren, certainly the desire of my heart and my prayer to God regarding Israel, is for saving health.


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For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.


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For Moses describes the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.


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But thus saith the righteousness which is by faith, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven (that is, to bring the Christ down [from above])?


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But what does it say? The word is near thee, [even] in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach,


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that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.


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For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto saving health.


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For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.


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How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?


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And how shall they preach if they have not been sent? as it is written, How beautiful [are] the feet of those that announce the gospel of peace, of those that announce the gospel of that which is good!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their fame went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.


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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you unto jealousy with people that are not mine, [and] with ignorant people I will provoke you to anger.


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But Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those that did not seek me; I manifested myself unto those that did not ask after me.


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And against Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.:


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I say then, Has God cast away his people? No, in no wise. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.


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God has not cast away his people whom he knew beforehand. Know ye not what the scripture says of Elijah? how speaking to God against Israel, he said,


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Lord, they have killed thy prophets and ruined thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.


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But what did the answer of God say unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee before Baal.


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And if by grace, then [is it] not by works; otherwise, the grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.


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(according as it is written, God has given them the spirit of anguish, eyes with which they do not see and ears with which they do not hear) unto this day.


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And David says, Let their table be turned into a snare and a net and a stumblingblock and a recompense unto them;


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I say then, Have they stumbled in such a manner that they should fall completely? No, in no wise; but [rather] through their fall, saving health [is come] unto the Gentiles to provoke them unto jealousy.


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And if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more [shall] their fullness [be]?


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For (I call you Gentiles) inasmuch as I am truly the apostle of the Gentiles, my honorable ministry,


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For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?


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For if the firstfruit is holy, so [shall] the rest be; and if the root [is] holy, so [shall be] the branches.


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And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,


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do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, [know] that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.


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Good; because of [their] unbelief they were broken off, but thou by faith art standing. Do not be highminded, but fear


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Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness if thou continue in [his] goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.


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And even them, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is powerful [enough] to graft them in again.


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For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree [which is] wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree, how much more shall these, which are the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree?


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For I would not, brethren, that ye ignore this mystery, that ye not be arrogant regarding yourselves: that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles are come in.


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And even if all Israel were saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall take away the ungodliness from Jacob;


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So that, as concerning the gospel, [I have them for] enemies for your sakes; but as touching the election [of God], they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.


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For as ye in time past have not obeyed God, yet have now obtained mercy through the occasion of their disobedience,


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likewise these also have not believed now that through the mercy shown unto you they also may obtain mercy.


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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!


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Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, [which is] your rational worship.


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And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what [is] that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.


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Therefore I say through the grace given unto me, to all those that are among you not to obtain more knowledge than is prudent to know, but to obtain knowledge with temperance, each one according to the measure of faith that God has dealt.


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For in the manner that we have many members in one body, nevertheless all the members do not have the same operation;


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So that having different gifts according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, according to the measure of faith;


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he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, [let him do it] in simplicity; he that presides, in earnest care; he that shows mercy, in cheerfulness.


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[Let] love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;


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[Be] unanimous among yourselves, not high minded, but accommodating the humble. Do not be wise in your [own] opinion.


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Not repaying anyone evil for evil; procuring that which is good not only in the sight of God, but even in the sight of all men.


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Not defending yourselves, dearly beloved; but rather give place unto the wrath [of God], for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.


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Therefore, if thine enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.


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Let every soul submit itself to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God.


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Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God, and those that resist shall receive condemnation to themselves.


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For the magistrates are not a terror unto those who do good, but to the [doer of] evil. Is thy desire therefore to not fear the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same;


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for he is [a] minister of God for thy good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is [a] minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that does evil.


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Therefore it is necessary that [ye] be subject, not only for punishment, but also for conscience sake.


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For for this cause ye also pay [them] tribute, for they are God's ministers, attending continually to 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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Owe no one anything, but love one unto another; for he that loves [his] neighbour has fulfilled the law.


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For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and if [there is] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


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And this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awaken ourselves out of sleep, for now [is] our saving health nearer than when we believed.


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The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves [with] the weapons 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 [be] clothed [with] the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not listen to the flesh, to [fulfil] its desires.:


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Let not him that eats despise him that does not eat, and let him who eats not judge him that eats; for God has raised him up.


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Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? By his [own] master he stands or falls; and [if he falls], he shall be made to stand, for God is powerful to make him stand.


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Also, some make a difference between one day and another; others esteem every day [alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his own soul.


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He that observes the day, let him observe it unto the Lord; and he that does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe [it]. He that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, unto the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.


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For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for 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]: to thus exercise lordship over the dead as well as over the living.


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But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou belittle thy brother? for we shall all stand before the tribunal of the Christ.


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For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.


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Let us, therefore, not 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 trust in the Lord Jesus that for his sake there is nothing unclean, but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.


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But if thy brother is grieved because of [thy] food, now thou dost not walk in charity. Do not destroy him with thy food, for whom Christ died.


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for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


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Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace and the edification of each one to the others.


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Because of food, do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] clean, but [it is] evil for that man who eats with offense.


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[It is] good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor [do any thing] by which thy brother stumbles or is offended or is sick.


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Thou hast faith; have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he that does not condemn himself with that thing which he allows.


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And he that makes a difference is condemned if he eats, because [he] does not [eat] by faith; and whatsoever [is] not out of faith is sin.:


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For the Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.


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For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient [endurance] and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.


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Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be unanimous among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,


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Now I say that Christ Jesus, was [a] minister of the circumcision, by the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers;


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but that the Gentiles glorify God by mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name.


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And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall wait [for salvation].


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And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.


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But I am convinced regarding you, my brethren, that even without my exhortation ye are full of charity, full of all knowledge, so as to be able to admonish one another.


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Nevertheless I have written, brethren, in part boldly, as admonishing you by the grace that is given [to] me of God,


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being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,


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with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire [area] with the gospel of the Christ.


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And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named [previously], not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,


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but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.


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But now having more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you,


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when I leave for Spain, I will come unto you; for I trust to see you on my journey and to be taken there by you, if first I may enjoy your company.


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For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem.


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It has pleased them verily, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they should also minister unto them in carnal things.


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So that, when I have concluded this and have delivered unto them this fruit, I will come by you unto Spain.


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For I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of the Christ.


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But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Spirit, that ye help me with prayers to God for me,


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that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judaea and that the offering of my service to the saints in Jerusalem may be accepted,


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that ye receive her in the Lord as a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.


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(who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles);


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likewise [greet] the church in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia in Christ.


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Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen [and my fellowprisoners], who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.


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Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those that are of the [household] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.


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Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who laboured much in the Lord.


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Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.


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And I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause dissensions and offences outside of the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.


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For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.


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For your obedience is come abroad unto all [places]. I am glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and innocent concerning evil.


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And let the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.


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Gaius my 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 able to confirm you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed from times eternal


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but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment [of] God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might [hear and] obey by faith,


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Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes, [our] brother,


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unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:


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who shall also confirm that [ye shall remain] unimpeachable unto the end, 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 ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you, but [that] ye be perfect, joined together in the same understanding and in the same perception.


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For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by those [of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.


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In other words, that each 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 stake of Christ should be made void.


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For the word of the stake is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who 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 philosopher of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For in the wisdom of God, since the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe.


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but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God, and the wisdom of God.


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For that which is foolish of God is wiser than men, and that which is weak of God is stronger than men.


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For look upon your vocation, brothers, that ye are not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,


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but rather God has chosen that which is the foolishness of the world to confound the wise, and God has chosen that which is the weakness of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;


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and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,


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But of him ye are [reborn] in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,


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And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.


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And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,


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For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,


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but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,


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which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known [it], they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).


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But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man [is] that which God has prepared for those that love him.


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But God has revealed [this] unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.


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For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.


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Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that God has given us.


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Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual [means].


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But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand [them] because they are spiritually discerned.


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For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.:


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And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.


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I have fed you with milk, and not with [solid] food, for until now ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.


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For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?


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Who then is Paul? and who [is] Apollos? but servants by whom ye believed, each one according [to that which] the Lord gave.


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So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.


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Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.


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According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one see how the building is built.


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the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.


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If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.


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If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy that one; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.


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Let no one deceive themself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.


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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours;


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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by man's judgment; I do not even judge my own self.


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For although I have nothing on my conscience, yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judges me is the Lord.


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Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.


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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye might not learn above that which is written, lest because of one, some of you become puffed up against others.


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For who makes thee to judge? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], what dost thou glory of, as if thou hadst not received [it]?


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Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye reign as kings without us, and I wish ye 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 unto the world and to angels and to men.


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We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] prudent in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.


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Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace


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being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.


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For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye [shall] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.


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For this cause I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.


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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.


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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 ye 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 verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, him that has so done this deed.


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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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let such a one be delivered unto 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 ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ, our passover, is sacrificed for us;


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therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, neither in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in 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 ye would need to go out of the world.


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But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.


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But those that are without, God shall judge. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.:


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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go unto judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?


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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?


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If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set as judges the most humble who are 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 shall be able to judge between his brothers?


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Now therefore there is certainly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather suffer [the] wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?


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Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals


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nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.


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And such were some of you, but [now] ye are washed, but [now] ye are sanctified, but [now] ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful unto 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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Foods [are] for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall 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 ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? In no wise.


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What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body [with her]? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Any [other] sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.


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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?


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For ye 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 does not have authority of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband does not have authority of his own body, but the wife.


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Do not defraud one another, except [it be] with [mutual] consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.


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For I would that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.


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But if they do not have [the gift of] continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.


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And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from [her] husband;


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and if she separates, 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 I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that does not believe, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not put her away.


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And the woman who has a husband that does not believe and if he consents 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; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.


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But if the unbelieving [spouse] separates, let them separate. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases], but God has called us to peace.


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For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?


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But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let them walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.


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Is anyone called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is anyone 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 advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.


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I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus:


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But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.


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But this I say, brothers, the time [is] short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;


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and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;


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and those that use this world, as not using [it as their own], for the fashion of this world passes away.


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But I would have you without worry. 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 [a] 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 honourable and that ye may attend upon the Lord without impediment.


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But if anyone thinks it uncomely regarding his daughter, if she passes the bloom of life, and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.


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Nevertheless, he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has liberty regarding his own, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his daughter, does well.


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So then he that gives [her] in marriage does well, but he that does not give [her] in marriage does better.


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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free [and may] be married to whom she will, if it is in the Lord.


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But she shall be more blessed if she so abides, after my counsel, and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.:


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Now as concerning things offered unto 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 unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] no other God but one.


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For though there are [some] that are called gods, whether in heaven or in the earth (as there are many gods and many lords),


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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 everyone that knowledge, for some with conscience of the idol unto now, eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol, and their conscience being weak is defiled.


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But food does not make us more acceptable unto 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 yours becomes a stumblingblock to those that are weak.


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For if anyone sees thee who hast [this] knowledge sit at food in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols?


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In this manner, therefore, sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.


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Therefore, if food makes my brother to fall, I will never eat flesh nor do [anything] which [may cause] my brother to fall.:


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Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?


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If I am not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.


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Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and [as] the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?


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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?


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Or does he say [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 we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?


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If others are partakers of [this] authority over you, why not us? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.


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Do ye not know that those who work with sacred [things] live [of the things] of the sanctuary? and those who serve at the altar partake of 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 unto me; for [it were] better for me to die than that anyone should make this my glory void.


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For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!


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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, the stewardship [of the gospel] is committed unto me.


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What reward, then, shall I have? That preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Christ without charge, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel.


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Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.


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And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;


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to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.


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To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.


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Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain [it].


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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 [one].


