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


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And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time.


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


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And he sent still another servant; and they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.


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And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.


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


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


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


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But he, looking upon them, said, What then is this which is written, “The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the corner-stone”?


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Every one who falleth upon that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falleth, it will grind him to powder.


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And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that hour, but they feared the people; for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.


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And they kept watch on him, and sent forth spies feigning themselves to be righteous men, that they might take hold of his words, in order to deliver him up to the civil power and to the authority of the governor.


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And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and hast no regard to the person of men, but teachest the way of God truly.


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And he said to them, Render then to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.


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


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saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, “If a man's brother die, having a wife, and the same die without children, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.”


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but they who have been accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage;


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for they cannot die any more; for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.


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But that the dead are raised, even Moses hath shown at the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.


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For David himself saith in the book of Psalms, “The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,


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


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who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive a far greater condemnation.<pb/>


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For all these out of their abundance cast in to the offerings; but she out of her penury cast in all the living that she had.


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And as some were saying of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones, and sacred gifts, he said,


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


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And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when then will these things be? and what will be the sign when these things are about to come to pass?


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And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, I am He, and the time is at hand. Go not after them.


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And when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified; for these things must first come to pass; but not immediately is the end.


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


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But before all these things they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues, and into prisons, and bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name.


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For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or gainsay.


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And ye will be delivered up both by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends; and some of you will they put to death.


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Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let those who are within the city go out of it, and let not those in the open country enter it.


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But woe to the women with child, and to those having children at the breast, in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people;


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


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


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men's hearts failing them from fear, and from looking for those things which are coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


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


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when they have already shot forth, ye see it, and know of yourselves that summer is now nigh at hand.


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But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares.


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But watch at all times, and pray that ye may be able to escape all the things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And during the daytime he was teaching in the temple; but at night he went out, and lodged in the mount called the Mount of Olives.


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and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might kill him; for they feared the people.


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And he went away, and consulted with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him up to them.


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And he agreed with them, and sought a good opportunity to deliver him up to them in the absence of the multitude.


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And he said to them, Lo! when ye have entered the city, there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goeth in;


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and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber, where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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For I say to you, that I shall not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall have come.


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And he took a loaf, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me.


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And in like manner he took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is about to be shed for you.


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For the Son of man indeed goeth away, as it hath been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.


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And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule as lords over them, and they who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.


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But it is not to be so with you; but let the greatest among you be as the youngest; and he that is chief, as he that serveth.


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For which is greater? he who reclineth at the table, or he who serveth? Is not he that reclineth at the table? But I am in the midst of you as he who serveth.


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that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And do thou, when thou hast returned to me, strengthen thy brethren.


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And he said, I tell thee, Peter, a cock will not crow this day, till thou hast thrice denied that thou knowest me.


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And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, or bag, or sandals, were ye in need of anything? And they said, Of nothing. Then he said to them,


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But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a bag; and he that hath not, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword.


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For I say to you, that this which is written must be accomplished in me: “And he was reckoned among transgressors.” For that which concerneth me also hath an end.


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And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground.


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While he was yet speaking, lo! a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, was at the head of them; and he drew near to Jesus to kiss him.


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Then Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders who had come to him, Ye have come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs;


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when I was daily with you in the temple, ye did not put forth your hands against me; but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.


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And they seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the house of the high-priest. And Peter followed afar off.


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


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But a certain maid-servant saw him sitting at the fire, and steadily looking at him said, This man also was with him.


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


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And in about one hour's time, another confidently affirmed, saying, In truth this man also was with him; for he is a Galilaean.


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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crew.


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And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, that he had said to him, Before a cock crows this day, thou wilt thrice deny me.


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And when it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together, and brought him before their council, saying,


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Then they all said, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said to them, Ye say what is true; for I am.


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And they said, What further need have we of testimony? For we have ourselves heard from his own mouth.<pb/>


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


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But they were the more violent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, even to this place.


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And on learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was himself also at Jerusalem at this time.


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Now Herod, when he saw Jesus, was very glad; for he had been wishing to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him; and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him.


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And Herod also with his guard of soldiers set him at nought and mocked him, and having arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.


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And Herod and Pilate on that day became friends with each other; for they had before been at enmity.


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said to them, Ye have brought to me this man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I have examined him before you, and have found nothing in this man to sustain the charges which ye bring against him.


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No, nor yet Herod; for he hath sent him back to us; and lo! nothing deserving death hath been done by him.


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And he said to them the third time, Why, what evil hath this man done? I have found him guilty of nothing deserving death; I will therefore chastise, and release him.


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But they were urgent with loud voices, demanding that he should he crucified; and their voices prevailed.


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And he released him who for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.


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


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And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who were bewailing and lamenting him.


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


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For lo! the days are coming, in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave nourishment.


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


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And Jesus said, Father, forgive them! for they know not what they do. And they divided his garments, casting lots.


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And the people stood looking on; and the rulers sneered, saying, Others he saved; let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, the chosen one.


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And one of the crucified malefactors railed at him, saying, Art thou not the Christ? save thyself and us.


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But the other answering said, rebuking him, Dost not thou fear God, since thou art in the same condemnation?


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And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss.


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And it was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,


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And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit! And having said this, he expired.


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And the centurion, seeing what was done, gave glory to God, saying, Surely this was a righteous man.


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And all the multitudes that had come together to that sight, when they had seen the things which were done, returned, beating their breasts.


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And all his acquaintances stood at a distance, and women that came with him from Galilee, beholding these things.


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And lo! a man named Joseph, of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, being a councilor, and a good and righteous man,


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And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock; wherein no one had yet lain.


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And the women also, who had come with him from Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.


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And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and on the sabbath they rested, according to the commandment.<pb/>


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Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.


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And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed about this, lo! two men stood by them in glittering apparel;


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and when they were terrified, and bowed their faces to the earth, the men said to them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?


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saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.


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It was Mary the Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; and the other women with them told these things to the apostles.


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And lo! two of them were going the same day to a village called Emmaus, distant a hundred and sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass, while they were conversing and reasoning, that Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.


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And he said to them, What discourse is this which ye have one with another, as ye are walking? And they stood sad.


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And one, whose name was Cleopas, answering said to him, Art thou the only sojourner in Jerusalem that doth not know the things which have come to pass there in these days?


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And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things relating to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in word and deed before God and all the people;


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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.


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But we are hoping that it is he who is to redeem Israel; moreover, besides all this, it is the third day since these things were done.


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they did not find his body, and came, saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.


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And some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it to be as the women had said; but him they saw not.


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And he said to them, O dull of apprehension, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!


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And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.


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And they drew near to the village whither they were going; and he made as though he would go further.


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


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And it came to pass, as he was at table with them, that he took the bread, and blessed it, and broke and gave it to them.


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And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the way, while he opened to us the Scriptures?


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


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And they told what had happened on the way, and how he became known to them in the breaking of the bread.


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See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.


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And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?


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


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And he said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and should rise from the dead on the third day,


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and that repentance for the remission of sins should be preached in his name among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


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And I send forth upon you that which hath been promised by my Father; but do ye tarry in the city, until ye are endued with power from on high.


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But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God,—to those who believed in his name;


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And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only begotten of a father.


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John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that cometh after me hath gone before me; for he was before me.


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No one hath ever seen God; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath made him known.


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


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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he said, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us; what sayest thou of thyself?


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He said, I am “a voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,” as said Isaiah the prophet.


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and they asked him and said to him, Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?


