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On account of this contention they separated one from the other; and Bar Naba took Markos, and they went by sea and came to Cypros.


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And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. And he came to Derbe the city, and to Lystra.


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BUT a certain disciple was there whose name was Timotheus, the son of a certain Jihudoytha, a believer, and his father an Aramoya.


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This Paulos willed to take with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jihudoyee who were in the place; for they all knew his father that he was an Aramoya.


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And when they had gone into the cities they preached and instructed them to keep those statutes which the apostles and presbyters who were in Urishlem had written.


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But they went through the countries of Phrygia and Galatia; and the Spirit of Holiness forbad them, that they should not preach the word of Aloha in Asia.


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And when they came to the region of Mysia they willed to go from thence to Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jeshu permitted them not.


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And in a vision of the night, Paulos saw as a certain man, a Makedonoia, who stood and besought him, saying, Come unto Makedunia and help me.


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But when Paulos had seen this vision, he immediately willed to go forth to Makedunia, for he understood that our Lord called us to evangelize them.


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And we went from Troas and proceeded directly to Samuthracia, and from thence the day after we came to Neapolis the city,


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and from thence to Philippos, which is the head of Makedunia, and is a colony. But we were in that city certain days.


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And we went out on the day of shabath without the gate of the city to the bank of the river, because there was seen a house of prayer; and sitting down we discoursed with the women who assembled there.


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And a certain female, a seller of purple, who feared Aloha, her name was Lydia, of Theatira the city, (was there,) whose heart our Lord opened, and she heard that which Paulos spake.


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And she was baptized, she and the sons of her house. And she besought us and said, If it be that you truly think that I have believed in our Lord, come, remain in my house; and she constrained us much.


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AND it was while we went to the house of prayer, a certain damsel met us in whom was a spirit of divination, and she had produced her lords much gain by her divination.


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And she came after Paulos and after us, and cried and said, These men are the servants of Aloha the Most High, and announce to us the way of salvation.


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And this she did many days. And Paulos was indignant, and said to that spirit, I command thee in the name of Jeshu Meshiha to come out of her. And in that hour it came out.


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And when her lords saw that the hope of their gain had gone from her, they laid hold on Paulos and Shilo and drew them to the public place, and brought them unto the prefects and to the chiefs of the city,


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and are preaching to us those rites which it is not permitted us to receive and perform, because we are Rumoyee.


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And a great gathering assembled against them. Then the prefects rent their vestments, and commanded to scourge them.


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And when they had scourged them much, they cast them into the house of the bound, and commanded the keeper of the house of the bound to keep them watchfully.


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But he, having received this command, brought in and shut them in the inner house of the house of the bound, and fastened their feet in the stocks.


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And in the dividing of the night, Paulos and Shilo prayed and glorified Aloha, and the chained-ones heard them.


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And suddenly there was a great trembling, and the foundations of the house of the bound trembled, and at once the doors of all were opened, and the chains of all were loosened.


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And when the keeper of the house of the bound awoke, and saw that the doors of the house of the bound were open, he took a sword and sought to kill himself, because he thought that the chained-ones had fled.


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And he kindled for himself a lamp, and sprang, and came, perturbed, and fell at the feet of Paulos and of Shilo:


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and he brought them without, and said to them, My lords, what behoveth me to do that I may be saved?


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And in the same hour of that night, he took and washed them from their stripes, and was forthwith baptized, and all the sons of his house.


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And he took and brought them up into his house, and set for them the table, and exulted, he and the sons of his house, in the faith of Aloha.


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And when it was morning the prefects sent to the bearers of rods to say to the chief of the house of the bound, Loose those men.


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AND when the chief of the house of the bound heard, he entered and spoke that word to Paulos, that the prefects have sent that you might he dismissed; and now go forth (and) proceed in peace.


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Paulos saith to him, They scourged us in the eyes of the world, (we) being innocent, (and) Roman men, and threw us into the house of the bound; and now would they bring us forth secretly? No, indeed, but they shall come and bring us out.


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And the bearers of rods went and told the prefects these words which had been spoken to them. And when they heard that they were Rumoyee, they feared.


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And when they had gone forth from the house of the bound, they entered with Lydia, and there saw the brethren, and consoled them. And they went forth


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and passed by Amphipolis and Apolonia, cities, and came to Thessalonika, where was a synagogue of the Jihudoyee.


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AND Paulos entered, as his custom was, with them, and three shabaths spoke to them from the scriptures,


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expounding, and showing, That Meshiha was to suffer and to rise from the house of the dead, and he is Jeshu the Meshiha whom I preach to you.


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And men of them believed and adhered to Paulos and Shilo, and many of the Javnoyee who feared Aloha, and distinguished women not a few.


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And the Jihudoyee envied, and joined to them evil men from the public place of the city, and made a great multitude, and conturbed the city. And they came and stood at the house of Jason, and demanded that they should bring them out from thence and deliver them to the multitude.


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And when they could not find them there, they drew Jason and the brethren who were there, and brought them to the chiefs of the city, crying, These are they who have troubled the whole land; and behold again have they come here;


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and their receiver is this Jason; and all these against the commands of Cesar are risen, in saying that there is another king, Jeshu.


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But the brethren immediately in that night dismissed Paulos and Shilo unto Beroa the city; and when they were come thither they entered into the synagogue of the Jihudoyee:


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for more noble were those Jihudoyee who were there than those Jihudoyee who were in Thessalonika; and they heard from them the word daily with joy, while they decided from the scriptures whether these things were so.


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And when those Jihudoyee who were of Thessalonika knew that the word of Aloha was preached by Paulos in Beroa the city, they came there also, and ceased not to move and trouble the people.


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And the brethren dismissed Paulos that he should go down by sea; and Shilo and Timotheos remained in that city.


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AND they who accompanied Paulos came unto Athinos the city; and when they departed from the midst of it they took from him an epistle to Shilo and Timotheos, that they should speedily come to him.


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But he, Paulos, while he waited in Athinos, was embittered in his spirit, (for he) saw how the whole city was filled with idols.


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And he spake in the synagogue with the Jihudoyee, and with those who worshipped Aloha, and in the public place with those who met there daily;


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and the philosophers also who were of the doctrine of Epikuros, and others who were called Estoiku, disputed with him. And some of them said, What willeth this accumulator of words? And others said, He preaches foreign gods; because Jeshu and his resurrection he preached unto them.


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And they took him and brought him to the house of judgment which is called Arios-pagos, saying to him, Can we know what this new doctrine is which thou art preaching?


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But all the Athinoyee, and those foreigners who are there, of no other thing are careful, but to say and to hear something new.


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AND as Paulos stood on Arios-pagos he said, Men of Athinos, I observe you that in all (things) you exceed in the worship of demons.


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As I walked about and saw the place of your worship, I found a certain altar on which was inscribed, To GOD THE HIDDEN: him then whom while not known you worship, This I declare to you.


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For ALOHA who made the world and all that is in it, and is himself the Lord of heaven and of earth, in temples made with hands resideth not.


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Neither is he served by the hands of men, nor needeth he any thing, for it is he who giveth to every man life and soul.


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And of one blood hath he made the whole world of men to dwell upon the face of all the earth, and he hath distinguished the times by his decree, and set the limits of the dwelling of mankind,


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that they should seek Aloha and inquire, and from his creatures find himself, because he is not far from every one of us.


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For in him we live, and are moved, and are; as also one of your sages hath said, From him is our descent.


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Men, therefore, whose descent is from Aloha, should not think that gold or silver or stone sculptured by the art and skill of man is like the Divinity.


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For the times of error Aloha hath made to pass away; and in this time he commandeth all men, that every man in every place should repent;


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because he hath set a day in which he will judge the whole earth in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained; and he will convert every man to the faith of him in having raised him from among the dead.


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And when they heard of resurrection from among the dead, (some) of them mocked, and (some) of them said, At another time we will hear thee concerning this.


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And certain of them adhered to him and believed: but one of them was Dionosios of the judges of Arios-pagos, and a certain woman whose name was Damaris, and others with them.


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And he found there a certain man, a Jihudoya, whose name was Akilos, who was from the country of Pontos, (and) who at that time had come from the country of Italia, himself and Priskila his wife, because Klaudios Cesar had commanded that all the Jihudoyee should go out from Ruma; and he drew near to them:


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(and) because he was a son of their art, he dwelt with them and wrought with them: but in their art they were tentmakers.


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And when from Makedunia Shilo and Timotheos had come, Paulos was constrained in his speech, because the Jihudoyee arose against him and blasphemed, while he testified to them that Jeshu is the Meshiha.


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And he went forth from thence, and entered into the house of a man named Titos, who worshipped Aloha; and his house adjoined the synagogue.


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And Krispos, master of the synagogue, believed in our Lord, he and all the sons of his house. And many of the Kurinthoyee heard and believed in Aloha, and were baptized.


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AND when Galion was proconsul of Akaia, they gathered together against Paulos, and brought him before the tribunal,


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And when Paulos sought to open his mouth and speak, Galion said to the Jihudoyee, If it were concerning some thing of evil, or of wickedness, or of abomination, you would complain, O Jihudoyee, it would be proper for me to receive you;


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but if they be questions concerning language and names, and concerning your law, let them be known among yourselves; for I am not willing to be a judge of these matters.


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And all the Heathens seized Sosthenis the presbyter of the synagogue, and beat him before the tribunal. And Galion was careless of these.


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And when Paulos had been there many days, he gave the salutation to the brethren, and proceeded by sea to go to Syria: and Priskila and Akilos went with him, when he had shaved his head at Kankreos, because he had vowed a vow.


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for he said, It behoveth me faithfully to perform the feast which cometh at Urishlem; and if Aloha willeth, I will come again to you. And Akilos and Priskila he left at Ephesos;


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and he voyaged by sea and came to Cesarea: and he went up and wished the peace of the sons of the church, and went unto Antiokia.


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And when he had been there certain days, he went forth and itinerated successively through Phrygia and Galatia, confirming all the disciples.


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And a certain man whose name was Apolu, a Jihudoya, who was by family of Aleksandria, and erudite in speech, and accurate in the scriptures, came to Ephesos.


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This was discipled in the way of the Lord, and was fervid in spirit, and he spake and taught freely concerning Jeshu, while knowing not any thing but the baptism of Juhanon.


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And he began boldly to speak in the synagogue. And when Akilos and Priskila heard him, they brought him to their house, and fully showed to him the way of the Lord.


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And when he willed to go to Akaia, the brethren were careful of him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. And when he had gone he helped much, through grace, all the believers.


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For he disputed forcibly against the Jihudoyee before the assemblies, while he showed from the scriptures concerning Jeshu, that he is the Meshiha.


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AND while Apolu was in Kurinthos, Paulos itinerated through the upper countries unto Ephesos; and he asked those disciples whom he found there,


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Have you received the Spirit of Holiness from that you believed? They answered and said to him, It hath not been heard by us whether there be the Spirit.


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Paulos saith to them, Juhanon baptized the people with the baptism of repentance, saying that they should believe in him who was coming after him, who is Jeshu Meshiha.


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And Paulos laid on them the hand, and the Spirit of Holiness came upon them, and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.


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And Paulos entered the synagogue, and discoursed boldly three months, and persuaded concerning the kingdom of Aloha.


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And men of them were obdurate, and contended, and reviled the way of Aloha, before the assembly of the people. Then Paulos removed and separated from them the disciples, and every day discoursed with them in the school of a man whose name was Tyranos.


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And this was done two years, until all who dwelt in Asia, Jihudoyee and Aramoyee, had heard the word of the Lord.


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so that they brought even from the garments that were upon his body napkins or wrappings, and laid them upon the sick, and the diseases went from them; and demons also went forth.


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BUT men, Jihudoyee, also, who went about and adjured demons, willed to adjure in the name of our Lord Jeshu over those who had unclean spirits, saying, We adjure you in the name of Jeshu whom Paulos preacheth.


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There were seven sons of a man, a certain Jihudoya, chief of the priests, whose name was Skeva, who did this.


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And that evil demon answered and said to them, Jeshu I acknowledge, and Paulos I know; but who are you?


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And the man in whom was the evil spirit sprang upon them, and was strong against them, and threw them, and they, naked and wounded, fled from that house.


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And this was known to all the Jihudoyee and Aramoyee who dwelt in Ephesos: and fear fell upon them all, and the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha was exalted.


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And many of those who believed came and acknowledged their sins, and confessed whatever they had done.


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Many also of the magicians collected their writings and brought and burned them before all men; and they reckoned the price of them, and it ascended to silver five myriads.


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But when these were fulfilled, Paulos set in his mind to itinerate throughout all Makedunia and Akaia, and to go into Urishlem. And he said, When I shall have gone thither, it behoveth me Ruma also to see.


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And he sent two men of those who ministered to him to Makedunia, Timotheos and Aristos; but he remained a time in Asia.


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For there was a certain worker of silver there whose name was Dimitrios, who made shrines of silver of Artemis, and he produced for the sons of his art great gains.


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This (man) assembled all the sons of his art and those who wrought with them, and said to them, Men, you know that all our merchandise is from this work;


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and you also hear and see, that not only the sons of Ephesos, but also many of all Asia, this Paulos persuadeth, and hath perverted them, saying, that there be no gods which by the hands of men are made.


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And not only is this business defamed and brought to an end, but also the temple of Artemis the great goddess is reputed as nothing, and she also, the goddess of all Asia, and (whom) all the nations worship, is despised.


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And when they heard these (words) they were filled with wrath; and they cried, and said, Great is Artemis of the Ephesoyee.


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And the whole city was perturbed, and they ran together and came to the theatre; and seizing, they led with them Gaios and Aristarkos, men of Makedunia, companions of Paulos.


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And the chiefs of Asia, because they were his friends, sent, praying of him not to deliver himself by going into the theatre.


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But the crowd who were in the theatre were greatly commoved, and others cried other things; for many of them knew not on what account they were assembled.


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But the people of the Jihudoyee who were there appointed of them a man a Jihudoya, whose name was Aleksandros; and when he stood (forth) he signed that he would apologize to the people.


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And when they knew that he was a Jihudoya, all of them cried with one voice, as two hours, Great is Artemis of the Ephesoyee!


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And the chief of the city stilled them, saying, Men, Ephesoyee, who is there of mankind who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesoyee is a votaress of the great Artemis, and of her image which descended from heaven?


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Therefore, since no man can contradict this, it behoves you to be silent, and to do nothing in haste.


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But if this Dimitrios and the sons of his craft have strife with any man, behold, the proconsul is in the city, (and) there are officers: let them go nigh and judge one with another.


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And if you require other (procedure), in the place which is given by the law for an assembly it shall be resolved.


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For now also are we standing in peril of being accused as disturbers, because we cannot make excuse for the concourse of this day, inasmuch as we have met uselessly, and have made a tumult without cause.


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And after the tumult had stilled, Paulos called the disciples and consoled them and kissed them, and going forth went unto Makedunia.


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And when he had itinerated those regions, and had consoled them with many words, he came into the country of Hales,


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and was there three months. But the Jihudoyee wrought treachery against him, when he was about to go into Syria, and had thought to return into Makedunia.


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And (there) went forth with him into Asia Supatros who was from Berula, the city; and Aristarkos and Sakundos, who (were) from Thessalonika; and Gaios, who was from Derbe the city; and Timotheos, who was from Lystra; and from Asia, Tukikos and Trophimos.


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But we went forth from Philipos, a city of the Makedunoyee, after the days of the Phatiree, and voyaged by sea and came to Troas in five days, and there were we seven days.


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AND on the first day in the week, when we were assembled to break the eucharist, Paulos discoursed with them, because the day following he was to depart; and he prolonged his discourse until the dividing of the night.


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And a certain youth whose name was Eutikos sat in a window and heard. And he had sunk into a heavy sleep while Paulos prolonged his discourse, and in his sleep he fell from the third floor, and was taken up as dead.


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And Paulos descended, and fell upon him and embraced him, and said, Be not agitated, for his life is in him.


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When he had gone up, he broke bread and tasted, speaking with them until the morning arose; and then went he forth to proceed by land.


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But we went down to the ship, and voyaged to the port of Thesos, because there we were to receive Paulos, for thus he had instructed us, while he himself would proceed by land.


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And from thence the day after we voyaged over against Kios the island, and again the day after we came to Samos; and we tarried at Trogalium, and the day after we came to Militos:


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for Paulos had decided with himself to pass by Ephesos, that he might not be hindered there, because he hastened, that, if it were possible, on the day of the Pentecost in Urishlem he might work.


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and when they came to him, he said to them: You know, that from the first day that I entered Asia, how I was with you all time,


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serving Aloha in much lowliness and with tears, and in those temptations which passed upon me through the devices of the Jihudoyee.


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Neither neglected I any thing that was profitable for your souls, that I might preach to you and teach in public places and in houses,


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while I testified to Jihudoyee and to Aramoyee concerning repentance that is toward Aloha, and faith which is in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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Nevertheless, the Spirit of Holiness in every city testifieth to me and saith, that bonds and afflictions are for me.


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But by me my life is reckoned nothing, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry I have received from our Lord Jeshu, to bear witness concerning the gospel of the grace of Aloha.


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And now, I know that again my face you will not see, you, all, among whom I have gone about, preaching to you the kingdom of Aloha.


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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to the whole flock over which the Spirit of Holiness hath constituted you the bishops; to pasture the church of the Meshiha which he hath purchased with his blood.


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For I know that after I shall have gone, there will enter with you furious wolves which will not spare the flock.


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And also from you, of yourselves, will men arise speaking perverse things to turn away disciples to go after them.


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On account of this be watchful, and remember, that for three years I ceased not by night and by day with tears to instruct every one of you.


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And now I commend you to Aloha, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance with all the saints.


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And I have shown you every thing, (that) so it behoveth to labour, and to be careful of those who are infirm, and to remember the word of our Lord Jeshu, that he said, He is blessed who giveth, more than he who receiveth.


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but most agonized (were they) by that word which he had spoken, that again they were not to see his face. And they accompanied him to the ship.


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And we separated from them and voyaged directly unto Ko the island, and the day after we came to Rodos, and from thence to Patara;


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And coming near Kypros the island, we left it on the left hand and came unto Syria, and thence came we to Tsur: for there was the ship to relieve from her burden.


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And having found disciples there, we sojourned with them seven days. And these said daily unto Paulos in the Spirit, That he should not go unto Urishlem.


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And after those days we departed to go on the way. And they accompanied us, all of them, they and their wives and their children, till without the city, and kneeled upon their knees on the sea shore, and prayed. And we kissed one another,


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But we voyaged from Tsur, and came to Aku the city, and gave the salutation to the brethren who were there, and abode among them one day.


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And the day after we departed and came to Cesarea; and we entered and abode in the house of Philipos the preacher, he who was of the seven.


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And when we had been there many days, there came down from Jihud a certain prophet whose name was Agabos.


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And he came in to us, and took the loins'-girdle of Paulos, and bound his own feet and his hands, and said, Thus saith the Spirit of Holiness, So the man the master of this girdle will the Jihudoyee bind in Urishlem; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.


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And when we heard these words, we and the sons of the place entreated of him not to go unto Urishlem.


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THEN answered Paulos and said, What do you, weeping and bruising my heart? For not to be bound only am I prepared, but also to die in Urishlem, for the sake of the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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And there went with us men, disciples, from Cesarea, who conducted with them a certain brother of the first disciples whose name was Mnason, and he was from Kypros, to receive us into his house.


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And we gave them salutation. And Paulos recounted to them in order what Aloha had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.


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And when they heard, they glorified Aloha. And they said to him, Thou seest, our brother, how many myriads there are in Jihud who believe, and all of them are zealous for the law.


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But it hath been said to them of thee, that thou teachest all the Jihudoyee who are among the Gentiles to remove from Musha; telling them that they should not circumcise their sons, nor walk in the customs of the law.


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Take them, and go, purify with them, and lay out upon them the expenses, that they may shave their heads; and it will be known to every man that what hath been said against thee is false, and that thou fulfillest and keepest the law.


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Concerning those of the Gentiles who believe, we wrote that they should keep themselves from sacrifices, and from fornication, and from the strangled, and from blood.


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Then Paul took those men the day after, and was purified with them. And he entered and went into the temple, making known to them the fulfillment of the days of the purification, so that an oblation might be offered for each man of them.


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And when the seventh day was come the Jihudoyee who were from Asia saw him in the temple, and stirred up against him all the people. And they lifted their hands against him,


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crying out, and saying, Men, sons of Israel, help! This is the man who contrary to our people teacheth every where, and contrary to the law, and against this place. And also Aramoyee hath he brought into the temple, and profaned this holy place.


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For they had before seen with him Trophimus the Ephesian in the city, and supposed that with Paulos he had entered the temple.


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And the whole city was commoved, and all the people assembled, and they laid hold of Paulos, and dragged him without from the temple; and instantly the gates were shut.


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And while the multitude sought to kill him, the tribune of the cohort heard that the whole city was agitated.


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And forthwith took he a centurion and many soldiers and ran upon them; and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they desisted from beating Paulos.


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And the tribune drew near and took him, and commanded them to bind him with two chains. And he asked concerning him who (he was), and what he had done?


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And men from the crowd cried against him variously, and because of their crying he was not able to know what was the truth; and he commanded that they should lead him to the fortress.


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And as Paulos came to the stairs the soldiers carried him, on account of the violence of the people:


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And as they came to enter into the fortress, Paulos himself said to the tribune, May I be permitted to speak to the people?


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But he said to him, Javanith knowest thou? Art thou not that Metsroya who before these days stirred up and led forth into the waste four thousand men workers of evils?


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Paulos said to him, I am a man a Jihudoya from Tarsos of Cilicia, an illustrious city in which I was born: I pray you permit me to speak to the people.


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And when he had permitted him, Paulos stood upon the stairs, and signed to them with his hand; and when they had ceased, he spoke to them in Hebrew, and said to them,


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And when they heard that Hebrew he was speaking with them, the more they ceased; and he said to them,


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I am a man a Jihudoya; and I was born in Tarsos of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers. And I was zealous for Aloha, even as all of you are also.


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And this way I persecuted unto the death, while I bound and delivered to the house of the bound both men and women;


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as the chief of the priests can testify of me, and all the elders, that from them I received letters to go to the brethren who were in Darmsuk, that also them who were there I should bring to Urishlem bound, that they might be fined.


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And as I went, and began to approach Darmsuk in the dividing of the day, suddenly from heaven there shone upon me a great light,


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and I fell upon the earth, and heard a voice, which said to me, Shaol, Shaol, why persecutest thou me?


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But I answered and said, Who art thou, my Lord? And he said to me, I am Jeshu Natsroya, whom thou persecutest!


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And I said, What shall I do, my Lord? And he said to me, Arise, go into Darmsuk, and there shall it be told thee of whatever it is commanded thee to do.


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And while I could not see because of the glory of that light, they who were with me took me by my hands, and I entered Darmsuk.


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came to me, and said to me, Shaol, my brother, open thine eyes. And in a moment my eyes were opened, and I beheld him.


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And he said to me, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see that Just One, and to hear the voice from his lips,


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And now why delayest thou? Arise, baptize, and be washed from thy sins, while thou callest his Name.


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And I saw him in a vision, when he said to me, Hasten, and remove thee from Urishlem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.


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And I said, My Lord, they know also how I delivered to the house of the bound, and smote in all the synagogues, those who have believed in thee.


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And when the blood of thy martyr Estephanos was shed, I also stood with them, and fulfilled the will of his murderers, and kept the garments of them who stoned him.


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And when they had heard Paulos until this word, they lifted up their voice, and cried, Take from the earth one like this; for he ought not to live.


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the tribune commanded that he should be brought into the fortress, and commanded him to be questioned by scourging, that he might know for what cause they cried against him.


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And as they exposed him with thongs, Paulos said to the centurion who stood near him, Is it allowed you to scourge a Roman man who is not condemned?


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And when the centurion heard, he approached the tribune, and said to him, What doest thou? For this is a Roman man.


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The tribune answered, and said to him, I with much money purchased the Roman-right. Paulos said to him, But I was born in it.


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And immediately those who had sought to scourge him desisted from him; and the tribune feared when he learned that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.


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AND the day after he willed to know truly what was the accusation which the Jihudoyee brought against him. And he ordered him and commanded the great priests and all the synagogue of their rulers to come; and he took Paulos and brought (him) down, and stood him among them.


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And Paulos, looking upon their assembly, said, Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have conversed before Aloha, unto this day.


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And Paulos said to him, It will be that Aloha will smite thee, (thou) whitened wall: thou sittest to judge me according to the law, while thou transgressest the law, and commandest that they smite me!


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Paulos said to them, I knew not, my brethren, that he is the priest; for it is written, Of the chief of thy people thou shalt not speak evil.


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And when Paulos knew that (part) of the people were of the Zadukoyee and (part) of it of the Pharishee, he cried in the assembly, Men, my brethren, I am a Pharisha, the son of Pharishee; and for the hope of the resurrection of the dead am I judged.


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And when he had said this, the Pharishee and the Zadukoyee fell on one another, and the people was divided.


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For the Zadukoyee say that there is no resurrection, nor angels, nor spirit; but the Pharishee confess all these.


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And there was made a great noise. And certain sophree of the choice of the Pharishee arose and contended with them, and said, We have not found any thing of evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken with him, what is there in this?


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And when there was a great commotion among them, the tribune feared lest they should tear Paulos in pieces, and he sent to the Rumoyee to come and carry him away from the midst of them, and take him into the fortress.


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And when it was night our Lord appeared unto Paulos, and said to him, Be strong: for as thou hast testified of me in Urishlem, so is it to be that thou also in Ruma shalt testify.


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AND when it became morning, men of the Jihudoyee gathered and bound a vow upon themselves, that they would not eat or drink till they had killed Paulos.


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And they drew nigh to the priests and to the elders, and said, A vow we have vowed upon us, that nothing will we taste until we have killed Paulos.


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And now do you and the princes of the synagogue request from the tribune to bring him to you, as if you sought to investigate more truly his work, and we are prepared to kill him while he shall come to you.


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And the son of the sister of Paulos heard this plot, and he entered the fortress and informed Paulos.


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And Paulos sent (and) called one of the centurions, and said to him, Bring this youth to the tribune, for he has somewhat to tell him.


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And the centurion conducted the youth, and introduced him to the tribune, and said, Paulos the prisoner called me, and requested of me to bring this youth to thee, because he hath somewhat to tell thee.


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And the tribune took the youth by his hand, and led him on one side, and asked him, What hast thou to tell me?


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And the youth said to him, The Jihudoyee have determined to request of thee to send down Paulos, tomorrow, to their synagogue, as if willing to learn somewhat more from him:


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thou therefore yield not to them; for, behold, more than forty men of them watch for him in ambush, and have bound a curse upon themselves, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and, behold, they are ready, and wait thy promise.


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And the tribune dismissed the youth, when he had admonished him, Let no man know that these thou hast informed me.


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And he called two centurions, and said to them, Go, prepare two hundred Romans to go to Cesarea, and seventy horsemen and right-handed spearmen two hundred, to go forth at the third hour of the night;


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The Jihudoyee had seized this man to kill him; and I arose with the Romans and rescued him, when I had learned that he is a Roman.


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And when I sought to know the occasion of which they accused him, I brought him down to their synagogue.


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And I found that concerning questions of their law they accused him; and a cause worthy of bonds or of death was not in him.


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And when it was told me of the treachery of a plot which the Jihudoyee wrought against him, I straightway sent him to thee; and I have commanded his accusers to come and speak with him before thee. Farewell.


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Then the Rumoyee, as they had been commanded, took Paulos by night, and brought him to Antipatros the city;


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And they came to Cesarea. And they gave the letter to the governor, and made Paulos stand before him.


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And when he had read the letter, he asked him from what province he was. And when he had heard that (he was) from Cilicia,


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he said to him, I will hear thee when thy accusers have come. And he commanded that they should keep him in the pretorium of Herodes.


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AND after five days Hanania the great priest came down with the elders, and with Tartelos a rhetor, and informed the governor against Paulos.


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And being called, Tartelos came forth to accuse him, and said, For many years have we dwelt (in peace) through thee, and many reformations have been made for this people in the bearing of thy office;


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For we have found this man to be a destroyer, and an exciter of agitation among all the Jihudoyee, and in all the land: for he is a chief of the doctrine of the Natsroyee,


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and he willed to pollute our temple; and having apprehended him, we sought to judge him according to our law;


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and hath sent him unto thee, and commanded his accusers to come to thee; and thou canst by questioning him learn from him concerning all these things of which we accuse him.


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And the governor signed to Paulos to speak. And Paulos answered, and said, For many years I know that thou hast been the judge of this people, and on this account I joyfully make defence for myself;


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while thou shouldst know that it hath not been more than twelve days since I went up to Urishlem to worship.


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Neither found they me speaking with any man in the temple, neither have I gathered an assembly in their synagogue nor in the city;


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Nevertheless, this do I confess, that in that very doctrine of which they speak, in it serve I the God of my fathers, believing in all that is written in the law and in the prophets,


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and having hope in Aloha that which they also hope: that there shall be a resurrection from the house of the dead, of the just and of the evil.


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And these found me in the temple being purified, not with a concourse nor with tumult; but men Jihudoyee who had come from Asia raised a tumult;


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(and) these it behoved to stand with me before thee, and to accuse of that whatever they have (against me).


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unless for this one word which I proclaimed while standing in the midst of them, For the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day before you.


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But Felix, because he knew this way fully, delayed them, saying, When the tribune comes I will hear between you.


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And he commanded the centurion to keep Paulos in quietude, and that none of his acquaintances should be hindered from ministering to him.


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And after a few days Felix, and Drusilla his wife, who was a Jihudoytha, sent and called Paulos, and they heard from him concerning the faith of the Meshiha.


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And as he discoursed with them of righteousness, and of holiness, and of the judgment which is to come, Felix was filled with fear, and he said, Now go, and when I have opportunity I will send for thee.


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For he hoped that a bribe would be given him by Paulos, and on this account he continually sent to bring him, and to speak with him.


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And when two years were fulfilled to him, another governor came in his place, who was called Porcios Festos. But Felix, as to do a favour to the Jihudoyee, left Paulos bound.


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asking of him this favour, that he would bring him to Urishlem, while they would act treacherously in the way by killing him.


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let those therefore of you who are able, go down with us, and accuse him of whatever guilt there is in the man.


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And when he had been there eight days or ten, he went down to Cesarea. And the day after he sat on the tribunal, and commanded to bring Paulos.


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And when he had come, the Jihudoyee who had come down from Urishlem surrounded him, and accusations many and hard brought against him, which they were not able to prove;


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while Paulos put forth the mind, that he had not offended in any thing, neither against the law of the Jihudoyee, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar.


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But Festos, because he willed to accord a favour to the Jihudoyee, said to Paulos, Art thou willing to go up to Urishlem, and there concerning these things to be judged before me?


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Paulos answered, and said, At the tribunal of Caesar stand I. There it is right for me to be judged. Not any thing have I transgressed against the Jihudoyee, as also thou knowest;


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and if a crime I have committed, or any thing worthy of death, I ask not (to be exempted) from death. But, if there be nothing in me of which these accuse me, no man shall give me to them as a gift. I invoke the appeals of Caesar.


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Then Festos, having spoken with the sons of his council, said, The appeals of Caesar hast thou invoked? To Caesar goest thou.


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And when they had been with him (some) days, Festos recounted to the king the judgment of Paulos, saying, A certain man has been left bound by Felix;


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and when I was at Urishlem, the chief priests and elders of the Jihudoyee informed me against him, and begged that I would do for them judgment against him.


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And I told them, it was not the custom of the Romans to give any man as a gift to be killed, until his adversaries have come and accused him to his face, and there be given him place to defend himself against that of which he is accused.


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And when I had come hither, without delay, the day after I sat on the tribunal, and commanded to bring the man to me.


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And his accusers stood up with him, but could not find any evil accusation to prove against him, (such) as I had expected,


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but (had) various questions with him regarding their worship, and concerning Jeshu, a man who was dead, of whom Paulos said that he was alive.


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And because I stood not upon the investigation of these (matters), I said to Paulos, Dost thou require to go to Urishlem, and there be judged concerning these?


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But he required to be kept unto the judgment of Caesar; and I commanded that he should be kept until I may send him to Caesar.


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And the day after came Agripos and Bernike with great pomp, and entered the house of judgment, with the tribunes and the chiefs of the city. And Festos commanded, and Paulos came.


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And Festos said, King Agripos, and all men who are with us, concerning this man whom you see have all the people of the Jihudoyee taken me at Urishlem and here, crying, that This ought not further to live;


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but I perceived not that he had done any thing worthy of death. And because he required to be reserved for the judgment of Caesar, I have commanded that he should be sent.


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But (as) I know not what to write of him unto Caesar, therefore have I willed to bring him before you, and especially before thee, king Agripos, that, having inquired into his case, I may find what to write.


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And Agripos said to Paulos, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paulos stretched forth his hand and made defence, and said,


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Of all that I am accused by the Jihudoyee, king Agripos, I consider myself happy, that before you I (have to) make defence.


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Especially because I know that you are conversant with all questions and laws of the Jihudoyee; therefore, I pray you with patient mind to hear me.


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For the Jihudoyee themselves-if they would testify-know my manners from my youth, which were mine from the beginning among my people at Urishlem;


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because they of a long time were assured of me, and they know that in the high doctrine of the Pharishee I lived.


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And now, concerning the hope of the promise that was made to our fathers by Aloha, stand I, and am judged.