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but I keep my body under, and bring [it] into subjection, lest preaching to others, I myself should become reprobate.:


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Moreover, brothers, I would that ye not ignore how our fathers were all 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 the Christ.


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Neither be ye 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 [dead]: in one day, twenty-three thousand.


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Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.


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No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].


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The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the] fellowship of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not [the] fellowship of the body of the Christ?


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What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?


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But I [say] that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be participants of demons.


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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; ye cannot be participants of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.


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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 do not edify.


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If any of those that do not believe bid you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you asking no questions for conscience sake.


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But if anyone says unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, do not eat [it] for the sake of him that disclosed it and for conscience sake; for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:


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conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other, for why should my liberty [be] judged by another [man's] conscience?


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even as I please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.:


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Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.


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But I would have you know that the head of every man is the 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 the same as if she were shaven.


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For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is 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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But if a woman lets [her] hair grow, it is a glory to her; for [her] hair is given her for a covering.


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With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the church of God.


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Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.


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For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.


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For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.


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What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall 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 unto 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 broke [it] and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.


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After the same manner also [he took] the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.


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For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord's death until he comes.


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Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink [this] cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.:


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Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and [that] no one can call Jesus Lord but by [the] Holy Spirit.


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For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;


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to another, [the] operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, [different] kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:


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one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own [gift] as he wills.


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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 the Christ.


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For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether [we are] Jews or Greeks, whether [we are] bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.


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If the foot shall say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?


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And if the ear shall say, Because I am not an 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 [would] the hearing [be]? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would] the smelling [be]?


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And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; 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 more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are [more] indecent have more honesty.


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For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [one] which lacked,


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that there should be no contradiction in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.


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And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.


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And God did set certain [ones] in the church: first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that faculties, 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 suffers long [and] is benign; charity envies not; charity does [nothing] without due reason, is not puffed up,


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Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end.


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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 as through a mirror, in darkness, but then [we shall see] face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I also am known.


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For he that speaks in an [unknown] tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, for no one understands [him], even though by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.


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I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied, for greater [is] he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edifying.


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Now, brothers, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either with revelation or with knowledge or with prophecy or with doctrine?


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And even things without life giving sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played or harped?


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So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a clear and definite word, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.


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Therefore, if I ignore the virtue of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks [as] a barbarian, and he that speaks [shall be] a barbarian unto me.


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Even so ye, forasmuch as ye desire [the things] of [the] Spirit, earnestly pursue excellence unto the edification 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 thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the ignorant say, Amen, at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what thou sayest?


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yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.


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Brothers, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children; but in understanding be perfect.


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In the law it is written, In other tongues and with other lips I will speak unto this people; and yet for all that, they will not hear me, saith the Lord.


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Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those that do not believe; but prophecy is not for those that do not believe, but for those who believe.


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If, therefore, the whole church is 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 ye are mad?


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But if all prophesy, and there come in one that does not believe or [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all;


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for the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on [his] face, he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed in you.


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How is it then, brothers? when ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has doctrine, has tongues, has revelation, has interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification.


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If anyone speaks 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 is 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 unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be in subjection, as also saith the law.


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And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a dishonest thing for women to speak in [the] congregation.


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If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.


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Moreover, brothers, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received and in which ye stand;


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by which also ye are being saved if ye retain the word that I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.


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For I delivered unto 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 appeared unto more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain unto now, but some are fallen asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles, for I am not worthy 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 towards me was not in vain, for 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 [the] Christ is preached that rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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And we are even found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if [it] so be that the dead do not rise.


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But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, those that are Christ's at his coming.


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Then [comes] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall 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] clear that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.


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And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also subject himself unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.


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Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise 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 does it advantage me, if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.


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and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but bare grain: it may be 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 heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the heavenly glory [is] one [thing], and the earthly [glory is] another.


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One [thing is the] glory of the sun, and another [the] glory of the moon, and another [the] glory of the stars; for [one] star differs from [another] star in glory.


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So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall be raised in incorruption;


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it is sown in dishonour, it shall be raised with glory; it is sown in weakness, it shall be raised with power;


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it is sown a natural body, it shall be 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 life-giving Spirit.


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As [is] the earthy, such [are] those also that are earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such also [are] those that are heavenly.


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Now this I say, brothers, 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 trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised without corruption, and we shall be changed.


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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye 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 orders to the churches of Galatia, do ye likewise.


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Each first sabbath let each one of you set aside in store, as [God] has prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.


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And when I come, whomever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.


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And it may be that I will abide and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey wherever I go.


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For I desire not to see you now in passing, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permits.


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Now if Timothy comes, see that he may stay with you securely, for he does 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 unto me, for I look for him with the brothers.


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As touching [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with [some of] the brothers, but his will was not at all to come at this time, but he will come when he shall have opportunity.


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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 dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints),


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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, for they have filled your absence.


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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, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:


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Blessed [be] the God and 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 those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


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For in the [same] manner that the sufferings of the Christ abound in us, so also our consolation abounds by Christ.


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And if we are afflicted, [it is] for your consolation and saving health, which is effected in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, [it is] for your consolation and saving health.


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And our hope of you [is] steadfast, being certain, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.


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Because, brothers, we would not have you ignore our tribulation which was done unto us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond our strength, in such a manner 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 who raises the dead;


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who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];


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ye also helping us with prayer, 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 carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.


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For we write no other things unto you than what ye read or also know, and I trust ye shall know them even to the end


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as also ye have known in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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and to pass by you into Macedonia and to come again out of Macedonia unto you and of you to be sent forward to 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 of me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timothy, has not been yes and no, but in him was yes.


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For if I make you grieve, who is he then that shall make me glad, but the same who is grieved by me?


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And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief from those 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 unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.


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But if any have caused [me] grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put a burden on you all.


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So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him] and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.


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For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.


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To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also; for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [I forgave it] in the person of Christ,


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Having come to Troas for the gospel of the Christ, even though [a] door was opened unto me in the Lord,


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I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.


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Now thanks [be] unto God, who always causes us to triumph in the 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 unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as many, false merchandisers of the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.:


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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you or [letters] of commendation from you?


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[Forasmuch as ye 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 anything 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 ministry of death in the letter engraved in stones was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which [glory] was to fade away,


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For if the ministry of condemnation [had] glory, much more shall the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.


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For even that which was [so] glorious had no glory in this respect, in comparison with the glory that excels.


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And not as Moses, [who] put a veil over his face, that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that [glory] which was to fade away:


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(And thus their senses became hardened, for until this day remains the same veil not uncovered in the reading of the old testament, which [veil] is taken away in Christ.


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Therefore we all, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord with uncovered face, are transformed from glory to glory into the same likeness, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.:


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but remove [from ourselves] every hidden shameful thing, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but in the 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 age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine [in] 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 the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to [bring forth] the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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But we have this treasure in clay vessels that the excellency of the virtue may be of God, and not of us.


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[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure [of our lives], but not in despair;


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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 who live are always delivered unto 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, I have spoken; we also believe and, therefore, speak;


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knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus and shall present [us] with you.


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For [we suffer] all these things for your sakes that the grace abounding through many [may] in the thanksgiving redound to the glory of God.


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Therefore we fault not; but though our outward man is wearing out, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.


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For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory unto us;


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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 the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened, for we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon with life swallowing up that which is mortal.


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Now he that has made us for this same thing [is] God, who has likewise given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that while 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 judgement seat of Christ that each one may receive according to that which they have done in the body, good or evil.


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Therefore being certain of that terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.


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For we do not commend ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf that ye may have something to [answer] those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.


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For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:


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And [that] he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.


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Therefore from now on we know no one according to the flesh: and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know [him] no longer.


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Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [they are] a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.


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And all this by God, who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;


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for certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them and having placed in us the word of reconciliation.


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Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did exhort [you] by us; we beseech [you] in Christ's name, be ye 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], exhort [you] also that ye have not received the grace of God in vain.


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(For he saith, I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of saving health I have succoured thee; behold, now [is] the acceptable time; behold, now [is] the day of saving health.)


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But in all [things] showing ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,


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in the word of truth, in the power of God through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,


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through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] as men of the truth;


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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.


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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness? and what communion does light have with darkness?


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And what concord does Christ have with Belial? or what part do the faithful have with the unfaithful?


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And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? for ye 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 shall be my people.


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Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and do not touch 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 [this] not to condemn [you], for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die and live together with [us].


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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 with which he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for 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 ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were made sorry by God that ye might suffer no loss by us.


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For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, of which there is no need to repented; but the sorrow of the world works death.


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For behold this same thing, that [when] ye were made sorry by God, what carefulness it wrought in you, [what] clearing of yourselves, [what] indignation, [what] fear, [what] vehement desire, [what] zeal, [what] vindication! In all [things] ye have shown yourselves to be clean in this matter.


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So that, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not [only] 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 unto you.


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Therefore we were comforted in your comfort; yea, and we rejoiced even more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.


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For if I have gloried of anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our glorying, which [I made] before Titus, was found true.


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And his inward affection is more abundant toward you while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.


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how that in a great trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.


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For to [their] power, I bear record, and even beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves,


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praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the grace and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministry 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 [then] unto us by the will of God.


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Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete among you the same grace also.


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Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing], in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.


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I speak not as commanding, but by occasion of the diligence of others and to prove the sincerity of your charity.


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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be enriched.


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And in this I give [my] advice, for this is expedient for you, who began not only to do, but also to be diligent a year ago.


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Now therefore finish the doing [of it] that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may] also [be] a performance out of that which ye have.


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For if there is first a willing desire, [it is] accepted according to what a person has [and] not according to what they do not have.


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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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For indeed he accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, of his own accord he went unto you.


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and not [that] only, but who was also ordained by 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 desire,


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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 [we have] in you.


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Regarding Titus, [he is] my partner and fellowhelper concerning you; or regarding our brethren, [they are] the apostles of the churches [and] the glory of Christ.


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Therefore show ye unto them before the churches, the proof of your charity and of our glorying regarding you.:


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For I know your ready desire, for which I gloried of you to those of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has provoked many.


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Yet I have sent the brethren lest our glorying of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready,


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lest haply if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed of this our confidence.


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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would first go unto you and prepare beforehand your blessing, of which ye had given notice before that the same might be ready as a blessing, and not as [of] covetousness.


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But this [I say], He who sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he who sows in blessings shall also reap blessings.


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Each one according as they purpose in their heart, [so let them 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 in you that ye, 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 supplies seed to the sower shall also supply bread for food and shall multiply your seed sown and shall increase the growing of the fruits of your righteousness,


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so that being enriched in everything to all generosity, which works out through us thanksgiving unto God.


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For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also abounds in much thanksgiving unto God;


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that by the experience of this ministration, they glorify God for the obedience of your consent unto the gospel of the Christ and in [your] liberal distribution unto them and unto everyone,


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Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and clemency of the Christ (who in presence [am] low among you, but being absent am bold toward you)


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but I beseech [you] that I [need] not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I am esteemed to use against some who regard 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 for the destruction of strong holds),


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casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ


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Do ye look on things after the [outward] appearance? If anyone trusts to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that as he [is] Christ's, even so we [are] Christ's.


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For though I should glory somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed,


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For [his] letters, they say, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.


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Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present.


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For we dare not mix ourselves in with or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, but they do not understand that they are measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves.


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But we will not glory of things beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the rule, of the measure which God has distributed to us, to reach even unto you.


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For we do not overextend ourselves by reaching unto you; for we are also come unto you with the gospel of the Christ,


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Not glorying of things beyond [our] measure in the labours of others; but having hope of the increase of your faith, that we shall be abundantly enlarged among you according to our rule,


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to preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, without [entering into] the measure of another to glory in that which has already been made ready.