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The next day he seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world!


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And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, therefore I came baptizing in water.


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And John bore witness, saying, I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.


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And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptize in water, the same said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, he it is that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit.


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Jesus turning and seeing them following, saith to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi, (that is to say, when interpreted, Teacher,) where dost thou dwell?


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He saith to them, Come, and ye shall see. They came therefore and saw where he dwelt; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.


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He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith to him, We have found the Messiah; (which is, when interpreted, the Christ.)


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He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking upon him said, Thou art Simon, the son of John; thou shalt be called Cephas; (which signifieth Peter, that is, Rock.)


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On the morrow he determined to go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him, Follow me.


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Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets wrote, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is of Nazareth.


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


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.


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Nathanael saith to him, Whence dost thou know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, dost thou believe? Thou shalt see greater things than these.


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And he saith to him, Truly, truly do I say to you, Ye will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.<pb/>


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And on the third day there was a marriage-feast in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there.


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And they had no wine, because the wine of the feast had failed. Then the mother of Jesus saith to him, There is no wine.


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Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, in conformity with the Jews' custom of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.


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But when the master of the feast tasted the water that had been made wine, not knowing whence it was, but the servants who drew the water knew, he called the bridegroom


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and said to him, Every man setteth on the good wine first, and when men have drunk freely, that which is worse. Thou hast kept the good wine until now.


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This beginning of the signs Jesus made in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.


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After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days.


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And he found in the temple those who sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting.


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And having made a scourge of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the money of the exchangers, and overthrew the tables;


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and said to those who sold the doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.


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The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign dost thou show us, seeing thou doest these things?


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Then said the Jews, Forty-six years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?


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When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.


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And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, at the feast, many believed in his name, when they saw his signs which he wrought.


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and had no need that any one should testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.<pb/>


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This man came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou hast come as a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, unless God be with him.


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


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Nicodemus saith to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time, and be born?


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Jesus answered, Truly, truly do I say to thee, Unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.


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The wind bloweth where it will; and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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Truly, truly do I say to thee, We speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony.


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


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For God so loved the world, that he gave the only begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him may not perish, but may have everlasting life.


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For God sent not the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that through him the world might be saved.


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He that believeth in him is not condemned; he that believeth not hath already been condemned, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


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And this is the condemnation, that the light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.


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For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


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But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


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After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judaea; and there he remained with them, and baptized.


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


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And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he baptizeth, and all men are going to him.


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Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I was sent before that man.


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He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy then hath become full.


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He that cometh from above is above all. He that is from the earth is earthly, and speaketh earthly things; he that cometh from heaven


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He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that disobeyeth the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.<pb/>


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When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,


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He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.


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The Samaritan woman saith to him, How is it that thou, who art a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.


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The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence hast thou the living water?


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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?


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but whoever drinketh of the water that I will give him, will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life.


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The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith to her, Thou saidst well, that thou hast no husband.


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For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; in this thou hast spoken truly.


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Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.


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Jesus saith to her, Believe me, woman, the hour is coming, when ye shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.


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But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such worshippers the Father seeketh.


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The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ); when he hath come, he will tell us all things.


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And upon this his disciples came, and marveled that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, What dost thou seek? or, Why dost thou talk with her?


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Do ye not say, There are yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Lo! I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.


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Already is the reaper receiving wages, and gathering fruit unto everlasting life; that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.


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I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the words of the woman, who testified, He told me all things which I have done.


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When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them; and he remained there two days.


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and said to the woman, No longer do we believe on account of what thou hast told us; for we have ourselves heard him, and know that this is in truth the Saviour of the world.


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When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.


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So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, at Capernaum.


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He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him, and asked him to go down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.


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Jesus saith to him, Go; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and went away.


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Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to mend. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.


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So the father knew that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son is living. And he himself believed, and his whole house.


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Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-gate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha, having five porches.


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Jesus saw this man lying there, and knowing that he had been for a long time diseased, saith to him, Dost thou wish to be made well?


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The diseased man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goeth down before me.


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And immediately the man was made well, and took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the sabbath.


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The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath; and it is not lawful for thee to take up the bed.


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But the diseased man knew not who it was; for Jesus had withdrawn himself, there being a crowd in the place.


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Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art made well; sin no more, lest something worse befall thee.


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On this account the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing; for whatever He doeth, these things the Son also doeth in like manner;


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for the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things which he himself doeth; and greater works than these will he show him, so that ye will wonder.


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For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth them life, so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.


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that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father, who sent him.


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Truly, truly do I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into condemnation, but hath passed out of death into life.


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Truly, truly do I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear will live.


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and will come forth, they that have done good, to a resurrection of life; they that have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.


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I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.


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There is another who beareth witness of me; and ye know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.


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But the testimony which I have, is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to perform, the works themselves which I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.


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And the Father who sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.


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Ye search the Scriptures, because ye yourselves think that in them ye have everlasting life; and it is they which testify of me;


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I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.


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How can ye believe while ye receive honor from one another, and seek not the honor that is from him who alone is God?


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Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye have placed your hope.


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Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great crowd was coming to him, saith to Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat?


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Philip answered him, Two hundred denaries' worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a tittle.


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There is a lad here, who hath five barley-loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many?


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Jesus said, Make the men lie down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men lay down, in number about five thousand.


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Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed to those that were lying down; in like manner also of the fishes, as much as they desired.


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And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain over, that nothing may be lost.


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So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained over and above to those that had eaten.


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The men therefore seeing the sign which he wrought, said, This is truly the prophet that was to come into the world.


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Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, withdrew again to the mountain alone.


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and having gone on board a boat, were going over the lake to Capernaum. And darkness had overtaken them, and Jesus had not yet come to them.


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When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking on the lake, and drawing near the boat; and they were afraid.


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Then they were willing to receive him into the boat; and immediately the boat was at the land whither they were going.


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The day following, the multitude which stood on the other side of the lake having seen that there was no other boat there but one, and that Jesus did not go with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone,


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(but there came other boats from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, when the Lord had given thanks;)


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when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there nor his disciples, they went on board the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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And having found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, Rabbi, when didst thou come hither?


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Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly do I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.


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Labor not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man giveth to you; for on him hath the Father set his seal, even God.


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They said therefore to him, What sign doest thou, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work?


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Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”


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Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Moses hath not given you the bread from heaven; but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.


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Jesus therefore said to them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me will not hunger; and he that believeth in me will never thirst.


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All that the Father giveth me will come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out;


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And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.


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For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looketh on the Son and believeth in him, shall have everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day.


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and they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, one whose father and mother we know? How is it then that this man saith, I have come down from heaven?


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No one can come to me, unless the Father, who sent me, draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught of God.” Every one that hath heard the Father, and hath learnt from him, cometh to me.


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I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eat of my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.


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Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.


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He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day.


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As the living Father sent me, and I live by reason of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live by reason of me.


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This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread will live for ever.


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Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This teaching is hard; who can listen to it?


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Jesus therefore knew within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, and said to them, Doth this offend you?


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It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.


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But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.


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And he said, For this cause I have told you, that no one can come to me, unless it hath been given him from the Father.


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He spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for it was he that was about to betray him, being one of the twelve.<pb/>


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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brothers therefore said to him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou art doing.


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For no one doeth anything in secret, and yet himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.


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But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.


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And there was much debating among the multitude concerning him. Some said, He is a good man; others said, Nay, but he deceiveth the multitude.


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If any one is desirous to do his will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.