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And for this hope (to which) our twelve tribes, with diligent prayers by day and night, are expecting to come, for this very hope am I accused by the Jihudoyee, king Agripos!


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This I also did in Urishlem. And many holy ones I cast into the house of the bound, by the authority which I had received from the great priests; and when they were killed by them, I participated with those who condemned them.


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And in every synagogue I was furious against them, while I constrained them to blaspheme the name of Jeshu; and, being filled with great wrath against them, I went forth unto other cities also to persecute them.


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at the dividing of the day, in the way, I saw from heaven, O king, shining upon me and upon all who were with me, a light which (was) more excellent than the sun.


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And we fell all of us upon the earth; and I heard a voice that said to me in Hebrew, Shaol, Shaol, why persecutest thou me? It is hard to thee to kick against the pricks!


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And he said to me, Stand upon thy feet, because for this I have appeared to thee, to appoint thee a minister and witness of that (for) which thou hast seen me, and (for) which thou shalt see me.


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And I will deliver thee from the people of the Jihudoyee, and from the other nations to whom I send thee,


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to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto Aloha, and receive the forgiveness of sins, and a lot with the saints through faith, which (is) in me.


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but preached, at first to them who were in Darmsuk, and to them who were at Urishlem, and in all the districts of Jihud, and also to the Gentiles have I preached, that they should repent, and turn to Aloha, and do works worthy of repentance.


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but Aloha hath helped me until this day; and, behold, I stand and testify to the small and to the great, yet nothing beyond Musha and the prophets do I speak, but those things which they said should come to pass;


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that the Meshiha should suffer, and should be the chief of the resurrection from the house of the dead, and should preach light to the people and to the nations.


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AND as Paulos was thus making defence, Festos cried with a high voice, Thou art mad, Paulos; much learning hath made thee mad!


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And king Agripos also, especially, knoweth concerning these things; and therefore speak I with openness before him; because not one of these things I think have been hidden from him; for they were not done in secrecy.


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And Paulos said, I would from Aloha that in little and in much, not only thou, but also all who hear me to-day, were as I am, except these bonds.


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and when they were removed thence they spake one with another, and said, Nothing that is worthy of death or of bonds hath this man done.


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And Agripos said to Festos, This man could have been dismissed, if he had not called the appeal of Caesar.


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And Festos commanded concerning him that he should be sent unto Caesar in Italia. And he delivered Paulos, and other prisoners with him, to a certain man, a centurion of the band of Sebaste, whose name was Julios.


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And when he would proceed, we went down to a ship which was from Adramantos the city, to go to the region of Asia. And Aristarkos, a Makedonoya who was of Thessalunike the city,


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entered the ship with us. And the day after we came to Tsaidon. And the centurion behaved with kindness towards Paulos, and permitted him to go to his friends and be refreshed.


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And the centurion found there a ship from Aleksandria which was going to Italia, and he placed us in her.


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And because she sailed heavily, (after) many days we had scarce come over against Knidos the island, and as the wind did not permit us to go directly, we went round by Kreta against Salmona the city;


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and hardly voyaging we passing around it came to the place which is called the Fair Havens. AND it was nigh to the city named Lasia.


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And we were there much time, until the day when the day of the fast of the Jihudoyee had also passed, and there had become danger for one to voyage by sea. And Paulos counselled them


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and said, Men, I perceive that with distress and much loss we are to voyage, not only to the burden of the ship, but also to our own lives.


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But the centurion hearkened to the governor and to the lord of the ship rather than to the counsel of Paulos.


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And because that haven was not convenient to winter in, many of us desired to proceed thence, and if possible to come and winter in a certain harbour in Kreta, called Phoniks, and which looked to the south.


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And when the wind of the south blew, and we thought we could come as we desired, we sailed round Kreta.


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And after a little there came forth against us a blowing of the tempest which is called Tuphonikos Euroklidon;


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And when we had uplifted her, we girded and strengthened the ship. And because we feared lest we should fall into the precipitancy of the sea, we brought down the sails, and so went forward.i


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And the third day the things of the ship itself we cast forth. And when the storm had held more days,


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and neither the sun was seen, nor the moon, nor stars, the hope that we should be saved at all was cut off.


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And while no man had taken any food, then stood Paulos among them, and said, Men, if you had been persuaded by me, you would not have voyaged from Kreta, and we should have been exempted from loss, and from this distress.


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And he said to me, Fear not, Paulos, for thou art to stand before Caesar; and, behold, Aloha hath given thee the gift of all who voyage with thee.


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AND after fourteen days (in) which we had wandered and been beaten in the sea of Hadrios, in the dividing of the night, the mariners thought that we drew nigh to land.


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And they cast the lead, and found twenty cubits; and again a little they proceeded, and found fifteen cubits.


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And fearing lest we should be found in a place in which were rocks, they cast forth from the hinder part of the ship four anchors, and prayed that it would become day.


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But the mariners sought to escape from the ship, and lowered from her the boat into the sea, on the pretext that they would go in her, and bind the ship to the land.


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And when Paulos saw, he said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these in the ship remain not, you cannot be saved.


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But Paulos himself, until it was morning, persuaded all of them to take food, saying to them, To-day it is fourteen days (in which) from danger you have tasted nothing.


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Wherefore I beseech you receive meat for the establishment of your lives; for a hair of the head of one of you will not perish.


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And when these he had said, he took bread, and praised Aloha before them all, and he broke and began to eat.


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And when they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, and took up the wheat and sent it into the sea.


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And when it was day, the sailors knew not what land it was; but they saw along the coast a certain inlet of the sea, (into) which they purposed if possible to drive the ship.


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And they cut the anchors from the ship, and left them in the sea, and they loosed the bands of the oars, and raised a small sail to the wind which blew, and went forward to the face of the land.


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And the ship struck on a high place between two depths of the sea, and infixed herself in it; and her forepart stood upon it, and was immovable, but her afterpart was loosed from the violence of the waves.


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And the soldiers would have killed the prisoners, lest they should cast forth to swim, and escape from them;


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and the centurion restrained them from this, because he was willing to save Paulos. And those who could cast forth to swim he commanded to be the first to swim, and to pass to the land.


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And the rest, on boards, and on other timbers of the ship, passed; and thus all of them escaped to land.


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And the Barbaroyee who dwelt in it many kindnesses showed us. And they kindled a fire, and called all of us to warm, because there was great rain and cold.


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And Paulos took many sticks and placed upon the fire; and there came forth a viper from the heat of the fire, and bit (him) in his hand.


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And when the Barbaroyee saw it hang upon his hand, they said, Perhaps this man is a murderer, whom, though he is escaped from the sea, justice suffereth not to live.


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But the Barbaroyee expected that he would immediately have swelled and fallen dead upon the ground; and when they had for a great while expected and saw that nothing of evil befell him, they changed their words, and said he was a god.


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But there were possessions in that place (belonging) to a certain man whose name was Publios, who himself was the chief of the island; and he cheerfully received us into his house three days.


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But the father of Publios was ill in a fever, and a disease of the bowels. And Paulos went in to him, and prayed and laid his hand on him, and healed him.


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And when this was done, the rest also of them who were diseased in the island came to him and were cured.


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But we went forth after three months and voyaged in an Alexandrine ship which had wintered at the island; and she had upon her the sign of the Twins.


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And from thence we went round and came to Regium the city. And after one day the south wind blew, and in two days we came to Putialos, a city of Italia.


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And we found there brethren, and they prayed of us, and we were with them seven days, and then went we unto Ruma.


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And when the brethren who were there heard, they came forth to meet us unto the street that is called Apios Foros, and unto the Three Taverns. And when Paulos saw them he thanked Aloha, and was strengthened.


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And we entered Ruma. And the centurion allowed Paulos to sojourn where he willed, with the soldier, him who guarded him.


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And after three days Paulos sent to convoke the principal men of the Jihudoyee; and when they were assembled, he said to them, Men, brethren, I, who in nothing have risen against the people, nor the law of our fathers, in bonds was delivered from Urishlem into the hands of the Rumoyee.


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And they who examined me willed to dismiss me, because they found not in me any fault worthy of death.


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And when the Jihudoyee had risen against me, I was constrained to call the appeal of Caesar; (yet) not as though I had in any thing to be the accuser of the sons of my people.


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Wherefore I have besought you to come, that I might see you, and declare to you these things; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain.


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They said to him, We have not received letters concerning thee from Jihud, and none of the brethren who have come from Urishlem have spoken any thing evil of thee.


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But we are willing to hear from thee what it is that thou thinkest; for we know that this doctrine is by no man received.


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AND they appointed him a day; and many assembled and came where he sojourned; and he explained to them concerning the kingdom of Aloha, testifying and persuading them concerning Jeshu, from the law of Musha and from the prophets, from the morning until the evening.


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And they removed from him, while not agreeing together. And Paulos said to them this word, Well spake the Spirit of Holiness, by the mouth of Eshaia the prophet, against your fathers,


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saying, Go unto this people, and say unto them, Hearing, you will hear and will not understand. And you will see, but not discern:


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For stupified is the heart of this people, And their hearing they have made heavy, And their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their hearts, And be turned unto me, and I should forgive them.


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Be this therefore known to you, that to the Gentiles is sent this redemption, for they will also hear it.


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And Paulos hired his own house, and was in it two years, and received there all those who came to him.


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And he preached concerning the kingdom of Aloha, and taught with confidence concerning our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, none forbidding.


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PAULOS, a servant of Jeshu Meshiha, called, and an apostle, who hath been separated unto the gospel of Aloha,


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and is known (to be) the Son of Aloha by power, and by the Holy Spirit, who raised him from among the dead, Jeshu Meshiha our Lord:


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by whom we have received grace and apostleship among all nations, that they should become obedient unto the faith of his name:


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To all who are in Ruma, beloved of Aloha, called and saints; peace and grace be with you from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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First, I praise my God through Jeshu Meshiha on behalf of you all, that your faith is heard (of) in all the world.


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For a witness unto me is Aloha, whom I serve in the spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing at all time I remember you in my prayers.


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BUT I will that you know, my brethren, that many times I have willed to come to you, and have been hindered until this;


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that among you also I may have fruit as among the rest of the nations of the Javnoyee and Barbaroyee, the wise and the foolish,


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because to every man am I obligated to preach; and so am I urged to evangelize unto you also who are in Ruma.


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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of Aloha for the salvation of all who believe in him, whether of the Jihudoyee first, or of the Aramoyee:


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for the righteousness of Aloha in it is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The righteous by faith shall live.


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For the wrath of Aloha is revealed from heaven against all the unrighteousness and depravity of the sons of men, who the truth in unrighteousness detain.


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For the occult things of Aloha from the foundations of the world, unto his creatures by intelligence are apparent, and his power and his Godhead eternal, that they may be without excuse.


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For when they knew Aloha, they did not as Aloha glorify him and praise him, but became vain in their imaginations, and their heart was darkened, that they understood not.


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And they changed the glory of Aloha the Incorruptible into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, and into the likeness of birds and of four-footed (beasts) and of reptiles of the earth.


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Because of this Aloha delivered them up to the unclean lusts of their hearts, that they would debase their bodies among them.


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And they changed the truth of Aloha into a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures rather than their Creator, to whom be praises and blessings for ever and ever. Amen.


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WHEREFORE Aloha delivered them up to passions of vileness: for their females changed the use of their nature, and to what is not natural were used.


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And also their males likewise left the natural use of their females, and were inflamed with concupiscence one with another, and male with male wrought shamefulness, and the just retribution for their perverseness in themselves received.


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And as they did not decide in themselves to know Aloha, so did Aloha cause them to be delivered up to a mind of vainness, and to do what is not fit;


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being filled with all wickedness, and uncleanness, and rancour, and malice, and rapacity, and envy, and murder, and contention, and deceit, and evil imaginings, and murmurings,


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and slanders, and hating of Aloha: vilifiers, inflated ones, boasters, inventors of evil things, mindless, disobedient to parents,


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knowing the judgment of Aloha, that they who these things do, unto death are condemned, (yet) not only do them, but also participate with those who do them.


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Wherefore thou hast no excuse, O man, who judgest thy neighbour; for in that for which thou judgest thy neighbour, thou condemnest thyself; for in those which thou judgest, thou also art conversant.


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But thinkest thou, O man, who judgest them who in these converse, while thou also conversest in them, that thou wilt escape the judgment of Aloha?


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Or upon the riches of his goodness, and upon his long-suffering, and upon the space he giveth thee, presumest thou? and knowest not that the goodness of Aloha unto repentance leadeth thee?


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Yet, through the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, layest thou up the treasure of wrath for the day of wrath, and the revelation of the just judgment of Aloha,


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To them who seek, in perseverance of good works, glory and honour and incorruption, he giveth eternal life;


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but to them who are rebellious, and obey not the truth, but unrighteousness obey, he will render wrath and indignation


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but glory and honour and peace to every one who worketh good, to the Jihudoya first, and also to the Aramoya;


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For they who without the law have sinned, without the law also will perish: and they who in the law have sinned, by the law will be judged.


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FOR if the Gentiles, who have not the law, from their nature shall perform the law, these, while not having the law, unto themselves become a law.


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And these show the work of law written upon their hearts, and their conscience testifieth of them, while their reasonings accuse or excuse one another;


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because thou knowest his will, and distinguishest the things that are fitting, because thou art learned from the law;


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and confidest upon thyself that thou art a guide of the blind, and a light to those who are in darkness,


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and an instructor of the wanting-in-mind, and a teacher of children, and hast a type of knowledge and of truth in the law:


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Thou, then, who teachest others, dost thou not teach thyself? and who preachest that men should not steal, dost thou steal?


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and who sayest they should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who condemnest idols, dost thou despoil the sanctuary?


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And thou who boastest of the law, in this that thou transgressest against the law, Aloha himself despisest thou?


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For circumcision profiteth, if thou accomplish the law; but if thou transgress the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcisedness.


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But if the uncircumcision shall keep the commandment of the law, is not uncircumcisedness reckoned to him (as) circumcision?


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And the uncircumcision, who by nature accomplishes the law will judge thee, who with the scripture and with circumcision, transgressest against the law.


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FOR it is not in outwardness that he is a Jihudoya nor is that which is seen in the flesh circumcision:


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but he is a Jihudoya who is one in inwardness; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from the sons of men, but from Aloha.


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Not so: for Aloha is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be just in thy words, And triumph when they judge thee.


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But if our iniquity the righteousness of Aloha establisheth, what shall we say? Is Aloha evil, who bringeth his wrath? As a man do I speak.


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Or why, as certain blaspheme concerning us, affirming that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come? they, whose condemnation is reserved by justice.


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What then, have we attained excellence? (No.) For before we decided of the Jihudoyee and of the Aramoyee that they are all under sin;


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Open sepulchres are their throats, Their tongues have deceived, And the venom of asps is under their lips.


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BUT we know that whatever the law saith, to them who are under the law it saith: that every mouth may be shut, and all the world be guilty unto Aloha.


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But now, without the law the righteousness of Aloha is revealed, and the law and the prophets (themselves) testify of it.


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But the righteousness of Aloha is by faith of Jeshu Meshiha, unto all and also upon all who believe in him. For there is no distinction:


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whom Aloha before ordained (to be) a propitiation through faith in his blood for our sins which from the first we had sinned, within the space which Aloha hath given to us in his patience,


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unto the manifestation of his righteousness which (is) in this time: that he might be just, and might justify in righteousness him who is in the faith of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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Because one is Aloha, who justifieth the circumcision by faith, also the uncircumcision by the same faith.


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For what saith the scripture? That Abraham believed Aloha, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.


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But to him who worketh, his wages are not reckoned to him as of favour, but as that which is owing to him:


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but to him who worketh not, but believeth only in him who justifieth sinners, his faith is reckoned to him for righteousness.


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As also David hath spoken concerning the blessedness of the man to whom Aloha reckoneth righteousness without works, saying,


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Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcision (only), or upon the uncircumcision (also)? Now we have said, that his faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.


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When, then, was it reckoned to him? In circumcision or in uncircumcision? It was not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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For he received the sign of circumcision (as) a seal of the righteousness of his faith, which (was his) in uncircumcision, that he should be the father of all them who believe of the uncircumcision; that it might be accounted also to them for righteousness:


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and the father of the circumcision, not of them who are of the circumcision only, but of them who pursue the footsteps of the faith of uncircumcision of our father Abraham.


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FOR not through the law was the promise unto Abraham and to his seed that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.


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For the law is the worker of wrath. For where there is no law, there also is no transgression of the law.


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Therefore it is by faith, which is through grace, that we are justified, that the promise might be firm unto all his seed; not to that which is of the law only, 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, I have ordained thee the father of many nations before Aloha, in whom thou hast believed, who maketh alive the dead, and calleth those who are not as though they were:)


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and who, without hope, unto hope believed that he should be the father of many nations, as it is written, that " so shall be thy seed."


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Nor was he weak in his faith, while considering his body dead, (for he was the son of an hundred years,) and the dead womb of Sara;


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and at the promise of Aloha he wavered not as deficient in faith, but was strong in faith, and gave glory to Aloha;


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but for our sake, because it should be reckoned to us also who believe in Him who hath raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead;


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And by him we have been admitted through faith into this grace in which we stand, and exult in hope of the glory of Aloha.


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And not thus only, but also in afflictions we exult; for we know that affliction perfecteth patience in us,


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but hope maketh us not ashamed, because the love of Aloha is shed forth upon our hearts by the Spirit of Holiness who is given to us.


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Nevertheless Aloha hath manifested his love for us, in that, when we were sinners, the Meshiha for us died:


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how much more, then, shall we be now justified through his blood, and by him be delivered from wrath?


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For if, while we were adversaries, Aloha was reconciled with us through the death of his Son, how much more, then, in reconciliation with him, shall we be saved by his life?


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And not thus only, but we also exult in Aloha through our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.


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As by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death, so death hath passed upon all men through this, that all have sinned.


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yet death reigned from Adam until Musha on them also who had not sinned after the manner of the transgression of the law of Adam, who was the type of him who was to be.


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But not as was the fall, so is the gift; for if, on account of the fall of one, many died, how much more the grace of Aloha, and his gift, for the sake of one man, Jeshu Meshiha, in many will abound?


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And not as the transgression of one, so is the gift; for the judgment that was by one was unto condemnation, but the gift (which saves) from many sins was unto righteousness.


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For if because of the transgression of one death was made to reign, much more (shall) they who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift and of righteousness, reign in life by one, Jeshu Meshiha.


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As then on account of the transgression of one was the condemnation of all men, so, on account of the righteousness of one shall there be acquittal unto the life of all men.


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For as on account of the disobedience of one man many became sinners, so also on account of the obedience of one many became righteous.


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But the entrance which was of the law, (made) sin to increase; and where sin increased, there grace hath abounded:


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that as sin hath reigned in death, so grace might reign in righteousness unto the life which is eternal, by the hand of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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Or do you not know, that they who have been baptized into Jeshu Meshiha, into his death have been baptized?


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For we are buried with him by baptism into death; that as Jeshu Meshiha arose from among the dead by the glory of his Father, so also we in a new life shall walk.


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For if together we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so also in his resurrection shall we be.


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For we know that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that more we should not serve sin.


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for we know that the Meshiha rose from among the dead, and no more dieth, nor hath death dominion over him.


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nor prepare your members the instruments of iniquity unto sin, but prepare yourselves for Aloha, as men who from the dead have been made alive, and your members instruments to be for the righteousness of Aloha.


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Know you not, that to whomsoever you prepare yourselves to obey him unto service, of him you are the servants, of him whom you obey; whether of sin, or of the hearing of the ear of righteousness?


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But praise to Aloha that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine to which you have been delivered.


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As among men I speak, because of the infirmity of your flesh, that as you have prepared your members for the service of uncleanness and of iniquity, so also now prepare ye your members for the service of righteousness and of holiness.


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And what product had you then from that of which to-day you are ashamed? For the end of it is death.


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And now made free from sin, and become servants to Aloha, you have holy fruits, of which the end is the life of eternity.


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For the wages of sin is death; and the gift of Aloha the life of eternity by our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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BUT know you not, my brethren, for to those who know the law I speak, that the law has authority over a man as long as he liveth?


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as a woman who is bound in law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.


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But if, while her husband lives, she adhere to another man, she becometh an adulteress; but if her husband shall die, she is freed from the law, and is not an adulteress, though she become (the wife) of another man.


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And now, my brethren, you also are dead to the law, through the body of the Meshiha, that you should be married to another, (namely, to) him who rose from the dead, that you may render fruit unto Aloha.


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For while we were in the flesh, the affections of sin, which are against the law, wrought powerfully in our members to yield fruits unto death;


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but now we are loosed from the law, and are dead to that which held us, that we might serve henceforth in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the writing.


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What then, say we the law is sin? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath said, Thou shalt not covet.


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And by this commandment sin found for itself an occasion, and completed in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.


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The good, then, unto me, unto death was made? Not so. But sin, that it might be seen what sin is, by the good (law) effected death in me, that sin might be the more condemned by the commandment.


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For I know that in me, but that is in my flesh, good dwelleth not; because to will the good is easy to me, but to perform it I find not.


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I find then a law which accordeth with my mind, that willeth to do good, because evil is near to me.


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but I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.


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I give thanks to Aloha! (it is) by the hand of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. Now then, I in my mind am the servant of the law of Aloha, but in my flesh I am the servant of the law of sin.


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For the law of the Spirit of life, which is in Jeshu Meshiha, hath set thee free from the law of sin and of death.


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Because the law was weak through the infirmity of the flesh, Aloha sent his Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, on account of sin to condemn sin in his flesh;


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that the righteousness of the law might in us be fulfilled, who walk not in the flesh, but in the Spirit.


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For they who are in the flesh, of that flesh are mindful; and they who are of the Spirit, of that Spirit are mindful.


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Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Aloha; for to the law of Aloha it is not subject, for it cannot be;


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But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if truly the Spirit of Aloha dwelleth in you. But if a man have not the Spirit of the Meshiha, this (man) is not his.


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And if the Meshiha be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.


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And if the Spirit of him who raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead dwell in you, he who raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead will also make alive your dead bodies, on account of his Spirit who dwelleth in you.


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For if after the flesh you live, you must die: but if, after the Spirit, the habitudes of the body you mortify, you live.


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For we have not received the spirit of servitude again unto fear, but we have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, by whom we cry, Father, our Father!


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And if sons, heirs also; heirs of Aloha, and the sons of the inheritance of Jeshu Meshiha. For if we suffer with him, with him also shall we be glorified.


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For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not equal to that glory which is to be revealed in us.


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For the creation hath been subjected to vanity, not willingly, but on account of him who subjected her, upon the hope


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that the creation herself also shall be made free from the servitude of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of Aloha.


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and not only they, but we also who have in us the first-fruit of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, and wait for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.


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So also the Spirit helpeth our infirmity: for what to pray for as we ought we know not; but the Spirit himself prayeth on our behalf in groanings unspoken.


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But he who searcheth the hearts, he knoweth the mind of the Spirit, who, according to the will of Aloha, prayeth for the saints.


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BUT we know that those who love Aloha, in every thing he helpeth them for good; them whom he set before that they might be called.


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And from the first he knew them, and signified them in the likeness of the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born of many brethren.


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But whom he before signified, them he called; and whom he called, them he justified; and whom he justified, them he glorified.


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And if his Son be spared not, but for all of us delivered him up, how will he not with him give us all things?


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Who condemneth? The Meshiha hath died and arisen, and is at the right hand of Aloha, and prayeth for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Meshiha? Affliction, or sorrow, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?


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As it is written: For thee all the day long are we killed, We are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.


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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor authorities, nor powers, nor things subsisting, nor things to come,


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nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of Aloha which is in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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For I could pray that I myself might be one accursed from Meshiha instead of my brethren and my kinsmen who are in the flesh;


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who are the sons of Israel, and whose was the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the ministry, and the promises,


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and the fathers; and from whom appeared the Meshiha in the flesh, who is Aloha over all: his be praises and benedictions to the age of ages. Amen.


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neither also are they who are of the seed of Abraham all children; because it was said, In Ishok shall be called unto thee the seed:


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but that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of Aloha, but the children of the promise are reckoned the seed.


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before her sons were born, and had not wrought good or evil, the (choice) of Aloha was (made) known before that it should remain: not by works, but by him who called:


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behold, also, he said unto Musha, I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious.


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For it is said in the scripture to Pherun, For this I have raised thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.


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Who then art thou, O man, who givest answer against Aloha? Will the mass say to him who formeth it, Why thus hast thou formed me?


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Or, hath not the potter power over his clay, that from the (same) mass he might make vessels, the one to honour, and the other to vileness?


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BUT if Aloha, willing to reveal his wrath, and to make known his power, in his much patience bore with the vessels of wrath who were perfected for destruction,


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so also in Husha he said, I will call them my people who were not my people, and on those on whom I was not merciful, will I be merciful:


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for it shall be in the place where they were not called my people, there shall they be called the children of Aloha the Living.


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But Eshaia proclaims of the sons of Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand which is on the sea, the residue of them shall be saved.


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And as that which Eshaia had said before: Unless the Lord of sebaoth had left to us a residue, as Sedum should we have been, and to Amura have been likened.


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WHAT then shall we say? That the Gentiles who have not followed after righteousness have attained righteousness, but that righteousness which is of faith:


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but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, unto the law of righteousness have not attained.


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For why? Because it was not by faith, but by the works of the law: for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling;


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as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling And a rock of offence; And whosoever in him shall believe Shall not be ashamed.


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My brethren, (it is) the wish of my heart, and my prayer to Aloha concerning them, that they may be saved.


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But the righteousness of Aloha they know not, but seek the righteousness of themselves to establish, and on this account to the righteousness of Aloha they have not become subject.


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FOR Musha thus describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that he who doeth these things shall live by them.


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But the righteousness which is by faith thus speaketh, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, And bring down the Meshiha?


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But what saith it? Nigh thee is the word of thy mouth and of thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach.


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And if thou wilt confess with thy mouth our Lord Jeshu, and wilt believe with thy heart that Aloha hath raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.


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And in this he hath not distinguished nor the Jihudoya nor the Aramoya; for one is the Lord of them all, who is rich toward every one who calleth on him.


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How then shall they invoke him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? Or how shall they hear without a preacher?


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Or how shall they preach if they are not sent? As it is written, How beautiful the feet of them who evangelize peace, And who evangelize good things!


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But all of them have not obeyed the preaching of the gospel: for Eshaia saith, My Lord, who hath believed our voice?


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But I say, Have they not heard? Behold, in all the earth their voice hath gone forth, And to the ends of the world their words!


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But I say, Hath not Israel known? First, Musha thus speaketh, I will provoke you by a people who is not a people. And by the disobedient people will I make you angry.


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But Eshaia is bold, and saith, I am beheld by them who have not sought me, And found of them who for me have not inquired.


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But of Israel he saith, I have stretched out my hands all the day To a contentious and disobedient people.


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BUT I say, Hath Aloha put away his people? Not so. For I also am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benyamen.


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Aloha hath not put away his people whom from before he knew. Or know you not what he saith in the scripture concerning Elia,


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when he cried unto Aloha against Israel, saying, My Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and thy altars overthrown, and I alone am left, and they seek my soul?


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And it was said to him by revelation, Behold, I have left to myself seven thousand men, who upon their knees have not kneeled nor worshipped Baal.


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But if by grace, it is not of works; otherwise grace is not grace. But if by works, it is not of grace; otherwise work is not work.


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What then, That which Israel sought he hath not found; but the election hath found: but the rest of them are blinded in their hearts.


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As it is written, Aloha hath given them the spirit of trouble, And eyes that see not, and ears that hear not, until the present day.


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And David again saith, Let their table become a snare before them, And their reward be for a stumbling-block:


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But I say, Have they stumbled so as to fall? Not so: but, by their stumbling was salvation to the Gentiles, unto their zeal.


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And if their stumbling were wealth to the world, and their condemnation wealth to the Gentiles, how much then will their fulness be?


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For if their rejection was the reconciliation of the world, what (will) their conversion (be) but life from the dead?


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For if the first-fruits be holy, (so) also (will be) the mass; and if the root be holy, (so) also the branches.


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And if the branches were cut off, and thou who art a wild olive art engrafted in their place, and hast a participation of the root and fatness of the olive,


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boast not against the branches: but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root beareth thee.


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Well, they on account of unbelief were cut off, and thou by faith standest: be not exalted in thy mind, but fear.


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Behold, then, the goodness and the severity of Aloha: towards them who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; if not, thou also wilt be cut off.


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And they, if they continue not in their want of faith, they also shall be engrafted; for Aloha is able again to engraft them.


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For if thou who art of the wild olive which is thy nature, wast cut off, and, which was not thy nature, art engrafted into the good olive, how much more they, if they are engrafted into the olive of their nature?


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But I would have you know, my brethren, this mystery, that you may not be wise in your own mind,-that blindness of heart for a little space is unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in:


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and then all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, The Redeemer shall come from Sion, And turn iniquity from Jakub;


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But, in (regard of) the gospel, they are enemies on your account; and, in the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers.


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For as you also were not obedient unto Aloha at the first, and now have received mercy through their disobedience;


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so also these are now disobedient for the mercy that is upon you, that upon them also might be mercy.


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O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of Aloha, whose judgments man searcheth not, and whose ways are inscrutable!


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For all is of him, and all in him, and all by him. To him be praises and benedictions unto the age of ages. Amen.


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I BESEECH then of you, my brethren, by the mercies of Aloha, that you present your bodies a sacrifice, living and holy and acceptable unto Aloha, in a rational service.


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And be not likened unto this world, but be changed by the renewing of your minds, that you may discern what is the will of Aloha, good, and acceptable, and perfect.


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But I tell you all through the grace which is given to me, that you are not to think beyond what it is proper to think; but that you think with sobriety, every man as Aloha hath divided to him faith in measure.


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But we have various gifts according to the grace that is given to us: is it prophecy? (let him who has received it) prophesy according to the measure of the faith.


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Hath (another the gift) of ministry? (let him be employed) in his ministry; he who is a teacher, (let him labour) in his teaching;


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he who is an exhorter, in his exhorting; as he who giveth, (let him give with simplicity;) and he who presideth, (let it be) with diligence; and he who (is engaged in works) of mercy, with cheerfulness.


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And what you think of yourselves, (that) also think of your brethren; nor think with a high mind, but incline to them who are humble; and be not wise in the conceit of your own mind.


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And avenge not yourselves, my beloved, but give place unto wrath; for it is written, that if thou execute not judgment for thyself, I will execute thy judgment, saith Aloha.


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And if thy adversary hunger, feed him; and if he thirst, give him drink: and if these things thou do unto him, coals of fire thou wilt heap upon his head.


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LET every soul to the powers of dominion be subject. For there is no power that is not from Aloha, and the powers that be, of Aloha are they instituted.


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Whoever then riseth up against the power, against the institution of Aloha he riseth; and they who arise against them will receive judgment.


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For judges are not a terror to the workers of good, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do good, and thou shalt have praise from him.


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For he is the servant of Aloha, but to thee for good: and if thou do evil, fear; for not in vain is he girded with the sword; for he is the servant of Aloha, and the dispenser of wrath to them who do evil.


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And because of this are we bound to be subject, not for the wrath only, but also because of conscience.


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On this account also give we tribute to them; for they are the servants of Aloha over these things constituted.


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Render therefore to every man as is due to him: to whom tribute (is due,) tribute; and to whom custom, custom; and to whom reverence, reverence; and to whom honour, honour.


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And to no man owe any thing, but one another to love. For whoever loveth his neighbour fulfilleth the law:


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for that also which it hath said, Thou shalt not kill; and, Thou shalt not commit adultery; and, Thou shalt not steal; and, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, in this word it is accomplished, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


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AND also this know, that the time is, and the hour is, when we should be awake from our sleep; for now hath drawn nearer to us our salvation than when we believed.


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The night now passeth away, and the day hath drawn nigh; put we away then from us the works of darkness, and let us clothe with the arms of light.


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And as in the day, let us walk decorously, not with the song, nor with drunkenness, nor in the unclean chamber, nor in envy and in contention;


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but let (every one) clothe himself with our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and care not for your flesh unto the lusts (thereof).


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For there are some who believe that one may eat every thing, and he who is weak; eateth (only) the herb.


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But let not him who eateth despise him who eateth not; and he who eateth not, let him not judge him who eateth; for Aloha hath received him.


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Who art thou that judgest a servant who is not thine? who, if he stand, unto his Lord he standeth, and if he fall, falleth unto his Lord. But standing, he standeth; for there is power in the hands of his Lord to make him stand.


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There is who distinguisheth day from day, and there is who judgeth all days (to be alike); but let every man in the conviction of his (own) mind be confirmed.


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He who thinketh of the day, to his Lord he thinketh; and every one who thinketh not of the day, unto his Lord he thinketh not (of it). He who eateth, to his Lord he eateth, and to Aloha giveth thanks;


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and he who eateth not, to his Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to Aloha. For there is no one of us who to himself liveth and no one who to himself dieth.


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For if we live, to our Lord we live; and if we die, to our Lord we die: and if we live, then, or if we die, our Lord's are we.


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Because of this also the Meshiha died and lived and arose, that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living. But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother?


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Or thou, also, why despisest thou thy brother? For we shall all stand before the tribunal of the Meshiha:


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


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Then judge not one another, but this determine rather, to lay not a stumbling-block for thy brother.


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For I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jeshu, that a thing which is unclean from itself is not (so); but to him who judgeth of any thing that it is polluted, to him only it is polluted.