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For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to the Christ.


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But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your senses should be corrupted in some way, and ye should fall from the simplicity that is in the Christ.


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Therefore if anyone comes preaching another Jesus whom we have not preached or [if] ye receive another spirit from that which ye have received or another gospel from that which ye have accepted, ye bear well with [it].


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But though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge, but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.


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Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?


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And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any [of you], for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].


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It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.


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But what I do, I will continue to do that I may take away the occasion from those who desire it to be found like unto us in that in which they glory.


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Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.


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I say again, Let no one think me a fool if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may yet glory a little.


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That which I speak, I speak [it] not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of glory.


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For ye suffer it if anyone brings you into bondage, if anyone devours [you], if anyone takes [of you], if anyone exalts himself, if anyone smites you on the face.


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I speak as concerning the reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in that in which another is bold, (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.


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Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;


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[in] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by those of my nation, [in] perils of the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;


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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me;


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Certainly it is not expedient for me to glory, but I will come to [the] visions and [the] revelations of the Lord.


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I know a man in Christ [who] fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.


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who was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.


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Therefore if I should desire to glory [in these things], I should not be a fool; for I would say the truth, but [now] I forbear lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me [to be] or [that] he hears of me.


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And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.


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And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me.


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Therefore I am content in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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I have been a fool, glorying; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you, for in nothing am I behind the grandiose apostles, though I am nothing.


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Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and power.


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For what is it in which ye were inferior to the other churches except in that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.


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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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And I will very gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.


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I besought Titus and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus defraud you? Did we not walk in the same Spirit and in the same steps?


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Again, do ye think that we excuse ourselves unto you? We speak before God in Christ, but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.


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For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,


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lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I would have to mourn over many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.:


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This third time I am coming unto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.


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I told you before and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now, I write to those who until now have sinned and to all others that, if I come again, I will not spare,


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For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. By which we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God in you.


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Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.


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Now I pray to God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is good, though we be as reprobates.


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Therefore I write these things being absent lest being present I should treat you with more severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.


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For the rest, brethren, that ye may have joy, be perfected, have consolation, be of one mind, having peace; and the God of peace and charity shall be with you.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit [be] with you all. Amen.:


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Paul, apostle (not from men neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)


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who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,


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I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,


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for there is not another; but there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of the Christ.


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But [even] if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema.


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As we said before, so do I say now again, If anyone preaches any other gospel unto you than what ye have received, let him be anathema.


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For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.


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But I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not according to man.


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For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I was persecuting and destroying the church of God


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And profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.


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to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,


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neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.


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but they had only heard, That he who persecuted us in time past now preaches the faith which he once destroyed.


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But I went up by revelation and communicated unto them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who seemed to be of repute, to not run, or have run, in vain.


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And that in spite of the false brethren, who entered secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage;


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But of these who seemed to be of repute, (whatever they were, it makes no matter to me: God does not accept the appearance of men), for those who seemed [to be of repute] in conference added nothing to me;


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But to the contrary, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter


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(for he that showed himself forth in Peter for apostleship of the circumcision, the same also showed himself forth in me toward the Gentiles);


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and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we [should go] unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision.


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For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.


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And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.


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But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, dost live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?


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knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by [the] faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


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But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of [our] sin? No, in no wise.


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I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


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I do not reject the grace of God, for if righteousness [comes] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.:


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O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you that ye should not trust in the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?


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This only would I learn of you, Did ye receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the [obedient] ear of faith?


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He therefore that gives unto you the Spirit and does works of power among you, [does he do it] by the works of the law or by the [obedient] ear of faith?


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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, evangelized Abraham in advance, [saying], In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.


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For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.


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But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident, for The just shall live by faith.


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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangs on a tree),


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That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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Brethren, (I speak after the manner of men) Even when a covenant is of man, once it is confirmed, no one cancels it or adds to it.


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Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He did not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.


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And this I say [that regarding] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot cancel it, that it should make the promise of no effect.


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For if the inheritance [is] of the law, [it is] no longer of promise; but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.


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For what then [serves] the law? It was added because of rebellions until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.


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[Is] the law then against the promises of God? No, in no wise, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.


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But the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believers.


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But before faith came, we were under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.


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Therefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.


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[Here] there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.


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Now I say [That] the heir, as long as he is a child differs [in] nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all,


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but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,


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And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father;


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therefore, thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


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But now, having known God, or rather being known of God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, in which ye desire again to be in bondage?


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And my affliction which was in my flesh ye did not despise, nor reject but [ye] received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.


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Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record that if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.


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They are zealous after you, [but] not [for] good; they would exclude you [from us], that ye might be zealous after them.


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But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman [was born] through the promise.


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Which things are an allegory; for these [women] are the two covenants: the one from the mount Sinai, which begat unto bondage, which is Hagar.


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For this Hagar or Sinai is a mount in Arabia, which corresponds to the one that is now Jerusalem, which [together] with her children is in bondage.


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For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth [into praise] and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.


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But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to the Spirit, even so [it is] now.


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Nevertheless what does the scripture say? Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.


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Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.


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Ye are empty of the Christ, whosoever of you that justify yourselves by the law; ye are fallen from grace.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity.


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I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will not be otherwise minded, but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.


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And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offence of the stake ceased.


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For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not [use] liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.


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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.


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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,


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envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told [you] in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Brethren, if anyone is overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.


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But let everyone prove his own work, and then he shall have glory regarding only himself, and not in another.


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For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows in the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.


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Therefore as long as we have the opportunity, let us do good unto everyone, especially unto those who are of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the stake of the Christ.


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For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.


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But in no wise should I glory, except in the stake of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.


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And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [things] in Christ;


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according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;


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having marked out beforehand [the way] for us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,


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in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace,


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having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself,


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that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,


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in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had [the way] marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,


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In whom ye also [trusted], hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your saving health; in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of the promise,


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which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.


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that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;


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illuminating the eyes of your understanding, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints


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and what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power in us who believe, by the operation of the power of his strength,


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which operated in the Christ, raising him from the dead and setting [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],


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far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come,


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And has put all [things] under his feet and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,


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in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the [will of the] prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,


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among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as [all] the others.


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even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by [whose] grace ye are saved)


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That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.


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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.


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Therefore remember that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in [the] flesh, who were called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in [the] flesh, which is made by hands,


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that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world,


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but now in Christ Jesus ye who at another time were far off are made near by the blood of the Christ.


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abolishing in his flesh the enmity, [which was] the law of commandments in the order of rites, to edify in himself the two in one new man, making peace,


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Now therefore ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God,


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and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,


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which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,


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that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in the Christ by the gospel,


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of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the operation of his power.


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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ


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and to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the ages has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.


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To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man,


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may be able to [well] comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height


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and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.


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Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,


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unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.:


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I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,


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(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?


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He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens, that he might fulfill all things.)


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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers,


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for the perfecting of the saints in the work of the ministry, unto [the] edifying of the body of the Christ


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until we all come forth in [the] unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the coming of age of the Christ:


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That we no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men [and] cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive,


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but following the truth in charity, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:


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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and [well] tied together among itself by the nourishment that every [connecting] bond supplies, by the operation of each member according to measure they have received, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in charity.


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This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their [own] senses,


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having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,


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who, after losing all sense [of feeling] have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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that ye put off [everything] concerning the old way of life, [that is], the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,


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and that ye put on the new man, which is created in conformity to God in righteousness and in the holiness of the truth.


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Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.


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Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.


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Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.


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Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,


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and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.:


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and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us [as] an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.


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But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becomes saints,


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neither dishonest words nor foolishness nor low jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks.


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For this ye know, that no fornicator nor unclean person nor covetous man, who is [also] an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


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Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.


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For in another time ye were darkness, but now [ye are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light;


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But all these things when they are reproved by the light are made manifest, for the light is that which manifests everything.


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Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.


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speaking among yourselves with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and praising the Lord in your hearts,


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For the husband is the head of the wife even as the Christ is head of the church, and it is he who gives saving health to the body.


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Therefore, as the church is subject unto the Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in everything.


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that he might present her glorious for himself, a church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.


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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his church:


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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.


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Nevertheless, let each one of you do likewise, let each one so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife [see] that she reverences [her] husband.:


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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.


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Servants, be obedient to those that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto the Christ,


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not to be seen as [only] pleasing men, but as the servants of the Christ, doing the will of God from within,


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knowing that whatever good thing anyone does, the same shall they receive of the Lord, whether [they are] bond or free.


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And, ye masters, do the same unto them, forbearing threats, knowing that their Master and yours is also in heaven and that he is no respecter of persons.


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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.


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Therefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and stand [fast], all [the work having] been finished.


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Stand [firm], therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate, of righteousness,


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above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.


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praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints


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and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel,


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But that ye also may know my affairs [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, shall make known to you all things,


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whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs and [that] he might comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:


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being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect [it] until the day of Jesus Christ


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Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.


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And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all perception,


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being filled with fruits of righteousness, which [are] by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.


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But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel,


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and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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Some preach the Christ [out] of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds,


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What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, and will even rejoice.


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For I know that this shall become my saving health through your prayer and the nourishment of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life or by death.


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For I am in a strait between [the] two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:


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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith,


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Only let your conversation be as is worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, unanimous, working together for the faith of the gospel,


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and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God.


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For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,


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Therefore if [there is] any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,


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[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,


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and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the stake.


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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] in earth and [things] under the earth,


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and [that] every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.


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Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling.


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that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,


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holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.


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And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.


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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.


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Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellowsoldier, but your messenger and he that ministered to my needs.


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For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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I sent him, therefore, the more carefully, that when ye see him again, ye may rejoice and that I may be the less sorrowful.


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because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.:


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It remains, my brethren, that ye rejoice in the Lord. It does not bother me to write the same things to you, and for you [it is] safe.


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For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh.


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Though I might also have reason to confide in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:


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Circumcised the eighth day, of the lineage of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;


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concerning zeal, a persecutor of the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.


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And doubtless I even count all things [as] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ


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and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:


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That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death,


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Not as though I had already attained [it], either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may lay hold of that for which I have also been laid hold of by the Christ, Jesus.


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Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of [it] yet, but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead,


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Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.


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Nevertheless, in that unto which we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind.


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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the stake of Christ;


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whose end [shall be] perdition, whose God [is their] belly and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things).


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Who shall transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is also able to subdue all things unto himself.:


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Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.


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And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also and [with] my other fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life.


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Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.


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And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.


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Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things [are] honest, whatever things [are] just, whatever things [are] pure, whatever things [are] lovely, whatever things [are] of good report, if [there is] any virtue and if [there is] any praise, exercise yourselves in these things.


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Those things, which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you.


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But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again, in which ye were also concerned, but ye lacked opportunity.


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I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to have an abundance; in everything and by all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.


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Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.


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But I have all and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.


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to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the charity [which ye have] toward all the saints,


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for the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye have already heard by the word of the truth of the gospel,


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which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world, and brings forth fruit, as [it does] also in you, since the day ye heard [it] and knew the grace of God in truth,


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as ye also learned of Epaphras, our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ,


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For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,


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that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing [him] in everything, being fruitful in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,


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strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness,


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giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us worthy to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light,


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who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son,


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for by him were all things created, that [are] in the heavens and that [are] in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they are] thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by him and in him;


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And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.


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and by him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his stake, whether [they are] the things in the earth or the things in the heavens.


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And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled [you]


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in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreproveable in his sight


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if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and [are] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard [and] which is preached to every creature which is under heaven, of which I Paul am made a minister,


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who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which [is] lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the church,


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of which I am made a minister by the dispensation of God which is given to me in you, to fulfil the word of God,


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[even] the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints,


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to whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery in the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,


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whom we preach, warning every man and teaching in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,


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In which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily.:


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For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and [for] those at Laodicea and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,


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that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in charity and in all [the] riches of the fulfilled understanding to know the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ;


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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.