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He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and in him is no unrighteousness.


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Moses hath given you circumcision, (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath circumcise a man.


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If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye angry at me, because I have restored soundness to the whole body of a man on the sabbath?


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and see! he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers discovered certainly that this man is the Christ?


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Still, as to this man, we know whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.


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Jesus therefore cried aloud, teaching in the temple and saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but there is in truth one who sent me, whom ye know not.


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But of the multitude many believed in him, and said, When the Christ cometh, will he do more signs than these which this man doeth?


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The Pharisees heard the multitude thus debating concerning him; and the chief priest and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him.


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The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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On the last day, which is the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me, and drink.


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He that believeth in me, from within him, as the Scripture hath said, will flow rivers of living water.


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But this he said of the Spirit, which those that believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.


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Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is in truth the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ.


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Hath not the Scripture said, that the Christ cometh from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?


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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why did ye not bring him?


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They answered and said to him, Art thou too from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet ariseth from Galilee.


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{Joh 7:53 - 8:12: This passage is omitted as ungenuine by Tischendorf and most critical editors of the Greek Testament. It is found in some manuscripts, but not in the most ancient. It is, however, very generally regarded as a genuine relic of the teaching of Christ, though not forming a part of the fourth Gospel. I give it in the text of Tregelles, omitting the words which he incloses in brackets. Tregelles, however, does not suppose it to be genuine.} [[And they went each to his house;<pb/>


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And early in the morning he came again to the temple, and all the people were coming to him. And he sat down and taught them.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,


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But this they said to try him, that they might be able to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.


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But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up, and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast a stone at her.


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And when they heard this, they went out one by one, beginning with the oldest; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman who was in the midst.


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Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.]]


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Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.


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But even if I myself should judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and he who sent me.


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They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.


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These words he spoke in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.


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Again therefore he said to them, I go away, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sin. Whither I go, ye cannot come.


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And he said to them, Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world.


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Therefore I said to you, that ye will die in your sins; for unless ye believe that I am He, ye will die in your sins.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? Jesus said to them, In the first place, I am just that which I speak to you.


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I have many things to say, and to judge, concerning you; but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world what I heard from him.


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Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye will know that I am He, and do nothing of myself, but speak these things as the Father taught me.


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And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone, for I always do the things that please him.


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Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed in him, If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples;


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They answered him, We are Abraham's offspring, and have never been in bondage to any one; how sayest, thou, Ye will be made free?


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Jesus answered them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Every one that committeth sin is a bond-servant of sin.


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I know that ye are Abraham's offspring; but ye seek to kill me, because my word is not received within you.


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


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But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God; this did not Abraham.


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Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.


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Jesus said to them, If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I proceeded forth and am come; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.


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Ye are of your father the Devil, and what your father desireth ye are ready to do. He was a murderer from the beginning; and he abideth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of it.


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The Jews said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he will never taste of death.


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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Whom dost thou make thyself?


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Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom ye say, He is our God:


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yet ye know him not; but I know him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like you. But I know him, and keep his word.


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They therefore took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus concealed himself, and went out of the temple.<pb/>


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.


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We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night is coming, when no one can work.


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Having thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,


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and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam; (which is, when translated, Sent.) He went away therefore, and washed and came seeing.


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The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him as a beggar, said, Is not this he that sits and begs?


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He answered, The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam, and wash. I went therefore and washed, and received sight.


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Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I see.


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


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They say therefore to the blind man again, What dost thou say of him for having opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.


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


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but by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not; ask him, he is of age; he will speak for himself.


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This his parents said, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed, that if any one should acknowledge him as the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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They therefore called a second time the man that had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.


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He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.


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He answered them, I have already told you, and ye did not hear; why would ye hear it again? Are ye also inclined to become his disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Why, herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened my eyes.


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We know that God heareth not sinners; but if any one is a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.


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They answered and said to him, Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.


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Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and he found him, and said, Dost thou believe in the Son of man?


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And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not might see, and that they who see might become blind.


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Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see. Your sin remaineth.<pb/>


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Truly, truly do I say to you, He that entereth not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber;


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To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice; and his own sheep he calleth by name, and leadeth them out.


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When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.


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But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.


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This parable Jesus spoke to them; but they did not understand what the things were which he spoke to them.


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I am the door; if any one enter through me, he will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture.


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The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundance.


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He that is a hireling and not a shepherd, nor the owner of the sheep, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;


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And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring; and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.


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No one taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again; this charge I received from my Father.


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Others said, These are not the words of one that hath a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?


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Then came the Jews around him, and said to him, How long dost thou hold our minds in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.


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Jesus answered them, I have told you, and ye do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.


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and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one tear them out of my hand.


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That which my Father hath given me is greater than all; and no one is able to tear [[them]] out of the Father's hand.


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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?


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The Jews answered him, Not for a good work do we stone thee, but for blasphemy, and because thou, who art a man, makest thyself God.


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say ye of him whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?


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But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may learn and know that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.


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And he went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing; and there he abode.


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And many came to him, and said, John indeed wrought no sign; but everything that John said of this man was true.


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It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.


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And Jesus hearing this said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.


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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews but just now were seeking to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world;


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This he spoke, and afterwards said to them, Our friend Lazarus hath fallen asleep; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.


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Then said Thomas, who was called Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.


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Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him; but Mary continued sitting in the house.


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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he have died, will live;


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She saith to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, he who was to come into the world.


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And having said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and calleth for thee.


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The Jews then who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.


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Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, as soon as she saw him fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.


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Jesus therefore when he saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, was greatly moved in his spirit, and much troubled,


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But some of them said, Could not he, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also caused that this man should not have died?


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Jesus therefore, again greatly moved within himself, cometh to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.


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Jesus saith, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time the body is offensive; for he hath been dead four days.


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Jesus saith to her, Did I not tell thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?


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They therefore took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father! I thank thee that thou hast heard me.


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Yet I knew that thou hearest me always; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me.


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He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go.


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Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What are we to do, seeing that this man worketh many signs?


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If we thus let him alone, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation.


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


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and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together in one body the children of God that are scattered abroad.


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Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed thence to the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there abode with the disciples.


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And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.


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They sought therefore for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? that he will not come to the feast?


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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where he was, he should give information, that they might seize him.<pb/>


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They made therefore a supper for him there, and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at the table with him.


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


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And this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bore what was put therein.


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The great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there; and they came, not only on account of Jesus, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.


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took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet him, crying aloud, Hosanna! blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!


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These things his disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.


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The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.


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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Ye see that ye effect nothing; o! the world hath gone after him.


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These came therefore to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we wish to see Jesus.


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Truly, truly do I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, itself abideth alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.


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He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world will keep it unto everlasting life.


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If any one be a servant to me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also will my servant be; if any one serve me, the Father will honor him.


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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour! But for this cause I came to this hour.


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Father, glorify thy name! Then came there a voice from heaven: Yea, I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.


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The multitude therefore that stood by, hearing this, said that it thundered. Others said, An angel hath spoken to him.


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The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abideth for ever; how then dost thou say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?


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Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.


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While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spoke Jesus, and went away, and hid himself from them.


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that what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, “Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?”


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“He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them.”


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Yet even of the rulers many believed in him; but on account of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge him, lest they should be put of the synagogue;


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But Jesus cried aloud, and said, He that believeth in me, believeth not in me, but in him that sent me;


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And if any one hear my words, and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.


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He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, that will judge him in the last day.