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But if on account of meat thou grievest thy brother, thou walkest not in love: destroy not by thy meat him on account of whom the Meshiha died.


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For the kingdom of Aloha is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Spirit of Holiness.


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and not for the sake of meats undo the work of Aloha. For each thing is pure, yet evil is it to the man who eateth with offence.


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Hast thou confidence? In thyself retain it before Aloha. Blessed is he who condemneth not himself in what he distinguisheth.


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For he who doubteth and eateth is made guilty, because he eateth not with confidence. For every thing that is not of confidence is sin.


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WE then, the strong, are obligated to bear up the infirmities of the weak, and not ourselves to please.


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Because the Meshiha also pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproach of thy reproachers hath fallen upon me.


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For every thing that hath before been written for our instruction was written, that by the patience and consolation of the scriptures we might have hope.


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But the God of patience and of consolation give to you that with impartiality you may think one of another in Jeshu Meshiha,


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Therefore, receive and bear with one another, as also the Meshiha hath received you, to the glory of Aloha.


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But I say that Jeshu Meshiha ministered the circumcision, on behalf of the truth of Aloha, that he might confirm the promise of the fathers,


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and the Gentiles might glorify Aloha for his mercy that was upon them. As it is written, I will confess thee among the Gentiles, And to thy name will I sing.


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And again, Eshaia hath said, There shall be a root of Jeshai, And he who shall arise shall be the chief of the peoples; And upon him will the Gentiles hope.


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But the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, through faith, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Spirit of Holiness.


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BUT I am persuaded also concerning you, my brethren, that you are also full of good, and filled with all knowledge, and able also to instruct others.


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But I have somewhat boldly written to you, my brethren, as that I may put you in remembrance, through the grace which is given to me from Aloha,


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to be a minister of Jeshu Meshiha among the Gentiles, and to labour in the gospel of Aloha, that there may be an oblation of the Gentiles, acceptable and holy through the Spirit of Holiness.


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For I dare not speak any thing which the Meshiha hath not done by my hands, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and in deeds,


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with the power of signs and miracles, and with the power of the Spirit of Aloha; as that I have itinerated from Urishlem unto Illyrikum, to fulfil the preaching of Meshiha;


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being anxious to preach, not where the name of Meshiha had been called, that I might not build upon another foundation,


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but as it is written, They to whom it hath not been told of him, they shall see him; and they who have not heard shall be persuaded.


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But now, because I have no place in these countries, and have desired for many years to come to you,


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when I go into Ispania, I hope to come and see you; and you shall lead me thitherward, when I shall in some measure have been gladdened with the sight of you.


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For they in Makedunia and in Akaia have desired that a communication should be made from themselves with the poor and the saints who are at Urishlem.


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They have desired (this), because they also are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have participated with them in the Spirit, they are indebted to serve them in the flesh.


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This, then, when I have accomplished, and have sealed to them this fruit, I (intend to) pass by you into Ispania.


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And I know that when I come to you, with the plenitude of the blessing of the gospel of Meshiha I (shall) come.


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Now I entreat of you, my brethren, by our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and by the love of the Spirit, to labour with me in prayer on my behalf, with Aloha,


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that I may be delivered from them who believe not in Jihud, and (that) the service which I bear to the saints may be well received,


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that you receive her in the Lord, as is right for saints; and, in every thing which she requests from you, assist her; because she also hath assisted many, and myself also.


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for they themselves for my life have given their necks; and not only do I praise them, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.


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And give salutation to the church which is in their house. Ask the peace of Epenetos, my beloved, who was the first-fruits of Akaia in the Meshiha.


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Ask for the peace of Andronikos and Junia, my kindred, who were captives with me, and are known among the apostles, and in Meshiha were before me.


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Ask the peace of Apella, chosen in our Lord. Ask for the peace of the sons of the house of Aristobulos.


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Ask the peace of Herodion, my relative. Ask for the peace of the sons of the house of Narkisos, who are in our Lord.


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Ask for the peace of Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in our Lord. Ask for the peace of Parsis, my beloved, who much hath laboured in our Lord.


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Ask the peace of Asynkritos, and of Phlegun, and of Arma, and of Patroba, and of Herma, and of the brethren who are with them.


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Ask the peace of Philologos, and of Julia, and of Niros, and of his sister, and of Olympa, and all the saints who are with them.


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Ask for the peace one of another with the holy kiss. All the churches of the Meshiha ask for your peace.


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But I beseech of you, my brethren, beware of them who make divisions and scandals apart from the doctrine which you have learned; and be distant from them.


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For they who are thus serve not our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, but their bellies; and with sweet words and benedictions seduce the hearts of the simple.


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But your obedience is known to every one; I rejoice therefore in you, and I wish you to be wise unto good (works), and pure with regard to evil.


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But the God of peace will soon bruise Satana beneath your feet. The grace of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha be with you!


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Gaios my entertainer, and of all the church, asketh for your peace; (as do) Erastos steward of the city, and Quartos a brother.


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TO ALOHA, who is able to confirm you in my gospel which is proclaimed concerning Jeshu the Meshiha, through revelation of the mystery, which from the times of the ages was hidden,


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but is revealed in this time by means of the scriptures of the prophets, and by the commandment of the Everlasting Aloha is made known to all the nations for the obedience of faith;


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to the church of Aloha which is in Kurinthos, the called, and the saints who in Jeshu Meshiha are sanctified; and to all them who invoke the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha in every place, theirs and ours:


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I give thanks to Aloha at all times on your behalf for the grace of Aloha which is given to you through Jeshu Meshiha,


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That you may not be deficient in one of his gifts, but be expecting the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,


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who will confirm you to the end, that you may be without fault in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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Faithful is Aloha, by whom you have been called to the fellowship of his Son Jeshu Meshiha our Lord.


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But I beseech of you, my brethren, in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that you have all one doctrine, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfect in one mind and one sentiment.


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For they of the house of Kloë have sent to me concerning you, my brethren, that there are contentions among you.


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For this I say, that there are some of you who say, I am of Paulos; and some who say, I am of Apollo; and some who say, I am of Kipha; and some who say, I am of the Meshiha!


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Is the Meshiha divided? Or was Paulos crucified for you? Or in the name of Paulos were you baptized?


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But I baptized also the house of Estepana; beyond (these) I know not that any other man I have baptized.


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For the Meshiha sent me not to baptize, but to preach; not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of the Meshiha should be nullified.


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FOR the doctrine of the cross to those who perish is foolishness, but to us who are saved it is the power of Aloha.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will take away the understanding of the prudent.


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Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Or where is the disputer of this world? Hath not. Aloha made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For inasmuch as in the wisdom of Aloha, the world by wisdom hath not known Aloha, it hath pleased Aloha, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them who believe.


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but to them who are called, Jihudoyee and Aramoyee, the Meshiha is the power of Aloha, and the wisdom of Aloha.


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For you see also your calling, my brethren, that not many among you are wise after the flesh, and not many among you are powerful, and not many among you are of noble birth;


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but Aloha hath chosen the simple of the world, to shame the wise, and he hath chosen the weak of the world, to shame the mighty,


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and he hath chosen those of low birth in the world, and the outcasts, and those who are nothing, to bring to nothing those who are;


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But you are of him in Jeshu Meshiha, who hath been made unto us wisdom, of Aloha, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;


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And I, my brethren, when I came to you, not with grandeur of speech, nor with wisdom, did I evangelize to you the mystery of Aloha.


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And I considered myself among you as not knowing any thing unless Jeshu Meshiha, and him also as crucified.


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And my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasion of the words of wisdom, but with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;


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But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this world, nor the authorities of this world, which are abolished;


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but we speak the wisdom of Aloha in the mystery which was hidden, and which Aloha predetermined from before the worlds unto our glorification;


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which not one of the authorities of this world hath known; for if they had known it, the Lord of glory they would not have crucified.


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But as it is written, The eye hath not seen, Nor the ear heard, Nor the heart of man hath risen (to), That which Aloha hath prepared for those who love him.


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BUT unto us hath Aloha revealed, by his Spirit. For the Spirit all things searcheth, also the depths of Aloha.


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For what man knoweth what is in man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? so also that which is in Aloha man knoweth not, but only the Spirit of Aloha.


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But we not the spirit of this world have received, but the Spirit who is from Aloha, that we might know that the gifts from Aloha are given unto us;


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which also we speak, not with the learning of words of wisdom of men, but with the learning of the Spirit; and with spirituals the spirituals we compare.


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For the man who is animal receiveth not spirituals, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they by the Spirit are judged of;


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AND I, my brethren, could not speak with you as with the spiritual, but as with the carnal, and as with babes in the Meshiha.


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I have sustained you with milk, and have not given you meat; for as yet you could not, nor can you now, (bear it).


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For as yet you are in the flesh. For while there are among you envy and contentions and divisions, are you not carnal, and walking in the flesh?


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For who is Paulos, or who Apollo, but ministers by whom you have believed and each as the Lord gave to him?


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But he who planteth and he who watereth are one, (and) each according to his labour his recompence receiveth.


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And according to the grace of Aloha which is given to me, I have laid the foundation as a wise architect; but another hath built upon it.


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But let every man beware how he buildeth upon it. For another foundation besides this which is laid no man can lay, (that, namely,) which is Jeshu the Meshiha.


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And if any man build upon this foundation gold, or silver, or precious stones; or wood, or hay, or stubble;


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the work of every one shall be revealed, for that day shall reveal it; for by the fire shall it be revealed, and the work of every man as it is the fire shall distinguish.


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and he whose work shall be burned, shall fail; but he (himself) shall be rescued, but so as from fire.


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Whoso destroyeth the temple of Aloha, him will Aloha destroy for the temple of Aloha is holy, which you are.


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Let no man deceive himself. Whoever among you supposeth himself wise in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is folly with Aloha; for it is written, He hath taken the wise in their own craftiness.


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whether Paulos, or Apolo, or Kipha, or the world, or life, or death, or things standing, or things to be; every thing is yours,


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Thus let us be accounted of you as ministers of the Meshiha, and stewards of the mysteries of Aloha.


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Therefore, do not judge before the time, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the thoughts of hearts. Then will there be praise to each man from Aloha.


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BUT these things, my brethren, for your sakes I have applied to the person of myself and of Apolo, that through us you may learn not to think of us beyond what is written; and that one above his neighbour may not be exalted on account of any thing.


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For who distinguisheth thee? Or, what hast thou which thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received?


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Now you are satiated, and are rich, and without us have reigned. But I would that you did reign, that we might also reign with you!


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But I consider that us, the apostles, Aloha hath set last, as unto death, to be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,


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We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.


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and we labour, working with our hands. They revile us, and we bless; they persecute us, and we endure;


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they maltreat us, and we pray for them; as the refuse of the world are we made and the execration of all men until now.


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For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.


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WHEREFORE I have sent to you Timotheos, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways in the Meshiha, according to that which I teach in all the churches.


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But if the Lord will, quickly come I unto you; and I will know not the words of them who exalt themselves, but their power.


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How are you willing? with a rod shall I come to you, or with love and with the spirit of kindliness?


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Fornication is commonly reported among you; and such fornication as is not heard among the Heathens, that the son should take the wife of his father.


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And you are inflated; but should you not rather sit in grief that he who hath wrought this work might be put away from you?


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But I, while distant from you in body, am near you in spirit, and now judge, as if near you, him who hath done this;


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that in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha all of you be assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,


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and you deliver this (man) to Satana for the destruction of his body, that in spirit he may be saved in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?


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Purge from you the old leaven, that you may be a new mass; so that you may be (as) unleavened bread. For our Pascha is the Meshiha, who hath been slain for us.


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Therefore, let us perform the festival, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and animosity, but with the unleavened bread of purity and of holiness.


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but I do not say with fornicators who are in this world, nor speak I concerning the covetous, or the rapacious, or the servers of idols; otherwise you would be obligated from the world also to go forth.


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But this which I have written to you, Be not mixed, (is,) If any one who is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of idols, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with one who is such as he not to eat bread.


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DARE any of you, having a suit with his brother, to litigate before the evil, and not before the saints?


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Or know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world by you is judged, are you not worthy to judge small matters?


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But if you have matters to be judged regarding the world, those who are little-esteemed in the church make you to sit in judgment.


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But to your reproach am I to say to you, So there is not among you even one wise man, who is able to adjust between a brother and his brother?


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Now, therefore, you make yourselves guilty while you have litigation one with another. For why do you not bear injury? and why do you not suffer fraud?


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Or, know you not that the unjust the kingdom of Aloha cannot inherit? Do not err; neither fornicators, nor the servers of idols, nor adulterers, nor corrupters, nor liers with men, nor the oppressive,


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And these were some of you but you are washed, and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and by the Spirit of our God.


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ALL (food) is lawful to me, but all is not expedient for me. All is lawful to me, but over me no one shall have power.


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Food is for the belly, and the belly for food; but Aloha will abolish them both. But the body was not for fornication, but for our Lord, and our Lord for the body.


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Know you not that your bodies are members of the Meshiha? Shall one take a member of the Meshiha to make it a member of a harlot? Never!


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Know you not that whosoever attacheth to a harlot is one body? For it is said, The two shall be one body.


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Flee from fornication: for every sin which a man committeth is without his body; but he who committeth fornication against his own body sinneth.


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Or, know you not that your body is the temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who dwelleth in you, (even) Him whom you have received from Aloha? And you are not your own,


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for you are bought with the price; therefore glorify Aloha in your body and in your spirit, which are of Aloha.


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BUT concerning those (questions) of which you wrote to me, It is well for a man unto a woman not to come nigh;


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so also the wife to her husband. For the wife hath not authority over her body, but the husband; so also the man hath not authority over his body, but his wife.


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Defraud not then one the other, unless you both agree for a time, that you may humble yourselves by fasting and by prayer; and return again unto the same will, that Satana may not tempt you on account of the desire of your bodies.


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For I would that all men were as I am, in chastity. But every man hath the gift given to him from Aloha, this one thus, and the other thus.


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But I say to those who have no wives, and to the widows, that it is expedient for them to remain as I do.


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Yet, if they persevere not, they should marry; for it is better to take a wife than to burn with concupiscence.


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But those who have wives I command, yet not I, but my Lord, that the wife from her husband separate not.


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Yet, if she separate, let her remain without a man, or unto her husband be reconciled. And let not a man put away his wife.


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But to the rest I say, not my Lord, If a brother hath a wife who is not a believer, and she be willing to dwell with him, let him not put her away.


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And any woman who has an husband unbelieving, and he willeth to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband.


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For the man who believeth not is sanctified by the wife who believeth; and any wife who believeth not is sanctified by the husband who believeth; otherwise their children would be unclean; but now are they clean.


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But if he who believeth not separate, let him separate; a brother or a sister is not in servitude to these: unto peace Aloha hath called us.


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For how knowest thou, wife, whether thou mayest save thy husband? Or knowest thou, man, if thy wife thou mayest save?


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But (according as) the Lord hath distributed to every one, as Aloha hath called, so let him walk; and thus in all the churches, so I direct.


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If a man circumcised hath been called, let him not turn to uncircumcision; and if in uncircumcision he hath been called, let him not be circumcised.


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For circumcision is not any thing, nor uncircumcision, but the observances of the commandments of Aloha.


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If a servant thou wast called, be not careful, but, if also thou canst be made free, choose that thou shouldest serve.


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For he who a servant is called in the Lord, is the freeman of Aloha, so he who as a son of freedom is called, is a servant of the Meshiha.


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BUT respecting virginity, a commandment from Aloha I have not received; but I give counsel as a man who hath had grace from Aloha to be faithful.


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And I consider that this is good, on account of the necessity of the time, that it is expedient for a man so to be.


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Yet, if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not; and if a virgin shall be to a husband, she sinneth not. Yet affliction in the body will be to them who are such; but I am sparing over you.


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And this I say, my brethren, that the time now becomes contracted; and they who have wives should be as not having them;


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and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing;


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and they who use this world should not exceed the just use; for the fashion of this world passeth away.


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Wherefore I would that you be without anxiety; for he who hath not a wife thinketh of the things of his Lord, that so he may please his Lord;


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But there is a distinction between the wife and the virgin. She who hath no man is thoughtful of the things of her Lord, that she may be holy in her body and in her spirit; and she who hath a husband is thoughtful of the world, that so she may please her husband.


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But this for your own profit speak I; not to throw a snare over you, but that you may be constant towards your Lord in a comely manner, while not thoughtful of the world.


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But if a man consider it to be dishonourable toward his virgin, who hath passed her time, that he hath not given her to the man, (and) that it is proper that he should give her; as he willeth let him act, he sinneth not: let them marry.


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But he who hath firmly decided in his own mind, and nothing constraineth him, and (who hath) power in his will, and thus judgeth in his heart, that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.


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The wife, so long as her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband shall die, she is free, that she may do what she willeth, only in our Lord.


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But it is good if thus she remain, according to my own mind. But I think also that the Spirit of Aloha is in me.


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RESPECTING the sacrifices of idols, we know that in all of us there is knowledge; and knowledge inflateth, but love buildeth up.


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Concerning the meat of the sacrifices of idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.


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For there are also who are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as that there are gods many and lords many:


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but to us our One is Aloha the Father, of whom are all, and we in him; and one Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by whom are all, and we by him.


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But not in every man is this knowledge; for there are some who in their conscience until now (believe) that, with respect to idols, as of that which hath been sacrificed we eat. And because of weakness their conscience is defiled.


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But meat doth not bring us nigh to Aloha. For if we eat, we excel not; nor if we eat not, are we deficient.


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For if a man shall see thee in whom is knowledge reclining in the house of idols, will not his conscience, because he is weak, be confirmed to eat that which is sacrificed,


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And if so you transgress against your brethren, and wound their weak consciences, do you not transgress against the Meshiha?


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On this account, if meat cause my brother to stumble, I will never (more) eat flesh, that I may not cause my brother to stumble.


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Am I not a son of freedom? am I not an apostle? or have I not seen Jeshu Meshiha our Lord? or are not you my work in my Lord?


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And if to others I be not an apostle, yet am I (such) to you; and the seal of my apostleship are you.


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or have we not authority a sister, a wife, to lead about with us, as the rest of the apostles, and as the brethren of our Lord, and as Kipha?


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Who serveth at service at the expenses of himself? or who planteth the vinery, and from the fruits thereof eateth not? or who pastureth sheep, and from the milk of the flock eateth not?


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For it is written in the law of Musha, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out (the corn). But of oxen is Aloha careful?


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But it is evident that on our account this is said; for on our account it is written, because that in hope it behoveth the ploughman to plough, and him who thresheth, in hope of provision (to thresh).


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And if others have this power over you, much more have we. But we are not used in this power; but we bear all, lest in any thing we should hinder the gospel of the Meshiha.


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KNOW you not that they who serve in the sanctuary from the sanctuary are sustained? And they who at the altar serve share with the altar?


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But I am not used in one of these; nor on this account have I thus written, that so it should be done unto me: for it were better for me that dying I should die, than that any man my glorying should make void.


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Yet also in preaching I have no cause to glory: for necessity lieth upon me; for woe to me unless I preach!


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For if with my will I do this, I have a reward. But if without my will, (yet) a stewardship is confided to me.


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What, then, is my reward? That while preaching without expenses I may perform the annunciation of the Meshiha, and not abuse the power that is given to me in the gospel.


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And I become with the Jihudoyee as a Jihudoya, that the Jihudoyee I may gain; and with them who are under the law, I become as one under the law, that them who are under the law I may gain;


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and to those who have not the law I become as one without law, while I am not unto Aloha without law, but in the law of the Meshiha, that them also who have not law I may gain.


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I become with the weak as weak, that the weak I may gain. To all men all become I, that every man I may save.


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Know you not, that they who run in the course, run all, but one taketh to him the victory? So run, that you may take hold.


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For every man who contendeth from every thing (besides with) holdeth his mind; and they who run (do it) that they may receive a crown that is corruptible, but we one that is incorruptible.


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but my body I subdue and make subservient, lest when to others I shall have preached, I my very self shall be rejected.


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Musha were baptized in the cloud and in the sea, and all of them ate one spiritual food, and all of them drank one spiritual drink;


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nor also be servers of idols, as some of them served; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play;


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For all these which happened to them were unto us an example, and were written for our instruction, upon whom come the ends of the world.


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Temptation cometh not (upon) you but what cometh on mankind; but faithful is Aloha, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you are able, but will make to your temptation a departure, that you may be able to endure.


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The cup of thanksgiving which we bless, is it not the participation of the blood of the Meshiha? And the bread that we break, is it not the participation of the body of the Meshiha?


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Consider Israel who are in the flesh: are not they who eat of the sacrifices participators of the altar?


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No: but that which the Heathens sacrifice, unto demons they sacrifice, and not unto Aloha. But I would not that you be participators with demons!


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You cannot drink the cup of our Lord, and the cup of demons; and you cannot participate in the table of our Lord, and in the table of demons.


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Every thing is lawful for me, but every thing is not expedient; every thing is lawful, but every thing doth not edify.


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But if a man of the Heathens invite you, and you be willing to go, whatever is set before you eat, without inquiry on account of conscience.


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But, if one tell you, This is of a sacrifice, eat not, for his sake who hath told you, and on account of conscience;


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but I say, the conscience, not yours, but his who told you. But why is my liberty to be ruled by the conscience of others?


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As also I in every thing please all men, not seeking what is expedient for myself, but what is expedient for the many, that they may be saved.


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But I commend you, my brethren, that in every thing you remember me; and that as I have delivered to you precepts, you hold them.


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But I would that you know that the Meshiha is the head of every man; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of the Meshiha is Aloha.


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And every woman who prayeth or prophesieth having her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head, for she is similar to one whose head is shaven.


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For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn; but if it be shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.


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For a man is not obligated to cover his head, because he is the likeness and the glory of Aloha; but woman is the glory of man.


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Because of this the woman is a debtor, that the power shall be upon her head, on account of the angels.


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But when a woman increaseth her hair, it is a glory to her; because her hair for a covering was given to her.


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But if any man contendeth about these things, we have no such usage as this, neither the church of Aloha.


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For, first, when you are assembled in the church, there are divisions, (as) I hear, among you, and in some measure I believe.


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What? have you not houses (in) which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of Aloha, and shame those who have nothing to eat? What do I say to you? Do I praise you in this? I praise you not.


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FOR I received from our Lord that which I have delivered unto you: that our Lord Jeshu in that night when he was betrayed took bread;


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and he blessed and brake, and said, Take, eat, this (is) my body which for you is broken: so do to my remembrance.


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Likewise after they had supped he gave also the cup, and said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; so do, whensoever you shall drink (it) to my remembrance.


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For whensoever you eat this bread, and drink this cup, the death of our Lord you commemorate until his advent.


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Whoever then eateth of the bread of the Lord, and drinketh of his cup, and is not worthy of it, is guilty of the blood of the Lord and of his body.


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For whoever eateth and drinketh of it while not worthy, condemnation to himself he eateth and drinketh, because he hath not distinguished the body of the Lord.


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But when we are judged of our Lord, we are chastised, that not with the world we might be condemned.


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But whoever hungereth, in his (own) house let him feed; that you may not assemble unto condemnation. Concerning the rest, when I come I will direct you.


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I therefore make known to you, that there is no man who by the Spirit of Aloha speaketh, and saith that Jeshu is accursed; and no man also can say that Jeshu is THE LORD unless by the Spirit of Holiness.


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To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, but to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;


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but to another, powers; to another, prophecy; to another, the discernment of spirits; but to another, kinds of tongues; and to another, the interpretation of tongues.


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For, as the body is one, and in it are many members, but all the members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Meshiha.


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For we all by one Spirit into one body are baptized; whether Jihudoyee or Aramoyee; whether servants or sons of freedom; and all of us have imbibed one Spirit.


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For if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself?


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And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself?


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For if the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? And if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?


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The eye is not able to say to the hand, Thou art not needful to me; nor is the hand able to say to the feet, You are not needful to me.


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and those which we consider contemptible in the body, to these the more we increase the honour; and on those which are of shame we bestow the greater decoration.


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But those members that are honourable in us have no need of adornment: but Aloha hath contempered the body, and given the more honour to the member which is inconsiderable;


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that there should be no divisions in the body, but all the members equally one of the other should have care:


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as that when one member shall be diseased, all may suffer; and if one member be glorified, all the members may be glorified.


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FOR Aloha hath placed in the church, first, apostles; after them, prophets; after them, teachers; after them, workers of miracles; after them, gifts of healing, and helpers, and leaders, and kinds of tongues.


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Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.


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And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love were not in me, I should be nothing.


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And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing.


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Love never falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished:


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When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.


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But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.


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Follow (then) after love, and be emulous of the gifts of the Spirit, but especially that you may prophesy.


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For whoever speaketh in a tongue speaketh not to men but to Aloha; for man heareth nothing that he speaketh but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.


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But I would that all of you could speak with tongues, but especially that you could prophesy. For greater is he who prophesieth than he who speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret. But if he interpret, he edifieth the church.


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And now, my brethren, if I come to you and speak with you in tongues, what do I profit you, unless I speak with you, or by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine?


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For those also which have no life in them, and give voice, whether pipe or harp, if distinction be not made between a tone and its fellow, how can it be known what is sung, or what is played?


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So you also, if you speak the word in a tongue, and there be no interpretation, how will it be known what you say? Will you not be as if speaking with the air?


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For, behold, there are many kinds of tongues in the world, and not one of them hath not signification;


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but if I do not know the power of the voice, I become as a barbarian to him who speaks, and he also who speaks is a barbarian to me.


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So also you, while you are emulous of the gifts of the Spirit for the edification of the church, seek that you may excel.


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What shall I do then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my mind; and I will sing with my spirit, and I will sing with my mind.


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Otherwise, if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he who filleth the place of the unlearned say Amen to thy thanksgiving? for he knoweth not what thou sayest.


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but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, that others also may learn, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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MY brethren, be not children in your minds, but in evils be you babes, and in your minds be perfect.


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In the law it is written, In a strange language and in another tongue Will I speak with this people; Yet so will they not hear me, saith the Lord.


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Hence, tongues are appointed for a sign, not to the believing, but to those who believe not: but prophecy, not for those who believe not, but for those who believe.


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If then all the church be assembled, and all of you speak with tongues, and the ignorant, or those who believe not enter, will they not say you are insane?


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And if all should prophesy, and there come in to you the ignorant, or of those who believe not, he is convicted by you all, and reproved by you all;


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and the secrets of his heart are revealed; and then will he fall upon his face and worship Aloha, and say, Truly Aloha is in you.


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I say then, my brethren, that when you are assembled, if any one of you hath a psalm, let him speak; and (so too) he who hath doctrine, and he who hath a revelation, and he who hath a tongue, and he who hath the interpretation: let all be done unto edification.


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And if with a tongue any one speak, two shall speak, or at most three, and each shall (separately) speak, and one interpret.


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And if there be no one who interpreteth, let him who speaketh with a tongue be silent in the church, and between himself and Aloha let him speak.


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LET your women in the church be silent; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also saith the law.


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But if any wish to learn, in their houses let them ask their husbands; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.


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But if any man of you think that he is a prophet, or that he is spiritual, let him acknowledge these which I write to you to be the commandments of our Lord.


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BUT I make known to you, my brethren, the gospel which I have announced to you, and you have received, and in which you stand,


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and by which you are saved; of which, the word I have preached to you, you are mindful, unless you have vainly believed.


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For I delivered to you from the first, according as I had received: That the Meshiha died for our sins, as it is written;


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and after them, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren together, many of whom survive till now, and some of them have slept.


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I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of Aloha:


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but by the grace of Aloha I am what I am; and his grace in me was not in vain; but more than all have I laboured, (yet) not I, but his grace which is with me.


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But if the Meshiha is proclaimed that he rose from the dead, how are there among you some who say that there is no life for the dead?


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But we are also found false witnesses of Aloha; for we have testified of Aloha that he hath raised the Meshiha, while he hath not raised (him).


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every one in his order: the first-fruits was the Meshiha; afterward they who are of the Meshiha at his coming.


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And then will be the end, when he delivereth the kingdom unto Aloha the Father; when he abolisheth every head, and all authority and all powers.


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For every thing he subjecteth beneath his feet. But when he saith that every thing is subjected to him, it is evident that (it is) with the exception of him who hath subjected to him all.


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And when all shall have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to him who had made subject to him all, that Aloha may be all in all.


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Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead arise not? Why are they baptized for the dead?


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I asseverate, by your glorying, my brethren, which is mine in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that daily I die!


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If as among men I have been thrown to beasts at Ephesus, what have I profited if the dead do not arise? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.


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AWAKEN your hearts rightly, and sin not; for there are some who have not the knowledge of Aloha; to your shame I say it.


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and that thing which thou sowest is not the body that is to be, but thou sowest naked grain, of wheat, or of barley, or of the rest of seeds;


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For every body is not alike: for there is one body of man, and another of the beast, and another of the fowl, and another of fishes.


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There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another of the earthly.


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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; and star excelleth star in glory.


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It is sown an animal body, it ariseth a body spiritual. For there is a body of the animal, and there is a body of the spirit;


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as also it is written, Adam the first man became a living soul, and the last Adam a life-giving spirit.


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As was he who was dust, so also are they who are dust: as is he who is from heaven, so also are the heavenly ones.


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And as we have worn the likeness of him who was dust, so shall we wear the likeness of him who is from heaven.


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But this I say, my brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.


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suddenly, as in the twinkling of the eye, at the last trumpet, while it calleth; and the dead will arise without corruption, and we shall be changed.


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For this which is corruptible shall put on incorruption, and likewise (this) which dieth shall put on immortality.


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But when this which is corruptible shall put on incorruptibleness, and this which dieth, immortality, then shall be done that word which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory!


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Wherefore, my brethren, my beloved, be steadfast, be not moved, but be abounding in all time in the work of the Lord, while you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.


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BUT concerning what is collected for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so also do you.


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On each first day of the week let every one of you at his own house lay by and keep something of that which cometh unto his hands, lest when I come there be then collections.


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And when I come, those whom you shall choose, them will I send with an epistle, that they may take your bounty to Urishlem.


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But I will come to you when I shall have passed (round) from Makedunia: for I pass unto it, unto Makedunia.


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And perhaps also I may remain with you, or I may winter with you, that you may lead me on to the place to which I shall go.


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For I will not now see you as I pass the way; for I hope to abide a time with you, if my Lord permit me.


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But if Timotheos come among you, see that he may be with you without fear; for he doeth the work of the Lord, as I.


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Wherefore let no man despise him, but conduct him in peace, that he may come to me; for I wait for him with the brethren.


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But of Apolo, my brethren, I begged much to come to you with the brethren; nevertheless it was not his will to come to you; but when there shall be opportunity he will come to you.


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But I entreat of you, my brethren, for the house of Stephano, because you know they are the first-fruits of Akaia, and have disposed themselves for the service of the saints,


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But I am glad of the coming of Stephano, and of Fortunatos, and of Akaiakos, because your deficiency with me they have fulfilled.


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All the churches of Asia ask for your peace; Akilos and Priskila, with the church which is in their house, ask for your peace greatly in our Lord.


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PAULOS, apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, by the will of Aloha; and Timotheos a brother: to the church of Aloha which is in Kurinthos, and to all the saints who are in all Akaia.


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Blessed be Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation, who consoleth us in all our afflictions,


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that we may be able to console those who are in all afflictions by that consolation by which we are consoled of Aloha.


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For as the sufferings of the Meshiha abound in us, so, through the Meshiha, our consolation aboundeth also.


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But if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your salvation that we be afflicted: and if we are consoled, it is that you may be consoled, that there may be in you perseverance to endure those sufferings which we also suffer.


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And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know that if you participate in the sufferings, you also participate in the consolation.


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FOR I would have you to know, my brethren, of the affliction that befell us in Asia: for we were greatly pressed beyond our strength, until our life was nigh to be dissolved,


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and because of these we had concluded (for) death; that we should not have hope in ourselves, but in Aloha, who raiseth the dead:


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through the help of your prayers for us; that his gift towards us may be a benefit effected for many, and many may praise him on our behalf.


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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of Aloha, we are conversant in the world; and not with the wisdom of the flesh, and especially with you yourselves.


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For we write no other (things) to you than those which you know and acknowledge, and which I am confident you will acknowledge unto the end:


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even as you have in part acknowledged that we are your glorying, as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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And in this confidence I have willed from the first to come to you, that doubly you may receive benefit,


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and that I may pass by you to Makedunia, and again from Makedunia I may come to you, and you may lead me forth unto Jihud.


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This then that I have purposed, have I purposed boastingly? or are they things of the flesh that I purpose, that I should have in them Yes, yes, or No, no?


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For the Son of Aloha, Jeshu Meshiha, who by us hath been preached unto you, by me and by Sylvanas and by Timotheos, was not Yes and No, but it was Yes in him.


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For all the promises of Aloha in him, in the Meshiha, are Yes; for which by him we give Amen to the glory of Aloha.


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And I have written to you this very, lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you.


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And from great affliction and anxiety of heart I wrote those things to you with many tears, not that you might grieve, but (also) that you might know the abundant love I have towards you.


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But if any one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me (only), but a part of you all: that the word may not weigh upon you.


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And now on the other hand it behoves you to forgive him and console him, lest he who is such an one be swallowed up of excessive grief.


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On this account also I have written, to ascertain by experiment whether in every thing you will obey me.