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rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, according to the elements of the world, and not after Christ.


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In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ;


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buried together with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.


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And you, being dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses,


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blotting out the bill of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his stake,


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[and] having spoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.


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Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or of [the] new moon or of [the] sabbath [days],


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Let no one govern you according to their own will under [pretext of] humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind,


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and not holding fast [to] the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God.


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For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,


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which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh.:


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If ye then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God.


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When Christ, [who] is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.


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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;


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But now let ye also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.


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and [being] clothed with the new [man], who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one that created him,


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where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant [nor] free: but Christ [is] all and in all.


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Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,


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forbearing one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a quarrel against another: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.


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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which likewise ye are called into one body, and be ye thankful.


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Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord.


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And whatever ye do whether in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God and Father by him.


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Servants, in all things hearken unto [your] masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who [only] please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;


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knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.


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But he that does wrong shall receive the wrong which he has done, [now] that there is no respect of persons.:


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Masters, do that which is just and right with [your] servants, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.


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praying also together for us that God would open unto us [the] door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, for which I am also in bonds,


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Let your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.


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All my affairs shall Tychicus declare unto you, [who is] a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord,


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whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your affairs and comfort your hearts,


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with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known unto you all [the] things which [are happening] here.


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Aristarchus, my fellowprisoner, salutes you, and Mark, nephew to Barnabas, (concerning whom ye have received commandments, if he comes unto you, receive him),


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and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only [are my] fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort unto me.


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Epaphras, who is [one] of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand [firm], perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.


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For I bear witness of him, that he has a great zeal for you and those [that are] in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.


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And when [this] epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of [the] Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea.


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians [congregated] in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,


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For our gospel did not come unto you in word only, but also in power and in [the] Holy Spirit and in full assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.


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And ye were made imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word with much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit:


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For through you the word of the Lord has been divulged not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith, which is in God, has become extended, so that we have no need to say anything.


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For they themselves tell of us what an entrance we had unto you and in what manner ye were converted to God from idols to serve the living and true God


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and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.:


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but having suffered before and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to announce unto you the gospel of God with much diligence.


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but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.


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For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God [is] witness,


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nor did we seek glory of men neither of you nor [yet] of others, when we might have been burdensome unto you as the apostles of Christ.


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loving you so much, that we were willing to give unto you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye are dear unto us.


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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.


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Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,


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as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [with] his children,


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For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.


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For ye, brethren, have been imitators in Christ Jesus of the churches of God which are in Judaea, for ye also have suffered like things of your own nation, even as they [have] of the Jews,


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who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,


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forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up [the measure of] their sins always, for the wrath [of God] has come upon them to the uttermost.


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But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly with great desire to see your face.


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For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? [Is it] not you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?


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and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God [and our fellowlabourer] in the gospel of the Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in your faith,


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For even when we were with you, we told you in advance that we must pass through tribulations, even as it has come to pass, and ye know.


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For this cause I, also, not waiting any longer, have sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter has tempted you and our labour is in vain.


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But now when Timothy came from you unto us and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also [to see] you.


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For what thanks can we render to God again for you for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God,


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night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might complete that which is lacking in your faith?


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And the Lord make you to multiply and make charity to abound among you and toward all [men], even as it [is] with us toward you,


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that your hearts may be confirmed in holiness, irreprehensible before God, even our Father, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.:


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It is in order then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, that in the manner ye were taught of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would continue to grow.


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That no one oppress and defraud his brother in [any] matter because the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.


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He therefore that despises [us], does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.


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But as touching love among the brethren, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves have learned of God that ye are to show charity to one another.


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And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, brethren, that ye continue to grow


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and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,


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that ye may walk honestly toward those that are without, and [that] ye may desire nothing from any one.


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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who sleep in Jesus will God also bring with him.


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For this, we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.


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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;


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then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


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For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.


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But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet, the hope of saving health.


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And we beseech you, brethren, to recognize those who labour among you and preside [over] you in the Lord and admonish you


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and that you express greater charity unto them for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves.


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We also exhort you, brethren, that you warn those that are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with everyone.


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See that no one renders evil for evil unto anyone, but always follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all [men].


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And the very God of peace sanctify you completely, that your spirit, soul, and body be preserved whole without reprehension for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians congregated in God our Father and in our Lord Jesus Christ:


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We must thank God always for you, brethren, as is due because your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of each and every one of you toward each other abounds,


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so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure and


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in testimony of the just judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer,


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and to give you, who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power,


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with flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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who shall be punished with eternal destruction by the presence of the Lord and by the glory of his power,


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when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all those that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.


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Therefore in this manner we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of his calling and fill each will with goodness and the work of faith with power


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that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be clarified in you, and ye in him, by the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.:


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Now we beseech you, brethren, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together unto him,


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that ye not be easily shaken in understanding or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us, as if the day of Christ is at hand.


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Let no one deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come] except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,


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opposing and exalting himself against all that is called God, or divinity, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, making himself appear to be God.


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For the mystery of iniquity is already working, except that he who dominates now will dominate until he is taken out of the way.


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And then shall that Wicked [one] be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and remove with the clarity of his coming:


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[that wicked one], who shall come by the working of Satan with great power and signs and lying miracles,


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and with all deception of iniquity [working] in those that perish because they did not receive the charity of the truth, to be saved.


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Therefore, for this cause, God shall send the operation of error in them, that they should believe the lie;


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But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to saving health through the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in [the] truth,


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Therefore, brethren, stand fast and retain the doctrine which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.


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Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given [us] eternal consolation and good hope through grace,


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Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course and be glorified, even as [it is] with you,


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And we have confidence in the Lord regarding you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.


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Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks out of order, and not after the doctrine which ye received of us.


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neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but working with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,


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For even when we were with you, this we declared unto you, that if anyone desires not to work neither should he eat.


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For we hear that there are some who walk among you out of order, not working at all, but are busybodies.


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Now those that are such, we charge and exhort in our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their bread.


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And if anyone does not hearken unto our word by this epistle, note that one and do not join with him, that he may be ashamed.


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God, our Saviour and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,


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unto Timothy, true son in the faith, Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Even as I besought thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou might charge some that they not teach diverse doctrine,


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nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which generate questions [other than] that the edification of God is by faith.


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Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and [of] a good conscience and [of] faith unfeigned:


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knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly sinners, for the evil and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,


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for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,


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And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,


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who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, but I was received unto mercy because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.


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This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of acceptation by all that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first.


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But for this cause I was received unto mercy that in me first, Jesus Christ might show forth all clemency, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him for eternal life.


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Therefore unto the King forever, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, so that according to past prophecies regarding thee, that thou by them might war a good warfare;


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holding fast faith and a good conscience, which some, having cast away, have shipwrecked in [their] faith,


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Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.:


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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men,


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for kings, and [for] all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and integrity.


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For [there is only] one God and likewise [only] one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,


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of which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ [and] do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.


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I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.


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In like manner also that the women adorn themselves in an honest manner, with shyness and modesty, not with ostentatious hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing


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notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and charity and sanctification and modesty.:


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The Word is faithful, If anyone desires the office of a bishop [to be a pastor or elder in the church], he desires a difficult ministry.


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It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of [only] one wife, vigilant, temperate, of [worldly] affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach;


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not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;


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(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)


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Moreover he must have a good report of those who are outside lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.


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Likewise the deacons [must be] honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;


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Let the deacons be the husbands of [only] one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.


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For those that minister well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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But if I tarry long, that thou may know how it is expedient to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.


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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.:


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Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, listening to spirits of error and doctrines of demons;


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they shall forbid to marry and shall command [men] to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and have known the truth.


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For everything that God created [is] good, and nothing [is] to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,


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If thou put these things before the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, unto which thou hast attained.


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For bodily exercise profits [a] little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.


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For this we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.


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Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which is given unto thee to prophesy, through the laying on of the hands of the elders.


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Occupy thyself in these things [with care], for in this is [everything], that thy profiting may be manifest unto all.


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Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; be diligent in this, for in doing so thou shalt both save thyself and those that hear thee.:


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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.


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Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusts in God, and is diligent in supplications and prayers night and day,


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But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.


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Let a widow be placed on the list being not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,


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having a good testimony of good works, if she has brought up [well her] children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.


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But the younger widows refuse, for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,


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And reject also the idle, who have learned to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.


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I desire therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, govern the house, giving no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.


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If any faithful man or woman has widows, let them maintain them and let not the church be charged, that it may relieve those that are widows indeed.


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Let the elders that govern well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine.


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For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain. And, The labourer [is] worthy of his reward.


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I charge [thee] before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.


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Some men's sins are manifest beforehand, before they come unto judgment, but to others they follow after.


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Likewise also the good works [of some] are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise cannot be hid.:


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Let all that are under the yoke of slavery count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine not be blasphemed.


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And those that have faithful masters, let them not despise [them], because they are brethren, but rather serve them better, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. Teach and exhort this.


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If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,


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he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but is driven mad concerning questions and controversy of words, of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,


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perverse disputings of men of corrupt understanding, and destitute of the truth, using piety as a source of gain: from such withdraw thyself.


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For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.


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For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.


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But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, charity, tolerance, meekness.


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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called, having made a good profession before many witnesses.


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I give thee charge in the sight of God, who gives life to all things and [before] Christ Jesus, who testified before Pontius Pilate a good profession;


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that thou keep the commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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the only one who has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen.


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Charge those that are rich in this world, that they not be highminded, not placing their hope in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;


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[but charge them] to do good, that they be rich in good works, liberal to distribute, willing to communicate,


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laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the future, that they may lay hold on eternal life.


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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, turn away from profane voices and vain things and arguments in the vain name of science,


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,


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to Timothy, dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, [and] peace of God the Father and of Christ Jesus our Lord.


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I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with [a] pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,


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when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.


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Therefore I admonish thee that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.


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Therefore be not thou ashamed [to give] testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel by the power of God,


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who has saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages,


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but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and has brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,


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For which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.


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Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and charity which is in Christ Jesus.


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This, thou knowest, that all those who are in Asia are turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;


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The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day; and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.:


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And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.


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No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of [this] life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.


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And also if anyone contends [in public contest], he is not crowned, except he contends legitimately.


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in which I suffer trouble, like unto an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.


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Therefore, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the saving health which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.


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Counsel these things, charging [them] before the Lord. Strive not in words that profit nothing, [but rather] subvert the hearers.


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Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that has nothing to be ashamed of, rightly dividing the word of truth.


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who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past and [have] overthrown the faith of some.


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Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.


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But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay, and likewise some to honour, and some to dishonour.


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If a man, therefore, purges himself from these things, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and profitable for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.


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Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


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That the servant of the Lord should not be contentious, but be meek unto everyone, apt to teach, patient,


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that with meekness they might teach those that resist, if God peradventure will grant unto them that they might repent and know the truth,


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and [that] they may become converted out of the snare of the devil, in which they are captive to do his will.:


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For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,


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without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,


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For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,


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And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt understanding, reprobate concerning the faith.


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But they shall not prevail, for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as that of those also was.


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persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, persecutions I have endured, and the Lord delivered me out of [them] all.


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But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and [in that which] has been entrusted unto thee, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them],


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and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by [the] faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,


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I charge [thee], therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead in his appearing and in his kingdom:


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Preach the word; be instant in season [and] out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.


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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, they shall heap up unto themselves teachers who shall speak to them according to their own lusts,


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from now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all those also that love his appearing.