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Because I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me hath himself committed to me what I should say, and what I should speak;


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and I know that what he hath committed to me is everlasting life. What I speak therefore, I speak as the Father hath directed me.<pb/>


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Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them unto the end.


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And supper being served,—the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,—


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he, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,


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Then he poureth water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.


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Peter saith to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.


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Jesus saith to him, He that hath bathed needeth not to wash himself, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all.


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So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and placed himself again at the table, he said to them, Know ye what I have done to you?


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


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Truly, truly do I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord, nor one who is sent greater than he that sent him.


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I speak not of you all; I know whom I chose; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, “He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me.”


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I tell you now before it hath come to pass, that when it hath come to pass ye may believe that I am He.


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Truly, truly do I say to you, He that receiveth whomever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me.


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Having said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Truly, truly do I say to you, that one of you will betray me.


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To him therefore Simon Peter maketh a sign, and saith to him, Tell who it is of whom he is speaking.


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Jesus answereth, It is he for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him. Having therefore dipped the morsel, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.


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And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus therefore saith to him, What thou doest, do quickly.


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For some thought, because Judas kept the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what we need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.


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When therefore he had gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.


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My children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come, so now I say to you.


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A new commandment I give you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


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Simon Peter saith to him, Lord, whither dost thou go? Jesus answered, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou wilt follow me afterward.


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Jesus answereth, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Truly, truly do I say to thee, A cock will not crow, till thou hast thrice denied me.<pb/>


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


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and when I have gone away and prepared a place for you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, ye also may be.


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Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one cometh to the Father but through me.


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Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how is it that thou sayest, Show us the Father?


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Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not from myself; but the Father, who dwelleth in me, doeth his works.


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Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; but if not, believe for the very works' sake.


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Truly, truly do I say to you, He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater than these shall he do; because I am going to the Father,


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and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever;


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the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it doth not behold it, nor know it; ye know it, because it abideth with you, and will be in you.


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Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye will behold me, because I live, and ye will live.


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He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.


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Judas, not Iscariot, saith to him, And how is it, Lord, that thou art going to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If any one loveth me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.


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He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.


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but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit which the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things which I have said to you.


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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world giveth, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.


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Ye heard me say to you, I am going away, and am coming again to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.


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Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit he cleanseth, that it may bear more fruit.


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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.


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I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for apart from me ye can do nothing.


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If any one abideth not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burned.


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If ye keep my commandments, ye will abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.


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These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.


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No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things which I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.


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Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.


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If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.


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Remember what I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my words, they will keep yours also.


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But all these things will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.


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


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If I had not done among them the works which no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.


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But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law: “They hated me without a cause.”


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When the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he will bear witness of me.


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They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, the hour is coming when every one that killeth you will think that he is offering sacrifice to God.


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But I have spoken these things to you, that, when the time cometh, ye may remember that I myself told you of them. But these things I told you not at the beginning, because I was with you.


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


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And when he is come, he will bring conviction to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.


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But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he shall hear, that he will speak; and he will tell you the things to come.


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Every thing that the Father hath is mine. For this cause I said, that he receiveth of what is mine, and will tell it to you.


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Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye will see me? and, Because I go to the Father?


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They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We do not know what he is speaking of.


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Jesus knew that they were desirous of asking him, and said to them, Is it of this that ye are inquiring of one another, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye will See me?


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


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A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, through joy that a man is born into the world.


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So ye also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one taketh from you.


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And in that day ye will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly do I say to you, Whatever ye shall ask the Father, he will give it you in my name.


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Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full.


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These things I have spoken to you in parables. The time is coming, when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.


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for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.


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


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Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any one should ask thee; by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.


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Behold, the hour is coming, yea, is now come, when ye will be scattered, every one to his own, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.


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These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.<pb/>


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When Jesus had thus spoken, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father! the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee;


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according as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that he should give everlasting life to all whom thou hast given him.


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And this is the everlasting life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.


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and now, Father! do thou glorify me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.


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I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.


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for I have given to them the words which thou hast given me; and they received them, and knew surely that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.


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I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine;


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And I am no longer in the world; and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father! keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.


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While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me, and guarded them; and no one of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture may be fulfilled.


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But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them.


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I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.


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that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me.


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And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one;


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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.


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Father! as to that which thou hast given me, I desire that they also be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.


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Righteous Father! and yet the world knew thee not! but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.


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And I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.<pb/>


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When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the brook Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples.


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And Judas also, his betrayer, knew the place; because Jesus often resorted thither with his disciples.


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Judas then, having received the band of soldiers, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with torches and lanterns and weapons.


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But Jesus, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth, and saith to them, Whom do ye seek?


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They answered him, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus saith to them, I am he. Now Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them.


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That the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom thou hast given me, I have lost none.”


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Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the servant of the high-priest, and cut off his right ear. And the servant's name was Malchus.


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Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath. The cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?


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and carried him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high-priest that year.


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And it was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high-priest, and went with Jesus into the court of the palace of the high-priest.


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But Peter was standing outside at the door. The other disciple therefore, who was an acquaintance of the high-priest, went out and spoke to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.


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Then the maid-servant that kept the door saith to Peter, Art thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.


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And the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold, and were warming themselves; and Peter was standing with them and warming himself.


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Jesus answered him, I have spoken plainly to the world; I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble, and in secret I spoke nothing.


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Why askest thou me? Ask those who have heard, what I have spoken to them; behold, these know what I have said.


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And when he had said this, one of the officers who was standing by struck Jesus on the face, saying, Is it thus that thou answerest the high-priest?


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Jesus answered him, If I spoke what is evil, testify to the evil; but if well, why dost thou strike me?


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And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, Art thou also one of his disciples? He denied and said, I am not.


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One of the servants of the high-priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?


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Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace; and it was early. And they did not themselves go into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.


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They answered and said to him, If he had not been doing evil, we would not have delivered him up to thee.


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Pilate therefore said to them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any one to death.


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That the words of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what kind of death he was to die.


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Pilate therefore went into the palace again, and called Jesus, and said to him, Art thou the King of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?


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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought, that I should not be delivered up to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence.


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Pilate therefore said to him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest what is true; for I am a king. For this end have I been born, and for this cause have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth listeneth to my voice.


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Pilate saith to him, What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them, I find nothing criminal in him.


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But ye have a custom that I should release to you one at the passover: do ye desire, therefore, that I release to you the king of the Jews?


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Again Pilate went forth, and saith to them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find nothing criminal in him.


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Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And [[Pilate]] saith to them, Behold the man!


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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! crucify! Pilate saith to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him; for I find nothing criminal in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.


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Pilate saith to him, Dost thou not speak to me? Dost thou not know that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?


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Jesus answered, Thou wouldst have no power against me, unless it had been given thee from above; for this cause he that delivered me up to thee hath the greater sin.


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From this time Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not a friend of Caesar. Every one that maketh himself a king, setteth himself against Caesar.


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When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat, in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.


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Now it was the preparation of the passover. It was about the sixth hour. And he saith to the Jews, Behold your king!


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Upon this they cried out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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And Pilate wrote an inscription also, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”


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This inscription therefore was read by many of the Jews; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.


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Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not, The king of the Jews; but that he said, I am king of the Jews.


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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. That the scripture might be fulfilled: “They parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.” These things the soldiers did.


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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene.


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Jesus therefore, when he saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!


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Then he saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


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A vessel was brought full of vinegar; and putting a sponge filled with vinegar upon a stalk of hyssop, they raised it to his mouth.