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But to whom you forgive, I also. For I, too, what I have forgiven, have on your account forgiven in the presence of the Meshiha:


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WHEN, in preaching the gospel of the Meshiha, I had come to Troas, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,


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I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titos my brother. But leaving them, I went forth to Makedunia.


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But thanks unto Aloha, who in all time maketh us a triumph in the Meshiha, and maketh manifest by us the perfume of his knowledge in every place.


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For we are a fragrant perfume in the Meshiha unto Aloha in those who are saved, and in those who perish.


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To these as a perfume of death unto death, and to those as a perfume of life unto life. And unto these who is equal?


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For we are not as the rest who commix the word of Aloha; but as in truth, and as from Aloha, before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak.


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Do we begin again anew to show who we are? or do we need as others to write epistles of commendation to you concerning ourselves, or that you should write to commend us?


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For you know that you are an epistle of the Meshiha, who hath been ministered by us; written, not with ink but by the Spirit of Aloha the Living; not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.


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who hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.


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But if the ministry of death in the writing engraven on stones was with glory, as that the sons of Israel could not look on the face of Musha because of the glory of his face which is abolished,


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For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more doth not the ministry of justification excel in glory?


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For if that which was abolished was with glory, how much more shall that which endureth be with glory?


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and (are) not as Musha, who threw the veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel might not look upon the End of that which was to be abolished.


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But they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished.


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But we all with disclosed faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, as by the Lord the Spirit.


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ON this account we have not weariness in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that are upon us.


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But we have rejected the secrets of shamefulness; and walk not with craft, nor deal deceitfully (with) the word of Aloha; but by the revelation of the truth make we ourselves manifest to the minds of all men before Aloha.


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(to) them whose minds the god of this world hath blinded because they believe not; lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Meshiha, who is the image of Aloha, should arise upon them.


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For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.


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For Aloha, who said, Let light arise from darkness, hath arisen in our hearts; that we should be illuminated by the knowledge of the glory of Aloha in the face of Jeshu Meshiha.


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BUT we have this treasure in a vase of earth, that the greatness of the power might be from Aloha, and not from us.


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In all time the dying of Jeshu in our bodies we bear, that the life also of Jeshu might in our bodies be revealed.


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For if we, the living, unto death are delivered on account of Jeshu, so also will the life of Jeshu be revealed in this our body of death.


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We then also who have one spirit of faith, as it is written, I have believed, and therefore also spoken; we believe, therefore also we speak.


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And we know that He who raised up our Lord Jeshu, will by Jeshu raise us also, and will present us with you unto himself.


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For every thing is for your sake, that grace, abounding by many, may multiply praise to the glory of Aloha.


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For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.


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For the affliction of this time, while small and light, a glory without end for ever and ever prepareth for us.


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While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity.


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FOR we know that if our earthly house of this body were dissolved, we have nevertheless a building that is by Aloha; a house which is not made with hands, in the heaven, eternal.


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For now while we are in this house, we groan from the weight of it: yet are we not willing to cast it off, but to be clothed upon of it, that its mortality might be swallowed up in life.


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For therefore do we know and are persuaded, that so long as we remain in the body we are in pilgrimage from our Lord.


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For we are all to stand before the tribunal of the Meshiha, that every man may be recompensed in his body (for) that which is done in it, whether of good or of evil.


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THEREFORE, because we know the terror of our Lord, we persuade men; and to Aloha we are manifest; but I hope that to your minds also we are manifest.


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For we commend not ourselves again to you, but we give you cause to be boastful of us to them who in appearance boast, but not in heart.


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For the love of the Meshiha constraineth us, because we judge this, That if one for every man hath died, then (was) every man dead.


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And for every man he died, that they who live should not live to themselves, but to him who on their behalf died and arose.


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And henceforth we no man know according to the flesh; and if we have known the Meshiha according to the flesh, yet from now we know not.


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Whoever therefore is in the Meshiha is a new creature; the old things have passed, and every thing hath become new


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from Aloha, who hath reconciled us to himself in the Meshiha, and given to us the ministry of reconciliation.


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For Aloha is in the Meshiha, who hath reconciled the world with his greatness; and he hath not reckoned unto them their sins, and hath put in us the word of reconciliation.


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WE are ambassadors then for the Meshiha, and as if Aloha himself besought you by us: instead of the Meshiha, therefore, we beseech, Be you reconciled unto Aloha.


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For Him who knew not sin, on our account hath he made sin, that we might be in him the righteousness of Aloha.


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And as helpers, we beseech of you that the grace of Aloha which you have received be not made ineffectual in you.


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For he hath said, In the time acceptable I have heard thee, And in the day of salvation I have helped thee. Behold, Now is the time acceptable; behold, Now is the day of salvation.


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but in every thing will we demonstrate ourselves that we are the ministers of Aloha; by much patience, by afflictions, by necessity, by imprisonments,


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by purity, by knowledge, by prolonging the mind, by benignity, by the Spirit of Holiness, by love without deceit,


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by the doctrine of truth, by the power of Aloha, by the arms of righteousness for the right hand and for the left,


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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet many making rich; as having nothing, yet possessing every thing.


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But as unto (my) children, I say to you, Render to me my gains which are with you, and expand your love towards me.


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And be not sons of the yoke with them who believe not. For what participation hath righteousness with iniquity? Or what commixture hath the light with darkness?


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Or what concord hath the Meshiha with Satana? Or what portion hath the believer with the unbeliever?


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Or what union hath the temple of Aloha with (that) of demons? For you are the temple of Aloha the living; as it is written, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; And I will be their God, And they shall be to me a people.


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Wherefore come out from among them, And be separate from them, (saith the Lord,) And the impure touch not; And I will receive you,


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And I will be to you a Father, And you shall be to me for sons and daughters, Saith the Lord, who holdeth all.


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Because then we have these promises, my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all impurity of the flesh and of the spirit, and accomplish sanctification in the fear of Aloha.


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Bear with us, my brethren; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have injured no man.


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I speak not to your condemnation; for I have said already, that you are laid up in our hearts to die together and to live.


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GREAT is the freedom I have with you, and great in you is my glorying; I am full of consolation, and my joy greatly aboundeth in me in all my afflictions.


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When, also, we had come into Makedunia, no repose had we for our body, but in every thing were we afflicted; without fighting, and within, fear.


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and not only by his coming, but also by his refreshment wherewith he had been refreshed among you. For he told us of your love toward us, and of your lamentation and your zeal on our behalf. And when I heard, my joy was great.


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For though I grieved you in an epistle, I repent me not, though I did repent. For I perceive how that epistle, though for an hour, did make you sorry;


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but now I exercise joy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow hath brought you to repentance. For you were sorry towards Aloha; so that in nothing will you suffer loss from us.


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For the sorrow that is for the sake of Aloha worketh soul-penitence, which turneth not and converteth, unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.


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For, behold, (in) this very (case) that you were made contrite for the sake of Aloha; what carefulness it wrought in you, and vindication, and displeasure, and fear, and love, and zeal, and punishment! And by every thing have you shown yourselves to be pure in this matter.


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But, it was for this we wrote to you; not on account of the injurer, nor on account of the injured one, but that you may know before Aloha our carefulness over you.


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For this cause we were consoled, and with our consolation more abundantly did we rejoice in the joy of Titos; because his spirit had been refreshed with you all.


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Because in whatever I had boasted to him concerning you, I have not been ashamed; but, as of every thing we had spoken truth with you, so also our boasting unto Titos hath been found in truth.


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And his affection is greatly enlarged toward you, when he remembers your obedience; because with fear and with trembling you received him.


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BUT we make known to you, my brethren, the grace of Aloha which hath been given to the churches of Makedunia;


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that in the great trial of their affliction there hath been an abounding of their joy; and the depth of their poverty hath been exceeded by the riches of their simplicity.


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For I testify, that according to their power, and more than their power, in the willingness of their soul,


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they besought of us, with much supplication, that they might participate in the beneficence of the ministry for the saints.


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And not as we had supposed, but they gave themselves up first to the Lord, and also to us by the will of Aloha.


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For we would request of Titos, that as he had begun, so he would carry into accomplishment this beneficence among you also.


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But as you have excelled in every thing, in faith, and in doctrine, and in knowledge, and in all diligence, and in our love toward you, so also in this beneficence may you excel.


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Not as though commanding I command you, but, from the diligence of your companions, the truth of your love would I put to the test.


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FOR you know the beneficence of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that for your sake he became poor, though he was rich, that you through his poverty might be enriched.


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But counselling I counsel you this which helpeth you; because from the last year you began not to will only, but also to do.


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But now accomplish in work that which you willed, that as there hath been an incitement to will, so accomplish it in work from what you have.


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For if there be the will, according to what one hath, so is (he) accepted, and not according to what he hath not.


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but in equality be you at this time; that your abundance may be a supply to their want, that also their abundance may be for to your want, that there may be equality.


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As it is written, He who took up much had no superfluity, and he who took up little was not deficient.


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For our request he accepted; and because he had great concern, of his own will he hath come forth among you.


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who hath, moreover, been chosen by the churches to go forth with us with this bounty which is ministered by us to the glory of Aloha himself, and unto our cordiality.


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with regard to this great bounty which is to be administered by us. For we are careful for the things which are comely, not only before Aloha, but also before men.


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But we have also sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many to be diligent; but now still more diligent from the great confidence he hath concerning you.


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Whether, then, (you regard) Titos, he is my companion and helper among you, or the other brethren, they are the apostles of the churches of the glory of Meshiha.


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Wherefore the demonstration of your love, and of our boasting concerning you in these, make manifest in the sight of all the churches.


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For I know the goodness of your mind, of which I boasted of you to the Makedunoyee, that Akaia was ready since last year, and your zeal hath stirred up many.


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But I have sent the brethren to you, that our boasting which we boasted of you may not in this affair be vain; but, as I have said, you may be ready:


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lest, if the Makedunoyee should come with me, and find you not ready, we be shamed-that I may not say, you be shamed-of the boasting which we have boasted.


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For this cause I have been careful to entreat of these brethren to go before to you, to make ready that blessing of which you have caused to be heard before; that it may be prepared, so as that it may be a blessing, not as avarice.


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But this, He who soweth with scantiness, with scantiness also reapeth; and he who soweth with blessing, with blessing also shall reap.


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Every man as he hath in his mind: not as of vexation or as of constraint; for a cheerful giver the Lord loveth.


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For it is in the power of Aloha to increase in you every good, that you may always have every thing sufficient, and that you may abound in every good work.


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But may He who giveth seed to the sower and bread for food, himself give and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,


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that in every thing you may be enriched in all simplicity, which worketh out through us, thanksgiving to Aloha.


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For, on account of the performance of this service, we not only supply the deficiency of the saints, but also cause many thanks givings to abound unto Aloha.


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For on account of the proof of this service we glorify Aloha, because you are subject to the confession of the gospel of Meshiha, and you have communicated in simplicity with them and with every man.


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And prayer they offer on your behalf in great love, on account of the greatness of the grace of Aloha which is upon you.


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BUT I Paulos beseech of you by the peacefulness and humility of the Meshiha, (I) who also in presence am humble with you, but while far off am confident over you,


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beseech of you, that when I come I may not be constrained with the confidence I have to be bold, as I think, over those men who imagine that we walk in the flesh.


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For the armour of our warfare is not of the flesh, but of the power of Aloha; and by it we cast down the strong-holds of rebels,


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and demolish reasonings and every lofty thing that is exalted against the knowledge of Aloha, and captivate all thoughts unto the obedience of the Meshiha.


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And we are prepared to execute the punishment of those who obey not, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.


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Do we regard persons? If any man confide in himself that he is of the Meshiha, let this one know of himself, that as he is of the Meshiha, so also are we.


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For if I should boast somewhat more of the authority which our Lord hath given me, I should not blush; because for your edification he gave it to me, and not for your destruction.


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For there are men who say, His epistles are weighty and forcible; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.


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But he who after this manner speaks, shall conclude that what we are by the word of our epistle when absent, so are we in the deed when we are present.


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For we dare not value or compare ourselves with those who glorify themselves; but because they compare themselves with themselves, they do not understand.


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For we do not boast beyond our measure, but in the measure of the boundary which Aloha hath apportioned to us, that we might come also unto you.


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For it is not as not reaching to you we extend ourselves; for unto you we come with the gospel of the Meshiha.


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Neither boast we beyond our measure in the labour of others; but we have hope, that with the increase of your faith, we shall be enlarged according to our measure;


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and be progressive also beyond you to evangelize. Not as within the measure of others in the things that are prepared will we glory.


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Nevertheless tolerate me, for I am zealous towards you with the zeal of Aloha; for I have betrothed you to one man, a pure virgin, whom I would bring unto the Meshiha.


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But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived 'Hava by his guile, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward the Meshiha.


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For if he who hath come to you shall preach to you another Jeshu, whom we have not preached, or you receive another Spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted, you would have been well persuaded.


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For if I am rude in my speech, I yet am not in my knowledge; but in every thing we are manifest among you.


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Or, offending have I offended in humbling myself that you may be exalted, and have gratuitously preached to you the gospel of Aloha?


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And being come among you, I burdened no man of you; for my want the brethren who came from Makedunia supplied: and in every thing have I kept myself, and will keep, that I may not be burdensome to you.


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The truth of the Meshiha is in me, that this boasting shall not be abolished respecting me in the regions of Akaia.


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But I do this, and also will do it, to cut off the occasion of them who seek an occasion, that in the thing in which they boast they may be found as we are.


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For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.


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Nor is it a great thing if his ministers also are transformed into ministers of righteousness;-whose end will be according to their works.


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BUT I say again, Let no man think of me as a fool; or if otherwise, let him receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.


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The thing which I (now) speak, I do not speak in our Lord, but as in foolishness in this place of boasting.


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For you are ruled by one who subjugates you, and by one who devours you, and by one who takes away from you, and by one who exalts himself over you, and by one who smites you on your faces!


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As in abasement I speak; as though we were weak through defectiveness of mind, I speak. In whatever any man dareth, I also dare.


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If they are Ebroyee, so am I; if they are Isroloyee, so am I; if they are the seed of Abraham, so am I;


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if they are ministers of the Meshiha,-I speak with defectiveness of mind,-I exceed then! In labours I exceed them, in stripes I exceed them, in chains I exceed them, in deaths many times.


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three times with staves have I been beaten, once was I stoned, three times have I been in shipwreck, a day and a night without a ship have I been in the sea.


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In journeys many, in danger of rivers, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own race, in danger from the Gentiles; I have been in danger in cities, I have been in danger in the waste, in danger by sea, in danger from false brethren;


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in labour and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness;


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besides the aboundings and the gathering which are upon me daily even my care which is for all the churches.


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I knew a man in the Meshiha fourteen years ago, -whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not, Aloha himself knoweth, -who, this one himself, was rapt unto the third of heaven.


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And I know this man himself,-but whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not, Aloha himself knoweth,


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-and he was rapt into paradise, and heard words which are not uttered, those which it is not lawful for a man to utter.


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Yet if I willed to boast, I should not be a fool, for I say the truth; but I spare, lest any one think of me beyond that which he seeth me (to be), and what he heareth of me.


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And that I might not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, there was delivered to me a stimulus of my flesh, an angel of Satana to buffet me, that I might not be exalted.


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And he said to me, My grace sufficeth thee; for my power in weakness is perfected. Gladly therefore will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Meshiha may overshadow me.


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For this cause I am willing in infirmities, in reviling, in affliction, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of the Meshiha; for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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Behold, I have been deficient in mind in my boasting, because you have constrained me; for you were debtors to bear witness concerning me; because in nothing am I less than those apostles who are the most eminent, nevertheless I am not any thing.


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The signs of the apostles I have wrought among you in all patience, and with mighty acts and miracles and with powers.


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For in what have you been less than the other churches, except in this, that I have not burdened you? Forgive me this offence.


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Behold, this is three times that I prepare to come to you, and not to burden you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.


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But I gladly the expenses will spend, and also myself will I give for the sake of your souls: though, while the more I love you, you the less love me.


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And, perhaps, (though) I did not burden you, yet (it may be said), as a crafty man with deceit I have robbed you.


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Of Titos I requested, and sent with him the brethren. In any thing has Titos made prey of you? Have we not walked in one spirit, and in the same steps?


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DO you again consider that we apologize to you? Before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak; and all, my beloved, for the sake of your up-building.


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For I fear lest, when I come to you, I should not find you as I wish, but should find you what you would not wish: lest there be contention and envy, and wrath and angry talk, and accusations and murmurings, and pompousness and agitation:


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and lest, when I come to you, my God may humiliate me, and I may have to lament over many who have sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and of the fornication and of the lasciviousness which they have committed.


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This is the third time that I prepare to come to you; and in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.


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I have foretold you, and again I foretell you; as also twice while I was with you I told you, (so) now also being distant I write to those who have sinned, and to the rest of the others; that if I come again I will not spare.


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Inasmuch as you demand the proof of the Meshiha who speaketh in me, (of) Him who is not weak among you, but is mighty among you:


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-for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth with the power of Aloha:-so also we are weak with you, but we live with him through the power of Aloha which is among you.


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Prove yourselves, whether in the faith itself you stand; try yourselves. Are you not assured that Jeshu the Meshiha is in you, if you be not reprobates?


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But I implore of Aloha that there may not be any thing in you that is evil, that our proving may be seen; but that you may do good, and that we may be as unproved.


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For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong: but this also we pray, that you may be perfect.


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Therefore while distant I write these (things), that when I am come I may not act severely, according to the power which my Lord hath given me for your edification, and not for your destruction.


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Wherefore, my brethren, rejoice, and be perfect, and be comforted, and let agreement and peace be among you; and the God of love and of peace shall be with you.


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THE PEACE OF OUR LORD JESHU MESHIHA, AND THE LOVE OF ALOHA, AND THE COMMUNION OF THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS, BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.


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Paulos, an apostle, not from men, nor by men, but by Jeshu the Meshiha, and Aloha his Father, who raised him from among the dead,


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who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from this evil world, according to the will of Aloha our Father:


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unto another gospel, which it is not; but there are men who disturb you, and (who) wish to remove you from the gospel of the Meshiha.


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But if we also, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you other than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.


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As I have said before, and now again say to you, If any man preach to you other than what you have received, let him be accursed.


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For now do I persuade men, or Aloha? or do I seek to please men? For if until now I had pleased men, I should not have been the servant of the Meshiha.


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For you have heard of my former manners in Judaism, that I exceedingly persecuted the church of Aloha, and made it desolate.


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And I excelled in Judaism more than many of the sons of my years who were of my kindred, and was exceedingly zealous for the doctrine of my fathers.


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to reveal his Son in me, that I should preach among the nations, immediately I did not disclose to flesh and to blood;


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neither went I to Urishlem, to the apostles who were before me, but I went into Arabia, and again returned unto Darmsuk.


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And after three years I went unto Urishlem, that I might see Kipha, and I remained with him days fifteen.


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But this only they had heard, that he who had formerly persecuted us, behold, now preacheth he that faith which he beforetime had overthrown.


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But I went up by revelation; and I disclosed to them the gospel which I proclaim among the nations; and I showed it to those who were considered to be somewhat between myself and them, lest in vain I had run or should run.


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But on account of false brethren, who entered upon us that they might espy the liberty which we have in Jeshu Meshiha as that they might bring me into subjection;


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yet not for the space of an hour did we cast ourselves down to be subject to them; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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But, they who were considered to be somewhat,---but what they were I care not, for Aloha accepteth not men?s faces,---they themselves added nothing unto me;


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but otherwise: for seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Kipha was intrusted with the circumcision;


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---for he who wrought effectually with Kipha for the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought effectually also with me for the apostleship of the Gentiles;


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---and knowing the grace which had been given to me, Jakub and Kipha and Juchanon, who were considered to be pillars, the right hand of fellowship gave to me and to Bar Naba, that we (should preach) among the Gentiles, and they among the circumcision:


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only (requiring) that of the poor we should be mindful; and I have been solicitous to do this same thing.


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For until certain men came from Jakub, he had eaten with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew himself and separated, because he was afraid of those who were of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jihudoyee also were thrown with him in this, so that Bar Naba also was led away by their partiality.


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And when I saw that they were not walking rightly in the truth of the gospel, I said to Kipha in the presence of them all: If thou who art a Jihudoya live as an Aramoya and not Judaically, why forcest thou the Gentiles to live Judaically?


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because we know that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jeshu Meshiha, also in him, in Jeshu Meshiha, have believed, that from the faith of the Meshiha we may be justified, and not from the works of the law; because from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified:


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---If, while we seek to be justified through the Meshiha, we also ourselves are found sinners, is Jeshu Meshiha therefore the minister of sin? It cannot be.


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For, if those things which I destroyed I build again, I make it manifest of myself that I transgress the commandment.


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and with the Meshiha am I crucified, and from henceforth I live not, but in me liveth Meshiha; and this that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Aloha, who loved me and gave himself for me.


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O deficient-minded Galatoyee, who bewildereth you? For, behold, as if depicted before your eyes, hath Jeshu the Meshiha been crucified.


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This only would I know from you: Through the works of the law received you the Spirit, or through the hearing of faith?


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Then, he who imparted to you the Spirit, and wrought miracles among you, (did he so) through the works of the law, or through the hearing of faith?


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For Aloha who knew before that he would justify the Gentiles through faith, evangelized before unto Abraham; as saith the holy scripture: In thee all the nations shall be blessed:


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For they who are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who doeth not all that is written in this law.


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But that man is not justified by the law before Aloha, this maketh manifest: because it is written, The just by faith shall live.


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But the law is not of faith: but he who doeth those things that are written in it shall live by them.


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But us hath the Meshiha bought from the curse of the law, and hath been made a curse instead of us: for it is written, Accursed is every one who is hanged on the wood:


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in order that upon the nations there might be the blessing of Abraham in Jeshu the Meshiha, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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My brethren, I speak as among men: That a covenant of man because confirmed no one rejecteth, or changeth in any thing.


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But to Abraham was promised the promise, and to his seed. And he did not say to him, Unto thy seeds, as of many; but, To thy seed, as of one, him, (namely,) who is the Meshiha.


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But I say this, that the covenant which was confirmed before by Aloha, in the Meshiha, the law which was after, four hundred and thirty years, cannot nullify, nor (can it) abolish the promise.


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But if the inheritance was by the law, it could not have been by the promise; but Aloha gave it unto Abraham by promise.


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Wherefore then was the law? It was added on account of transgression, until the Seed should come, he, of whom was the promise; and the law was given by angels into the hand of a Mediator.


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Is the law therefore against the promise of Aloha? Impossible: for if a law had been given which could make to live, certainly righteousness would have been by the law.


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But the scripture hath included all under sin, that the promise through faith of Jeshu Meshiha might be given to them who believe.


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But until (the dispensation of) faith came, the law kept us, as shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.


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Jihudoya or Aramoya is not; the slave or the free is not; male or female is not; for you are all one in Jeshu Meshiha.


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But I say that what time the heir is a child, he differeth not from a servant, though he be lord of all,


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But when the fulness of the time had come, Aloha sent his Son, and made from a woman, and made under the law,


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And because you are sons, Aloha hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who crieth, Father, our Father.


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but now that you have known Aloha, and especially that you have been acknowledged of Aloha, turn you again to those diseased and beggarly principles, and will to be subject to them afresh?


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And the temptation of my flesh you did not despise nor execrate; but as an angel of Aloha you received me, and as of Jeshu Meshiha.


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Where then is your happiness? For I testify of you, that had it been possible, your eye you would have plucked out and given to me.


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They are emulous of you not for good; but they would shut you in, that you might be emulous of them.


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But he who was of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh, and he who was of the free was by the promise.


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But these are parables of the two covenants: the one which was from Mount Sinai bringing forth into bondage, which is Hagar:


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for Hagar is Mount Sinai which is in Arabia, and answers to this Urishlem, and serves in bondage, she and her children.


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For it is written, Be glad, O barren, who hast not borne; Exult and cry, thou who hast not travailed; Because multiplied are the sons of the desolate, More than the sons of the married wife.


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But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free.


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Stand therefore in that liberty with which the Meshiha hath freed you, and be not enthralled with the yoke of bondage.


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For, in the Meshiha Jeshu, circumcision is not any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which is made perfect by love.


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I am confident of you in our Lord, that no other thing you will think; and he who disturbeth you shall bear judgment, whoever he is.


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But I, my brethren, if yet I have preached for circumcision, why have I been persecuted? Hath the scandal of the cross ceased?


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But you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.


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For the flesh desireth that which is repugnant to the Spirit, and the Spirit desireth that which is repugnant to the flesh; and the two are adverse one to the other, that not any thing that you will you may do.


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envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all that are like these; and they who do them, as I told you before, so now I tell you, the kingdom of Aloha do not inherit.


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But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, prolonging of the spirit, benignity, goodness, fidelity,


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My brethren, if a man of you be overtaken by a fault, you who are in the Spirit, regain him, in the spirit of meekness, and beware lest you also be tempted.


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He who in the flesh soweth, from the flesh corruption reapeth; and he who in the Spirit soweth, from the Spirit the life that is eternal shall reap.


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And while we do that which is good, let it not weary us; for the time will be when we shall reap, and it will not weary us.


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Now, therefore, while the time is ours, let us do good unto every man, and especially to the sons of the house of the faith.


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They who would glory in the flesh would constrain you to be circumcised; only lest for the cross of the Meshiha they might be persecuted.


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For neither do these who are circumcised keep the law; but they will that you be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.


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But to me let it not be that I shall glory except in the cross of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by which the world is crucified unto me, and I am crucified to the world.


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Henceforth upon me let no man throw a burden; for the signatures of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha in my body I bear.


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PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu Meshiha by the will of Aloha, to those who are in Ephesos, saints and believers in Jeshu Meshiha:


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Blessed be He, Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, who hath blessed us with all blessings of the Spirit in heaven, in the Meshiha;


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as he before elected us in him, from before the foundations of the world, that we should be saints, and without blemish before him,


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and in love predesignated us unto himself, and constituted us children in Jeshu Meshiha, according to the pleasure of his will;


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that the glory of his grace might be glorified, that (grace) which he hath poured upon us by the hand of his Beloved:


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in whom we have redemption, and by his blood the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace


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and hath made known to us the mystery of his will, which before he had determined in himself should be done:


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that in the dispensation of the fulness of the times, every thing from the first might be renovated in the Meshiha, in heaven and in earth. And by him


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we have been chosen, even as he predesignated and willed, who worketh all according to the mind of his will;


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In whom you also heard the word of truth, which is the gospel of your salvation; and in whom you believed and were sealed with the Spirit of Holiness who was promised;


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who is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of those who are saved, and unto the praise of his majesty.


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ON account of this, behold, I also, since I heard of your faith in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and your love to all the saints,


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that the God of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, the Father of glory, would give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in his knowledge,


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and would enlighten the eyes of your hearts to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance for the saints,


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and what is the inheritance of his power in us who believe, according to the operation of the might of his power,


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which he wrought in the Meshiha, and raised him from among the dead, and set him at his right hand in heaven, above all the principalities,


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and powers, and mighty ones, and rulers, and above every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in (that) to come;


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and subjected every thing beneath his feet: and Him who is over all he hath given to be the head of the church,


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in which from the first you walked according to the worldliness of this age, and according to the will of the prince of the power of the air, of that Spirit who urgeth in the sons of disobedience;


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in those works in which we also walked from the first in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of our flesh and of our mind, and were the sons of wrath fully as the rest.


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that he might show to the ages to come the greatness of the riches of his grace and his goodness, which hath been upon us in Jeshu the Meshiha.


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For we are his creation, who are created in Jeshu Meshiha unto good works, which Aloha hath prepared before, that in them we should walk.


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Wherefore be mindful, that you Gentiles at first were carnal, and were called the Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision, and is the work of the hands in the flesh;


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and were at that time without the Meshiha, and were aliens from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenant of the promise, and, without hope, were without Aloha in the world.


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But now, by Jeshu the Meshiha, you who before were far off, are brought nigh by the blood of the Meshiha.


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For he is our peace, he who hath made the two one, and hath destroyed the wall which stood in the midst,


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and the enmity, through his flesh; and the law of prescriptions, with its requirements, he hath abolished, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, and make peace;


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THEREFORE are you no more strangers and sojourners but sons of the city of the saints, and sons of the house of Aloha;


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and you are builded upon the foundation of the apostles and of the prophets, and Jeshu the Meshiha himself is the chief corner of the building;


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which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to his holy apostles and to his prophets by the Spirit;


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that the Gentiles should be sons of his inheritance and partakers of his body, and in the promise which is given concerning him by the gospel,


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of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of Aloha, which he hath given me by the operation of his power.


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To me, who am the least of all the saints, is given this grace, that I should preach among the Gentiles the riches of the Meshiha,


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which are not searched; and to bring to light unto all men what is the dispensation of the mystery which was hidden from the ages in Aloha, who created all:


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that through the church might be made known the wisdom of Aloha, which is full of diversities, to the principalities and powers who are in heaven,


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that he would give to you, according to the riches of his glory, with power to be confirmed by his Spirit in your interior man;


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that the Meshiha may dwell by faith in your hearts in love; your root and your foundations being confirmed,


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that you may be able to follow out with all the saints, what the height, and depth, and the length, and breadth;


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But to Him who is able with power beyond all to do for us above what we ask or conceive, according to his power which worketh in us,


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I BESEECH of you, therefore, I, the bound one for our Lord, that you walk as is worthy of the calling wherewith you are called,


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in all lowliness of mind, and composedness, and long-suffering; and be patient towards one another in love.


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And he gave some who (are) apostles, and some who (are) prophets, and some who (are) evangelists, and some who (are) pastors, and some who (are) doctors;


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for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the (church of the) Meshiha,


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until we be all one in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of Aloha, and one man perfect in the measure of the stature of his completeness;


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and that we be no children, agitated and altered by every wind of fraudulent doctrines of men, which in their craftiness they fabricate deceptively in order to seduce,


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who is the head, by whom the whole body is increased and compacted in all the limbs, according to the gift which is given in proportion to every member for the increase of the body itself, that in love its structure might be completed.


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BUT this I say and testify in the Lord, that from henceforth you may not walk as the rest of the Gentiles, who walk in the vanity of their minds,


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and are darkened in their understandings, and are alienated from the life of Aloha on account of their ignorance, and on account of the blindness of their hearts;


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who are cut off from their hope, and have delivered themselves up to lasciviousness and to the working of all uncleanness in their greediness.


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WHEREFORE let lying cease from you, and speak the truth every man with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.


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And let him who hath stolen henceforth steal not, but labour with his hands and do good, that he may have to give to him who needeth.


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Let no hateful word come out of your mouth, but that which is comely and useful for edification, that it may communicate grace to those who hear.


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Let all bitterness, and heat, and anger, and clamour, and scandal be taken from you, with all malice;


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and be gentle one with another, and affectionate, and forgive one another, even as Aloha in the Meshiha hath forgiven us.


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and walk in love, as the Meshiha also loved us, and delivered himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to Aloha of a fragrant smell.


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BUT fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness, let them not be even heard among you, as it becometh the saints;


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neither filthiness, nor words of folly, or of jeering, or fables, which are not necessary, but, instead of these, thanksgiving.


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But this know, that any man who is a fornicator, or impure, or covetous, or an idolater, hath no inheritance in the kingdom of the Meshiha and of Aloha;


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lest any man deceive you with vain words; for because of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.


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For you were before darkness, but now you are light in our Lord. As the sons of light, then, so walk.


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Wherefore it is said, Awake thou who sleepest, And arise from the dead, And the Meshiha shall enlighten thee.


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And discourse with yourselves with psalms and with hymns and with songs of the Spirit, singing with your hearts unto the Lord.


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And give thanks always on behalf of every man in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto Aloha the Father.


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For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church, and he himself is the Saviour of the body.


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But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also (should) wives be unto their husbands in every thing.


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and that he might constitute her a church unto himself, being glorified, and not having blemish or wrinkle or any thing like these; but to be holy and spotless.


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So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife loveth, himself he loveth.


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For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also the Meshiha (taketh care) of the church.


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Because of this a man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife, and they two become one flesh.


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Nevertheless let every one of you so love his wife as his own self; but let the wife reverence her husband.


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Children, obey your parents in our Lord, for this is right; and this is the first commandment which promiseth.


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Parents, make not your children angry, but make them to grow in the discipline and in the doctrine of our Lord.


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Servants, be subject to your masters who are according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, and with simplicity of heart, as unto the Meshiha:


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not in the sight of the eyes, as if you were pleasing men (only), but as the servants of Meshiha who do the will of Aloha.


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knowing that whatever good a man doeth he is rewarded by our Lord, whether he be a servant or a son of freedom.


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So you, masters, do likewise to your servants; forgiving them a fault; for you know also that your Master is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.


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And clothe you in all the armour of Aloha, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the accuser.


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For your wrestling is not with flesh and blood (only), but with princes, and with powers, and with the possessors of this dark world, and with the evil spirits who are under heaven.


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Wherefore clothe you with all the armour of Aloha, that you may be able to meet the evil one, and being prepared in every thing you may stand.


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Stand, therefore, with your loins strengthened with the truth, and wear the breastplate of righteousness,


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and with these take to you the shield of faith, that therewith you may be empowered with strength to extinguish all the burning shafts of that evil one;


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And with all prayers, and with all supplications, pray at all times in the Spirit, and in that prayer be watchful in all seasons,


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praying constantly and invoking on behalf of all the saints; and for me also, that the word may be given me with openness of my mouth, that I may boldly proclaim the mystery of the gospel,


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for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may speak with freedom, as it behoveth me to speak it.