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for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.


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Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry.


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The cloak that I left at Troas in the house of Carpus, when thou comest, bring [with thee] and the books, [but] especially the parchments.


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But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully known and [that] all the Gentiles might hear, and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.


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And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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


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Paul, servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness;


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and has manifested in due times. It is his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;


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to Titus, true son in the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Christ, our Saviour.


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For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou should correct that which is lacking and set in place elders in every city, as I had commanded thee:


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He who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who can not be accused of dissoluteness, nor insubordinate.


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For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,


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holding fast the doctrine according to the faithful word, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.


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For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers [of souls], especially those of the circumcision,


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whose mouths it is expedient to stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain.


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One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.


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For unto the pure all things are pure, but unto those that are defiled and unfaithful, nothing is pure, but even their soul and conscience is defiled.


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They profess that they know God, but in works they deny [him], being abominable and rebellious and reprobate unto every good work.:


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The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;


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[to be] temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.


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in all things showing thyself as an example of good works, in doctrine [showing] integrity, seriousness, purity,


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sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that the adversary may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.


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[Exhort] servants to be subject to their own masters [and] to please [them] well in all [things]; not contradicting;


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not defrauding, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.


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teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live temperately, righteously, and godly in this present world;


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who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.


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Admonish them to be subject to dominion and power, and to persuade [those who have] authority, that they be quick unto every good work.


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That [they] speak evil of no one, that [they] not be contentious, [but] gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.


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For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.


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not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,


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The Word is faithful, and I desire that thou affirm this constantly, that those who have believed God might be careful to conduct themselves in good works. This is good and profitable unto men.


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But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and debates [concerning] the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.


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When I shall send Artemas unto thee or Tychicus, procure to come unto me to Nicopolis; for I have determined to winter there.


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All that are with me salute thee. Greet those that love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen.:


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Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy, [our] brother, unto Philemon, our dearly beloved and fellowlabourer,


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And to [our] beloved [sister], Apphia and Archippus, our fellowsoldier and to the church in thy house:


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that the communication of thy faith may become effectual for the knowledge of all the good that is in you by Christ Jesus.


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For we have great joy and consolation in thy charity because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.


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yet for the sake of charity I rather beseech [thee], being such a one as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.


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I desired to retain him with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel,


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but I did not want to do anything without thy counsel, that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.


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not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord.


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I Paul have written [it] with my own hand, I will repay [it]; albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.


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Therefore, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord, that thou might refresh my heart in the Lord.


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Having confidence in thy obedience, I have written unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.


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In the same manner prepare me also a lodging; for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.


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has in these last times spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;


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who being the brightness of his glory and the [express] image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;


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being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.


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For unto which of the angels did he say at any time, Thou art my Son, this day I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?


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And again, when he brought in the firstbegotten into the world, he said, And let all the angels of God worship him.


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But unto the Son [he said], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a rod of equity [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.


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Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, [even] thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.


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And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:


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and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall never fail.


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But to which of the angels did he say at any time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool?


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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth in service for the love of those who are the heirs of saving health?:


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Therefore, it is necessary that we with more diligence keep the things which we have heard, so that we do not fall.


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For if the word spoken by [the ministry of] angels was steadfast and every rebellion and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,


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how shall we escape, if we belittle such great saving health? Which, having begun to be published by the Lord, has been confirmed unto us by those that heard him,


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God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders and with diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributing them according to his own will?


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But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?


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Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.


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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now we [do] not see yet that all things are put under him.


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But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.


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For it was expedient that he, for whom [are] all things and by whom [are] all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in [his] glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.


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For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified [are] all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,


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saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.


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Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,


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Therefore in all things he should be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.


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For in that he himself has suffered and was tempted, he is also powerful to help those that are tempted.:


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Therefore, brethren, saints, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,


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For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.


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And Moses verily [was] faithful over all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after,


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but Christ as [a] son over his own house, which house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorious hope firmly until the end.


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Therefore, I was indignant with that generation and said, They do always err from [their] heart, and they have not known my ways.


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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unfaithfulness, to depart from the living God.


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But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.


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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;


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For some of those that came out of Egypt with Moses, when they had heard, did provoke; howbeit not all.


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But with whom was he indignant forty years? [Was it] not with those that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?


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Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.


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For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but it did not profit those that heard the word without mixing [it] with faith.


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(For we who have believed do enter into the rest) as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh [day] like this, And God rested the seventh day from all his works.


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Seeing, therefore, it remains that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of disobedience;


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Again, he determines a certain day, [saying], Today, by David so long a time afterward; as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.


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Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.


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For the word of God [is] alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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Neither is there any created thing that is not manifested in his presence, but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him of whom we speak.


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Having, therefore, a great high priest who penetrated the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast this profession [of our hope].


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For we [do] not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as [we are], yet without sin.


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Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of his grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.:


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For every high priest is taken from among men, constituted on behalf of men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,


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who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those that are in error; for he himself is also compassed with weakness.


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So also the Christ did not glorify himself to make himself high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son; today have I begotten thee.


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Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of [his] reverent fear;


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and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal saving health unto all those that hearken unto him,


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For you should now be teaching [others], if we look at the time, [yet] you need to be taught again which [are] the first elements of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.


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But strong food belongs to those that are perfect, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.:


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Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning [of the establishment] of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,


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of the doctrine of [the] baptisms, and of [the] laying on of hands, and of [the] resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.


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For [it is] impossible that those who once received the light and tasted of that heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit


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and have backslidden, be renewed again by repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting him to an open shame.


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For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it and brings forth herbs in season for those by whom it is dressed receives blessing from God;


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but that which bears thorns and briers [is] rejected and [is] near unto cursing, whose end [shall be] by fire.


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But, beloved, we expect better things than these of you, [things] near unto saving health, though we thus speak.


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For God [is] not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.


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But we desire that each one of you show the same diligence until the end for the fulfillment of [your] hope,


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For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all controversy.


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In which God, desiring to show more abundantly unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath,


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that by two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,


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which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters even [into] that which is within the veil,


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where [our] precursor, Jesus, has entered for us [and is] made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.:


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For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,


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to whom Abraham also gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is King of peace;


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without father, without mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.


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Now consider how great this one [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.


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And verily those that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they also have come out of the loins of Abraham;


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but he whose descent is not counted in those took tithes from Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.


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In the same manner, here men that die take tithes; but there he [received them], of whom it is witnessed that he lives.


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If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron?


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For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no one presided [at] the altar.


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For [it is] manifest that our Lord sprang out of Juda, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.


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who is not made according to the law of a carnal commandment, but by the virtue of an indissoluble life;


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For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it;


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for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did], by which we draw near unto God.


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(for the others indeed without an oath were made priests, but this one with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec);


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Therefore he is able also to save to the uttermost those that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.


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For it was expedient that we have such a high priest, [who is] holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,


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who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's; for this he did once, when he offered up himself.


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For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, has made perfect [a] Son forever.:


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Now of the things which we have spoken, [this is] the sum: We have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,


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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore, [it is] also necessary that this one have something to offer.


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For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, being present still the other priests that offer gifts according to the law,


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(who serve as an example and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished [of God] when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern showed unto thee in the mount);


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but now a more excellent ministry is his, in that he is the mediator of a better testament, which was established upon better promises.


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For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then no place should have been sought for the second.


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For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new testament with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,


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not according to the testament that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.


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For this [is] the testament that I will ordain to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their soul and write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:


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and no one shall teach his neighbour nor anyone his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.


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In that he says, New, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old [is] ready to vanish away.:


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For there was a tabernacle made: the first, in which [was] the candlestick and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.


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which had a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which [was] the golden urn that had the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the testament,


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and over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the seat reconciliation, of which we cannot now speak particularly.


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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God].


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But into the second the high priest [went] alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for his [own] ignorance, and [for] that of the people:


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The Holy Spirit signifying in this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made manifest, as long as the first tabernacle was yet standing:


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Which [was] a figure of that time present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience,


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but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of correction.


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But Christ being now come, high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,


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neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the sanctuary designed for eternal redemption.


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For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh,


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how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?


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And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, so that death intervening for the redemption of the rebellions [that took place] under the first testament, those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.


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For a testament [is] confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.


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For when Moses had read every commandment of the law to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book and all the people,


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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood [there] is no remission.


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So that it was necessary that the figures of the heavenly things should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For Christ is not entered into the sanctuary made with hands (which is a figure of the true), but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,


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nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own);


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otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.


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so also the Christ is offered once to take away the sins of many; and unto those that wait for him without sin he shall appear the second time unto saving health.:


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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never make perfect those who come by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually.


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Otherwise, they would cease to offer them, because those that sacrifice, once purged, would have no more conscience of sin.


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Therefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me;


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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou dost not desire, neither hadst pleasure [therein], which are offered by the law;


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then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will, O God. He took away the first, that he may establish the second.


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In this will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Christ, once [for all].


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And so every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,


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but this [man], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God,


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This is the testament that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will give my laws in their hearts, and in their souls will I write them;


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by a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;


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let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts purified from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water;


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let us hold fast the profession of [our] hope without wavering (for he [is] faithful that promised).


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not forsaking our gathering together, as the manner of some [is], but exhorting [one another] and so much the more, when ye see that day approaching.


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For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,


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Of how much greater punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?


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For we know [who] he [is] that has said, Vengeance [belongs] to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.


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But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;


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on the one hand ye were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and on the other ye became companions of those that were so used.


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For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing that in yourselves ye have a better substance in the heavens, and that abides.


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for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.


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Now the just shall live by faith, but if [any man] draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.


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Through faith we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God, that which is seen being made of that which was not seen.


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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaks.


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By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.


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But without faith [it is] impossible to please God; for he that comes to God must believe that he is and [that] he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.


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By faith Noah, having received revelation of things not seen as yet, with great care prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.


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By faith Abraham, being called, hearkened to go out into the place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he went.


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By faith he sojourned in the promised land, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in booths with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;


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By faith also Sara herself [being sterile] received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she believed him to be faithful who had promised.


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Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so [many] as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.


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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing [them] and embracing [them] and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


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And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from which they came out, they might have had time to have returned.


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But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly one; therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.


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By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],


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accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence he also received him in a figure.


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By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.


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By faith Joseph, as he died, made mention of the departing of the sons of Israel, and gave [a] commandment concerning his bones.


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By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents because they saw [he was] a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.


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choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,


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esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.


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By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.


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By faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of the blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.


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By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land], which the Egyptians attempted to do [and] were drowned.


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By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish together with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace.


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And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and [of] Barak and [of] Samson and [of] Jephthae, [of] David also and Samuel and [of] the prophets,


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quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign [enemies];


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women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;


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they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,


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(of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and [in] mountains and [in] dens and caves of the earth.


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Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,


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with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of [our] faith, who having been offered joy, endured the stake, despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.


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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied in your souls and faint.


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And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:


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If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?


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But if ye are without chastisement, of which all [the sons] are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.


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Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?


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For they verily for a few days chastened [us] as it seemed good unto them, but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.


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It is true that no chastening at present seems to be [cause] for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.


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and make straight steps unto your feet, so that which is lame will not turn out of the way, but let it rather be healed.


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looking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede [you], and thereby many be defiled,


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lest there [be] any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.


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For ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.


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For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest


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and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which [voice] those that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more;


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(for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart:


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but ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,


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to the congregation of the church of the firstborn, who are registered in the heavens and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect


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and to Jesus, the mediator of the new testament and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than [that of] Abel.


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See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less [shall we escape], if we turn away from him that [speaks] from the heavens,


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whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet even once, I shall shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.