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When therefore he had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished! and he bowed his head, and yielded up his spirit.


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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, for that sabbath was a great day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


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but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately there came out blood and water.


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And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knoweth that he saith what is true, that ye also may believe.


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For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him shall not be broken.”


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And after this, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but concealing it for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. They came therefore and took him away.


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Nicodemus also, he who at the first went to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.


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Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews in preparing for burial.


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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.


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There then, on account of the Jews' preparation-day, they laid Jesus; for the tomb was at hand.<pb/>


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But on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene cometh early, while it was yet dark, to the tomb, and seeth that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.


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She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.


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and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a place by itself.


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and beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they say to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? She saith to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.


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Jesus saith to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek? She, supposing that it was the gardener, saith to him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus saith to her, Mary! She turned and saith to him in Hebrew, Rabboni! Which signifieth, Teacher!


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Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.


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Mary the Magdalene cometh, bringing word to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.


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When therefore it was evening on that day, which was the first day of the week, and the doors where the disciples were had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Peace be to you!


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And having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.


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The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I shall not believe.


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And after eight days the disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you!


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Then he saith to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach forth thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing.


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Jesus saith to him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.


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After these things he manifested himself again to the disciples at the lake of Tiberias. And he manifested himself in this manner.


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.


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Simon Peter saith to them, I am going a fishing. They say to him, We also will go with thee. They set out and went into the boat, and on that night caught nothing.


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But when the morning was coming on, Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.


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And he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and ye will find. And they cast it, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of the fishes.


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Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hearing that it was the Lord, girded on his outer garment, for he had on nothing but his under one, and threw himself into the lake.


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And the other disciples came in the boat, (for they were not far from land, only about two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with the fishes.


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When therefore they had come to land, they see a fire of coals there, and a fish lying thereon, and bread.


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Simon Peter therefore went on board, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty three; and though there were so many, the net was not broken.


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Jesus saith to them, Come and breakfast. But no one of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This is now the third time that Jesus manifested himself to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.


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So when they had breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.


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He saith to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Tend my sheep.


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He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my sheep.


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Truly, truly do I say to thee, when thou wast young, thou didst gird thyself, and walk whither thou wouldst; but when thou hast grown old, thou wilt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldst not.


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This he said, signifying by what manner of death he was to glorify God. And having thus spoken, he saith to him, Follow me.


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Peter, turning round, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following,—who also at supper leaned back on his breast, and said, Lord, who is he that betrayeth thee?—


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Jesus saith to him, If it be my will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.


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This report therefore went abroad among the brethren, that this disciple was not to die. And yet Jesus did not say to him, He will not die; but, If it be my will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee?


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until the day in which, after he had through the Holy Spirit given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;


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to whom also he showed himself living, after he had suffered, by many sure proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.


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And while in assembly with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for what had been promised by the Father, which [[said he]] ye heard from me;


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for John indeed baptized with water, but ye will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.


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They therefore, having come together, asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel?


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But he said to them, It belongeth not to you to know times or seasons, which the Father appointed by his own authority.


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But ye will receive power when the Holy Spirit hath come upon you; and ye will be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.


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And having thus spoken, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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And while they were looking earnestly into heaven as he went up, lo! two men stood by them in white apparel,


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who said, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner in which ye beheld him going into heaven.


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Then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, within a sabbath-day's journey.


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And when they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were making their abode, namely, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Judas the brother of James.


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These all continued with one accord in prayer, with women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.


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And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said, (the number of the names together was about one hundred and twenty,)


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Brethren, it was necessary that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus.


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Now this man purchased a field with the wages of the iniquity; and falling headlong he burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own tongue, Aceldamach, that is, Field of Blood.


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For it is written in the book of Psalms, “Let his habitation be made desolate, and let no one dwell therein;” and, “Let another take his office.”


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Of these men, therefore, who accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us, must one be made a witness with us of his resurrection.


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And they prayed saying, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which of these two thou hast chosen


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to take the part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell away, that he might go to his own place.


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And they cast lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.<pb/>


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And suddenly there came out of heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind; and it filled the whole house where they were sitting;


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and there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributing themselves; and one sat upon each of them.


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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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And when this sound took place, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because every one heard them speaking in his own language.


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Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who inhabit Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,


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Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and Romans who sojourn here, both Jews and Proselytes,


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Cretans and Arabians—how is it that we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God?


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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Men of Judea, and all that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and hearken to my words.


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“It shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams;


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and even on my servants, and on my handmaids, I will pour out of my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.


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And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;


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the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord cometh, the great and notable day.


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Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God to you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God wrought by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know,—


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this man, being delivered up by the settled purpose and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of godless men, crucified and slew.


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But God raised him up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.


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For David saith concerning him, “I saw the Lord always before me; because he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.


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because thou wilt not abandon my soul to the underworld, nor wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.


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Brethren, I may speak to you with freedom of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us to this day.


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Being then a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that he would set one sprung from his loins upon his throne,


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he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the underworld, nor did his flesh see corruption.


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Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye both see and hear.


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For David did not ascend into the heavens; but he himself saith, The Lord said to my lord, “Sit thou on my right hand,


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.


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And when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what must we do?


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But Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized to the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.


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And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.


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They therefore received his word, and were baptized; and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.


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And they were constantly attending on the teaching of the apostles, and the imparting [[of their substance]], the breaking of bread, and the prayers.


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And attending daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread in a private house, they partook of their food with gladness and singleness of heart,


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praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were in the way of salvation.<pb/>


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And Peter and John were going up together to the temple, at the hour of prayer, which is the ninth hour.


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And a certain man lame from his birth was carried along, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who entered the temple;


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Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.


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And grasping him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles received strength.


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And leaping forth he stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping, praising God.


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and they recognized him as the man that sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.


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And as he held fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's greatly wondering.


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But Peter seeing it, answered the people: Men of Israel, why wonder ye at this? Or why look ye earnestly on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man to walk?


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The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye indeed delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.


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And his name, through faith in his name, made this man strong, whom ye see and know; yea, the faith which is through him gave him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.


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But God thus fulfilled what he had before announced by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.


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Repent therefore and turn from your ways, that your sins may be blotted out, in order that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,


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whom heaven indeed must receive until the times of a restoration of all things; of which times God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from the days of old.


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Moses indeed said, “A prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you from among your brethren, as be raised up me; him shall ye hear in all things, whatever he shall speak to you.


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And it shall come to pass, that every soul which doth not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.”


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Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, “And in thy posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”


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To you first, God, having raised up his servant, sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.<pb/>


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And while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,


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being indignant that they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.


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and Annas the high-priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high-priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.


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And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, did ye do this?


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If we are this day examined in respect to a good deed done to a cripple, by what means he hath been restored,


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,—by him doth this man stand here before you sound.


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And there is salvation in no other; for there is not another name under heaven, that hath been given among men, by which we must be saved.


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And when they beheld the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and common men, they wondered; and they recognized them as having been with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a remarkable sign hath been wrought by them is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.


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But that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly forbid them with threats to speak any longer in this name to any one.


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But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye.


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So, having further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people; because all were glorifying God for that which had been done.


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And being released they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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And on hearing it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art he that made heaven and earth and sea, and all things that are in them;


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who by the mouth of thy servant David said, “Why did the heathen rage, and the peoples meditate vain things?


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The kings of the earth came up, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed.”


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For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, did both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles, and the peoples of Israel, assemble in this city,


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And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word,


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while thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are wrought through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


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And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart, and of one soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.