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But that you may know also what relateth to me, and what I am doing, behold, Tykikos, a brother beloved, and a faithful minister of our Lord, will make known to you;


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whom I have sent to you on account of this, that he may make you acquainted with what relateth to me, and may comfort your hearts.


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Peace be with the brethren, and love with faith from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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PAULOS and Timotheus, servants of Jeshu the Meshiha, to all the saints who are in Jeshu Meshiha at Philipos, with the presbyters and deacons.


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because I am confident of this, that he who hath begun good workings in you will himself make perfect until the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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For so it is right for me to think concerning you all, because you are laid up in my heart; and in my bonds, and in the defence of the truth of the gospel, you are partakers with me in grace.


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And this I pray, that your love may still increase and abound in knowledge and in all spiritual understanding;


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that you may distinguish those things that are proper, and may be pure and without offence in the day of the Meshiha,


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and filled with the fruits of righteousness which are in Jeshu Meshiha, to the glory and the honour of Aloha.


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BUT I wish you to know, my brethren, that my business tendeth the more to the forwarding of the gospel.


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And a multitude of brethren who are in our Lord are strengthened on account of my bonds, and have dared the more fearlessly to speak the word of Aloha.


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But those who preach the Meshiha from contention do it not sincerely, but think to add affliction to my bonds.


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Yet in this I have rejoiced, and do rejoice, that in every way, if for an occasion, or if in truth, the Meshiha shall be preached.


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For I know that these things shall be found unto my life by your prayers, and by the gift of the Spirit of Jeshu Meshiha;


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even as I hope and expect, that in nothing I shall be confounded, but manifestly, as at all times, so also now, the Meshiha shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.


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But if in this life of the flesh there be also fruit to me from my works, I know not what to choose.


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For these two straiten me. I desire to be set free, that I might be with the Meshiha, and this is greatly preferable to me;


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For I know this confidently, that I am to remain and tarry for your joy and for the increase of your faith:


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As it becometh the gospel of the Meshiha, so have your conversation; that if coming I see you, or absent, I may hear of you, that you stand in one spirit and in one soul, conquering together for the faith of the gospel;


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in nothing moved by them who stand against us, to the forthshowing of their perdition, and of our salvation,


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And this from Aloha hath been given to you, not only believing to believe in the Meshiha, but also for his sake to suffer,


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IF, therefore, you have consolation in the Meshiha, and if there be comfort in love, and if communion of the Spirit, and if compassions and mercies,


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And do nothing in contention or vainglorying, but in meekness of mind let a man consider his neighbour as better than himself.


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who, when he was in the form of Aloha, considered this not to be robbery, (this, namely,) that he was the co-equal of Aloha:


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and in fashion was found as a man, and humbled himself, and was obedient unto death, but the death of the cross.


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Wherefore also Aloha greatly exalted him, and gave him a name that is more excellent than all names,


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that at the name of Jeshu every knee should kneel, of those in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth;


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and that every tongue should confess that Jeshu the Meshiha is the Lord, to the glory of Aloha his Father.


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WHEREFORE, my beloved, as you have all time obeyed, not while I am near you only, but now that I am far from you, the more with fear and trembling work the work of your salvation;


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that you may be perfect and without spot, as the pure children of Aloha, who dwell in a generation depraved and perverse; and be manifest among them as luminaries in the world,


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to be unto them for a place of salvation, for my exultation in the day of the Meshiha, that I may not have run in vain, nor laboured to no purpose.


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But I hope in our Lord Jeshu to send Timotheos to you soon, that I also may have quietness when I learn concerning you.


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But the proof of this you know, that as a son with his father, so hath he wrought with me in the gospel.


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But now the matter hath pressed me to send to you the brother Epaphroditos, who is a helper and labourer with me, but your messenger and minister to my necessity;


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for he desired to see you all, and was anxious, because he knew that you had heard that he was sick.


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Yes, he was sick, unto death; but Aloha had mercy upon him; but not upon him only, but upon me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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Urgently, therefore, have I sent him to you, that when you have seen him again you may rejoice, and that I may have a little breathing.


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because for the work of the Meshiha he had come nigh unto death, and was disregardful of his life, that he might accomplish that which you had wanted in the service which concerned me.


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HENCEFORTH, my brethren, rejoice in our Lord. To write the very same (things) to you, to me is not weariness, because they make you cautious.


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For the circumcision are we, who serve Aloha in the spirit, and glory in Jeshu the Meshiha, and confide not on the flesh.


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Yet I may have confidence on the flesh. For if any one consider that his confidence is in the flesh, I more than he.


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Circumcised the son of eight days, of the family of Israel, of the tribe of Benyomin, Ebroia of Ebroyee; in the law, Pharisha;


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in zeal, a persecutor of the church; and in the righteousness of the law, without fault have I been.


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and I also (still) reckon them all loss, for the grandeur of the knowledge of Jeshu Meshiha my Lord; for whose sake I have lost all things, and have reckoned as dung, that the Meshiha I may gain,


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and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of the Meshiha, which is righteousness that is from Aloha:


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that in it I may know Jeshu, and the power of his resurrection, and have fellowship in his sufferings, and be conformed into his death,


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I have not yet received, nor (am I) yet perfected; but I run, that so I may lay hold on that for the sake of which Jeshu the Meshiha hath laid hold on me.


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MY brethren, I think not concerning myself that I have laid hold (of the final prize); but one (thing) I know, that what is behind me I forget, and to that which is before me


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I stretch, and run towards the sign, to obtain the victory of the high vocation of Aloha by Jeshu Meshiha.


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Let those, then, who are mature consider these things; and if otherwise you consider, this also will Aloha reveal to you.


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Be like me, my brethren, and consider them who so walk according to the pattern you have seen in us.


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For there are many who walk otherwise, of whom many times I have told you, but now weeping I tell you, they are adversaries of the cross of the Meshiha;


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they, whose end is perdition, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is their shame; they, whose mind is in the earth.


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who will change the body of our abasement to make (it) in the fashion of his glorious body, according to his great power, by which all is subjected unto him.


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Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and tenderly-regarded, my joy and my crown, so stand in our Lord, my beloved.


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Also of thee I beseech, my true yokefellow, to be helpful to those who are labouring with me in the gospel, with Klimis, and with the rest of my helpers, whose names are written in the book of life.


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For nothing be anxious; but in all time, with prayer and with supplication, let your requests be made known before Aloha:


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And the peace of Aloha, which is greater than all knowledge, shall keep your hearts and your minds, through Jeshu Meshiha.


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FINALLY, my brethren, those (things) which are true, and those which are honest, and those which are just, and those which are pure, and those which are lovely, and those which are laudable, and those (which are) works of praise and of celebration, these consider.


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These which you have learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these perform; and the God of peace will be with you.


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But greatly do I rejoice in our Lord, that you have begun to care (again) for me, as also you were careful, but you have not had ability.


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But I have not spoken because I have had need; for I have learned to make sufficient to me that which I have had.


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I know (how) to be abased, I know also how to abound in all; and in every thing I am trained with sufficiency and with hunger, with abundance and with destitution:


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Know also, you Philipisoyee, that in the commencement of the gospel, when I went forth from Makedunia, not one of the churches communicated to me in the account of receiving and giving, but you only.


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But I have received every thing, I abound; and am full; and I have accepted all that you sent me by Epaphroditos, a sweet fragrance and a sacrifice, acceptable, which pleaseth Aloha.


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Ask for the peace of all the saints who are in Jeshu the Meshiha. The brethren who are with me ask for your peace.


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to those who are in Kulosos, the holy brethren and believers in Jeshu Meshiha: peace be with you, and grace from Aloha our Father.


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for the hope which is kept for you in heaven, which at the first you heard through the word of the truth of the gospel,


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which is preached to you, as also to all the world, and increaseth and giveth fruits, as also in you from the day that you heard, and knew the grace of Aloha in truth,


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as you learned from Epaphra our beloved companion, who is himself for you a faithful minister of the Meshiha,


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ON account of this also we, from the day that we heard, have not ceased to pray for you, and to supplicate that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of Aloha in all wisdom and in all spiritual understanding,


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and may walk according to that which is just, and may please Aloha in all good works, and may yield fruit, and increase in the knowledge of Aloha;


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and in all power be empowered according to the greatness of his glory in all patience and prolongedness of spirit:


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and with joy may give thanks to Aloha the Father, who hath fitted us for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light,


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and hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,


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And by him was every thing created that is in heaven and in earth; all that is seen, and all that is unseen, whether thrones or dominions, or princes or powers; all things by his hand and through him were created;


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And he is the head of the body of the church, (he) who is the chief and first-born from among the dead, that he should be preeminent in all.


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and by him to reconcile all things to himself, and to make peace through the blood of his cross, (even) by him, whether they be inhabitants in earth or in heaven.


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hath he reconciled now in the body of his flesh and through his death, to constitute you saints before him without spot and without blame;


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if you continue in your faith, your foundation being firm, and be not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, and which is proclaimed to every creature who is under heaven, of which I, Paulos, am made a minister.


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I rejoice in the sufferings which are on your account, and fulfil the void of the afflictions of the Meshiha in my flesh for the sake of his body,


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which is the church; of which I am made a minister according to the dispensation of Aloha, which was given to me for you, to accomplish the word of Aloha;


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that mystery which was hidden from ages and generations, but now hath been revealed unto his saints.


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To whom Aloha hath willed to make known what is the opulence of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is, The Meshiha, who in you (is) the hope of glory;


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whom we proclaim, and (concerning whom) we teach and inform every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Jeshu Meshiha;


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But I wish you to know what an agony I have for you and for those who are in Laodikia, and for the rest who have not seen my person in the flesh;


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that their hearts may be comforted, and that they may approach in love to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of Aloha the Father and of the Meshiha,


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For though in the flesh I am far from you, yet in the spirit I am with you; and I rejoice to behold your order, and the firmness of your faith in the Meshiha.


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your roots strengthened, and you builded in him, and established in that faith which you have learned, that you may abound therein with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest any man strip you by philosophy and by vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, and according to the principles of the world, and not according to the Meshiha,


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And in him you have been circumcised with the circumcision which is not with hands, by the putting away of the flesh of sins, (even) by the circumcision of the Meshiha.


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And you have been buried with him by baptism, and in him have risen with him, who have believed in the power of Aloha who raised him from among the dead.


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And you who were dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath made alive with him, and forgiven us all our sins;


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and hath blotted out in his mandates the writing of our debts that was against us, and hath taken it from the midst, and affixed it to his cross;


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and by the yielding up of his body he hath prostrated principalities and powers, and hath shamed them openly by himself.


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LET no man therefore judge you in meat and in drink, or in the distinctions of festivals, and of new moons, and of shabeths,


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And lest any man wish by abasement of mind to fetter you to be subject to the worship of angels, intruding upon that which he hath not seen, and vainly inflated in his fleshly mind;


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and not holding the Head, from whom all the body is composed and constituted in joints and limbs, and increaseth (with) the increase of Aloha.


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For if you are dead with the Meshiha from the principles of the world, why as if you lived in the world are you judged? as that


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and appear to have in them a reason of wisdom, with the look of humility and the fear of Aloha, (as) not sparing the body, (yet) not in that which is (really) of value, but in those (things) whose use pertains to the flesh.


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IF, then, you have risen with the Meshiha, seek (the realities) which are on high, where the Meshiha sitteth at the right hand of Aloha.


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and when the Meshiha, who is our life, shall be manifested, then also will you be manifested with him in glory.


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Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, and passions, and evil desires, and covetousness, which itself is idolatry.


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where there is not Jihudoya and Aramoya, nor circumcision and uncircumcision, nor Javanoya and Barbaroya, nor slave and freeman, but the Meshiha is all and in all.


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Wear, therefore, as the chosen of Aloha, saints and beloved, compassions and tenderness, and benignity, and lowliness of mind, and composure, and patience.


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And bear with one another, and forgive one another, if any man have a complaint against his neighbour; even as the Meshiha hath forgiven you, so also forgive;


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And let the peace of the Meshiha direct your hearts, for to it you have been called in one body; and give thanks to the Meshiha,


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whose word shall dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves in psalms and in hymns and in songs of the Spirit, and with grace sing with your hearts unto Aloha.


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And whatsoever you do, either in word or work, do (it) in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and with thanksgiving through him unto Aloha the Father.


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Servants, obey in every thing your masters according to the flesh, not in the sight of the eye (only), as those who please men, but from a simple heart, and in the fear of the Lord.


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And know that from our Lord you receive the reward in the inheritance; for the Lord the Meshiha you serve.


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praying also for us, that Aloha may open to us the gate of the word, to speak the mystery of the Meshiha, for the sake of which I am bound,


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And let your speech at all time be with grace as sprinkled with salt, each one knowing how it becometh him to return the answer.


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What concerneth me will Tykikos, a beloved brother and faithful minister, and our companion in the Lord, make known to you:


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with Onesimos, the faithful and beloved brother who is of you. These will make you know what concerneth us.


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Aristarchos, a captive with me, asketh for your peace, and Markos, the nephew of Bar Naba, regarding whom you are directed, that if he come to you, receive him,


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and Jeshu who is called Justos: these are of the circumcision, and these only have helped me in the kingdom of Aloha, and these have been a consolation to me.


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Epaphra, who is of you, asketh for your peace; a servant of the Meshiha, who is always labouring on your behalf in prayer, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of Aloha.


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Ask the peace of the brethren who are in Laodikia, and of Nymfa, and of the church which is in his house.


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And when this epistle shall have been read to you, cause it also to be read in the church of the Laodikoyee; and that which is written from the Laodikoyee, read you it.


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And say to Arkipos, Be vigilant in the ministry which thou hast received in our Lord, that thou fulfil it.


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PAULOS, and Sylvanos, and Timotheos, to the church of the Thesalonikoyee which (is) in Aloha the Father, and in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. Grace be with you and peace.


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and remember before Aloha the Father the works of your faith, and the labour of your love, and the perseverance of your hope, which is in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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because our preaching was not in words only with you, but with power, and with the Spirit of Holiness, and with the persuasion of truth. Also you know how we were among you, on account of you;


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and you became imitators of us and of our Lord, and you received the word in great affliction, and with the joy of the Spirit of Holiness,


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For from you was made to be heard the word of our Lord, not only in Makedunia and in Akaia, but in every place your faith which is in Aloha was made to be heard, so that we have no need to say of you any thing.


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For they learned what an entrance we had unto you, and how you turned to Aloha, from the fear of idols, to worship Aloha the living and the true;


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awaiting his Son from heaven, Jeshu himself, whom he raised from among the dead, and who delivered us from the wrath that cometh.


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but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, in Philipos, and then (even) in great conflict we spoke with you with the confidence of our God the gospel of the Meshiha.


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but as approved of Aloha to be intrusted with his gospel, so speaking as not to please men, but Aloha who trieth our hearts.


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For never have we used flattering speech, as you know, nor for an occasion of covetousness, Aloha witnesseth.


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Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, though we could have been honoured ones, as the apostles of the Meshiha;


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so also we loved, and were desirous to impart to you, not only the gospel of Aloha, but also our life, because we loved you.


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Remember, therefore, my brethren, how we laboured and toiled in the work of our hands by night and by day, that we might not be a burden on one of you.


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You witness and Aloha, how we preached to you the gospel of Aloha, purely and justly, and were without blame with all the faithful.


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As you know how every one of you, as a father his children, we exhorted, and spoke with your hearts;


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and (now) we testify to you how you should walk worthy of Aloha himself who hath called you to his kingdom and to his glory.


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WHEREFORE we also give thanks constantly unto Aloha, that the word of Aloha which you received from us, was not as the word of man (that) you received (it), but, as it is truly, the word of Aloha, which in operation worketh (alike) in you and in all them who believe.


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But you, my brethren, have become like the churches of Aloha which are in Jihud, who are in Jeshu Meshiha, because you likewise suffer from your fellow-country-men, as they also from the Jihudoyee;


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who killed our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and the prophets who were of them, and ourselves have persecuted, and Aloha have not pleased,


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and have acted adversely to all men; who forbid us to speak with the Gentiles that they might be saved; to fill up their sins for all time: but upon them cometh the wrath unto the end!


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BUT we, my brethren, having been bereaved-ones of you the time of an hour, as to our presence, but not in our heart, have been the more solicitous to see your faces with great love,


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For what is our hope and our joy, and the crown of our glorying, but you, before our Lord Jeshu at his coming?


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and to send to you Timotheos our brother, a minister of Aloha and our helper in the gospel of the Meshiha, to fortify you, and inquire of you concerning your faith,


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For while also we were with you, we foretold you that we were to be afflicted, as you know that it hath been.


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On account of this also, I, not enduring until I had sent to know your faith, lest the tempter should tempt you, and we should have laboured in vain;


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but now when Timotheos came to us from among you, and gave us intelligence of your faith and of your love, and that you have a good remembrance of us in every season, and desire to see us as we also (to see) you;


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on this account we were comforted in you, my brethren, in all our anxieties and our afflictions because of your faith.


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For what thanks giving can we render on account of you to Aloha, over all the joy with which we rejoice on your behalf,


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unless before Aloha we supplicate exceedingly by night and by day to see your faces, and to perfect what is wanting to your faith?


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and will establish your hearts without blame in holiness, before Aloha our Father, at the advent of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha with all his saints.


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HENCE then, my brethren, we pray of you, and beseech of you by our Lord Jeshu, that as you have received of us how it behoveth you to walk and to please Aloha, the more to increase.


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And that you dare not transgress, and defraud the one man his brother in this matter, because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as we have also before told you and testified.


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Therefore, whoever despiseth, not man he despiseth, but Aloha, who hath ingiven you his Holy Spirit.


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But concerning the love of the brethren, you need not (that I) write to you; for you yourselves are taught of Aloha to love one another.


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And so do you to all the brethren who are in all Makedunia; but I beseech of you, my brethren, to excel.


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And study to be quiet and be occupied with your own employments, and work with your hands, as we have admonished you;


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BUT I wish you to know, my brethren, that for those who are asleep you should not have sorrow, as the rest of men, who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jeshu died and arose, so also Aloha those who have slept in Jeshu will bring with him.


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But this we say to you by the word of our Lord, that we who remaining at the coming of our Lord, who live, will not precede those who have slept.


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For our Lord himself with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief of angels, and with the trumpet of Aloha, will come down from heaven, and the dead who are in the Meshiha will arise first;


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and then we who remaining alive, shall be rapt with them together in clouds, to the meeting of our Lord in the expanse; and so always with our Lord shall we be.


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While they shall be saying, Peace and tranquillity, then unawares will destruction arise against them, as distress upon the child-bearer, and they shall not escape.


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For all of you are sons of light, and sons of the day; and are not sons of the night, nor sons of darkness.


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But we who are sons of the day must be wakeful in our minds, and wear the mail-coat of faith and of love, and put on the helmet of the hope of salvation.


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For Aloha hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the possession of salvation in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,


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BUT I entreat of you, my brethren, to know them who labour among you, and stand before your faces teaching you,


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And I entreat of you, my brethren, (to) admonish the offenders, and encourage the little of soul, and bear the burden of the weak, and prolong your spirit toward every man.


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And beware, lest any of you evil render for evil; but always follow after (those things which are) good (pl.) toward one another, and toward every man.


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But the God of peace himself will sanctify perfectly all of you; and your whole spirit, and your soul, and your body will he keep without fault, to the coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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PAULOS, and Sylvanos, and Timotheos, to the church of the Thesalonikoyee, which is in Aloha our Father, and our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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To give thanks we owe to Aloha at all time on behalf of you, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith greatly increaseth, and the love of you all, of every man toward his neighbour, enlargeth;


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as that we also boast of you in the churches of Aloha, of your faith and of your patience, in all your persecution and your affliction which you endure;


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for a demonstration of the just judgment of Aloha, that you may be worthy of his kingdom, for the sake of which you suffer;


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And you who are afflicted will he save with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from heaven, with the host Of his angels, when he executeth the punishment, with burning of fire,


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on them who have not known Aloha, and on them who have not acknowledged the gospel of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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For these in the judgment will be punished (with) the perdition of eternity, from the presence of our Lord, and from the glory of his power;


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when he cometh to be glorified in his saints, and to show his wonders in his faithful ones, that our testimony that was concerning you may be believed in that day.


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On account of this at all time pray we for you, that Aloha may make you meet for your calling, and complete in you all the will of good (things), and the operations of faith with power;


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that the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha may be glorified in you, and you also in him, according to the grace of Aloha and our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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But we beseech of you, my brethren, as it regards the coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and our assemblage with him,


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that you be not soon moved in your minds, nor perturbed, nor by word, nor by spirit, nor by letter, which (may be) as (if it were) from us, that, Behold, the day of our Lord cometh!


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Let no one deceive you by any one of the methods, because unless there shall come first the rebellion, and there be revealed the man of sin, the son of perdition;


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He who is the adversary, and is exalted over all who is called God and Venerable; so that also in the temple of Aloha as Aloha he will sit, and will make manifest of himself as that he is Aloha.


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For the mystery of iniquity already beginneth to be effective; only if that which now holdeth be taken from the midst,


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then will be revealed that evil one, whom our Lord Jeshu will consume by the spirit of his mouth, and will abolish by the revelation of his advent.


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For the coming of that (wicked one) is the working of Satana, with all power, and (with) signs and false miracles,


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and with all unrighteous deception which is done in them who perish, because they have not received the love of the truth by which they might have been saved.


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that they will believe the lie, and all of them will be judged who have not believed in the truth, but have had pleasure in unrighteousness.


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But we are bound to give thanks unto Aloha at all time for you, our brethren, beloved in our Lord, because Aloha hath chosen you from the beginning unto salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit, and by the belief of the truth.


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For unto these Aloha called you by our preaching, that you should be the glory of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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Wherefore, my brethren, stand fast, and persevere in the precepts which you have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle.


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But our Lord Jeshu Meshiha himself, and Aloha our Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and a good hope through grace,


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Henceforth, my brethren, pray for us, that the word of our Lord may run and be glorified in every place, as among you.


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and also are doing. And our Lord will direct your hearts to the love of Aloha, and to the patience of the Meshiha.


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But we command you, my brethren, in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that you remove from every brother who walketh wickedly, and not according to the precepts which he hath received from us.


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Neither did we eat bread for nothing from any one of you; but with labour and weariness by night and by day we wrought, that upon no one of you we might be burdensome.


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Not because we had not power, but because in ourselves we would give you an example, that you may imitate us.


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For while we were with you, this we commanded you, that every one who willeth not to work, neither should he eat.


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But these we command, and entreat of them by our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that with quietness they work, and eat their (own) bread.


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And if any man hearken not to these our words in the epistle, let this be separate from you, and be not mixed with him, that he be shamed.


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Salutation, by the writing of my hand, I, PAULOS, have written; which is the sign in all my epistles, so I write.


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PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, by the commandment of Aloha our Saviour, and of Jeshu Meshiha our hope;


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to Timotheos, my true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace from Aloha our Father and Jeshu Meshiha our Lord.


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I requested of thee, when I would go into Makedunia, to remain at Ephesos, and instruct certain men that they teach not various doctrines,


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nor throw themselves (away) upon stories and tales of generations which have no end, (but) which rather subserve contentions, and not edification in the faith of Aloha.


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But the end of the commandment is love, from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from genuine faith.


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seeking to become teachers of the law, while they understand not what they speak, nor that concerning which they contend.


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knowing that against the righteous the law is not set, but against the evil, and rebels, and the wicked, and sinners, and the dishonest, and those who are not pure, and those who strike their fathers, and those who strike their mothers, and murderers,


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and whatever (else) is opposed to the healthful doctrine of the gospel of the glory of the blessed Aloha, with which I have been intrusted.


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And I thank him who hath empowered me, our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, who accounted me faithful, and constituted me his minister; me,


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who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I received mercy, because while ignorant I did it, without faith.


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Faithful is the word, and worthy of reception that Jeshu the Meshiha came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first.


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But for this he had compassion upon me, that in me first Jeshu Meshiha might show all long-suffering, as an exhibition for them who should believe in him unto everlasting life.


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But to the King who is eternal, incorruptible, and unseen, who is one Aloha, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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This commandment I commit to thee, my son Timotheos, according to the early prophecies which were concerning thee, that thou mayest war through them this good warfare with faith and with a good conscience.


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I REQUIRE then from thee, that, before every thing supplication be offered to Aloha, and prayer and intercession and thanksgiving for all men;


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for kings and princes, that an habitation quiet and tranquil we may inhabit in all the fear of Aloha and purity.


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of which I am constituted an herald and an apostle, I say the truth and lie not, to be a teacher of the nations in the faith of the truth.


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I wish then for men to pray in every place, uplifting their hands purely and without wrath and without disputations.


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So also let women with decorous simplicity of apparel,with modesty and with chastity, adorn themselves, not with braidings, and with gold, and with pearls, and with fine vestments,


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for unto the wife to teach I permit not, neither to be authoritative over the husband, but to be in quietude.


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But she is saved by her children, if they continue in faith, and in love, and in sanctification, and in chastity.


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But it behoveth that a presbyter be as that blame be not found in him; and that he be the husband of one wife; (a man) who is of a vigilant mind, chaste, and orderly, and a lover of guests, and instructful;


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and not a transgressor over wine, nor (one) whose hand hastens to strike; but he is to be gentle and not contentious, nor a lover of money;


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Neither shall his discipleship be recent, lest he be lifted up, and fall into the judgment of Satana.


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But it is needful that he have also a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach, and into the net of Satana.


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And also the ministers must be pure, not speaking doubly, not inclined to much wine, nor shall they love unclean gains.


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Thus also must the woman be chaste, and they shall be vigilant (in their) minds, and faithful in every thing; and they shall not be accusers.


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The ministers shall be (of them) severally who have one wife, and shall rule each his children and his household well.


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For they who minister well, a good degree acquire for themselves, and much openness of face in the faith of Jeshu Meshiha.


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but if I should delay, that thou mayest know how to converse in the house of Aloha, which is the church of Aloha the Living, the column and foundation of the truth.


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And truly great is this mystery of righteousness, which was revealed in the flesh, and justified by the Spirit, and seen of angels, and preached among the peoples, and believed in the world, and taken up into glory.


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But the Spirit distinctly saith, that in the last times some will remove from the faith, and will go after deceiving spirits, and after doctrines of demons.


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and prohibiting to marry, and abstaining from meats, which Aloha created to be used with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth;


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because every creature of Aloha is good, and nothing to be abominated, if with thanksgiving it be received;


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These if thou shalt teach thy brethren, a good minister wilt thou be of Jeshu Meshiha, while thou wilt be enlarged with words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast learned.


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For the exercise of the body a little time profiteth; but righteousness in every thing profiteth, and hath the promise of the life of this time, and of the future.


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for on this account we labour and are reproached, because we hope in Aloha the Living, who is the Saviour of all men, and especially of the believers.


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And let no man despise thy youth; but be an example to the believers in word, and in conduct, and in charity, and in faith, and in purity.


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Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee with prophecy, and the hand-laying of the presbytery.


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And take heed to thyself, and to thy doctrine, and persevere in them; for while these thou doest, thyself wilt thou save, and them who hear thee.


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And if there be a widow who hath children, or children's children, let them learn first to do justly for their families, and to repay the debts (owing) to their parents; for this is acceptable before Aloha.


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But she who is truly a widow and solitary (is one) whose hope is in Aloha, and who persevereth in prayer and in supplication by night and by day.


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For if a man hath not care of them who are his own, and especially of them who are children of the household of faith, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than those who believe not.


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and who hath the testimony of good works: if she have brought up children, if she have received guests, if she have washed the feet of the saints, if she have cheered the afflicted, if she have walked in every gracious work.


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But from the widows who are young, withhold (the election); for these become schismatical against the Meshiha, and seek to marry,


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They also learn idleness, wandering from house to house; and not only idleness, but also to multiply words, and to follow vain (pursuits), and to speak things which they ought not.


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I will therefore that those who are young should marry, and bear children, and conduct their households,


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and not give to the adversary any occasion to revile. For already have some begun to turn aside after Satana.


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If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them support them, that they may not be burden-some on the church, that they who are widows indeed may have sufficient.


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Those presbyters who well conduct themselves shall be worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and in doctrine.


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For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox in the treading out; and, Worthy is the labourer of his hire.


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I attest thee before Aloha and our Lord Jeshu Meshiha and his elect angels, that thou keep these, (precepts,) and let not thy mind be pre-occupied by any thing, and do nothing with acceptance of persons.


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And henceforth water drink not, but wine a little drink, on account of thy stomach, and on account of thy constant infirmities.


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THERE are men whose sins are known, and they precede them to the place of judgment; and there are whose (sins) go after them.


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Let those who are under the yoke of servitude hold their masters in all honour, that the name of Aloha and his doctrine be not blasphemed.


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But let not those who have believing masters slight them, because they are their brethren; but serve them the more, because they are believers, and beloved who are refreshed by their ministry. These things teach and require of them.


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But if there be a man who teacheth other doctrine, and who accedeth not to the healthful words of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and to the doctrine of the fear of Aloha,


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this (is one) who extolleth himself while knowing nothing, but is infirm with disputation and questioning of words, from which are envy, and contention, and evil speaking, and supposition in the evil mind,


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and conflicts of men whose minds are corrupt and deprived of the truth, and who consider that gain is the fear of Aloha.


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But thou, remove thyself from them. For our gain is great which is the fear of Aloha, with the use of our sufficiency.


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But they who will be rich fall into temptations and snares, and many lusts which befool and injure, and which plunge men into destruction and perdition.


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For the root of all evil is the love of money; and there are who have coveted it, and from the faith have erred, and have made themselves enter into many sorrows.


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But thou, O man of God, from these things flee, and follow after righteousness, and after equity, and after faith, and after charity, and after patience, and after meekness.


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And contend in the good agony of faith, and lay hold of the life which is eternal, unto which thou art called, and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.


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I ATTEST thee before Aloha, who vivifieth all, and Jeshu Meshiha, who witnessed before Pontius Pilatos the good testimony,


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that thou keep (this) commandment without spot and without blemish, until the manifestation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,


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whom in his time will show Aloha the blessed and only Strong One, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;


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he who only is incorruptible, and (who) dwelleth in light which no man can approach; whom no man of men hath seen, nor is able to see: to him be honour and power for ever and ever. Amen.


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The rich of this world instruct, that they be not uplifted in their minds, nor be trustful upon riches which have no security, but upon Aloha the living, who giveth to us all abundantly for our comfort;


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and that they perform good works, and become rich in welldoings, and be ready to give and to communicate,


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and lay for themselves a good foundation for that which is to be, that they may lay hold on the true life.


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O Timothy, watch over that which is confided to thee, and fly from vain words, and the turnings of false knowledge.


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PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu Meshiha by the will of Aloha, and on account of the promise of life which is in Jeshu Meshiha,


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to Timotheos my beloved son: grace and mercies and peace from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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I thank Aloha, whom I serve from my fathers with a pure conscience, that constantly I remember thee in my prayers of the night and of the day;


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in remembrance of thee (and) of thy true faith which dwelt first in the mother of thy mother Lois, and in thy mother Eunika, and which, I am persuaded, (is) in thee also.


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On account of this I put thee in mind to keep awake the gift of Aloha, which is in thee by the laying on of my hands.


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Wherefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but sustain evil with the gospel, through the power of Aloha,


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who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling; not according to our works, but according to his will, and that grace of his which was given to us in Jeshu Meshiha before the time of the worlds,


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and is now revealed by the revelation of our Saviour Jeshu Meshiha, who hath abolished death, and hath demonstrated life and incorruption, through the gospel,


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on account of which I suffer these, and am not ashamed. I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that there is power in his hands my deposite to keep for me unto that day.


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Let the outline of sound words be with thee, which thou hast heard from me, with the faith and love which are in Jeshu Meshiha:


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Our Lord give mercies to the house of Onesiphoros, who many times hath refreshed me, and of the chains of my bonds hath not been ashamed.


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Our Lord grant that he may find mercies with our Lord in that day: and how he ministered to me in Ephesos thou especially knowest.


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And those (doctrines) which thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, them commit to faithful men, who are also able to teach others.


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No man serveth as a soldier, and entangleth himself with the affairs of the world, that he might please him who hath chosen him.


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Remember Jeshu Meshiha, that he arose from among the dead, he who is of the seed of David, according to my gospel;


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Therefore I endure every thing on account of the elect, that they also may find salvation in Jeshu Meshiha, with the glory that is eternal.


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Of these (truths) remind them, and testify before our Lord, that they contend not with unprofitable words, to the overturning of those who hear them.


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And be careful to establish thyself perfectly before Aloha, a workman without shame, preaching rightly the word of truth.


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From vain words which have no utility in them withdraw; for they add greatly to the wickedness of those who are occupied with them.


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And their words as an eating cancer will lay hold upon many: but one of them is Hymeneos, and another Philetos,


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who have erred from the truth, saying, that the resurrection of the dead hath been, and the faith of some overturning.


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But the true foundation of Aloha standeth; and it hath this signature: And the Lord knoweth them who are his. And, Let every one who invoketh the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.


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But in a great house there are not vessels of gold only or of silver, but also of wood, also of clay: of them (some are) to honour, and of them (some) to dishonour.


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If a man then purify himself from these, he will be a pure vessel unto honour, fitted for the use of his Lord, and prepared for every good work.


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From all the lusts of youth escape; and pursue after righteousness, and faith, and charity, and peace, with them who call upon the Lord with a pure heart.


