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Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.