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And with great power did the apostles give their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; and great grace was upon them all.


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For there was no one among them that was in want; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,


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and laid them at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to every one, according as he had need.


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And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, when interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, born in Cyprus,


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and kept back part of the price, his wife also having knowledge of it; and brought a certain part, and laid it at the feet of the apostles.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?


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While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why didst thou conceive this thing in thy heart? Thou didst not lie to men, but to God.


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And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down, and expired. And great fear came on all that heard of it.


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And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.


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And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? Lo! the feet of those who have buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out.


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And she fell down immediately at his feet, and expired; and the young men, when they came in, found her dead, and carried her out, and buried her by her husband.


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And many signs and wonders were wrought among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.


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so that in the streets they brought out the sick, and laid them on beds and couches, in order that at least the shadow of Peter, as he passed, might overshadow some of them.


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The multitude also belonging to the cities around came together to Jerusalem bringing the sick, and those plagued by unclean spirits; and they were all healed.


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But the high-priest and all that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, rose up and were filled with indignation,


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And hearing this, they went into the temple at daybreak and taught. But the high-priest and they that were with him came and called together the council, and all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, The prison we found shut in all security and the keepers standing at the doors: but when we opened them, we found no one within.


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And when the priest, and the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were at a loss concerning them, to what this would come.


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But one came and brought them word, Lo! the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.


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Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence, that they might not be stoned; for they feared the people.


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saying, We strictly commanded you not to teach in this name, and lo! ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and mean to bring this man's blood upon us.


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him hath God exalted by his right hand, as a Leader and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.


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And we are his witnesses of these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit which God hath given to those who obey him.


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But there stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, in high esteem with all the people, and commanded to put the men forth a little while,


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and said to them [[of the council]], Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves as to what ye are about to do in respect to these men.


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For before these days arose Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and came to nought.


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After this man arose Judas the Galilaean, in the days of the registering, and drew people away after him; he also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.


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And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this design or this work be of men, it will come to nought;


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but if it be of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found also fighting against God.


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And they were persuaded by him; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.


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They therefore went away from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame in behalf of that name;


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and every day, in the temple, and in houses, they ceased not to teach, and to publish the glad tidings concerning Jesus the Christ.<pb/>


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But in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.


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And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said, It doth not seem to us proper, that we should leave the word of God, and provide for tables.


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Therefore, brethren, look out among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business;


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And what was said pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch,


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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was greatly enlarged; and a great multitude of the priests were obedient to the faith.


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But some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenaeans and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen;


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And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him to the council,


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and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place, and the Law.


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For we have heard him say, This Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.


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And all that sat in the council, looking steadily upon him, saw his face like the face of an angel.<pb/>


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And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,


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and said to him, “Go forth from thy country and thy kindred, and come into the land which I will show thee.”


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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, after his father was dead, he caused him to remove into this land wherein ye now dwell;


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and he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; and he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no child.


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And God spoke in this manner: “That his posterity should sojourn in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and ill-treat them four hundred years;


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and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge,” said God; “and after that they shall come forth, and shall worship me in this place.”


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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt, and all his house.


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Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress; and our fathers found no Sustenance.


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And at the second time Joseph was recognized by his brothers, and the kindred of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.


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And they were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.


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But as the time of the promise drew near, which God solemnly made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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The same dealt subtly with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they should cast out their infants, that they might not be preserved alive.


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In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair; who was nourished in his father's house three months.


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And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his worlds and deeds.


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And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting the Egyptian.


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For he supposed his brethren would understand that God through his hand would give them salvation; but they understood not.


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And the next day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and urged them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?


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But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, “Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?


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And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.


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And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel in the flaming fire of a bush.


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And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came [[to him]],


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saying, “I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.” And Moses trembled and durst not behold.


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And the Lord said to him, “Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground.


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I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them; and now, come, I will send thee into Egypt.”


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This Moses, whom they denied, saying, “Who made thee a ruler and a judge?” this very man did God send both as a ruler and a redeemer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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This very man brought them out, working wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, “A prophet will God raise up to you from among your brethren, as he raised up me.”


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This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness with the anger who spake to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us;


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to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,


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saying to Aaron, “Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.”


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And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.


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But God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the Prophets, “Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which ye made to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”


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Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded that he should make it according to the pattern that he had seen;


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which also our fathers received and brought in with Joshua, at their taking possession of the gentiles whom God drove out from before our fathers, until the days of David;


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“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What house will ye build for me? saith the Lord; or what is the place of my rest?


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Stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.


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Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, of whom ye have now become the betrayers and murderers;


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But when they heard these things, their hearts were filled with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.


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But, being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked up earnestly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


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and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul;


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And kneeling down he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And saying this, he fell asleep.<pb/>


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And Saul was consenting to his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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But Saul ravaged the church, entering house after house, and dragging both men and women, committed them to prison.


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And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he wrought.


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For from many that had unclean spirits came they out crying with a loud voice; and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were cured.


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But before their arrival a certain man, named Simon, was in the city, a man practising sorcery, and amazing the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was some great person;


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to whom they gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the Power of God, which is called Great.


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But when they believed Philip, publishing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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And Simon himself also believed, and having been baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed when he beheld the miracles and signs which were wrought.


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And the apostles at Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;


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For it had not yet fallen upon any of them; but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.


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But Simon, seeing that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,


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But Peter said to him, Thy money perish with thee! because thou didst think to obtain the gift of God with money.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if haply the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.


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And Simon answering said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of the things which ye have spoken may come upon me.


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They then, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, were returning to Jerusalem, and publishing the glad tidings in many villages of the Samaritans.


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But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert way.


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And he arose and went; and lo! a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a high officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,


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And Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Well, but dost thou understand what thou art reading?


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And he said, How can I, unless some one shall guide me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.


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And the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he openeth not his mouth.


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In his humiliation judgment was refused him; and who shall describe his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth.”


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And the eunuch answering said, I pray thee, of whom doth the prophet say this? Of himself, or of some other man?


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And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture declared to him the glad tidings concerning Jesus.


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And as they went along the road, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch saith, See, here is water; what is there to hinder my being baptized?


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And he commanded that the chariot should stop; and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.


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But when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.


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But Philip was found at Azotus; and passing through, he published the glad tidings in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.<pb/>


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But Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,


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and asked of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any who were of this way of belief, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shone around a him a light from heaven;


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And Saul arose from the earth; but when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.


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And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias, and to him the Lord said in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.


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And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for lo! he prayeth,


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and hath seen a man, named Ananias, coming in and putting his hand on him, that he might receive sight.


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But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how great evils he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem.


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But the Lord said to him, Go; for this man is to me a chosen vessel, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel.


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And Ananias went away, and entered the house; and putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus who appeared to thee in the way thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayst receive sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.


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And immediately there fell off from his eyes as it were scales; and he received sight, and arose, and was baptized.


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And having taken some food he was strengthened. And he was some days with the disciples in Damascus.


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And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name? And he hath come hither for this purpose, that he may bring them bound to the chief priests.


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But Saul gained still more strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.


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but their plot became known to Saul; and they were even watching the gates day and night to kill him.


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And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that he had spoken to him, and hew he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he often spoke and disputed with the Hellenists; but they were endeavoring to slay him.


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But the brethren obtaining knowledge of it, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.


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The church therefore throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord; and by the exhortation of the Holy Spirit it was greatly increased.


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And it came to pass, that as Peter went through the whole country, he came down also to the saints who dwelt at Lydda.