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From foolish controversies which are without instruction withdraw; for thou knowest that they beget strifes.


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But a servant of the Lord oweth not to strive, but to be gentle towards every man, and teaching, and long-suffering,


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that he may instruct them who would contend against him with meekness, if by any means Aloha may give them conversion, and they may acknowledge the truth,


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and be mindful of themselves, and remove from the snare of Satana, by whom they have been entrapped at his will.


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and men will be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, boastful, lofty, blasphemous, to their men not obedient, deniers of grace, impious, calumniators,


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having a form of the worship of Aloha, but from the power of Aloha afar off: (them) who are such put from thee.


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For of them are they who creep into houses, and captivate women who are overladen with sins, and led away by divers lusts;


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But as Yonis and Yanbris stood against Musha, so also these stand against the truth: men whose understanding is corrupted, and reprobate from the faith.


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BUT thou hast followed my doctrine and my manners, and my purpose, and my faith, and my prolongedness of mind, and my charity, and my patience,


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and my persecution, and my sufferings. And thou knowest what things I endured in Antioch, and in Ikonion, and in Lystra, what persecution I endured; and out of all these my Lord delivered me.


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But abide thou in those things that thou hast learned, and in which thou art confirmed; for thou knowest from whom thou hast learned:


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and that from thy childhood thou hast learned the holy writings, which are able to make thee wise to salvation, through faith which is in Jeshu Meshiha.


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FOR all scripture which from the Spirit is written, is profitable for doctrine, and for rebuke, and for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness:


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I attest thee before Aloha, and our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, who is to judge the living and the dead at the revelation of his kingdom:


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preach the word, and stand with diligence in season, and (that) which is not season; confute, and rebuke with all prolongedness of mind and doctrine.


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For the time will come, when sound doctrine they will not hear; but according to their desires will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing.


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But watch thou in every thing, and endure evils, and work the work of an evangelist, and thy ministry fulfil.


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And from now there is kept for me the crown of righteousness, which my Lord will give me in that day, because he is a righteous judge: yet, not only to me, but to all them who love his manifestation.


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for Dema hath left me, and hath loved this world, and is gone to Thessalonika; Krispos to Galatia, Titos to Dalmatia;


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The case (for) books which I left at Troas with Karpos, when thou comest bring, and the books, and especially the roll of parchments.


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Alexander the brass-worker many evils hath showed me: our Lord awardeth to him according to his deeds.


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But my Lord stood with me, that by me the preaching might be fulfilled, and (that) all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.


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And my Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me into his kingdom, which is in heaven. To Him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Be careful to come before winter. Ebulos and Pudis, and Linos, and Klaudia, and all the brethren, ask for your peace.


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PAULOS, a servant of Aloha, and apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, for the faith of the chosen ones of Aloha, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of Aloha;


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and his word hath revealed in his time by our preaching, which was confided to me by the command of Aloha our Saviour:


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To Titos, my true son in the common faith. Grace and peace from Aloha the Father and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha our Saviour.


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For this I left thee in Kreta, that those things which were wanting thou mayest rectify, and constitute presbyters in every city as I commanded thee.


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Him who is without blame, and is the husband of one wife, and who hath believing children, who are not vicious nor addicted to intemperance.


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For a presbyter is bound to be without blame, as the steward of Aloha; he shall not be led by the will of self, nor be irascible, nor a transgressor over wine, neither shall his hand be hasty to strike, nor shall he be a lover of sordid gains.


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But he shall be a lover of guests, and a lover of the good, and be chaste, and equitable, and holy, and withholding himself from lusts;


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and careful over the doctrine of the word of faith, that he may be able also to comfort by his teaching the healthy, and to reprove those who are contentious.


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For there are many who are not in subjection, and whose words are vain, and make the minds of men to err, especially those of the circumcision,


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those, whose mouths it behoves to stop. Many houses they destroy, and teach what they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.


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One of them, a prophet of their own, hath said, The sons of Kreta are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy bellies.


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For every thing is pure to the pure; but to those who are polluted and unfaithful nothing is pure; but their understanding and their conscience are polluted.


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And they profess to know Aloha, but in their works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and reprobate to every good work.


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and teach, That the elders be watchful in their minds, and be chaste and pure, and sound in the faith, and in charity, and in patience.


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And so also the aged women, that they be in behaviour what becometh the fear of Aloha, and not slanderers, nor enslaved to much wine, and that they teach good things;


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and to be chaste and holy, well mindful of their houses, and submissive to their husbands, that no man blaspheme the word of Aloha.


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But in every thing show thyself the example in all good works, and in doctrine let there be with thee sound speech which is sincere and incorrupt,


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and which no man will despise, that he who riseth against us may be ashamed when he cannot say any thing hateful against us.


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nor pilfering; but let them show their good-trustiness in every thing, that they may adorn in every thing the doctrine of Aloha our Saviour.


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and teacheth us to deny wickedness and the lusts of the world, and to live in this world in purity, and in rectitude, and in the fear of Aloha,


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while expecting the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jeshu Meshiha;


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who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and to cleanse unto himself a new people, who are zealous of good works.


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Put them in mind that to princes and to powers they are to hearken and to be obedient, and to be prepared for every good work.


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And against no man to rail, nor be contentious, but gentle, and in every thing to show their benignity towards all men.


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For we also were afore-time without understanding, and disobedient and erring, and were subjected to various lusts; and in malice, and in envy we conversed, and were hateful, and also hating one another.


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not by works of righteousness which we had done, but by his own mercy he saved us, by the laving of the birth which is afresh, by the renewing of the Spirit of Holiness,


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that by his grace we might be justified, and be made heirs according to the hope of the life which is eternal.


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Faithful is the word; and in this I will that thou also establish them, that they should be careful to perform good works, they who have believed in Aloha. These are good and profitable unto men.


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But from foolish disputations, and from tales of genealogies, and from contentions, and strifes of the sophree, withdraw; for profit is not in them, and they are vain.


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When I have sent to thee Artema, or Tykikos, be careful to come to me at Nikopolis; for there I have determined in my mind to winter.


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But concerning Zina the sophra, and Apolo, be careful to provide them well, that nothing may be wanting to them.


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And let those also who are of us, learn to perform good works in things which are necessary, that they may not be without fruits.


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All they who are with me ask for thy peace. Ask for the peace of all who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you. Amen.


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PAULOS, the bondman of Jeshu Meshiha, and the brother Timotheos, to the beloved Philemon, our fellow-labourer,


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and to our beloved Aphia, and to Arkipos our fellowlabourer,1 and to the church which is in thy house.


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Behold, from (the time) when I heard of thy faith, and the love which thou hast to our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and to all the saints,


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(I have prayed) that there may be communication of thy faith (in) yielding fruits, in works and in the (manifestation of the) knowledge of all good which thou hast in Jeshu Meshiha.


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but for love's sake entreating I entreat of thee, I, Paulos, who am the aged as thou knowest, but now also the bondman of Jeshu Meshiha.


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For I would have retained him with me, that he might have served me for thy sake in the bonds of the gospel;


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but without thy counsel I was not willing to do any thing, that thy goodness might not be as by constraint, but of thy will.


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not henceforth as a servant, but as more than a servant, a beloved brother of mine, and how much more of thine, both in the flesh and in our Lord!


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I, Paulos, have written with my hands, I will repay thee; for I will not tell thee that thou owest thyself to me.


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Because I am confident of thy hearing me, I have written to thee, and I know that more than I have asked thou wilt do.


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But at once also prepare me a house of lodging, for I hope through your prayers I shall be given to you.


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In manifold portions and in all manners, spake Aloha with our fathers by the prophets from the first: but in these last days he hath spoken with us by his Son;


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who himself is the resplendence of his glory, and the image of his Being, and upholdeth all (things) by the power of his word; and he, in his (own) person, hath made purification of sins, and hath sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.


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And this (person) is altogether more excellent than the angels, by so much as the name he hath inherited (is) more excellent than theirs.


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For unto which one from (among) the angels at any time said Aloha, Thou art MY SON; I to-day have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him the Father, and he shall be to me the Son?


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But again, when bringing in the First-begotten into the world, he said, Let all the angels of Aloha worship him.


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But concerning the angels, thus hath he spoken: Who hath made his angels spirit, and his ministers a flaming fire.


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But concerning the Son he hath said, Thy throne, Aloha, (is) for ever and ever, a right sceptre (is) the sceptre of thy kingdom.


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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hast hated iniquity; therefore Aloha thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of exultation more (abundantly) than thy fellows.


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And again, Thou in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.


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and as a garment thou shalt fold them up, they shall be changed; but thou (shalt be) as Thou Art, and thy years shall not fail


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But to which from (among) the angels hath he said at any time, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine adversaries a footstool beneath thy feet?


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Are not all they spirits of ministration, who (are) sent forth in service on behalf of those who are hereafter to inherit salvation?


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For if the word which was uttered by angels was confirmed, and every one who heard it, and transgressed against it, received a just retribution,


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how shall we escape if we despise those (words) which themselves are our salvation? Those which began by our Lord to be spoken, and by them who from him heard them in us were confirmed,


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when Aloha witnessed concerning them by signs, and by miracles, and by various powers, and by distributed gifts of the Spirit of Holiness, that were bestowed according to his will.


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But, as the scripture testifieth and saith, What is man, that thou rememberedst him, and the Son of man, that thou didst visit him?


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Thou didst humble him (to be) less than the angels; glory and honour hast thou placed upon his head, and hast empowered him over the work of thy hands,


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and every thing hast thou put in subjection under his feet. in this, that he subjected every thing to him, he hath left nothing which he hath not subjected. Yet hitherto we see not that every thing is subjected to him.


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But him who was humbled to be less than the angels, we see to be JESHU himself, for the sake of the passion of his death; and glory and honour set upon his head; for He Aloha, in his grace, for every man hath tasted death!


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For it was proper to him by whose hand are all, and on account of whom all are, (and who) would lead many sons to his glory, that the Prince of their salvation by sufferings should be perfected.


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For he who sanctified, and they who are sanctified, are all from one: wherefore he has not been ashamed to call them his brethren.


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(As) when he saith, I will announce thy name unto my brethren, and in the midst of the church I will praise thee.


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And again, I will put my confidence in him. And again, Behold me, and the sons whom thou hast given me, Aloha.


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Forasmuch as the sons have been made to participate in flesh and blood, he also likewise was made a partaker of these very things; that by his death he might abolish him who held the power of death, who is Satana,


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Therefore it was right that in every thing he should be rendered like unto his brethren, that he might be compassionate, and a High Priest faithful in to Aloha, and become an expiation for the sins of the people.


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Wherefore, my holy brethren, who have been called with the calling that from heaven, contemplate this Apostle and High Priest of our confession, JESHU MESHIHA!


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For greater is the glory of this (One) by far than (the glory) of Musha, even as the honour of him who built the house is far greater than his building.


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And Musha, as a servant, was faithful in all his house, for the testimony of those that were to be announced him;


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but the Meshiha as THE SON over his house: and his house are we, if, unto the end, we shall hold fast our confidence, and the triumph of his hope.


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harden not your hearts unto the angering of him, as (did) the embitterers, and as the day of temptation in the desert,


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On which account I was wearied with that generation; and said, It is a people that doth err (in) their heart, and that hath not known my ways.


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Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any man among you an evil heart which believeth not, and ye depart from Aloha the living.


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But examine yourselves all the days, until the day which is called THAT DAY, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceptiveness of sin.


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For we are made participators with the Meshiha, if, from the beginning and unto the end, in this very standing we steadfastly persist.


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For who are they who heard and provoked him? Not all they who came out of Metsreen by the hand of Musha.


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And with whom was he wearied forty years, but with them who sinned, and whose bones fell in the desert?


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And of whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but of them who would not be persuaded?


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Let us fear, therefore, lest, while there is a confirmed promise of an entrance into his rest, any one shall be found among you remaining from entering in.


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For we have been evangelized as well as they: but the word which they heard did not profit them, because not contempered with faith in them who heard it.


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But we enter into the rest, we (being of) those (who) have believed. But as He hath said, So I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest: for, behold, the works of Aloha from the beginning of the world were.


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Therefore, because there was a place into which every one of them might have entered, and they who had it announced first did not enter in, forasmuch as they would not be persuaded;


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---moreover, (as) another day he appointeth, after much time; as above it is written, that David hath said, To-day if his voice ye will hear, harden not your hearts;


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For he who is entered into his rest hath also reposed himself from his works, as Aloha (did) from his.


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Let us, therefore, anxiously endeavour to enter into that rest, that we fall not after the manner of those who were not persuaded.


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For living is the Word of Aloha, and all-acting, and more penetrating than a two-edged sword, and entereth to the separation of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints, and of the marrow, and the bones, and discerneth the reasonings and counsel of the heart.


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Neither is there any creature that is concealed from before him; but every thing (is) naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom they shall give account.


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Therefore having such a great High Priest, Jeshu Meshiha, the Son of Aloha, who hath ascended to heaven, let us persevere in the confession of him.


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For we have not an high priest who cannot suffer along with our infirmity, but (one) who, tempted in every thing as we, (was) separate from sin.


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Let us therefore approach with confidence to the throne of his grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in the time of affliction.


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For every high priest who is from among men, on the behalf of men, standeth over those things which are of Aloha, to offer oblation and sacrifices for sins:


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and (is one) who can humble himself, and suffer with those who know not and err, since he also himself with infirmity is clothed.


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And on this account he is obligated as on the behalf of the people, so (also) for himself, to offer up for his sins.


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Thus also the Meshiha glorified not himself to be a High Priest; but He who said to him, Thou art my Son, I to-day have begotten thee.


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So, too, in another place he saith, Thou art the Priest for ever, after the likeness of Malki-Zedek.


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When also with flesh he had been clothed, prayer and supplication, with a powerful cry, and with tears, he offered up unto Him who was able from death to revive him, and was heard.


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And though he was the Son, yet from the fear and the sufferings which he sustained he learned obedience.


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But concerning this Malki-Zedek himself, we have much discourse to utter, and hard to explain, because ye are infirm in your hearing.


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For ye ought to be teachers, on account of the time by you in learning; but now ye have need again to be taught those which are the first scriptures of the beginningwords of Aloha; and need have ye for milk, and not for solid food.


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But every one whose food is milk is not versed in the doctrine of righteousness, because he is a babe.


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But for the perfect is solid food; those, (namely,) who, because exercised, have trained their senses to distinguish the good and the evil.


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Wherefore let us leave the beginning of the word of the Meshiha, and let us come unto perfection. Or why again another foundation lay you for repentance from dead works, and for faith which is in Aloha,


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and for the doctrine of ablution and of imposition of the hand, and for the resurrection from the place of the dead, and for the judgment which is eternal?


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But they who once unto baptism have descended, and have tasted the gift which is from heaven, and have received the Spirit of Holiness,


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(and) who again shall sin, cannot again be renewed unto conversion, who would afresh crucify and put to shame the Son of God.


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For the earth that hath drunk the rain which hath come upon it many times, and shall have brought forth the herb that is useful for them on whose account it is cultured, receiveth blessing from Aloha;


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but that which shall produce thorns and briers hath reprobation; nor is it far from the curse, but its end is burning.


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But we are persuaded concerning you, my brethren, those things which are good, and that draw nigh unto salvation, though thus we speak.


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For not unrighteous is Aloha, that he should forget your works and your charity which ye have manifested in his name, who have ministered unto the saints, and do minister.


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But we desire that every one of you manifest the same diligence for the full completion of your hope until the end;


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and that it be not cut off from you, but that ye be imitators of them who by fidelity and patience have become heirs of the promise.


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For when to Abraham Aloha gave promise, because there was no one greater than himself to swear by, he sware by his own Self,


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For men swear by one greater than themselves: and every controversy which occurs among them hath a sure conclusion in the oath.


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On this account Aloha, willing abundantly to manifest to the heirs of the promise that his engagement is changeless, hath bound it in an oath:


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that by two things that are not changed, in which it cannot be that Aloha should lie, great consolation should be ours who have fled unto him: and that we may retain the hope that is promised to us,


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which we have as an anchor that holdeth our soul, that it may not be moved, and entereth within the veil,


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where Jeshu hath first entered for us, and become the Priest for ever in the likeness of MALKI-ZEDEK.


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For this Malki-Zedek is king of Sholim, the priest of Aloha the Most High. And he (it was who) met Abraham when he returned from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.


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And to him Abraham separated the tenth from every thing which he had with him. Now his name, being expounded, (is,) the King of Righteousness; and again, MalekSholem, which is, King of peace:


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whose father and mother were not written in the genealogies; neither the beginning of his days, nor the conclusion of his life; but in the likeness (of that) of THE SON OF ALOHA standeth his priesthood for ever.


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But see how great this (person was,) that Abraham, head of the fathers, gave to him the tenths and the choicest things.


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For they of the sons of Levi who have received the priesthood, have a commandment of the law to receive tenths from the people, they from their brethren, they also from the loins of Abraham having sprung.


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But he who is not written in their genealogies took tithes from ABRAHAM, and blessed him who had received the promise.


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And here the sons of men who die receive the tithes; but there he concerning whom the scripture testifieth that he liveth.


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And as one may say, by the hand of Abraham, even Levi, he who taketh tithes, himself also is tithed.


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If, therefore, Perfection were to be through the priesthood of the Levoyee, by which the law has been put upon the people, why was there another Priest required, who should arise in the resemblance of Malki-Zedek? For he had said, In the likeness of Aharun he shall be.


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For he concerning whom these things are said was born from another tribe, from which no man hath ministered at the altar.


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For it is manifest that from Jihuda arose our Lord, from the tribe of whom Musha hath said nothing concerning priesthood.


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And again: it is more fully known by that which hath said, In the likeness of MalkiZedek ariseth another Priest;


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who was made not by the law of bodily commandments, but in the power of a life which is indissoluble.


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For he testifieth concerning him, Thou art a Priest for evermore according to the likeness of Malki-Zedek.


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But the change which was made in the first institution was on account of its powerlessness, and because profit was not in it.


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For the law perfected nothing: but instead of it a hope has entered which is more excellent, (and) by which we are brought nigh unto Aloha.


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For they were made priests without an oath; but this with an oath: as he said unto him by the hand of David, The Lord hath sworn and will not lie, that thou art the Priest for ever in the likeness of Malki-Zedek.


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And he is able to save for eternity them who approach by him unto Aloha; for he liveth through all time, and offereth up prayers on their behalf.


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For such an High Priest as this was adequate for us; pure, and without evil, and without spot; who was separate from sins, and exalted higher than heaven.


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With him there was no necessity daily, like the chief of the priests, that first for his own sins he should offer sacrifices, and then on behalf of the people: for this he did once when in himself he offered.


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For the law constituted infirm men priests; but the word of the oath, which was subsequent to the law, (hath constituted) THE SON perfect for evermore.


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But the sum of them all (is)---We have a High Priest who hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven;


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and who hath become a Minister of the holy place, and of the true tabernacle, which Aloha hath framed, and not man.


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And every high priest is appointed to offer oblations and victims: hence it was right that this one should also have that which he might offer.


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But were he upon the earth, he would not be a priest, because there were priests who offered oblations as by the law;


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they, (namely,) who minister at an emblem and shadow of those (things) that are in heaven. As it was said unto Musha when he made the tabernacle, See and make every thing according to the pattern which was showed to thee in the mountain.


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But now a ministry which is better than that hath Jeshu Meshiha received, by so much as that covenant of which he is made the Mediator is better, and was given with better promises, than that.


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For reprehending them he saith, Behold, the days are coming, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the family of the house of Israel, and with the family of the house of Jihuda,


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THE NEW COVENANT: not as was that covenant which I gave to their fathers in the day that I took them by their hand, and led them from the land of Metsreen; because they did not persevere in my covenant, therefore I have neglected them, saith the Lord.


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But this is the covenant that I will give to the family of the house of Israel after these days, saith the Lord: I will in-give my law in their minds, and upon their hearts will I inscribe it; and I will be to them, even I, Aloha, and they shall be unto me the people:


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and no man shall (have need to) teach the son of his city, nor his brother, and say, Know the Lord; because all shall know me, from the least of them to the eldest of them.


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And I will purify them from their unrighteousness, and their sins again will I not remember unto them.


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In that he said, THE NEW, he hath made the former old: and that which is antiquated, and hath grown old, is nigh unto decay.


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For in the first tabernacle that was made there were the candelabrum, and the table, and the presencebread; and this was called the Holy place.


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in it were the incense-vessel of gold, and the ark of the covenant, which was altogether covered with gold; and within it were the golden urn, in which was the manna, and the rod of Aharun that budded, and the tablets of the covenant:


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and above this the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat. But time there is not to speak upon every one of these which were thus ordained.


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but into the tabernacle which was within, one day in the year, alone, entered the high priest, with that blood which he offered for himself and the sins of the people.


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By this the Spirit of Holiness made known that the way of the holies was not yet manifested, so long as was the standing of the first tabernacle.


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And this was a figurative representation for the time in which oblations and victims have been offered;-those which have not been able to perfect the consciousness of him who offered them;


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but (have consisted) in meat and drink only, and in various kinds of baptism, being institutions of the flesh appointed until the time of setting right.


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But the Meshiha who hath come was a High Priest of good things which he wrought out, and hath entered into the great and perfect tabernacle (which was) not made with hands, nor made from these creatures.


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Nor entered he with the blood of goats and calves, but with the blood of himself he entered once the holy place, and hath found eternal redemption.


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For if the blood of goats and of calves, and the dust of an heifer, sprinkled upon those who were unclean, sanctifieth them for the purification of their flesh,


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how much more then shall the blood of the Meshiha, who, by the Eternal Spirit, himself hath offered without spot unto Aloha, purify our conscience from dead works, to serve the Aloha the Living?


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For this was he made the Mediator of the new covenant, that by his death he might become the ransom for those who had transgressed against the first covenant, (and) that they might receive the promise, they, who are called unto the inheritance which is eternal.


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For when every precept had been enjoined by Musha to the whole people according to the law, Musha took the blood of the heifer, and water, with the scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled upon the books and upon all the people,


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Because every thing with blood was purified under the law; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.


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For it was necessary that these which are a type of the heavenlies, with (these) things should be purified; but the heavenlies themselves with sacrifices that are more excellent than they.


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For not into the sanctuary made with hands hath the Meshiha entered, which is an emblem of the true one, but into heaven itself hath he entered, that he might appear before the face of Aloha for us.


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Nor that he should offer himself many times, as did the chief of the priests, entering every year into the holy place with blood not his own;


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otherwise he would have been obligated many times to suffer from the beginning of the world. But now, in the end of the world, once hath he offered himself, that by his sacrifice he might abolish sin.


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And as it is ordained to the sons of men, that they must once die, and after their death the judgment;


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so also the Meshiha was once offered, and in his (own) person sacrificed (for) the sins of many; but the second time without sins he appeareth for the salvation of them who expect him.


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For there was in the law the shadow of good things to come, not the subsistence of the very things, therefore (though) every year the same sacrifices were offered they could never perfect those who offered them.


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For if they had perfected, they would have ceased afterward from the presentation of them; because the conscience of those who had been once purified by them would not henceforth have been troubled by (such) sins.


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Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifices and oblations thou hast not willed, but with a body hast thou clothed me:


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Then said I, Behold, I come; in the sum of the books it is written concerning me, that I shall do thy will, Aloha.


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Above he said, Victims, and oblations, and entire burnt-offerings for sin thou hast not willed; those which are offered in the law.


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And afterwards he said, Behold, I come, that I may do thy will, Aloha. In this he hath done away with the first, that he may establish the second.


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For by this his will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jeshu Meshiha, which was once.


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For every high priest who stood and ministered every day, offered the same sacrifices, which can never purify (from) sins.


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But this one sacrifice hath offered for sins, and hath sat down at the right hand of Aloha for ever:


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This is the covenant that I will give to them from after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their minds, and upon their hearts will I inscribe it;


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Let us, therefore, draw near with a confirmed heart, and the full security of faith, with our hearts sprinkled and cleansed from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure waters;


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and let us persevere in the confession of our hope, and not swerve; for faithful is He who hath promised us.


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And let us not forsake our congregation, as is the custom with some; but pray one with another; (and) so much the more as ye see that day to be approaching.


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For if with his will any man shall sin after he hath received the knowledge of the truth, there is not still a victim to be offered for sins;


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For if he who transgressed the law of Musha, upon the mouth of two or three witnesses, without mercy died;


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how much greater punishment, think ye, shall he receive who hath trampled upon the Son of Aloha, and hath counted the blood of the covenant of him by which he had been sanctified as that of every man and hath insulted the Spirit of grace?


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We know him who hath said, Retribution is mine, and I will repay: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.


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Be mindful, therefore, of the first days, those in which ye received baptism; and when ye sustained a great agony of sufferings,


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with ignominy and affliction; and when ye were made gazing-stocks, and were associated with men who also endured these (things).


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And it afflicted you on account of them who were bound; and the pillage of your goods with joy ye sustained, as knowing that ye have a possession in heaven, which is better, and passeth not away.


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But we are not of the weariness which bringeth to perdition, but of the faith which maketh us to possess our soul.


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Now FAITH is the persuasion concerning things which are in hope, as if they were in reality, and a revelation of those which are not seen.


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For by faith we perceive that the worlds were ordained by the word of Aloha, and (how) these (things) which are seen were from those which are not seen.


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By faith Habel offered a sacrifice which was far better than that of Koen unto Aloha; and because of it there is respecting him a testimony that he was righteous; and Aloha gave witness concerning his oblation; and on account thereof also while dead he is speaking.


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Through faith Hanak was translated, and did not taste death; nor was he found, because Aloha had translated him: for before that he would translate him, there was respecting him the testimony that he pleased Aloha.


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But without faith it is not possible for man to please Aloha; for he who draweth near unto Aloha must believe that he is, and that of those who seek him he will be the rewarder.


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By faith Nuch, when spoken with upon those things which had not been seen, feared, and made him the ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and was an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.


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By faith Abraham, when he was called, heard that he was to go forth to a place which he should receive for an inheritance; and he went out, while he knew not whither he was going.


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By faith he was a sojourner in the land that was promised to him, as in an alien state, and dwelt in tabernacles with Ishok and Jakub, sons of the inheritance which was his by the promise:


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By faith Saro, who was barren, received strength to conceive seed, and, which (thing) was not in the time of her years, gave birth (to a son); because she was sure that he who had promised to her was faithful.


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Therefore from one who had failed from old age, were there begotten multitudes as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the shores of the sea, which have no number.


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In faith died these all, not having gotten their promise, but from afar had beheld it, and exulted in it, and confessed that strangers they were, and sojourners in the earth.


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But if that city from which they had gone out they desired, they had opportunity to return and go to it.


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But now it is known that a better (one) than that they desired; that (namely) which is in heaven. Wherefore Aloha was not ashamed their God to be called; for he hath prepared for them a city.


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By faith Abraham offered Ishok in his temptation and his only-born he lifted upon the altar, even him whom he had received by the promise:


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For he thought within himself, that Aloha could even from the dead upraise: and on account of this in a similitude he was given to him.


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By faith, when dying, Jakub blessed each of the sons of Jauseph; and worshipped upon the head of his staff.


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By faith Jauseph, when dying, was mindful of the going forth of the sons of Israel, and commanded concerning his bones.


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By faith the parents of Musha concealed him when he had been born three months, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they feared not the edict of the king.


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and chose to himself to be in affliction with the people of Aloha, and not for a little time to delight (himself) in sin;


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and considered the riches of the reproach of Meshiha to be far greater than the treasures of Metsreen: for he contemplated the recompence of the reward.


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By faith he forsook Metsreen, and feared not the wrath of the king; and hoped, as one who beheld Aloha who is the invisible.


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By faith they performed the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that he might not come near,-he, who was destroying the first-born.


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By faith they traversed the sea of Sooph, as those who (march) upon dry land; but the Metsroyee were swallowed up in it, when they had dared to enter it.


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By faith Rachob the harlot perished not with those who would not hearken, because she had received the explorers in peace.


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What shall I yet say? For (too) brief is the time for me to tell of Gedhun, and of Borok, and of Shemshun, and of Nephtoch, and of David, and of Shomuel, and of the rest of the prophets;


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they who through faith conquered kingdoms, and wrought righteousness, and received promises, and shut the mouths of lions,


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and quenched the powers of fire, and were delivered from the edge of the sword, and were made strong from infirmities, and became valiant in battle, and overthrew the camps of the adversaries.


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And they gave unto women their sons by the resurrection of the dead; and others in torments died, nor hoped to be delivered, that the better resurrection they might have.


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But others went through mockings and scourgings; others unto chains and imprisonments were given up,


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others were stoned, others divided, others died by the edge of the sword, others wandered about clothed with skins of sheep and of goats, necessitous, afflicted, and driven out.


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Men, of whom the world was not worthy, became as wanderers in the desert, and in mountains, and in dens, and in caverns of the earth.


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And these all, of whom there hath been (such) a testimony concerning their faith, received not the promise;


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Wherefore we also, having all these witnesses, who as clouds encompass us, will set ourselves loose from every weight, and the sin which at all time is prepared for us, and with perseverance will we run this race which is appointed to us.


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And let us look unto Jeshu, who hath become the chief and the perfecter of our faith; who, for the joy that was before him, endured the cross, and unto shame delivered himself, and at the right hand of the throne of Aloha hath sat down.


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Consider, therefore, how much he endured from sinners who were adversaries to themselves, that ye weary not, nor fail in your souls.


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And ye have forgotten the instruction of him who, as unto children, hath said to you, My son, contemn not the discipline of the Lord, and let not thy soul fail when by him thou art corrected:


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Endure, therefore, correction, because Aloha acteth towards you as with children: for who is a son whom his father doth not correct?


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And if ye be without the correction with which every one is corrected, ye are aliens, and not children.


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And if (when) the fathers of the flesh have chastised us we have revered them, how much more are we bound to be subject to our spiritual fathers, that we may live?


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For they, during a little time, as they willed, chastised us; but Aloha for our advantage, that we might partake of his holiness.


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For all chastisement, in its time, is not considered as joy, but as grief; but, in the end, the fruit of peace and righteousness it giveth unto them who with it have been exercised.


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And be aware lest any one be found among you failing of the grace of Aloha; or lest any root of bitternesses should put forth the flower and injure you, and many be contaminated:


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or lest there be found among you any fornicator, or dissolute, as Isu, who for one meal sold his birthright.


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For ye know, also, that afterward he desired to inherit the blessing, but was rejected; for place for repentance he found not, though with tears he sought it.


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For ye have not drawn nigh to the burning fire, and to that which may be touched, neither to darknesses, to mist, and to tempest,


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nor to the voice of the trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard withdrew (from), that it might not be additionally spoken to them.


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For they could not endure that which was commanded. For if an animal should approach to the mountain, it was to be stoned:


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But ye have come nigh unto the Mount of Ziun, and to the city of Aloha the Living, to the Urishlem which is in heaven, and to the congregation of myriads of angels,


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and to the church of the firstborn (ones) who are written in heaven, and to Aloha the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the just who are perfected,


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and to Jeshu the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling of his blood, which speaketh better than that of Habel.


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Beware, therefore, lest ye be averse from Him who hath spoken with you; for if they escaped not who were averse from one who spake with them on earth, how much less we, if we withdraw from one who hath spoken to us from heaven?


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Him whose voice moved the earth? But now hath he promised and said, Yet once I will move not only earth, but also heaven.


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But that which he hath said, ONCE, showeth the (final) changing of these which are moved, because they are made, that those may remain which are immutable.


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Therefore because we have received the kingdom which is immoveable, let us hold the grace by which we may serve and please Aloha with reverence and with fear:


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and kindness to strangers forget not; for in this some who were made worthy, while not perceiving it, have received angels.


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Remember those who are bound, as if with them ye were bound: be mindful of those who are afflicted, as men (should) who are clothed with flesh.


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Honourable is marriage among all, and their bed is undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers Aloha judgeth.


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Let not your mind love money; but let whatever ye have suffice you: for the Lord hath said, I will not abandon thee, nor withhold from thee support.


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Remember your leaders; those who have spoken to you the word of Aloha: reflect on the consummation of their course, and imitate their faith.


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Unto strange and variable doctrines be not led away; for it is good that with grace we confirm our hearts, and not by meats, because they have not been helped who have walked in them.


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For those animals, whose blood the high priest took into the sanctuary for sins, had their flesh burned without the camp.


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By him, therefore, let us offer up at all time unto Aloha the sacrifices of praise, which are the fruits of the lips which give thanks to his name.


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And forget not compassion and communication to the poor: for with these sacrifices a man pleaseth Aloha.


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Be persuaded by your leaders, and obey them; for they watch for your souls as men who must render an account of you, that with joy they may do this, and not with groans; for that is not profitable for you.


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Pray for us; for we are confident we have a good conscience, that in all things we desire to act aright.


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But the God of peace, who brought up from the house of the dead the great Shepherd of the flock, by the blood of the eternal covenant, who is Jeshu Meshiha, our Lord,


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make you perfect in every good work, that ye may do his will, and effect in you whatever is good before him, by Jeshu Meshiha: to him be glory unto the age of ages. Amen.


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Now I request from you, my brethren, that ye prolong your minds on the word of exhortation; for in a few (words) I have written to you.


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JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace.


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All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.


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but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.


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If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him.


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But let him ask in faith, not wavering. For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth.


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For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.


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Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him.


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Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth.


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every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.


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And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;


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Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.


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For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;


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But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.


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And if a man thinketh that he serveth Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain.