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And this [word], Yet even once, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.


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Therefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to the grace, by which we serve God, pleasing him with reverence and godly fear:


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Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them [and] those who suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.


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Let Marriage [be] honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.


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[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness, [and be] content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.


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Remember your pastors, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation:


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Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.


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For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.


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Therefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.


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By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips confessing his name.


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Listen to your pastors, and do not resist them, for they watch for your souls as those that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that [is] unprofitable for you.


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Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience in all things desiring to conduct ourselves well.


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Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal testament,


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make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.


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And I beseech you, brethren, that ye receive [this] word of exhortation, that I have written unto you briefly.


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Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.


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James, [a] servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.


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And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.


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But ask in faith, not doubting anything. For [he] that doubts is like the wave of the sea which is driven of the wind and is tossed from one side to another.


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For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.


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Blessed is the man that [patiently] endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.


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Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:


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Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.


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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.


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He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.


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So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved.


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For if anyone hears the word and does not put it into practice, this same is like unto the man beholding his natural face in a mirror:


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But whosoever has looked [attentively] into the perfect law of liberty and has persevered [in it], not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, the same shall be blessed in their deed.


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If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle their tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion [is] vain.


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The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation [and] to keep thyself unspotted from this world.:


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For if a man with a gold ring and in precious apparel comes into your synagogue and a poor person in vile raiment also comes in,


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and ye have respect to him that wears the precious clothing and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool:


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Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world [that they might be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him?


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But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you [with violence] to the courts?


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If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well;


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For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not murder. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou [commit] murder, thou art become a transgressor of the law.


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For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has showed no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.


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My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says [that] they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?


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and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be [ye] warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what [shall it] profit them?


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But someone may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.


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Dost thou not see how the faith worked together with his works, and the faith was complete by the works?


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And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.


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Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent [them] out another way?


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My brethren, make not unto yourselves many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.


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For we all offend in many things. If any man offends not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to govern the whole body with restraint.


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Behold, we put bits ([or restraint]) in the horses' mouths to persuade them, and we govern their whole body.


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Behold also the ships, which though [they are] so great are driven of fierce winds, yet they are governed with a very small rudder, wherever the governor desires.


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In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!


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And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.


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For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of beings in the sea may be tamed and is tamed by mankind,


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but no man can tame the tongue, which is an evil that cannot be restrained and is full of deadly poison.


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Can the fig tree, my brethren, produce olive berries? or the vine, figs? In the same manner no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh.


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Who is wise and ready among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom.


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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.


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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.


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Where do the wars and disputes [come] from among you? From here [that is to say], of your lusts which fight in your members?


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Ye covet and have not; ye murder, and have envy and cannot obtain; ye fight and war and have not that which ye desire because ye ask not.


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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.


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But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.


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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.


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Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and [your] joy to heaviness.


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Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of [his] brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.


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Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;


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and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what [is] your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.


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Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.


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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.


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Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have refreshed your hearts, as in the day of slaughter [of sacrifices].


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Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently until it receives the early and latter rain.


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


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Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.


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Behold, we count blessed those who endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very merciful, and full of compassion.


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But above all things, my brethren, do not swear by heaven or by the earth or by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and [your] no, no; lest ye fall into condemnation.


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Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;


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and the prayer of faith shall cause the one who is sick to be saved, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven them.


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Confess [your] faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be whole. The effectual prayer of the righteous [is] very powerful.


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Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.


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let [that one] know, that whosoever causes the sinner to convert from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.:


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Peter, apostle of Jesus, the Christ, to the strangers scattered in Pontus, in Galatia, in Cappadocia, in Asia, and in Bithynia,


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chosen (according to the foreknowledge of God the Father) in sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, the Christ, Grace and peace, be multiplied unto you.


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Praised [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, from the dead,


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unto the incorruptible inheritance that cannot be defiled and that does not fade away, conserved in the heavens for you,


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who are kept in the virtue of God by faith, to attain unto the saving health which is made ready to be manifested in the last time.


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In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,


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that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;


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whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;


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Of which saving health the prophets, (who prophesied of the grace that was to come in you) have enquired and searched diligently;


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searching when and in what point of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, which announced beforehand the afflictions that were to come upon the Christ, and the glory that should follow them.


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Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did administer the things, which are now announced unto you by those that have preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into.


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Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you,


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as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,


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And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning [here],


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knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things [like] silver and gold,


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already ordained from before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for love of you,


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who by him do believe God, who raised him up from the dead and has given him glory: that your faith and hope might be in God.


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Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently,


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being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.


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For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,


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but the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.:


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coming unto whom (is the living Stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious),


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ye also, as living stones, [are] built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God by Jesus, the Christ.


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Therefore, also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion the chief corner stone, chosen, precious; and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.


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Unto you, therefore, who believe [he is] precious; but unto those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,


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and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, [even to those] who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.


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But ye are the chosen generation, [a] royal priesthood, [a] holy nation, [an] acquired people, that ye should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.


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Ye who in the time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God, who in the time past had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.


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Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul


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and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed [your] good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.


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Therefore, be subject to every human ordinance [that is] of the Lord, whether it be to a king or to a superior,


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and unto governors as unto those that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those that do well.


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Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear, not only to the good and humane, but also to the unjust.


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For what glory [is it] if, when ye are buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] due to grace from God.


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Because for this were ye called: for the Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps


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who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed [himself] to him that judges righteously;


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he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.


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For ye were as sheep that had gone astray, but are now converted unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.:


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Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands, so that also those who do not obey the Word, may be won without a word by the conversation of their wives,


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Let their adorning not be outward with ostentatious hairdos and wearing of gold nor in composition of apparel,


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but [let] the interior adorning of the heart be without corruption, and of an agreeable spirit and peaceful, which is precious in the sight of God.


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For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who waited upon God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands,


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as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye are made daughters, doing well and not being afraid of any terror.


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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] wisely, giving honour unto the woman, as unto a more fragile vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers not be hindered.


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And finally, [be ye] all of one consent, of one affection, loving each other fraternally, merciful, courteous,


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not rendering evil for evil or curse for curse, but to the contrary, blessing, knowing that ye are called, that ye should possess a blessing by inheritance.


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For he that desires to love life and see the good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile;


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For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord [is] against those that do evil.


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But also if ye suffer anything for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; therefore, be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled,


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but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and [be] ready always to respond to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence,


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having a good conscience, so that in that which they murmur against you as of evildoers, those that blaspheme your good conversation in the Christ may be confused.


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For [it is] better (if the will of God so desires) that ye suffer for doing good than for doing evil.


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For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit,


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which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was [being] made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.


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Unto the figure of which the baptism that does now correspond saves us (not taking away the uncleanness of the flesh, but giving testimony of a good conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ,


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who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven, unto whom the angels and the authorities and powers are subject.:


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Since the Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also armed with the same thought; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,


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so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.


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For it should suffice us that during the time past of [our] life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.


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And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with [them] to the same unchecked dissolution;


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Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.


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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover [a] multitude of sins.


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Let each one according to the gift that he has received, administer it unto the others, as a good steward of the diverse graces of God.


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If anyone speaks, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, [let them do it] according to the virtue which God gives, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus, the Christ, unto whom is glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Beloved, think it not strange when you are tried by fire (which is done to prove you) as though some strange thing happened unto you,


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but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of the afflictions of the Christ, so that also in the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice in triumph.


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If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you; certainly on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.


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So let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or as desirous of the things of others.


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But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf.


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For it is time that the judgment begins from the house of God; and if [it] first [begins] with us, what shall the end [be] of those that do not obey the gospel of God?


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Therefore, let those that are afflicted according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls [unto him] as unto a faithful Creator, doing good.:


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The elders who are among you I exhort (I am also an elder with them and a witness of the afflictions of the Christ, and also a participant of the glory that shall be revealed).


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Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;


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and not as having lordship over the heritage of the Lord, but in such a manner as to be examples of the flock.


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And when the great Prince of the pastors shall appear, ye shall receive the incorruptible crown of glory.


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Likewise, young people, be subject to the elders in such a manner that you are all subject to one another. Be clothed with humility of will, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.


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Be temperate and vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour,


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resist him steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are to be accomplished in the company of your brethren that are in the world.


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But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus, the Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, he himself perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes [you].


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By Silvanus, a faithful brother; (according to my reckoning) I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which ye stand.


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The [church that is] at Babylon, chosen together with [you], salutes you and [so does] Mark, my son.


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Greet one another with a kiss of charity. Peace [be] with you all that are in Jesus, the Christ. Amen.:


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Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:


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as all things that pertain to life and to godliness are given us of his divine power, through the knowledge of him that has called us by his glory and virtue,


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whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be made participants of the divine nature, having fled the corruption that is in the world through lust.


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Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;


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For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.


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Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.


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Because in this manner the entrance shall be abundantly administered unto you in the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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For this [reason], I will not leave off reminding you always of these things, although ye know [them] and are established in the present truth.


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knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.


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For we have not made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cunningly devised fables, but as eyewitnesses of his majesty.


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For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.


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We have also the most sure word of the prophets, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,


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For the prophecy did not come in times past by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke being inspired by the Holy Spirit.:


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But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who covertly shall bring in destructive sects and shall deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.


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And many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed;


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and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.


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For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down into the deepest abyss and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;


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and if [he] did not forgive the old world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;


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and if [he] condemned by destruction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, turning them into ashes, making [them] an example unto those that after should live without fear and reverence of God;


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and delivered just Lot, who was persecuted by those abominable [people] because of their nefarious conversation;


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(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, afflicted [his] righteous soul from day to day with the deeds of those unjust [people]);


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the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;


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and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;


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whereas even the angels, who are greater in power and might, bring no curse of judgment against them before the Lord.


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But these, speaking evil of the things that they do not understand (as natural animals without reason, who are made to be taken and destroyed), shall utterly perish in their own corruption,


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receiving the reward of their unrighteousness, [as] those that count it pleasure to live luxuriously every day. These are spots and blemishes, who eat [together] with you, while at the same time they revel in their deceit,


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having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing [how] to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,


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who forsaking the right way have erred, having followed the way of Balaam [the son] of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,


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and was rebuked for his iniquity; a dumb animal accustomed to a yoke (upon which he was seated), speaking with man's voice, hindered the madness of the prophet.


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These are wells without water, clouds that are brought by [a] whirlwind, to whom gross darkness is reserved for ever.


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For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error,


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promising them liberty, being they themselves the servants of corruption: for he who is overcome by someone is subject to bondage by the one that overcame him.


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Certainly, if having separated themselves from the contaminations of the world, by the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again entangle themselves therein and are overcome, their latter end is made worse for them than the beginnings.


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For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.


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But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog returns unto his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.:


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Beloved, I now write unto you this second epistle, in which I alert with exhortation your pure understanding,


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that ye keep in memory the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of our commandment, that we are apostles of the Lord and Saviour,


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and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the day in which the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation.


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Of course, they willingly ignore that the heavens were [created] of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by the word of God;


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but the heavens, which are now, and the earth are conserved by the same word, kept unto the fire in the day of judgment and of perdition of the ungodly men.


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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.


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The Lord is not late concerning his promise, as some count lateness, but is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.


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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, burning, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.


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[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,


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waiting for and desiring earnestly for the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?


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Nevertheless we, according to his promises, wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.


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Therefore, beloved, seeing that ye hope for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.


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And have as saving health the patience of our Lord, even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you


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in almost all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things, among which are some things [that] are hard to understand, which those that are ignorant and unstable twist, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.


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Ye, therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] in advance, be on guard lest by the error of the wicked ye be deceived with the others and fall from your own steadfastness.