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And Peter said to him, AEneas, Jesus the Christ healeth thee; arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.


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Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which name being interpreted is the same as Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. This woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.


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And it came to pass in those days, that she fell sick, and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber.


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And as Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent to him two men with the entreaty, Do not delay to come to us.


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Then Peter arose, and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber; and all the widows came to him weeping, and showing the coats and cloaks which Dorcas made while she was with them.


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But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes; and seeing Peter, she sat up.


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And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and the widows, he presented her alive.


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a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God always,


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saw in a vision plainly, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius!


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And he, looking steadily at him, and becoming affrighted, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have come up for a memorial before God.


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And when the angel that spoke to him had departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of those who waited on him,


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On the morrow, as they were on their journey, and were drawing near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.


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And he became very hungry and wished to eat; but while they were making ready, a trance came upon him,


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and he beheld heaven opened, and a sort of vessel descending, as it were a large sheet having cords at the four corners, and let down upon the earth;


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Now, while Peter was doubting within himself what the vision which he had seen meant, lo! the men who were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate;


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And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am he whom ye are seeking; for what cause have ye come?


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And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and to hear words from thee.


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Then he called them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow he arose and went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.


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And the morrow after, he came into Caesarea. And Cornelius was expecting them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.


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And he said to them, Ye know that it is an unlawful thing for a Jew to keep company with one of another nation, or to come near him; but God showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.


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Wherefore I came without objection, when sent for. I ask therefore, for what reason did ye send for me?


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago, I was fasting till this hour; and at the ninth hour was praying in my house; and lo! a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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Send therefore to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea-side; and he, when he cometh, will speak to thee.


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I therefore sent to thee immediately; and thou hast done well in coming here. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee from the Lord.


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the word which he sent to the sons of Israel, publishing glad tidings of peace through Jesus Christ; he is Lord of all men.


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Ye yourselves know what was spoken of through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached,


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relating to Jesus of Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were overpowered by the Devil; for God was with him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew by hanging him on a cross.


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not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God, to ourselves, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead;


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and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who hath been appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.


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To him all the prophets bear witness, that through his name every one that believeth in him shall receive forgiveness of sins.


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And those of the circumcision who believed, as many as came with Peter, were astonished that on the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit;


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Can any one forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?


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And he commanded that they should be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they entreated him to remain some days.<pb/>


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And the apostles and the brethren throughout Judaea heard that the gentiles also had received the word of God.


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I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a sort of vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even to me;


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on which fixing my eyes, I observed, and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the air.


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But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.


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And lo! immediately there stood three men at the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.


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And the Spirit bade me go with them. And these six brethren also came with me, and we entered the man's house.


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And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, surnamed Peter;


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And I remembered the word of the Lord, that he said, John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.


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Since then God gave the like gift to them as to us, on believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?


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And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, So then to the gentiles also God hath granted repentance unto life.


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Now they who were scattered abroad by the persecution that arose on account of Stephen traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews.


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But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.


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But the talk concerning them came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas, to go as far as Antioch;


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who, when he came, and saw the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all to cleave to the Lord with purpose of heart;


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for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.


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and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that for a whole year they came together in the church, and taught a great multitude; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.


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And one of them named Agabus stood up, and signified by the Spirit, that there was about to be a great famine over the whole world; which came to pass in the days of Claudius.


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And according as any one of the disciples was prospered, they determined every one of them to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea;


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And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also; (then were the days of unleavened bread;)


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and he seized him and put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.


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Peter therefore was kept guarded in prison; but earnest prayer was made by the church to God in his behalf.


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And when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and keepers before the door were guarding the prison.


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And lo! an angel of the Lord came to him, and a light shone in the room; and he smote Peter on the side, and roused him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell from his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals; and he did so. And he saith to him, Throw thy garment round thee, and follow me.


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And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.


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And when they had passed the first, and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leadeth to the city, which opened to them of itself; and they went out and passed on through one street, and the angel immediately departed from him.


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And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know certainly, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And when he understood the matter, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together, and praying.


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and recognizing Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness; but ran in, and told them that Peter was standing before the gate.


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And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she positively affirmed that it was even so. Then they said, It is his angel.


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But beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, he related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go and tell these things to James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went to another place.


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And when it was day, there was no small commotion among the soldiers, as to what had become of Peter.


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And Herod, when he had sought for him and found him not, examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be led away [[to execution]]. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and there abode.


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And he was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, sued for peace; because their country drew its nourishment from that of the king.


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And on a day appointed, Herod, having arrayed himself in royal apparel, and taken his seat on the throne, made a speech to them.


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But immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten by worms, and expired.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed their service, taking with them also John, surnamed Mark.<pb/>


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Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenaean, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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And while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.


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They therefore being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia, and from thence sailed to Cyprus.


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And having come to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they had also John as an assistant.


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And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magian, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus,


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who was with the proconsul of the country, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having called for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the magian (for so is his name interpreted) withstood them, seeking so turn away the proconsul from the faith.


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and said, O full of all deceit, and of all mischief, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?


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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou wilt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought to find some who would lead him by the hand.


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Then the proconsul, when he saw what had taken place, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.


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And Paul and his company, having put to sea from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia. But John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.


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And they, going on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and sat down.


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And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.


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Then Paul stood up, and beckoned with his hand and said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken.


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The God of this people chose our fathers, and he exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it;


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And afterward they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;


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and having removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king, to whom he gave testimony, saying, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.”


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before whose coming forward John had first preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John was finishing his course, he said, Who do ye think that I am? I am not He. But lo I there cometh after me one, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Brethren, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you was the word of this salvation sent forth.


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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them in condemning him.


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And when they had accomplished all that was written of him, they took him down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.


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and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.


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God hath fulfilled to us their children, in raising up Jesus [[from the dead]]; as it is also written in the first Psalm: “Thou art my Son; I have this day begotten thee.”


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And that he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath thus spoken: “I will give you the sure holy things promised to David.”


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For David, after having in his own generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption;


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Be it therefore known to you, brethren, that through this man is announced to you the forgiveness of sins;


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and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.


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“Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish! for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will not believe, though one should plainly declare it to you.”


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And as they were going out, they besought that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath.


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And when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and proselyte worshippers followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.


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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with indignation, and spoke against what was spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.


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Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly and plainly, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of the everlasting life, lo! we turn to the gentiles.


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For thus hath the Lord commanded us: “I have set thee to be a light of the gentiles, that thou mayst bring salvation even to the end of the earth.”


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And when the gentiles heard this, they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were ordained to everlasting life, believed.


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But the Jews stirred up the women of rank who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them from their borders.


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And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and Greeks believed.


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But the Jews that disbelieved stirred up and embittered the minds of the gentiles against the brethren.


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They abode therefore a long time there, speaking boldly in reliance on the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be wrought by their a hands.


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And when a movement was made both of the gentiles, and the Jews with their rulers, to abuse and stone them,


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they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the neighboring country;


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And at Lystra there sat a certain man who had not the use of his feet, a cripple from his birth, who never had walked.


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This man heard Paul speaking; who looking steadily at him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,


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And the multitudes, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voices, saying, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.


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Then the priest of Jupiter, that was in front of the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have offered sacrifice with the multitudes.


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But the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, when they heard of it, rent their garments, and rushed forth to the multitude, crying out


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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing to you glad tidings, that ye may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea, and all things that are therein;


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although he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.