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For the service which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.


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For if there come into your congregation a man who hath rings of gold or beautiful vestments, and there come in a poor man in sordid vestments,


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and you look upon him who clothed in beautiful vestments, and say to him, Sit is here well; and you say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or, Sit thou here before the stool of our feet;


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Listen, my beloved brethren: Hath not Aloha chosen the poor of the world, but rich in faith, to be heirs in that kingdom which Aloha hath promised to them who love him?


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But you have despised the poor. Behold, are not the rich uprisen against you? and do they not drag you to the house of judgment?


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And if the law of Aloha in this you accomplish, as it is written, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, you do well;


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but if you accept persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors against the law.


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For he who hath said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, is he who hath said, Thou shalt not steal; but if thou do not commit adultery, yet steal, thou hast become a transgressor against the LAW.


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For judgment is to be without mercy, upon him who hath not done mercy. Be you exalted by mercy over judgment.


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WHAT is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith, and works he hath not? How can his faith save him?


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and any one of you shall say to them, Go in peace, be warm, and be satisfied, and give them not what is necessary for the body, what (would be) the use?


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For a man saith, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works.


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and the scripture was accomplished which said, that Abraham believed in Aloha, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness, and the friend of Aloha he was called.


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So also Rachab the harlot, was she not by works justified when she received the spies, and by another way sent them forth?


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LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.


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For (in) many we all offend. Every one who in word offendeth not, this is a perfect man, who is able to make subject also all his body.


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For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.


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Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.


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So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests;


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and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.


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For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;


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For by it we bless the Lord and the Father, and by it we curse men who in the likeness of Aloha were made;


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and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.


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Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also salt waters cannot be made sweet.


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But if you have bitter envy among yourselves, or contention be in your hearts, be not inflated against the truth, nor lie;


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because this wisdom from above descendeth not; but is earthly, from the reasonings of the soul, and from demons.


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But the wisdom that is from above is pure, and full of peace, and meekness, and obedience, and full of mercies and good fruits, and is without division, and faces accepteth not.


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From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?


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You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing have because you do not ask;


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Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is enmity with Aloha? He, therefore, who willeth to be the friend of this world, hath become the enemy of Aloha.


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Or do you vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?


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But more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.


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and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.


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Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.


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Speak not against one another, my brethren; for he who speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if the law thou judgest, thou art not a doer of the law, but the judge of it.


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For one is the appointer of the law and the Judge, who can save and destroy. But thou, who art thou, who judgest thy neighbour?


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But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?


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and they know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is our life, but a vapour which for a little while is seen, and vanisheth and endeth?


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and your gold and your silver rusteth, and the rust of them is for a witness against you, and is to eat your flesh. You have gathered fire for you for the last days!


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Lo, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your lands, which you have refused, clamoureth, and the cry of the harvests to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth hath ascended.


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For you have lived daintily on the earth, and have been wanton, and have nourished your bodies, as for the day of slaughter.


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BUT you, my brethren, prolong your spirit until the coming of the Lord; as the husbandman who expecteth the precious fruits of his lands, and prolongeth his spirit for them, until he receive the rain the early and the latter;


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Groan not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.


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The example of the prophets take to you, my brethren, to prolong your spirits in your afflictions, them who have spoken in the name of the Lord.


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For, behold, we give blessedness to them who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Iob, and the end which the Lord wrought for him you have seen; because that merciful is the Lord and compassionate.


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But before every thing, my brethren, swear not; by heaven nor by earth, nor with any other oath; but let your word be Yes, yes, and No, no, that you be not bound under condemnation.


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and if he be sick, let him call for the presbyters of the church, and they will pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord.


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And the prayer of faith shall make whole him who was sick, and our Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.


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But confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. For great is the power of that prayer which the righteous prayeth.


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Elia also was a man of suffering, as we; and he prayed that the rain should not fall upon the earth, and it fell not (for) three years and six months.


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my brethren, if any of you shall err from the way of truth, and one shall convert him from his error,


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let him know, that he who turneth a sinner from the error of his way, saveth his soul from death, and hideth the multitude of his sins.


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PETROS, an apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, to the chosen-ones and sojourners who are scattered in Pontos and in Galatia, and in Kapadukia, and in Asia, and in Bithunia:


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them who are elected by the foreknowledge of Aloha the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, that they might be unto obedience, and unto the sprinkling of the blood of Jeshu Meshiha: grace and peace be multiplied with you.


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Blessed be Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, who by his abundant grace hath begotten us anew through the resurrection of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto the hope of salvation,


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and to the inheritance which is not corruptible, and not defiled, and not to be consumed, which is prepared for you in heaven,


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while you are kept by the power of Aloha and through faith, unto the salvation which is prepared to be revealed in the last times;


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wherein you will rejoice for ever, though in this little time you are afflicted by manifold temptations which pass over you;


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that the proof of your faith may be seen, which is more precious than gold refined which is proved in fire, unto praise and unto honour and unto glory, at the revelation of Jeshu Meshiha;


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whom you have not seen and (yet) love, and in whose faith you exult with glorious joy that is not spoken:


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That salvation which the prophets investigated when they prophesied concerning the grace which was to be given unto you,


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and searched into, what time the Spirit of the Meshiha who dwelt in them showed and testified of the future sufferings of the Meshiha, and his glory which (should be) after them.


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And all that they searched was revealed to them; for not for themselves they inquired, but to us (and) of us they prophesied those (blessings) which now are revealed to you by them who have preached to you by the Spirit of Holiness which is sent from heaven; for into these themselves the angels also desire to look.


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Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds, and be fully wakeful, and hope for the joy that cometh to you at the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha;


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as obedient children, and not partaking again of the former desires which you desired when ignorant.


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And if you call him Father before whom there is no respect of persons, and who judgeth every man according to his works, with fear conduct you in this time of your sojourn;


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while you know that not with silver which wasteth away, nor with gold, you have been redeemed from your vain works which you received from your fathers,


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who was afore-separated for this from before the foundations of the world, and hath been manifested in these last times for you,


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who by him believe in Aloha, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and your hope may be in Aloha.


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Let your souls be sanctified in obedience to the truth, and be filled with the charity which respecteth not persons, that with a pure heart and perfect you may love one another,


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as men who are regenerated, not by a perishable seed, but by that which is imperishable, by the living word of Aloha which abideth for ever.


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Because all flesh is grass, and all its beauty as the flower of the field. The grass withereth and the flower drieth up,


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MAKE to cease therefore from you all malice and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and slander;


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and be as (new)-born babes, and be desirous of the word as of milk pure and spiritual, that by it you may increase unto life.


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unto whom you have come, who is the living stone whom men have rejected, yet (who is) chosen and honourable with Aloha.


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And you also as living stones are builded, and become a spiritual temple, and holy priests to offer sacrifices, which are acceptable before Aloha by Jeshu Meshiha.


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For it is said in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone choice and honourable in the head of the corner: whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed.


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To you therefore is given this honour, to them who believe: but to them who are disobedient he is a rock of offence,


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or a stone of stumbling, and they are offended at him in not obeying the word, because to this they are set.


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But you are a chosen race, who minister as priests to the kingdom, a holy people, a congregation redeemed to announce the praises of him who hath called you from darkness to his transcendant light:


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those who before were not reputed a people, but now the people of Aloha; upon whom also mercies were not; but now, mercies are poured upon you.


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MY beloved, I beseech you as strangers and as sojourners, be separate from all the lusts of the body which make wars against the soul.


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And let your conversation be good before all men; and they who speak against you malicious words shall see your good deeds, and shall glorify Aloha in the day of the probation.


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and to judges, because from him they are sent for the punishment of transgressors, and for the commendation of good works.


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For so is the will of Aloha, that by your comely works you may shut the mouth of fools who know not Aloha.


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As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.


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And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.


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For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.


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For they who on account of their offences suffer tribulations, what praise have they? But when you do well and they afflict you, and you endure, then doth your praise become great with Aloha.


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For unto this have you been called; because the Meshiha also hath died for us, and left us this example, that in his steps we may walk.


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who was reviled and reviled not, and suffered and threatened not, but delivered his cause to the Judge of righteousness;


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and took all our sins and upbore them in his body on the cross; that when dead to sin, in the righteousness of him we might live; for by his stripes you are healed,


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So you also, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that them who have not obeyed the word, by your comely manners without labour you may win,


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Neither be adorned with outward adornings of the entwinement of your hair, or necklaces of gold, or of excelling vestments,


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but adorn yourselves in the hidden man of the heart, with the spirit of gentleness which perisheth not, the ornament of excellence before Aloha.


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For so also of old the holy women who confided in Aloha adorned themselves, and were subject to their husbands,


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even as Sara was subject to Abraham, and called him My Lord: of her be you the daughters in good works, not being perturbed by any fear.


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AND you, men, dwell likewise with your wives with knowledge, and as feeble vessels in honour hold them; for they also with you inherit the gift of the life of eternity; that you be not hindered in your prayers.


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But, finally be all unanimous, and suffer with those who suffer, and love one another, and be merciful and gentle;


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and let no man render evil for evil, nor invective for invective, but, that which is contrary to them, bless: for unto this are you called, that the blessing you may inherit.


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Who then willeth life, And loveth good days to see? Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak not guile.


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For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears, to hear them; And the face of the Lord is against the wicked.


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And (yet) if you suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are happy. And you will not fear them who would make you afraid, nor be shaken.


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But sanctify in your hearts the Lord Meshiha. AND be prepared to make defence to every one who shall seek of you speech concerning the hope of the faith, with meekness and with seriousness, while you have a good conscience;


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that as they speak against you as against evil men, they may be made ashamed who have traduced your good conversations in the Meshiha.


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For it helpeth you (if) while doing goodly works you have to sustain evil, if so it be the will of Aloha, and not while working evils.


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Because the Meshiha also once died on account of sins, the just on account of sinners, that he might bring us unto Aloha. And dead in the body and alive in the Spirit,


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those who before were disobedient in the days of Nuch; while the long-suffering of Aloha commanded that he should make the ark, upon the hope of their conversion, and eight souls only entered therein, and were saved in the waters.


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After which very type also you are saved in baptism, not while you cleanse the body from filth, but while you make confession of 6 Aloha with a pure conscience, and of the resurrection of Jeshu Meshiha;


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who is exalted unto heaven, and is at the right hand of Aloha, and unto whom are subject angels and authorities and powers.


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If then the Meshiha hath suffered for you in the flesh, be you also armed in it with the same mind; for every one who dieth in his body hath ceased from all sins,


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that henceforth to the lusts of men he should not live, what time he is in the body, but to the will of Aloha.


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For the time which hath passed sufficeth to have served the will of the Gentiles in indulgence, in drunkenness, in vileness, in revellings, and in the service of demons.


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And, behold, now they wonder and blaspheme at you because you riot not with them in that former indulgence;


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For on this account the dead also have been evangelized; that they might be judged as men in the flesh, and live with Aloha in the Spirit.


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And every man of you the gift which he hath received from Aloha, let him minister thereof unto his neighbours as good stewards of the various grace of Aloha.


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Whoever shall speak, as the word of Aloha let him speak and whoever ministereth, (he shall minister) as from the power which Aloha giveth to him, that in every thing which you do Aloha may be glorified through Jeshu Meshiha, whose are the glory and honour to the age of ages. Amen.


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My beloved, be not amazed at the temptations which you have, as that something strange happeneth to you, because for your probation they have been;


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but rejoice that you are partakers of the sufferings of the Meshiha, that so also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice and exult.


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And if you be reviled for the sake of the name of the Meshiha, you are happy; for the Spirit of the glory of Aloha resteth upon you.


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But if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify Aloha in that very name.


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For the time is, that judgment shall begin from the house of Aloha. But if from us it begin, what is the end (to be) of them who obey not the gospel of Aloha?


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Wherefore, let them who suffer according to the will of Aloha commend to him their souls in good works, as unto the Faithful Creator.


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BUT I entreat of the presbyters who are among you, I, a presbyter, your companion, and a witness of the sufferings of the Meshiha, and a partaker of his glory that is to be revealed;


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feed the flock of Aloha which is delivered to you, and take care (of it) spiritually, not by constraint, but with the will; not for corrupt gain, but with all your heart;


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that when the Chief of pastors shall be revealed, you may receive from him a crown of glory which fadeth not.


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And you younger, be subject to your presbyters, and be clothed carefully with humility of mind towards one another; because Aloha is against those who exalt themselves, and to the humble he giveth grace.


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Watch, and be mindful, because your adversary Satana, as a lion, roareth and walketh and seeketh whom he may devour.


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Withstand him then, being confirmed in the faith; and know that upon your brethren also who are in the world, these same sufferings come.


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But the God of grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Jeshu Meshiha, will give to us while we endure these few afflictions to be strengthened, and confirmed, and established in him for ever.


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These few, as I consider, I have written to you by the hands of Silvanos, a faithful brother; and I persuade and testify, that this is the true grace of Aloha, this wherein you stand.


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SHEMUN PETROS, a servant of Jeshu Meshiha, to those who by faith the same in preciousness with us have been made equal, through the righteousness of our Lord and our Redeemer Jeshu Meshiha.


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As He who all (things) which of the divine power are unto life and godliness hath given (us), through the knowledge of Him who hath called us unto the glory of him and of virtue,


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by annunciations great and precious which he hath given to you, that by them you may be partakers of the divine nature, while you escape the corruption of the lusts which are in the world;


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For while these are found with you, and abound, neither slothfulness nor unfruitfulness will stand against you in the knowledge of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.


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For he with whom these are not found is blind, and seeth not, and hath forgotten the purification of his former sins.


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Upon this the more, my brethren, be careful, that by your good works your calling and your election you may confirm; for, while you do these, you will never lapse;


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for so abundantly shall be given to you the entrance of the eternal kingdom of our Lord and our Saviour Jeshu Meshiha.


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Wherefore it doth not weary me to remind you constantly of these, that you may know well, and be established upon this truth.


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knowing that the decease of my body is shortly (to be,) as also our Lord Jeshu Meshiha hath made me know.


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But be careful also that (these) you may continually have; that also after my going forth the memorial of them you may observe.


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For it is not after fables which are made with art that we have gone, in making known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, but as we were spectators of his majesty.


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For when he received from Aloha the Father honour and glory, while a voice came to him as this, after the glorious beauty of his majesty, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I have delighted;


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We have that which is sure also, the word of prophecy; that into which you do well to look, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the sun arise in your hearts.


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For not by the will of man came any prophecy, but while by the Holy Spirit led spake the holy men of God.


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BUT there were false prophets in the world, as also among you there will be false teachers, they who introduce heresies of destruction, and, the Lord who bought them denying, bring upon themselves swift destruction.


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And many will go after their wickedness; they, on account of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.


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And with fraudulency of deceptive words will they make merchandise of you; they, whose judgment (denounced) before tarrieth not, and whose destruction doth not sleep.


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For if Aloha upon the angels who sinned was not lenient, but in chains of darkness shut them in the deeps, and delivered them to be kept to the judgment of pain;


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and on the former world was not lenient, but Nuch, who was the eighth preacher of righteousness, he preserved, when the deluge came upon the world of the wicked;


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the cities of Sadum and of Omuro he burned, and with overthrow condemned them, while an example to the wicked who should be he set them;


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-for in sight and in hearing, while (that) just (man) dwelt among them, from day to day, his righteous soul by their lawless works was tortured;-


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the Lord knoweth how to deliver from affliction them who fear him, but the evil unto the day of judgment to be tormented will he reserve.


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But most those who after the flesh follow the concupiscence of impurity, and of authority are contemptuous; daring and arrogant, (and) who by greatness are not moved while they blaspheme:


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whereas angels, who in power and strength are (so much) greater than they, bring not against them a judgment of blasphemy.


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But these, as the dumb animals, by nature (ordained) to the knife and to destruction, blaspheming what they know not, in their own destruction will be destroyed;


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while they in whom is iniquity the wages of iniquity shall receive. They repute as pleasure the luxury which is in the day. Blemishes (are they), full of spots, who delighting in their refreshments are luxurious:


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having eyes full of adultery, and sins which cease not, alluring souls that are not established. An heart have they which is disciplined in covetousness; sons of malediction,


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who, forsaking the straight way, have erred, and gone in the way of Belam bar Beur, who the wages of iniquity loved. But he had reproof of his transgression;


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These are wells without water, clouds driven from above, unto whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.


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For while they speak scoffing words of vanity, they allure with impure desires of the flesh those who almost escaped from them who have their conversation in error.


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And liberty to them they promise, while they (themselves) are the servants of corruption; for the thing by which a man is overcome, to that he is subject.


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For if they have escaped from the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jeshu Meshiha, with those very things entangled they are again over-come, their end becomes worse than the beginning.


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For it had been more tolerable for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, when they knew, to turn backward from the holy commandment delivered to them.


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But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, that The dog hath turned unto his vomit; the sow which had washed into the wallow of the mire.


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Now this, my beloved, the second epistle I write to you; in both of which I awaken to remembrance your fair mind.


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That you may remember the words which were before spoken by the holy prophets, and the commandments of our Lord and our Saviour (delivered) by the apostles.


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This first know you, that there will come in the last of the days deriders who will deride, as after their own lusts they walk,


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and saying, Where is the promise of his advent? for, since our fathers have slept, every thing (abideth) as from the beginning of the creation.


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Unknown to them is this while they are willing, that the heaven was from of old, and the earth from the waters and through the waters subsisted, by the word of Aloha:


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But the heaven which is now, and the earth, by his own word are set, being reserved unto fire, unto the day of judgment and the perdition of wicked men.


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But this one (truth) be not ignorant of, my beloved, That one day with the Lord (is) as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.


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Not dilatory is the Lord in his promises, as some consider delay; but is patient on your account, not willing that any man should perish, but (that) every man to repentance should come.


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But the day of the Lord cometh as a thief: that (day) in which the heavens suddenly shall pass away, but the elements burning be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it be found not.


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As, therefore, all these are to be dissolved, how behoveth it you to be holy in your conversation, and in the fear of Aloha;


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expecting and desiring the coming of the day of Aloha; that (day) in which the heavens, tried with fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements burning shall melt?


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But new heavens and earth, according to his promise, we expect; those wherein righteousness dwelleth.


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Wherefore, my beloved, while these you expect, be diligent, that, without blemish and without spot, of Him you may be found in peace.


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And the long-suffering of the Lord consider (to be for) salvation; as also our beloved brother Paulos according to the wisdom which hath been given to him hath written to you.


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As in all his epistles he speaks concerning these; in which there is somewhat difficult for intelligence. Those who are not knowing nor settled pervert them, as also the remaining scriptures, to their perdition.


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You therefore, my beloved, knowing this before, keep yourselves, lest, going after the error of those who are lawless, you fall from your support.


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But increase in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and our Saviour Jeshu Meshiha, and (of) Aloha the Father, Whose be glory both now, and in all time, and to the days eternal. Amen.


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WE announce to you that which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, and seen with our eyes, have seen, and touched with our hands, that which is the Word of life.


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And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and testify, and preach to you the eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested to us.


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And what we have seen and heard, we make known also to you, that you may have communion with us; and our communion is with the Father, and with his Son Jeshu the Meshiha.


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And this is the annunciation which we have heard from him, and announce to you, that Aloha is light, and in him is no darkness at all.


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And if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and in the truth do not proceed;


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but if in the light we walk, as He is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jeshu his Son cleanseth us from all our sins.


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but 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 sons, these write I to you, that you sin not. And if a man shall sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jeshu Meshiha, the Just;


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for he is the propitiation for our sins, and not on behalf of ours only, but also on behalf of the whole world.


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For he who saith that he knoweth him, and his commandments keepeth not, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.


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But he who keepeth his word, in him is perfected truly the love of Aloha; for by this we know that we are in him.


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MY beloved, a new commandment I write not to you, but the old commandment, that which was with you from the beginning; but the old commandment is the word which you have heard.


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Again, a new commandment I write to you, that which is true in him and in you; because the darkness hath passed, and the true light beginneth to appear.


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He who hateth his brother is in darkness, and in the darkness walketh, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness itself hath blinded his eyes.


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I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who hath been from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked. I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father.


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I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who (hath been) from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of Aloha remaineth in you, and you have overcome the wicked.


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Love not the world, nor any thing which is in it; for whoever loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


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For every thing that is in the world, is the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world. These which are not of the Father, but they are from the world itself.


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And the world passeth, (both) it and its lusts; but he who doeth the will of Aloha, continueth for ever.


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my sons, it is the last time: and as you have heard, the false meshiha cometh; and now there are many false meshihas, and from this we know that it is the last time.


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From us they went forth, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, with us would they have remained. But they went forth from us, that it might be known that they were not of us.


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


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Who is a liar, if not he who denieth that Jeshu is the Meshiha? and this (one) is a false meshiha. He who denieth the Father, denieth also the Son;


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and he who denieth the Son, disbelieveth also the Father. Whoso confesseth the Son, the Father also confesseth.


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And you, what you have heard from the first, let it continue with you. For, if what you have heard from the first continue with you, you also will continue in the Father and in the Son.


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And you, also, if the anointing continue with you which you have received from him, have not need that a man should teach you; but as the anointing that is from Aloha itself teacheth you concerning every thing, and is true, neither is falsity in it; and as it hath taught you, continue in it.


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And now, my sons, continue in him: that when he is manifested we may not he confounded of him, but we may have confidence at his coming.


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And see how great is the love of the Father toward us, that sons he hath called us, and also made us! Therefore the world doth not know us, because that it hath also not known him.


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MY beloved, now are we the sons of Aloha; and it is not manifest, as yet, what we are to become, but we know, that when he is manifested, in his likeness we are and see him, according to that which he is.


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And every one who in him abideth, sinneth not. And every one who sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.


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My sons, let no man deceive you: he who worketh righteousness is righteous, as also the Meshiha himself is righteous.


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And he who doeth sin is of Satana, because that from the commencement Satana was a sinner. And for this cause did the Son of Aloha appear, that he might destroy the works of Satana.


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Every one who is born of Aloha, sin doth not work, because that his seed is in him, and he cannot sin, because of Aloha he is born.


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In this are distinguished the sons of Aloha from the sons of Satana; every one who doeth not righteousness, nor loveth his brother, is not of Aloha.


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Not as Koen, who was from the Evil, and killed his brother. And on what account killed he him? unless that his own works were evil and his brother's righteous.


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We know that we have passed from death unto life, by this, that we love our brethren. He who loveth not his brother, in death continueth.


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For every one who hateth his brother is a man-killer; and we know that in no man-killer can abide the life which is eternal.


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In this we know His love toward us, that he gave himself for us; (so) also it is right for us for the sake of our brethren to give ourselves.


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And he who hath the possession of the world, and shall see his brother that he needeth, and shall shut his compassions from him, how is there in him the love of Aloha?


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And by this we make known that we are of the truth, and before that he cometh we make confident our hearts.


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And if our heart condemn us, how much (more) Aloha, who is greater than our heart, and knoweth every thing!


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And whatever we ask, we shall receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are beautiful before him.


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And this is his commandment, That we believe in the name of his Son Jeshu Meshiha, and love one another, as he hath commanded us.


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And he who keepeth his commandments, is kept by him, and he dwelleth in him: and by this we perceive that he dwelleth in us, by his Spirit whom he hath given to us.


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MY beloved, believe not all spirits, but discern the spirits whether they be from Aloha; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.


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By this we know the Spirit of Aloha: Every spirit who confesseth that Jeshu Meshiha hath come in the flesh, is from Aloha.


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And every spirit who confesseth not that Jeshu hath come in the flesh, is not from Aloha: but this is from that false meshiha, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and now is in the world already.


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But you of Aloha are the children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is with you, than he who is in the world.


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And these are of the world, therefore the world heareth them. But we are of Aloha; and he who knoweth Aloha heareth us;


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and he who is not of Aloha heareth us not. In this itself we perceive the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.


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my beloved, let us love one another, because love is of Aloha; and every one who loveth from Aloha is born, and knoweth Aloha.


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In this was made known the love of Aloha towards us, that Aloha sent his only Son into the world that we might live by him.


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In this is love: it was not that we had loved Aloha, but that Aloha himself loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.


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Aloha no man hath seen but if we love one another, Aloha in us abideth, and his love is fulfilled in us.


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And by this we know that in him we abide, and he abideth in us, because of his Spirit he hath given us.


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Whosoever confesseth Jeshu that he is the Son of Aloha, in him Aloha abideth, and he abideth in Aloha.


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And we have believed and known the love which Aloha hath toward us; for Aloha is Love. And every one who abideth in love in Aloha abideth.


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And in this is his love perfected with us, that openness of face we might have in the day of judgment; because that as He was, so also we are in this world.


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Fear in love is not: but perfect love hath cast out fear, because fear is in terror. He who feareth is not perfect in love.


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But if one shall say, I love Aloha, and his brother he hateth, he is a liar. For he who his brother whom he hath seen loveth not, how can he love Aloha himself whom he hath not seen?


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And this commandment we have received from him, That every one who loveth Aloha shall love also his brother.


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WHOSOEVER believeth that Jeshu is the Meshiha of Aloha is born. And every one who loveth the Generator loveth also him who is generated of him.


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And by this we know that we love the children of Aloha, when we love Aloha, and work his commandments.


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Because every one who is born of Aloha overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.


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This is he who came by water and blood, Jeshu the Meshiha: it was not by water only, but by water and blood; and the Spirit testifieth, because the Spirit himself is truth.


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If the testimony of men we receive, how much greater is the testimony of Aloha? and this is the testimony which Aloha hath testified concerning his Son.


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Whosoever believeth in the Son of Aloha hath this testimony in himself. Every one who believeth not Aloha hath made him a liar, in not believing the testimony that he hath testified concerning his Son.


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And this is the testimony, That the life which is eternal, Aloha hath given to us, and this life is in his Son.


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Every one who apprehendeth the Son, apprehendeth also life; and every one who apprehendeth not the Son of Aloha, hath not life.


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These I have written to you, that you may know that you have the life which is eternal, who believe in the name of the Son of Aloha.


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And this is the assurance that we have toward him, that all that we ask of him according to his will, he heareth us.


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And if we are persuaded that he heareth us concerning what we ask from him, we are confident of receiving already the requests that we ask from him.


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if a man shall see his brother sin a sin not obnoxious to the death, he shall ask, and life be given to him, to those who sin not as unto the death. For there is the sin of death;-it is not concerning this I say that a man shall pray.


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And we know that every one who is born of Aloha sinneth not. For he who is born of Aloha keepeth himself, and the Evil doth not approach him.


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And we know that the Son of Aloha hath come, and hath given us knowledge to know the truth, and to be in him in the truth, in his Son Jeshu the Meshiha. This is Aloha the true, and the life which is eternal.


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THE presbyter to the elect Kuria and to her sons, whom I love in truth, nor I only, but all they who know the truth,


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Grace be with you and mercy and peace, from Aloha the Father, and from Jeshu Meshiha the Son of the Father, in truth and in love.


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I have rejoiced much to have found of thy sons who walk in the truth, after the commandment we have received from the Father.


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And now I entreat thee, Kuria,-no new commandment writing to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning,-that we love one another.


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And this is love, that we walk according to the commandment; this commandment is according to that which you have heard from the beginning, that in it we should walk.


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Because many deceivers are come out into the world who confess not that Jeshu Meshiha came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and antichrist.


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Be watchful of yourselves, that not any thing perish which you have wrought; but (that with) a complete reward you may be recompensed.


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Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of the Meshiha, hath not Aloha. He who abideth in his doctrine, this hath both the Father and the Son.


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If any one come to you, and this doctrine bring not, receive him not into the house, and "Joy to you," and " Farewell," say not to him.


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Though I have many things to write to you, I will not with parchment and ink; but I hope to come to you, and mouth with mouth to speak, that our joy may be complete.


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Our beloved, in all things I pray for thee, that thou mayest prosper and be healthful, even as thy soul prospereth.


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For I have rejoiced greatly when the brethren have come, and have testified concerning thy integrity, even as in the truth thou walkest.


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Our beloved, in faithfulness thou performest what thou doest unto the brethren, and especially to those who are strangers,


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who have testified of thy charity, before all the church, to whom thou hast done well according to that which is worthy of Aloha.


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I would have written to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost of you, Diotrapas, receiveth us not.


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On account of this, if I come, I will remember the works which he doeth, who words of evil maketh concerning us; and these not satisfying him, he hath not received the brethren, and those who receive he forbiddeth, and also expelleth from the church.


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Our beloved, be not imitative of the evil, but of the good. He who doeth good is of Aloha, and he who doeth evil hath not seen Aloha.


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Concerning Demetrios is a testimony from every man, and from the church, and from the truth itself. But we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true.


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But I hope that soon I shall see thee, and mouth to mouth we will speak. Peace be with thee. The friends ask thy peace. Ask the peace of the friends each by his name.


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JIHUDA, servant of Jeshu Meshiha, but brother of Jakub, to the called people, who are beloved of Aloha the Father, (and) in Jeshu Meshiha preserved:


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My beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, it is needful for me to write to you, exhorting you (in particular) to do battle for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.


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For certain men have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were proscribed in this condemnation; depraved men, who the grace of Aloha turn unto lasciviousness, and him who is the only Lord GOD, our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, deny.


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But I will to remind you, though all of you know, that Aloha, when once the people from Metsreen he had redeemed, yet afterward destroyed them who believed not.


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And the angels who kept not their primacy, but left their habitation, unto the judgment of the great day in chains unknown, under darkness, he hath kept.


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As Sadum and Omuro, and the cities which were around them, which in manner of them committed fornication, and went after other flesh, are lying under everlasting fire, condemned unto judgment.


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In this manner also (will perish) those who, in sleep imagining, defile the flesh, but contemn government, and blaspheme majesty.


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Yet Mikael, chief of angels, when, with the accuser speaking, he contended on account of the body of Musha, dared not bring against him a reviling judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.


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But these the things which they know not revile; but through those by which naturally as the beasts they are swayed, they are corrupted.


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Woe to them; for in the way of Koen they have gone, and after the error of Belam for gain they have burned, and in the rebellion of Kurach they have perished.


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These are they who, in their recreations contaminating, behave wantonly, feeding themselves without reverence; clouds without rain, roaming with the winds; trees whose fruit withereth, and which are unfruitful, twice dead, and uplifted from their root;


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turbulent waves of the sea, which, by their foaming, manifest their shame; erring stars, unto whom the blackness of darkness that is eternal is reserved.


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But Hanuk also, who was the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh, with myriads of his saints,


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To execute judgment upon all; And to convict all the wicked for all their deeds Which they have wickedly done; And for all those obdurate words Which ungodly sinners have spoken.


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These are they who murmur and complain of every thing, while walking according to their own desires; their mouth speaking portentous things, and extolling persons for the sake of gain.


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But you, my beloved, remember those words which before were spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,


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who told you that in the last times there would be those who scoff, who according to their own desires go after wickedness.


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ourselves in the love of Aloha to keep, while looking for the mercy of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto our eternal salvation.


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But when they repent, have compassion on them, with fear, hating even the tunic which by the flesh is contaminated.


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But to him who is able to keep you without falling and without spot, and to establish you without blemish, Aloha our only Saviour by Jeshu Meshiha our Lord, before his majesty with joy,


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THE Revelation of Jeshu Meshiha, which Aloha gave unto him, to show unto his servants the things which must be done speedily; and which he made known, sending by his angel unto his servant Juhanon,


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Blessed is he who readeth, and they who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those which are written therein; for the time hath approached.


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Juhanon to the seven churches which are in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who cometh; from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;


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and from Jeshu Meshiha who is the faithful Witness, the First-born of the dead, and Head of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us, and released us from our sins by his blood,


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and hath made us a priestly kingdom unto Aloha and his Father; to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Behold, he cometh with clouds, and all eyes shall see him, and they also who transfixed him; and for him shall mourn all the tribes of the earth. Yes, Amen!


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I, Juhanon your brother, and your fellow-sharer in the affliction, and in the patience, which are in Jeshu Meshiha, was in the island which is called Pathamon, for the word of Aloha and for the testimony of Jeshu Meshiha.


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What thou seest, write in a book; and send to the seven churches, at Ephesos, and at Smurna, and at Pergamos, and at Thiatira, and at Sardis, and at Philidaphia, and at Laodikia.


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And I turned to see the voice that spake with me; and being turned, I saw seven candlesticks of gold.


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And in the midst of the candlesticks (one) who was like the Son of man, clothed to the foot, and girded about his paps with a circlet of gold.


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and his feet were like refined brass, which flamed as in a furnace, and his voice as the voice of many waters.


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And he had in his right hand seven stars; and from his mouth a sharp sword of two edges went forth; and his countenance was as the sun shining in his strength.


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And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid upon me his right hand, saying, Fear not: I am the First and the Last;


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and who liveth and who have been dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever and ever. Amen! And I have the keys of death and of Sheul.


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(This is) the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and of the seven candlesticks of gold: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.


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To the angel of the church which is in Ephesos, write: These saith the Holder of all, and of the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven candlesticks of gold.


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I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and (that) thou canst not bear evils; and hast tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.


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Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works. But if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick from its place, if thou convert not.


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He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him who overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.


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And to the angel of the church which is in Smurna, write: These saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and liveth.


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I know thy works, and affliction, and poverty, but thou art rich; and the blasphemy of them who say of themselves that they are Jihudoyee, and are not, but the synagogue of Satana.


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Fear not any thing of those that thou art to suffer; for, behold, it will be that the accuser will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life.