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But grow in grace and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and until the day of eternity. Amen.:


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That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life


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(for the life is manifested, and we also saw [it] and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father and appeared unto us);


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that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, that ye also may have communion with us; and truly our communion [is] with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.


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This then is the promise which we have heard of him and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.


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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with him in the midst of us, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son cleanses us from all sin.


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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


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My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ;


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and he is the reconciliation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.


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He that says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.


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But whosoever keeps his word, in him verily is the charity of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.


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


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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which is the truth in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.


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But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.


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I write unto you, fathers, that ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, that ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, that ye have known the Father.


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I have written unto you, fathers, that ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, that ye are strong and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.


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Love not the world neither the things [that are] in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.


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For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.


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Little children, it is the last hour, and as ye have heard that the antichrist shall come, likewise there are also beginning to be many antichrists, by which we know that it is the last time.


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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us; but [this happened] that it might be made manifest that they were not all of us.


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I have not written unto you as if ye ignore the truth, but as unto those that know it, and that no lie is of the truth.


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Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This same is antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.


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Whosoever denies the Son, the same does not have the Father. Whosoever confesses the Son, has the Father also.


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Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. For if that which ye have heard from the beginning shall abide in you, ye also shall [continue to] abide in the Son and in the Father.


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But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and is truth, and is no lie; and even as it has taught you, abide ye in him.


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And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.


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Behold, what charity the Father has given us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know him.


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Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be; but we know that if he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.


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Little children, let no one deceive you; he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he also is righteous.


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He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might undo the works of the devil.


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Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.


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In this the sons of God are manifest, and the sons of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness and that loves not his brother is not of God.


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Not as Cain, [who] was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.


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We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love [his] brother abides in death.


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Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.


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In this we have known the charity [of God] because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.


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But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?


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and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.


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And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us.


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And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.:


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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.


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In this know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is of God:


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And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and that now it is already in the world.


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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.


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We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.


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Beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. Anyone that loves is born of God and knows God.


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In this was the charity of God demonstrated in us, in that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.


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In this does the charity consist, not because we had loved God, but because he loved us and has sent his Son [to be] the reconciliation for our sins.


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No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his charity is completed in us.


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And we have known and believed the charity that God has in us. God is charity, and he that abides in charity abides in God, and God in him.


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In this the charity with us is made perfect, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, that as he is, so are we in this world.


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In charity there is no fear; but charity that is perfect casts out fear; because fear has torment; from which he that fears is not complete in charity.


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If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?


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Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and anyone that loves him that begat also loves him that is born of him.


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For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.


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For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, [even] our faith.


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This is Jesus, the Christ, who came by water and blood; not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is he that bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.


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For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.


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And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree in one.


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


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He that believes in the Son of God has the witness of God in himself; he that does not believe God has made God a liar; because he does not believe the witness that God has testified of his Son.


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These things I have written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.


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And this is the confidence that we have in God, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us:


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And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have the petitions that we asked of him.


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If any man see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto death, he shall ask [God], and he shall give him life [that is], unto those that do not sin unto death. There is sin unto death, for which I do not say that you should pray.


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We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.


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


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The elder unto the chosen lady and her sons, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also all those that have known the truth,


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Grace be with you, mercy [and] peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and charity.


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I have rejoiced greatly, for I have found of thy sons that they walk in the truth, as we have received the commandment from the Father.


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And now I beseech thee, lady, (not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning) that we love one another.


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And this is charity, that we walk after his commandment. And this is the commandment, That ye walk in him, as ye have heard from the beginning.


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For many deceivers are entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This same is a deceiver and antichrist.


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Look to yourselves, that we not lose those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a fulfilled reward.


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Whosoever rebels and does not abide in the doctrine of the Christ, does not have God. He that abides in the doctrine of the Christ, the same has the Father and the Son.


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If anyone comes unto you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into [your] house neither say unto him, Welcome:


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Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write] with paper and ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.


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For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou dost walk in the truth.


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who have borne witness of thy charity before the church, whom if thou wilt help them as is convenient according to God, thou shalt do well;


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I wrote unto the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.


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Therefore, if I come, I will cause his deeds to be understood, speaking against us with malicious words, and not content with this, he does not receive the brethren and forbids those that desire to receive them and casts [them] out of the church.


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Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God, but he that does evil has not seen God.


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Everyone gives testimony of Demetrius, even the truth itself; and we also bear witness, and ye have known that our witness is true.


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For I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] to thee. [Our] friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.:


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Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are called, sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:


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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly persevere in the faith which was given once unto the saints.


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For there are certain men crept in unawares without fear or reverence of God, who from beforehand have been ordained unto this condemnation, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying God who alone has dominion, and our Lord Jesus, the Christ.


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I will, therefore, remind you, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those that did not believe.


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And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.


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Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, were set forth for an example, having received the judgment of eternal fire.


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In the same manner these deceived dreamers, defile their flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of higher powers.


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Yet when Michael, the archangel, contended with the devil, disputing over the body of Moses, [he] dared not bring against him a curse of judgment, but said, The Lord reprehend thee.


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But these speak evil of those things which they do not know; but what they know by nature as animals without reason, in those things they corrupt themselves.


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Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Core.


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These are spots in your banquets of charity, feeding themselves without any fear whatsoever: clouds without water, carried to and fro of the winds; trees withered as in fall, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;


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raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.


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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints


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to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have unfaithfully committed and of all the hard words which the unfaithful sinners have spoken against him.


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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires; and their mouth speaks arrogant things, admiring persons to take advantage.


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But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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how that they told you, That in the last time there would be mockers, who would walk after their own ungodly desires.


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keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life,


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And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.


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Now unto him that is powerful to keep you without sin and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,


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to the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, now and in all the ages. Amen.:


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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which are convenient to do quickly, and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John,


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who bore witness of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.


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Blessed is he that reads and those that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein, for the time [is] at hand.


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John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne


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and from Jesus, the Christ, [who is] the faithful witness [and] the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood


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and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him and those [also] who pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail over him. Even so, Amen.


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I AM the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.


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I John, your brother and participant in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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that said, I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia: unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea.


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and in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle.


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His head and [his] hairs [were] white like white wool, as the snow, and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire


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and his feet like unto brilliant metal as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters.


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And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword, and his countenance [was] as the sun when [it] shines in its strength.


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And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last,


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and he that lives and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of Hades and of death.


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Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which must be after these.


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The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.:


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Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things, saith he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:


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I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear those who are evil; and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars,


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Remember, therefore, from where thou art fallen and repent and do the first works, or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.


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He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.


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And unto the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things, saith the first and the last, who was dead, and is alive:


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I know thy works and tribulation and poverty, (but thou art rich), and [I know] the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan.


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Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.


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He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.


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And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things, saith he, who has the sharp sword with two edges:


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I know thy works and where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's throne [is], and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas [was] my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwellest.


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But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication.


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Repent, or else I will come unto thee quickly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna and will give him a small white stone and in the stone a new name written, which no one knows except the one that receives [it].


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And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things, saith the Son of God, who has his eyes like unto a flame of fire and his feet like unto brilliant metal:


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I have known thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last [to be] more than the first.


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Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (who calls herself a prophetess) to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.


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Behold, I will cast her into a bed and those that commit adultery with her into great tribulation unless they repent of their deeds.


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And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I AM he that searches the kidneys and hearts, and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.


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But unto you I say and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan (as they say); I will put upon you no other burden


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and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter they shall be broken to shivers, even as I received of my Father.


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And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things, saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead.


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Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God.


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Remember, therefore, of that which thou hast received and heard and hold to it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.


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Thou hast a few persons also in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.


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He that overcomes shall likewise be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.


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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things, saith he that is Holy and True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and shuts, and no one opens;


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I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no one can shut it, for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.


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Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie; behold, I will constrain them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee.


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Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the entre world, to try those that dwell upon the earth.


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He that overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God [which is] the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from [and] with my God, and [I will write upon him] my new name.


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And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Behold, he who saith, Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:


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Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,


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I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined in the fire, that thou may be made rich; and clothed in white raiment, so that the shame of thy nakedness not be uncovered; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou may see.


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Behold, I stand at the door and call; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me.


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To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with my Father in his throne.


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After these things I looked, and, behold, an open door in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, was like a trumpet that spoke with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show thee the things that need to be done after these.


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And immediately I was in the spirit, and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and there was one seated upon the throne.


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And he that was seated was like a jasper and a sardine stone to look upon; and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.


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And round about the throne [were] twenty-four thrones, and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.


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And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices; and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.


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And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal, and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne [were] four animals full of eyes in front and behind.


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And the first animal [was] like a lion and the second animal like a calf, and the third animal had a face as a man, and the fourth animal [was] like a flying eagle.


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And the four animals had each of them six wings about [him], and [they were] full of eyes within, and they did not cease day or night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.


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And when those animals give glory and honour and praise to the one that is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,


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the twenty-four elders fall down before him that is seated on the throne and worship him that lives for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and virtue; for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they have their being and were created.:


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And I saw in the right hand of him that was seated on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.


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


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And no one was able not in the heaven nor in the earth neither under the earth to open the book neither to look upon it.


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And I wept much because no one was found worthy to open the book nor to read it neither to look upon it.


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And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, who has overcome to open the book and to loose its seven seals.


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And I saw, and, behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four animals and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.


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And when he had taken the book, the four animals and the twenty-four elders fell [on their faces] before the Lamb, each one of them having harps, and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of saints.


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And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation


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And I beheld, and I heard [the] voice of many angels round about the throne and of the animals and of the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;


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saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to take power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.


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And I heard every creature which is in heaven and upon the earth and under the earth and such as are upon the sea and all that are in it, saying, Blessing and honour and glory and power, [be] unto him that is seated upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.


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And the four animals said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell [on their faces] and worshipped him that lives for ever and ever.:


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And I saw when the Lamb had opened the first seal, and I heard the first of the four animals, saying as with a voice of thunder, Come and see.


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And I saw and, behold, a white horse; and he that was seated upon him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth victorious, that he might also overcome.


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And another horse went forth [that was] red, and unto him that was seated thereon was given power to take away the peace of the earth and that they should kill one another; and there was given unto him a great sword.


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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third animal, which said, Come and see. And I saw and, behold, a black horse, and he that was seated upon him had a yoke in his hand.


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And I heard a voice in the midst of the four animals, which said, A choenix of wheat for a denarius and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.


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And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth animal, which said, Come and see.


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And I looked and, behold, a green horse, and he that was seated upon him was named Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given unto him over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth.


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And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain because [of] the word of God and for the testimony which they held:


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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on those that dwell in the earth?


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And white robes were given unto each one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little while until their fellow servants and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.


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


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and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, even as a fig tree casts her figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.


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And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


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And the kings of the earth and the princes and the rich and the captains and the strong and every servant and every free [man] hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains


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and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that is seated upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;


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And after these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth that no wind should blow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor upon any tree.


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And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God: and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the land and the sea,


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saying, Hurt not the land neither the sea nor the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of those that were sealed: [and there were] sealed a hundred [and] forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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Of the tribe of Juda [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad [were] sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Aser [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses [were] sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Simeon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar [were] sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Zepulun [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand.


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After this I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and peoples and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with long white robes and palms in their hands


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and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto him who is seated upon the throne of our God and unto the Lamb.


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And all the angels stood round about the throne and [about] the elders and the four animals; and they fell upon their faces before the throne and worshipped God,


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saying, Amen: The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honour and the power and the might, [be] unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.


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And one of the elders responded and asked me, Who are these who are arrayed in long white robes? and where did they come from?


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And I said unto him, lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.


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Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.


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They shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun be thrust upon them nor any other heat.


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For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall govern them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.:


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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.


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And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense of the prayers of all the saints, that he should offer upon the golden altar which was before the throne.


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And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.


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And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the altar and cast [it] into the earth; and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake.


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The first angel sounded the trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the land; and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.


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


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and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.


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


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and the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters because they were made bitter.


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And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, and the third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of the moon and the third part of the stars, in such a manner that the third part of them was darkened, and the third part of the day not did not shine, and the night likewise.


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And I saw and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound [their] trumpets!:


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And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.


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And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose smoke out of the pit as [the] smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.


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And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


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And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth neither any green thing neither any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.


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And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should torment them five months; and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man.


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


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And the appearance of the locusts [was] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.


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And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.


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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power [was] to hurt men five months.


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And they had a king over them, [who is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon [meaning destroyer].


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


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


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And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared unto the hour and day and month and year, to slay the third part of men.


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And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred million: and I heard the number of them.


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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat on them, having breastplates of fire and of jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.


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By these three [plagues] was the third part of men killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.


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For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails [were] like unto serpents that have heads, and with them they do hurt.


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And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and the images of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk.


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And they did not repent of their murders nor of their witchcraft nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.:


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And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:


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And he had in his hand a little open book, and he set his right foot upon the sea and [his] left [foot] upon the land


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And cried out with a loud voice as [when] a lion roars; and when he had cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices.


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And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders have spoken and do not write them.


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and swore by him that lives for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth, and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer;


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but in the day of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he did evangelize unto his servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again and said, Go [and] take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea and upon the land.


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And I went unto the angel and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take [it], and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.


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And I took the little book from the angel's hand and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.


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And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again as to many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.:


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And there was given me a reed like unto a rod, and [he] said unto me, Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those that worship therein.


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But leave out the court which is within the temple and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.


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And I will give my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.


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And if anyone desires to hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone desires to hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.


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These have power to shut the heaven, that it not rain in the days of their prophecy and have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.


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And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them.


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And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.


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And those of the peoples and kindreds and tongues and Gentiles shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.


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And those that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented those that dwelt on the earth.


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And after three days and a half, the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those who saw them.


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


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And in the same hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain the names of seven thousand men; and the others were frightened and gave glory to the God of heaven.


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And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet, and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are reduced unto our Lord and to his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.


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And the twenty-four elders, who sat before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,


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saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and wast, and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned.


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And the Gentiles were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should give the reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints and those that fear thy name, to the small and to the great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.


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And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple: and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and earthquakes and great hail.:


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And there appeared a great sign in the heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;


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And there appeared another sign in the heaven; and, behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.


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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.


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And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all the Gentiles with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and [to] his throne.


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And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days.


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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,


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And the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


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And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and virtue and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.


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And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.


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Therefore, rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the man [child].


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And to the woman were given two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the presence of the serpent into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times.


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And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a river after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.


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


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And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.:


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And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten crowns, and upon its heads the name of blasphemy.


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And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and its feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.


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And I saw one of its heads as it were wounded to death; and its deadly wound was healed; and all the earth marveled, [and] followed the beast.


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And they worshipped the dragon which had given the authority unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast; saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with it?


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And there was given unto it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto it to continue forty [and] two months.


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And it opened its mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and those that dwell in heaven.


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And it was given unto it to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and power was given it over all kindreds and tongues and nations.


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And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship it, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.


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He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.


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Then I beheld another beast coming up out of the land; and he had two horns like the Lamb, but he spoke as the dragon.


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And he exercised all the power of the first beast in its presence and caused the earth and those that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.


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And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven to the earth in the sight of men


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and deceives those that dwell on the earth by those signs which were given unto him to do in the presence of the beast, commanding those that dwell on the earth to make an image of the beast, which has the wound by the sword, and did live.


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And it was given unto him to endue the image of the beast with spirit, so that the image of the beast should speak, and he shall cause those that do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.


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And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and servants, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads;


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and that no one might buy or sell, unless he has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of its name.


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Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for the number of man; and its number [is] six hundred sixty-six.:


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


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And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps;


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and they sang as it were a new song before the throne and before the four animals and the elders; and no one could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.


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These are those who are not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These are redeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel that he might evangelize those that dwell on the earth and every nation and kindred and tongue and people,


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saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that has made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.


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And another angel followed, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has given all the Gentiles to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.


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And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives [the] mark in his forehead or in his hand,


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the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb;


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and the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever; and those that worship the beast and its image and whosoever receives the mark of its name, have no rest day or night.


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Here is the patience of the saints; here [are] those that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.


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And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.


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And I looked, and, behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.


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And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that was seated on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle and reap; for the hour is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is dry.


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And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.


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And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast [it] into the great winepress of the wrath of God.


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And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the bits of the horses, for a thousand six hundred furlongs.:


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And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is completed the wrath of God.


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And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire and those that had gotten the victory over the beast and over its image and over its mark [and] over the number of its name stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.


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And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, [thou] King of saints.


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Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? for [thou] only [art] holy; therefore, all the Gentiles shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.


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And after these things I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven was opened;


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and the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.


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And one of the four animals gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever.


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And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God and from his power; and no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.:


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


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And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth; and an evil and grievous sore fell upon the men who had the mark of the beast and [upon] those who worshipped its image.


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And the second angel poured out his vial into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead [man], and every living soul died in the sea.


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And the third angel poured out his vial into the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, who art and wast the Holy one because thou hast judged these things;


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for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they deserve [it].


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And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] thy judgments.


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And the fourth angel poured out his vial against the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.


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And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues; and they did not repent to give him glory.


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And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast; and its kingdom was filled with darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,


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and blasphemed the God of the heaven because of their pains and their sores and did not repent of their deeds.


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And the sixth angel poured out his vial into the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.


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And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.


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For they are spirits of demons, working miracles, [which] go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.


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Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watches and keeps his garments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.


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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of the heaven from the throne, saying, It is done.


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Then there were voices and thunders and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as [has] never been since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, [and] so great.


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And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the Gentiles fell; and Babylon the great came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.


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And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.:


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And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto thee the condemnation of the great whore that sits upon many waters,


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with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.


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So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman seated upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and of [the] filthiness of her fornication;


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and upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.


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And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marvelled with great surprise.


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And the angel said unto me, Why didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.


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The beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition; and those that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.


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And here [is] the meaning which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.


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And [they] are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.


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And the beast that was, and is not, is also the eighth [king], and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.


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And the ten horns which thou hast seen are ten kings, which have not yet taken a kingdom, but shall take authority as kings one hour with the beast.


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These shall make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those that are with him [are] called and chosen and faithful.


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And he said unto me, The waters which thou hast seen, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.


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And the ten horns which thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.


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For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.


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And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.


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And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.


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For all the Gentiles have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the power of her delicacies.


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And I heard another voice from the heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye not be partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.


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Reward her even as she rewarded you and pay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has given thee to drink, give her double.


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As much as she has glorified herself and lived deliciously, give her that much torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.


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Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong [is] the Lord God who judges her.


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And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning,


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Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city; for in one hour is thy judgment come!


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And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:


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The merchandise of gold and of silver and of precious stones and of pearls and of fine linen and of purple and of silk and of scarlet and of all thyine wood and of all manner vessels of ivory and of all manner vessels of most precious wood and of brass and of iron and of marble


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and cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and of sheep, and of horses, and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men.


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And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee, and all the fat and excellent things are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.


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The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,


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and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!


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For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster and all the company in ships and sailors and as many as trade by sea stood afar off


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and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city was] like unto this great city!


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And they cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her riches! for in one hour is she made desolate.


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Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your cause upon her.


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And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with impetus shall that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.


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And the voice of harpers and musicians and of pipers and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatever craft [he is], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;


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and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth in whose witchcraft all the Gentiles have erred.


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And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.:


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And after these things I heard a great voice of a great company in the heaven, saying, Halelu-JAH; Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God;


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for true and righteous [are] his judgments; for he has judged the great whore, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.


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And the twenty-four elders and the four animals fell [upon their faces] and worshipped God that was seated upon the throne, saying, Amen! Halelu-JAH!


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And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants and ye that fear him, both small and great.


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And I heard as it were the voice of a great company and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Halelu-JAH; for the Lord God almighty reigns.


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Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his bride has made herself ready.


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And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.


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And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are those who are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true words of God.


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And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See [thou do it] not: I am thy fellowservant and with thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw the heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he that was seated upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.


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And his eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many crowns; and he had a name written, that no one has known, but he himself.


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And the armies that are in the heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.


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And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the Gentiles; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.


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And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that flew in the midst of the heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God,


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that ye may eat flesh of kings and flesh of captains, and flesh of mighty men and flesh of horses and of those that sit on them and the flesh of everyone, free and bond, both small and great.


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And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that was seated upon the horse and against his army.


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And the beast was taken and with it the false prophet that wrought miracles in its presence, with which he had deceived those that had taken the mark of the beast and had worshipped its image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.


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And the others were slain with the sword that proceeded out of the mouth of him that was seated upon the horse; and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.:


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And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.


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And he laid hold on the dragon, the serpent of old, which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years


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and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon it, that he should deceive the Gentiles no more, until the thousand years should be fulfilled; and after it is necessary that he be loosed a little while.


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And I saw thrones, and those who sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and [I saw] the souls of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast neither its image neither had received [its] mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they shall live and reign with Christ the thousand years.


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But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.


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Blessed and holy [is] he that has part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.


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and shall go out to deceive the Gentiles which are upon the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle; the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea.


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And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.


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And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.


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And I saw a great white throne and him that was seated upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and their place was not found.


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And I saw the dead, great and small, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened; which is [the book] of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and the judgment of each one was according to their works.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.


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And I, John, saw the holy city, [the] new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven, prepared of God as a bride adorned for her husband.


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And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them [and be] their God.


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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more neither shall there be any more sorrow nor crying nor pain; for the former things are passed away.


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And he that was seated upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are faithful and true.


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And he said unto me, It is done. I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.


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But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.


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And there came unto me one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.


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And he carried me away in [the] spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of the heaven from [and] with God,


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having the clarity of God; and her light [was] like unto a most precious stone, even like a jasper stone, shining like crystal.


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And it had a wall great and high, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written [thereon], which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:


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On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.


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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.


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And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.


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And the foundations of the wall of the city [were] garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation [was] jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


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the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.


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And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; in each one, one; each gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city [was] pure gold, as shining glass.


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And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in her, for the clarity of God has illuminated it, and the Lamb [is] its lamp.


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And the Gentiles that have been saved shall walk in the light of her; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into her.


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And there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean or that works abomination or [makes] a lie, but [only] those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.:


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And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.


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In the midst of her plaza and on either side of the river [was the] tree of life, which brings forth twelve [manner of] fruits, yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree [are] for the healing of the Gentiles.


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And there shall no longer be any cursed thing; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his servants shall serve him;


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And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.


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And he said unto me, These words [are] faithful and true; and the Lord God of the holy prophets has sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which it is necessary that they be done quickly.


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And I, John, saw these things and heard [them]. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.


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Then he said unto me, See [thou do it] not: for I am thy fellowservant and with thy brethren the prophets and with those who keep the words of this book: worship God.


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He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be justified still; and let the saint be sanctified still.


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And, behold, I come quickly, and my reward [is] with me, to give each one according as his work shall be.


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Blessed [are] those who do his commandments that their power [and authority] might be in the tree of life and they may enter in through the gates into the city.


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But outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.


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I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I AM the root and the offspring of David [and] the bright and morning star.


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And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come; and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely.


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For I testify unto everyone that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If anyone shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book;


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and if anyone shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and [from] the things which are written in this book.