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He who hath ears, let him hear what saith the Spirit to the churches. He who overcometh shall not be injured by the second death.


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And to the angel of the church which is in Pergamos, write: These saith he who hath the sharp sword with two edges.


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I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, where (is) the throne of Satana; and thou hast held my name, and not denied my faith in those days when my witness was exposed, my faithful one, who was killed with you where dwelleth Satana.


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But I have against thee a little, because thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Belam, who taught Balok to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat that which the sons of idols (eat), and to commit fornication.


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in like (manner), repent; and if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will war against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He who hath ears, let him hear what saith the Spirit to the churches. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the manna which is hidden; and I will give to him the white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth but he who receiveth.


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And to the angel and church which is in Thiatiros, write: These saith the Son of Aloha, who hath his eyes as the flame of fire, and his feet like refined brass.


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I know thy works, and thy love and faith and service; and also thy patience, and thy last works to be greater than the first.


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But I have against thee that thou permittest thy wife Izabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat what the sons of idols (eat).


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Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those who have committed adultery with her into great affliction, if they repent not of their works.


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And her sons will I kill with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and the hearts: and I will give to you every one according to your works.


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But to you I say, to those of the rest who are in Thiatiros, all them who have not this doctrine, the men who know not the depths Of Satana, as they speak; I will not throw upon you another burden;


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And he who conquereth, and he who keepeth until the end my works, I will give to him power over the peoples,


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and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and as a vessel of the potter shall they be destroyed, as also I have received from my Father;


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AND to the angel who is in Sardis write: These saith he who hath the seven Spirits of Aloha, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that a name thou hast that thou livest, and thou art dead.


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Awake, and keep those things which remain, which are about to die; for I have not found thy works complete before my God.


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Remember then how thou hast received, and hearken, and keep, and repent. And if then thou wilt not awake, I will come against thee as the thief, and thou shalt not know in what hour I come against thee.


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But thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their vestments; and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.


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He who overcometh shall be clothed in white vestments, and I will not blot their name from the book of life; and I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels.


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And to the angel of the church which is in Philadelphia write: These saith the Holy, the True, who hath the key of David; who openeth and no man shutteth, and who shutteth and no man openeth.


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I know thy works; and, behold, I have given before thee an open door, which no man can shut; because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.


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Behold, I will give of the synagogue of Satana, who say that they are Jihudoyee, and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee.


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Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is to come upon all the habitable world, to try them who dwell upon the earth.


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Him who overcometh I will make a column 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 of Urishlem the new, which descendeth from heaven from my God, and my new name.


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And to the angel of the church which is in Ladikia write: These saith the Amen, the Witness, the faithful, the true, the Head of the creation of Aloha.


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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have become opulent, and of nothing have need; and knowest not that thou art infirm, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked;


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I counsel thee to buy of me gold, proved by fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy nakedness be not seen; and lave with collyrium thine eyes, that thou mayest see.


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Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will enter unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.


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And to him who overcometh I will give to sit with me upon my throne, as also I have overcome, and have sat with my Father in his throne.


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AFTER these I saw, and, behold, a door (was) open in heaven. And the first voice that I had heard as a trumpet talking with me, said, Come up hither, and I will make thee see the (things) which must be after these.


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And he who sat was like to the appearance of the stone of jaspon, and of sardion; and the bow of the clouds was around the throne, in resemblance to the appearance of zmragda.


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Around the throne were seats twenty and four; and upon those seats twenty and four presbyters sitting, who were robed in white vestments, and upon their heads wore coronets of gold.


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And from the throne went forth lightnings and the voice of thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire which burned before His throne, which are the seven Spirits of Aloha.


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And before the throne was a sea of brightness like chrystalos; and in the midst of the throne, and around it, and before the throne, four living-ones, who were full of eyes before and behind.


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And the first living-one was like the lion, and the second living-one was like the calf, and the third living-one had a face as a man, and the fourth living-one was like the eagle which flieth.


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And these four living-ones, each of them, had six wings round about; and within were full of eyes; and they rest not day and night from saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who wast, and art, and art to come.


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And when those living-ones give glory and honour and thanks unto Him who sitteth upon the throne, to Him who liveth for ever and ever,


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the four and twenty presbyters fell before Him who sitteth upon the throne, and worshipped Him who liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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Worthy art thou, O Lord, And our God the Holy One, To receive glory and honour and power; For thou hast created all, And by thy hand they are, And through thy will they were and are created.


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AND I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a writing which was written within and on the back, and sealed with seven seals.


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And I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed with a great voice: Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?


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And no one was able, in heaven above, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, or to inspect it.


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And one of the presbyters said to me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Jihuda, who is the root of David, hath prevailed. He will open the book and the seven seal thereof.


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And I saw, in the midst of the presbyters, a Lamb standing, as slain, who had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of Aloha, which are sent forth to all the earth.


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And when he had taken the book, the four living-ones and the twenty and four presbyters fell down before the Lamb, having each of them an harp, and vials of gold full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.


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And they hymned a new hymn, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, And to open the seals thereof; Because thou wast slain, And hast redeemed us to Aloha by thy blood, From every tribe and tongue and people and nation.


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And I saw and heard as the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living-ones, and the presbyters, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,


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which said with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, To receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, And honour, and glory, and blessing,


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And every creature which is in heaven, and on earth, And under the earth, and in the sea, And all them which are therein. And I heard him who sat upon the throne saying: To the Lamb let there be given blessing, and honour, and glory, and praise, and dominion, for ever and ever.


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AND I saw, when the Lamb had opened one of the SEVEN SEALS. And I heard one of the four living-ones speaking as the voice of thunder, Come, and see!


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And I looked: and there was a white horse; and he who sat upon him had a bow, and there was given to him a crown; and he went forth conquering, so that he might conquer.


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And there went out another horse (which was) red; and to him who sat upon him was given to take peace from the earth, and thus that one another they should kill; and there was given to him a great sword.


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And when he had opened the THIRD SEAL, I heard the third living one, saying, Come, and see! And I saw, and, behold, a black horse, and he who sat upon him had a balance in his hand.


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And I heard a voice from the midst of the four living-ones, saying, A choenix of wheat for a dinar; And three choenices of barley for a dinar; And the oil and the wine hurt not.


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And I saw a green horse, and he who sat upon him had the name of Death, and Shiul followed after him. And there was given to him power over the fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with famine, and with death, and with the toothed beast of the earth.


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And when he had opened the FIFTH SEAL, I saw under the altar the souls of them who had been killed for the word of Aloha, and for the testimony of the Lamb, which had been theirs.


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And they cried with a great voice, saying, Until when, O Lord, holy (and) true, Dost thou not judge and avenge our blood On those who dwell upon the earth?


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And there was given to each of them the white robe; and it was told them, that they should rest yet a little time, until should be completed their fellow-servants, their brethren who would be killed as also they.


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And I saw when he opened the SIXTH SEAL, there was a great movement; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and all the moon became as blood;


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and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as the fig-tree casteth her figs, when from a great wind she is shaken.


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And the heavens were sundered as a book that is rolled, and all the mountains and islands from their places were moved;


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and the kings of the earth and great ones, and the chiefs of thousands, and the rich and the mighty ones, and every servant, and every freeman, hid them in the caverns, and in the rocks of the mountains,


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saying to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.


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AND after these, I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the winds should not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon the trees.


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And I saw another angel, and he ascended from the rising of the sun; who had the seal of Aloha the Living. And he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it had been given to hurt the earth and the sea,


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saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, neither the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of them who were sealed, an hundred and forty and four thousands, sealed of every tribe of Israel:


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of the tribe of Jihuda, twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Rubill, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand;


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of the tribe of Ashir, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Naphtoli, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasha, twelve thousand;


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of the tribe of Shemun, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Isokar, twelve thousand;


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of the tribe of Zabolon, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Jauseph, twelve thousand; of the tribe of Benjomin, twelve thousand


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After these I saw, and, behold, a great assembly, which to number no man was able, from all people and nations and tribes and tongues, were standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and with palms in their hands;


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and, crying with a great voice, said, Salvation to our God! To him who sitteth on the throne, And to the Lamb!


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And all the angels stood around the throne, and the presbyters, and the four living-ones; and they fell before his throne upon their faces, and worshipped Aloha,


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saying, Amen. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, And honour, and might, and power, To our God, for ever and ever. Amen.


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And one of the presbyters answered and said to me: These, who are arrayed in white robes, who are they? and from whence do they come?


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And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who have come from great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.


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On account of this they are before the throne of Aloha, and minister to him day and night in his temple. And he who sitteth upon the throne will protect them.


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for it is the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne who will feed them, and will lead them unto fountains of living waters, and Aloha will wipe away every tear from their eyes.


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And another angel came, and stood at the altar, and he had a censer of gold, and many perfumes were given to him, which he should give with the prayers of all saints upon the altar of gold that is before the throne;


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and the cloud of the perfumes of the prayers of the saints ascended from the hand of the angel before Aloha.


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And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast forth upon the earth. And there were thunders, and lightnings, and voices, and movement.


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And there was hail, and fire mingled with the waters, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third of the earth burned, and the third of the trees burned, and every green herb burned.


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And the Second angel sounded. And as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third of the sea also became blood.


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And the third of all creatures which were in the sea, which had lives, died, and the third of the ships were destroyed.


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And the Third angel sounded. And there fell from heaven a star burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third of the rivers, and upon fountains of waters.


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And the name of the star is called Aphsinthos; and the third of the waters became bitterness, and many men died from the waters because they were bitter.


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And the Fourth angel sounded. And the third of the sun was absorbed, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, as that the third of them should be darkened; and they were darkened, and the day shone not a third of it, and the night, in like manner.


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And I beheld, and heard an eagle, flying in the midst, having a tail of blood, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, to those who dwell upon earth, from the voice of the rest of the trumpets of the three angels which are about to sound!


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AND the Fifth angel sounded. And I saw a star which fell from heaven unto the earth and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.


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And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended from the pit, as the smoke of a burning furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the pit.


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And from the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth. And there was given to them power such as scorpions have upon the earth.


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And it was told them, that they should not hurt the herbage of the earth, nor any green (thing), nor any tree, but only those men who had not the seal of Aloha upon their foreheads.


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


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


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And the likeness of those locusts (was this): they resemble the appearance of horses prepared for battle. And upon their heads (was) a crown of the likeness of gold; and their faces (were) as the faces of men.


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and they had breast-plates as breast-plates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of the chariots of many horses running to battle.


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And they had tails like those of scorpions, and stings; and in their tails they have power to hurt men five months.


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And they had a king over them, the angel of the abyss, and his name in Hebrew is Abadon; but in Javanith his name is Apolon.


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And the Sixth angel sounded. And I heard one voice from the horns of the altar of gold which was before Aloha,


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saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels which are bound in the great river Phraat.


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And the four angels were released, they who were prepared for an hour, and for a day, and for a month, and for a year, to kill the third (part) of men.


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And as I beheld those horses in the vision, and those who sat upon them, (I saw that) they had breast-plates of fire, and jacinth, and sulphur; and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions, and from their mouths went out fire, and smoke, and sulphur.


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And by these three plagues were the third of men killed; from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the sulphur which went out of their mouths.


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For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails were like serpents which had heads, and with them they wound.


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And the rest of men who were not killed by those plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear;


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nor repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their robberies.


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AND I saw another mighty angel descending from heaven, clothed (with a) cloud, and the bow of the cloud (was) upon his head; and his countenance was as the sun, and his feet as columns of fire.


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And he had in his hand an open book; and he set his right foot upon the sea, but the left upon the land,


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and cried with a great voice, as the roar of a lion. And when he had cried, seven thunders spoke their voices.


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And when those seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from heaven, which said, Seal those (things) which the seven thunders have spoken, and write them not.


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and sware by Him who liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and those who are in it, and the earth and those that are in it, and the sea and those that are in it, That time no more shall be;


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but (that) in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of Aloha shall be completed, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven spake with me again, and said, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who standeth upon the sea and upon the land.


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And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the book. And he said to me, Take, and eat it; and it will embitter thee thy belly, but in thy mouth it will be sweet as honey.


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And I took the book from the hand of the angel, and ate it. And it was in my mouth as sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.


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And he said to me, It behoves thee yet to prophesy concerning many nations, and concerning peoples and princes and kings.


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AND there was given to me a reed, like a staff; and the angel stood, saying, Arise, measure the temple of Aloha, and the altar, and them who worship therein;


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and the court which is without the temple cast out, and do not measure it, because it is given to the Gentiles, and the holy city shall be trodden down, MONTHS FORTY AND TWO.


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And I will give my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy, DAYS A THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY, clothed in sackcloth.


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And if a man willeth to wound them, fire cometh forth from their mouth, and devoureth their adversaries. And if a man willeth to wound (them), thus must he be killed.


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These have power to shut heaven, that rain it may not rain in those days; and power have they over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as many times as they will.


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And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast of prey, which ascended from the abyss, will make war against them, and overcome them,


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and their dead bodies (will be) upon the wide street of the great city, which is called, spiritually, Sedum, and Metsreen, where also our Lord hath been crucified.


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And of the peoples and tribes and nations and tongues, seeing their dead bodies days three and a half, will not suffer them to be laid in the tomb.


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And they who dwell upon earth will rejoice over them and be gratified, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them who dwell upon earth.


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And after those three days and a half, the spirit of life from Aloha entered into them, and they arose upon their feet. And great fear fell upon them who saw them.


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And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them, Ascend hither. And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their adversaries beheld them.


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And in that hour there was a great movement; and one of ten of the city fell; and there were killed in the movement the names of men seven thousand. And they who were left were made afraid, and gave glory to Aloha.


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And the Seventh angel sounded. And there were voices and thunders, saying, The kingdom of the world Is of our Lord, and of his Meshiha; And he will reign for ever and ever!


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And the twenty and four presbyters who were before the throne of Aloha, who were sitting upon their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped,


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saying, We give thanks to thee, Lord God omnipotent, Who art, and who wast; Because thou hast taken thy great power, And hast reigned.


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And the nations were angry; But thy wrath is come, And the time of the dead, That they should be avenged; And to give reward to thy servants, To the prophets, and to the saints, And to them who fear thy Name, To the small and to the great; And to destroy them who have destroyed the earth.


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And the temple of Aloha was opened in heaven; and there was seen the ark of his covenant in his temple. And there were lightnings, and thunderings, and voices, and movement, and great hail.


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AND a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.


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And I saw another sign in heaven; and behold a great dragon of fire, which had seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.


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And his tail drew the third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman when she was about to give birth, that when she had given birth he might devour her son.


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And she gave birth to a male child, who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her son was rapt unto Aloha and unto his throne.


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And the woman fled into the desert, where she had a place prepared of Aloha, that there they might nourish her, DAYS A THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY.


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And there was war in heaven. And Mikoel and his angels to fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels warred.


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And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and the Adversary, which seduceth the whole habitable world. And he was cast upon the earth, and his angels with him were cast.


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And I heard a great voice in heaven saying, Now is there salvation and strength, And the kingdom of our God, And the power of his Meshiha; Because the accuser of our brethren is cast down, Who accused them before Aloha day and night.


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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of his testimony. But they loved not their lives unto death.


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Wherefore let the heavens be glad, And those who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea! Because the deceiver hath gone down to you, Having great indignation, Knowing that little time is to him.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast down upon the earth, he pursued the woman which gave birth to the son.


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And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert unto her place, where she was to be nourished A TIME, AND TIMES, AND THE DIVIDING OF A TIME, from the face of the serpent.


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And the serpent cast forth from his mouth after the woman waters like a river, as that she might be carried off by the river which he would make.


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And the earth succoured the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed the river which the dragon had cast forth from his mouth.


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And the dragon raged against the woman, and went to make war with those of the rest of her seed which kept the commandments of Aloha, and had the testimony of Jeshu.


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And he stood upon the sand of the sea. AND I saw that a beast of prey ascended from the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns seven diadems; and upon his heads names of blasphemy.


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And the beast of prey which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as (those) of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave to him his power, and his throne, and great authority.


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And one of his heads was wounded as to death. And his stroke of death was healed; and all the earth wondered after the beast of prey.


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And they worshipped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast of prey, (saying, Who is like the beast of prey,) and who is able to make war with him?


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And there was given him a mouth speaking great sayings and blasphemies, and authority was given him to act, MONTHS, FORTY AND TWO.


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And he opened his mouth to blaspheme against Aloha, blaspheming his name, and his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.


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And there was given to him authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation; and there was given to him to make war with the saints, to overcome them.


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And all those who inhabit on the earth will worship him, they whose name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb from the foundation of the world.


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If any man into captivity leadeth, into captivity he shall go. If any man kill with the sword, it behoveth him by the sword to be killed. This is the patience and the faith of the saints.


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And I saw another beast of prey ascending from the earth; and he had two horns like those of the lamb, and he spake as the dragon.


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And all the authority of the first beast of prey he exercised before him; and he made the earth and those who inhabit therein to worship the first beast of prey, whose wound of death was healed.


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And he wrought great signs, as that also he would make fire to come down from heaven upon earth before men.


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And he will seduce those who dwell upon earth to the making an image of the beast of prey who had the wound of the sword and lived.


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And it was given to him to give spirit to the image of the beast of prey, (that the image also of the beast of prey should speak,) and to cause that all those whosoever who worshipped not the image of the beast of prey should be killed.


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And he caused all, small and great, and rich and poor, and sons of freedom and slaves, to have given to them a signature upon their right hands, or upon their foreheads;


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as that no man might be able to buy or sell, unless he had the signature of the name of the beast of prey, or the number of his name.


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Here is wisdom. Let him who hath mind, calculate the number of the beast of prey; for the number is of man; and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.


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AND I saw, and, behold, the Lamb stood upon the mountain of Sion, and with him the number, an hundred and forty and four thousand, who had his name, and the name of his Father, written upon their foreheads.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of great thunder; and the voice which I heard was as harpers striking on their harps.


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And they hymned a new hymn before the throne, and before the four living-ones, and the presbyters. And no man was able to learn the hymn, but the hundred and forty and four thousand (who were redeemed from the earth).


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These are they who with women have not been defiled, for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goeth. These by Jeshu were redeemed from men, first-fruits unto Aloha and to the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel flying through heaven, who with blood had the everlasting gospel to preach to them who dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe, and tongue and people;


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saying with a great voice, Serve Aloha, and give him glory: For the hour of his judgment cometh: And worship him who made heaven and earth, And the sea, and the fountains of waters.


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And another angel, a second, followed him, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babel the Great, Which of the wine of the rage of her fornication Hath made all nations to drink.


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And another angel, a third, followed them saying with a great voice, If any man worship the beast of prey and his image, And receive his mark on his brow, or in his hand,


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He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Aloha, Which is mingled without sparing In the cup of his anger. And he shall be tormented in fire and sulphur, Before his holy angels and before the throne:


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And the smoke of their torment For ever and ever will ascend. And they have no rest day and night Who worship the beast of prey and his image.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Blessed are the dead Who in Aloha die from now. Yes, saith the Spirit, That they may rest from their labours, For their works follow with them.


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And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud sat (one) like the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle.


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And another angel came forth from the altar who had authority over the fire, and he cried with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and reap the clusters of the vintage of the earth; for the grapes of the earth are ripe.


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And the angel thrust forth his sickle unto the earth, and reaped the vintage of the earth, and he cast into the winepress of the wrath of Aloha the Great.


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And the winepress was trodden (without the city, and blood flowed from the winepress) unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand and six hundred stadia.


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AND I saw another sign in heaven, great and wondrous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is completed the wrath of Aloha.


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And I saw as a sea of brightness commingled with fire; and them who had won-the-victory from the beast of prey, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing on the sea of brightness, having the harps of Aloha.


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And they sang the song of Musha the servant of Aloha, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wondrous are thy works, Lord God Omnipotent; Just and true are thy ways, King of ages!


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Who shall not fear thee, Lord, And glorify thy name? For thou only art and holy and just; Therefore all nations shall come And worship before thee; Because thy judgments are revealed.


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And the seven angels came forth, having the seven plagues, from the temple, clothed in linen pure, resplendent, and girded at their breasts with zones of gold.


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And one of the four living-ones gave to the seven angels SEVEN VIALS of gold, which were full of the wrath of Aloha, who liveth for ever and ever.


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And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of Aloha, and from his power. And no man was able to enter the temple, until should be completed the seven plagues of the seven angels.


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AND I heard a great voice saying to the seven angels, Go, and pour forth the seven vials of the wrath of Aloha upon the earth.


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And the first went, and poured his vial upon the earth: and there became an ulcer, evil and painful, upon the men who had the mark of the beast of prey, and who worshipped the image of him.


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And the second angel poured his vial upon the sea; and it became blood as of the dead, and every living soul died which was in the sea.


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And the third angel poured his vial upon the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, and they became blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art Thou, who art, And who wast, and just; Because thou hast judged these.


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For the blood of saints and of prophets have they shed, And blood to them hast thou given to drink For they are worthy.


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and men were scorched with great heat; and men blasphemed the name of Aloha who hath power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.


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And the fifth poured his vial upon the throne of the beast of prey; and his kingdom became darkness, and they gnawed their tongues from pain;


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and they blasphemed the God of heaven from their pains, and from their ulcers, and repented not of their works.


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And the sixth poured his vial upon the great river Phrat, and his waters were dried, that might be prepared the way of the kings who (are) from the rising of the sun.


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And I saw from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast of prey, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.


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For they are spirits of demons, working signs; they go to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them to the battle of the great day of Aloha the Omnipotent.


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And BEHOLD, I COME, as the thief. Blessed is he who watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest naked he walk, and they see his shame.


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And the seventh poured his vial upon the air; and a great voice went forth from the temple, from the throne, saying, IT IS DONE.


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And there were lightnings and thunders and voices, and a great movement, such as was not since men were upon earth, as this movement so great.


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And the great city became three parts, and the city of the nations fell; and Babel the great was remembered before Aloha, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.


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And great hail, as of a talent (in weight), was from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed Aloha from the plague of hail, because the plague thereof was exceeding great.


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AND one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and spake with me, saying, Come; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot, which sitteth upon many waters:


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with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and they who dwell in the earth have been made drunk by the wine of her fornication.


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And he led me into the desert, in the spirit; and I saw a woman sitting on a beast of prey which was red, full of names of blasphemy, (and) having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and golden with gold and precious stones and pearls; having a cup of gold in her hand, full of pollutions and uncleanness of her fornications the earth.


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And upon her forehead the name was written, Mystery: Babel the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth.


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And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jeshu; and I wondered, when I saw, with great wonder.


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And the angel said to me, Why wonderest thou? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast of prey which beareth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.


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The beast of prey which thou seest, was, and is not; and will ascend from the abyss, and go into perdition: and they who dwell on the earth will admire, they whose name is not written in the book of life from the foundations of the world, while they see the beast of prey, who was, and is not, and draweth nigh.


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Here is the mind of him who hath wisdom: The seven heads are seven hills where the woman sitteth upon them.


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And the kings are seven; five have fallen, one is, the other not yet hath come: and when he hath come, a little while it behoveth him to abide.


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And the beast of prey which was and is not, this is an Eighth, and is of the Seven, and is unto perdition.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, the men who kingdom not yet have received; but authority as kings one hour receive with the beast of prey.


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They with the Lamb will make war, and the Lamb will overcome them; for he is the Lord of lords, and the King of kings, and they who are with him (are) the called and the chosen and the faithful.


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And he said to me, The waters which thou sawest where the harlot is sitting, are peoples, and assemblages, and tongues.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast of prey, will hate the harlot, and make her desolate and naked; and her flesh they will eat, and herself burn with fire.


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For Aloha hath ingiven it to their hands that they might do his will, and perform one will to give their kingdom to the wild beast, until shall be fulfilled the words of Aloha.


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AFTER these I saw another angel descending from heaven, having great power; and the earth brightened with his glory.


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And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen hath Babel the Great, and hath become a den of demons, and the keep of every unclean spirit, and the keep of every unclean and abominable bird, and the keep of every unclean and abominable beast of prey.


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For that of the wine of her rage have all nations drunk; and the kings of the earth have with her committed fornication, and the merchants of the earth from the power of her luxuriance have become rich.


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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, that you be not partakers of her sins, and lest of her plagues you receive.


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Deal with her as she hath dealt with you, and double to her according to her works. In the cup which she mingled mingle to her double.


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How much she hath pleased herself to be wanton, all this give her suffering and sorrow. For she said in her heart, I sit the queen, and am not a widow, and sorrow I see not.


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Therefore in one day will come these her plagues, death and sorrow and hunger; and in fire she will burn, for mighty is the Lord God who judgeth her.


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And the kings of the earth who with her have committed fornication, and have been wanton, shall weep and lament and wail over her, when they see the smoke of her burning;


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standing from far, for fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, that great city Babel, that mighty city! For in one hour hath come thy judgment.


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No more (shall there be in thee) the burden of gold, and of silver and of precious stones, and of pearls; and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk and scarlet; and of every aromatic wood, and every vessel of elephant's-tooth, and every vessel of wood of great price, and of brass and of iron and of marble;


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and cinnamon and omomun and perfumes, and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil, and fine meal, and wheat, and cattle, and slaves, and horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.


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And the fruit of the desire of thy soul hath gone from thee, and all those things which are delicious and brilliant have perished from thee,


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and the merchants of these things will find them no more. They who were made rich by her from afar will stand for fear of her torment, and wail and be sorrowful,


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saying, Woe, woe, that great city, which was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and golded with gold, and (adorned) with precious stones and pearls;


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for in one hour hath been destroyed wealth like this. And every captain and every pilot who navigateth to the place, and the mariners, and all who serve on the sea, stood from afar,


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And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and lamenting, and saying, Woe, woe, that great city, in which were made rich all they who have ships in the sea, from the preciousness of her! For in one hour she becometh desolate!


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Rejoice over her, heaven, and the angels and apostles and prophets, because Aloha hath judged your judgment upon her.


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And an angel took a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with force is cast down Babel the great city, and to be found no more.


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And the voice of harpers, and of musicians, and of singers, and of trumpeters, shall be heard in thee no more. And no artificer, nor art, shall more be found in thee.


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And the light of a lamp shall be seen in thee no more. And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard in thee no more. For thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery were all nations seduced.


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And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all those who had been killed upon the earth.


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AFTER these I heard a great voice of a multitudinous host in heaven, saying, Halleluia! Salvation, and power, and glory, and honour, Be unto our God.


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For true and righteous are his judgments; Because he hath judged the great harlot Who corrupted the earth with her fornication, And hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.


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And the four-and-twenty presbyters fell, and the four living-ones, and worshipped Aloha who sitteth upon the throne, saying, Amen, Halleluia!


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And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all his servants, And they who fear him, small and great.


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And I heard as the voice of a great host, as the voice of many waters, as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Halleluia, For the Lord our God the Omnipotent reigneth!


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Let us rejoice and exult and give glory unto him; Because the marriage feast of the Lamb hath come, And his bride hath made herself ready.


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And it was given to her to be arrayed in fine linen, resplendent and pure; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.


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And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who to the supper of the marriage feast of the Lamb are called. And he said to me, These my words are the true sayings of Aloha.


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And I fell before his feet to worship; and he said to me, See (that thou do it) not; thy fellowservant (am I), and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jeshu. Aloha worship; for the testimony of Jeshu is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw heaven opened. And behold a white horse, and he who sat upon him was called the Faithful and the True; and in righteousness he judgeth and maketh war.


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But his eyes were as the flame of fire, and upon his head were many diadems, having names written; and the name which was written of him no man knoweth but himself.


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And the armies of heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in garments of fine linen, pure (and) white.


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And from his mouth went forth a sharp sword of two edges, that therewith he might smite the nations. And he will rule the nations with a rod of iron, and he will tread the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Aloha the Omnipotent.


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And I saw an angel standing in the sun. And he cried with a great voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come, gather to the great supper of Aloha;


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that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of chiefs of thousands, and the flesh of heroes, and the flesh of horses and them who sit upon them, and the flesh of all the sons of liberty and of the slaves, and of the small and of the great.


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And I saw the beast of prey, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war with him who sat on the throne, and with his armies.


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And the beast of prey was taken, and the false prophet with him who wrought signs before him, with which he deluded them who received the signature of the beast of prey, and them who worshipped his image; and living they were both cast into the lake of fire which burneth with sulphur.


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And the rest were slain with the sword of him who sat upon the horse; with that (sword) which went forth from his mouth. And all the fowls were satiated with their flesh.


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AND I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.


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And he laid hold of the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the deceiver, and Satana, who seduced all the habitable world, and bound him a thousand years;


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and cast him into the abyss, and shut and sealed over him, that he should no more seduce the nations, until the thousand years be completed: but after them he will be loosed a little time.


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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them; and to the souls of them who had been cut asunder for the sake of the testimony of Jeshu, and for the word of Aloha, and them who had not worshipped the beast of prey nor his image, nor received his signature upon their forehead and upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with their Meshiha the thousand years.


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Blessed and holy is he who hath part in the first resurrection: upon them the second death hath not power; but they shall be priests of Aloha and of his Meshiha, and shall reign with him the thousand years.


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And when the thousand years shall be fulfilled, Satana will be loosed from the place of his keeping,


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and will go forth and seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gug and Mogug, to gather them to war, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea.


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And the accuser who seduced them was cast into the lake of fire and of sulphur, as was also the beast of prey and the false prophet; and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.


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And I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat thereon, from whom from his face fled earth and heaven; and place (as) to this was not found for them.


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And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is (the Book) of Life. And the dead were judged from the (records) which are 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 shiul gave up the dead which were in them. And they were judged every one according to their works.


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AND I saw new heavens and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had gone, and the sea was no more.


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And the holy city, Urishlem the new, I saw descending from heaven from Aloha, prepared as the bride is decked for her husband.


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And I heard a great voice from heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of Aloha is with men; and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people; and Aloha himself will be with them, and will be their God.


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And every tear shall be wiped away from their eyes, and death shall be no more; nor sorrow, nor clamour, nor pain, shall be any more; for the former things are passed away.


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And He who sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write: for these are the faithful and true words of Aloha.


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And he said to me, I am Olaph and Thau, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsteth I will give of the water of life freely.


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But the fearful, and the faithless, and sinners, and the unclean, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and servers of idols, and all liars, (shall have) their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and sulphur; which is the second death.


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And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, came and spake with me. saying, Come, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.


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And he led me in spirit upon a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city Urishlem, descending from heaven from Aloha;


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having the glory of Aloha, as the clearness of light, like a stone of great price, as the stone Jaspon, resembling crystallos;


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having a wall great and high, which had twelve gates, and names written upon them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.


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On the east three gates, and on the north three gates, and 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 upon them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And he who talked with me had a measure, a rod of gold, that he might measure the city and the gates and the walls thereof.


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And the city was set four-square, and the length of it was as the breadth: and he measured the city with the rod, upon twelve stadia of twelve thousand. And the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.


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And he measured the wall of it, an hundred and forty and four measures of the cubits of a man, that is, of the angel.


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And the structure of the wall of it is (of) jaspis, and the city is of pure gold, like pure brightness.


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And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation was of jaspis, the second sathphiros, the third caledon, the fourth zmoragdo,


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the fifth sardonicos, the sixth sardion, the seventh crisuthilos, the eighth berulla, the ninth topadion, the tenth chrosoposius, the eleventh hyacinthos, the twelfth amuthistos.


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And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of every one of the gates (a pearl), and each of every one of the pearls (a gate). And the wide street of the city was of pure gold as the brightness of light.


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And the city hath no need of the sun nor of the moon to enlighten it; for the glory of Aloha illuminateth it, and the light thereof is the Lamb.


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And the nations of the saved walk by the light of it, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and the honour of the nations into it.


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and nothing shall enter into it that defileth, nor that worketh uncleanness; but they who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.


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AND he showed me a river of waters of life, clear as crystal, coming forth from the throne of Aloha and of the Lamb.


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In the midst of the wide street of it, and by the river, here and there, (was) the tree of life, which produced twelve fruits, in every month giving each one its fruit. And the leaves of the tree (are) for the healing of the nations.


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And there shall be no more falling away; and the throne of Aloha and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.


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And night shall be no more: nor any need have they of the light of a lamp, or the light of the sun; for the Lord God enlighteneth them, and they will reign for ever and ever.


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And he said to me, These sayings are faithfulness and truth. And the Lord God of the spirit of the prophets hath sent me, his angel, to show to his servants the things which must soon be done.


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And also I Juhanon am he who heard and saw these. And when I had heard and seen, I fell to worship before the feet of the angel who showed them to me.


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And he said to me, See (that thou do it) not. I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them who keep the words of this book. Worship Aloha.


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He who doeth evil shall work evil still; and he who is filthy shall be filthy still; and the righteous shall still do righteousness, and the holy be holy still.


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Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have authority to the tree of life, and by the gates may enter into the city.


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Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and servers of idols, and every one who loveth and maketh a lie.


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I JESHU have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things before the churches. I am the root and the offspring of Dawid, as the bright, the morning star.


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AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME! AND HE WHO HEARETH SHALL SAY, COME! AND HE WHO THIRSTETH MAY COME, AND HE WHO WILLETH, TO TAKE THE WATERS OF LIFE FREELY.


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I testify to every one who heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, That if any man shall set upon them, Aloha will set upon him the plagues which are written in this book.


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And if any man make to cease from the words of the book of this prophecy, Aloha will make to cease his portion of the tree of life, and of the holy city of which is written in this book.