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But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; who, having persuaded the multitudes, and stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.


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But the disciples having gathered around him, he rose up, and came into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And when they had published the glad tidings to that city, and had made many disciples, they went back to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch;


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confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that it is through many afflictions that we mast enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having appointed for them elders in every church, they prayed with fasting, and commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.


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and thence set sail for Antioch, whence they had been commended to the grace of God, for the work which they had accomplished.


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And when they had arrived and had gathered the church together, they related what great things God had wrought with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the gentiles.


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And there came down certain men from Judaea, and taught the brethren, Unless ye are circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.


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But when Paul and Barnabas had had no small dissension and debate with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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They therefore, having been sent forward by the church, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.


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And having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they related what great things God had wrought with them.


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But there rose up certain believers of the sect of the Pharisees, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.


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And after much debate, Peter rose up and said to them, Brethren, ye know that a long time ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the glad tidings, and believe.


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And God, who knoweth the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it to us;


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Now therefore why do ye provoke the anger of God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they.


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And all the multitude became silent, and listened to Barnabas and Paul, while they related what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the gentiles by them.


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“After this I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which hath fallen; and I will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up;


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that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, and all the gentiles, who have been called by my name, saith the Lord, who doeth these things,


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Wherefore my judgment is, that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;


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but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses from the times of old hath had in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.


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Then it was decided by the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among themselves, and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.


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And they wrote by them, “The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.


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Whereas we have heard, that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no command;


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it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to choose men and send them to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who will themselves tell you the same things by word of mouth.


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For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no further burden except these necessary things:


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to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell.”


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They therefore being sent away came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.


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And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them.


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And when they had remained some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those who sent them.


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But Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and publishing, with many others also, the glad tidings of the word of the Lord.


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And some days after, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit the brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are.


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But Paul did not think it proper to take with them a man who had left them in Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.


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And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted from each other, and Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus.


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And Paul chose Silas and went forth, having been commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra; and lo! a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but whose father was a Greek;


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Him Paul wished to go forth with him, and took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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And as they journeyed through the cities, they delivered to them for their observance the decrees which had been ordained by the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.


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they came to Mysia, and were attempting to go into Bithynia; but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them.


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Macedonia beseeching him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.


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And when he had seen the vision, we immediately endeavored to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to publish the glad tidings to them.


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And setting sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;


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and thence to Philippi, which is a chief city of the province of Macedonia, a colony. And we remained in the city some days.


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And on the sabbath-day we went forth out of the gate to a river-side, where was wont to be a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had assembled.


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And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, was listening; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things which were spoken by Paul.


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And when she had been baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. And she constrained us.


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And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain bond-maid having a soothsaying spirit met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.


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This woman followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who announce to you the way of salvation.


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And this she did for many days. But Paul, being much displeased, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out immediately.


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But her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, laid hold of Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the market-place to the rulers;


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and having brought them before the magistrates, said, These men are grievously disturbing our city, being Jews;


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And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates, tearing off their clothes, commanded to beat them with rods;


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and when they had laid on them many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely;


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who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.


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But at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing praises to God; and the prisoners were listening to them.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were loosed.


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And the jailer awakening out of sleep, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword, and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.


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And he took them with him at that hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and he was immediately baptized, himself and all that belonged to him.


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And when he had brought them up into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced with all his house, having become a believer in God.


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And the jailer reported these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to release you; now therefore come out, and go in peace.


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But Paul said to them, They have publicly beaten us uncondemned, although we are Romans, and have thrust us into prison; and now do they thrust us out secretly? No; but let them come themselves, and bring us out.


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And the sergeants reported these words to the magistrates; and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.


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And they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they entreated them to leave the city.


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And when they had come out of the prison, they went into the house of Lydia; and when they saw the brethren, they exhorted them, and departed.<pb/>


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And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.


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And Paul, as his custom was, went in among them, and for three sabbaths discoursed to them out of the Scriptures,


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explaining them, and setting forth that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and that “this is the Christ,—Jesus whom I am making known to you.”


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And some of them were convinced, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the women of high rank not a few.


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But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them certain bad men of the idlers in the market-place, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and having come to the house of Jason, they endeavored to bring them out to the people;


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but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city magistrates, crying out, These men that have turned the world upside down have come hither also;


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whom Jason hath entertained; and they are all acting in opposition to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.


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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea; who, having come there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.


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But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Beroea, too, the word of God was preached by Paul, they came hither also, and stirred up the multitudes.


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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go to the sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there.


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And they who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and having received a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.


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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city full of idols.


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Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout [[Greeks]], and in the market daily with those that met him.


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And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.


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And they took him and brought him to Mars' hill, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?


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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.


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Now all the Athenians, and the strangers residing among them, spent their leisure for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.


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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.


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For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, “To an unknown God.” What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.


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The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;


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nor doth he receive service at the hands of men, as though he needed anything, since it is he that giveth to all life and breath and all things.


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And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed appointed times, and the bounds of their habitation;


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that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us.


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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: “For we are also his offspring.”


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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.


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inasmuch as he hath fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed; having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.


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And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but ethers said, We will hear thee again about this matter.


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But certain men joined themselves to him, and believed; among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite; and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.<pb/>


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And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome,) he came to them;


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and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and worked; for they were tent-makers by trade.


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And when both Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was wholly engaged in the word, testifying to the Jews, that Jesus was the Christ.


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And when they set themselves against him, and reviled, he shook his garments, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean; from this time I will go to the gentiles.


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And he departed thence, and went to the house of a certain man, named Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was very near the synagogue.


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And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians upon hearing believed, and were baptized.


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for I am with thee, and no one shall lay hands on thee, to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city.


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And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul, and brought him before the judgment-seat,


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And as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were some act of injustice or wicked misdeed, O Jews, with reason I should bear with you;


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but if it be questions of doctrine, and names, and your law, look to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of these matters.


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But they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat; and Gallio cared for none of these things.


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And Paul, having stayed many days longer, took leave of the brethren, and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, after he had shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.


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And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.


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but having taken leave of them, saying, I will return to you, if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.


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And after he had spent some time there, he departed, going through the Galatian country and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew, named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.


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This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught correctly the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But Aquila and Priscilla having heard him, took him to them, and set forth to him the way [[of the Lord]] more fully.


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And when he wished to go over into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to give him welcome; and when he was come, he gave much aid to those who had believed through grace.


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For he publicly confuted the Jews, with power, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.<pb/>


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he said to them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him, No, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.


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Then said Paul, John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people, that they should believe on him that was coming after him; that is, on Jesus.


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And when Paul bad laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.


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And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for three months, discoursing and persuading concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of the way [[of the Lord]] before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus.


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And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that even handkerchiefs, or aprons, were carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.


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Then some of the wandering Jewish exorcists undertook to name over those who had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul preacheth.


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And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them both, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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Many also of those who had practised magical arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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And when these things were ended, Paul resolved to pass through Macedonia and Achaia, and to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.


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And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a season.


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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, made silver shrines of Diana, and brought no small gain to the craftsmen.


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And having called them together, with the workmen of like occupation, he said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth;


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and ye see and hear, that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying, that those are not gods, which are made with hands.


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And there is not only danger that this branch of our business will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised, and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.


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And hearing this they became full of wrath, and kept crying out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!


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And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.


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And some also of the Asiarchs, who were his friends, sent to him, and entreated him not to venture into the theatre.


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Some therefore were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and the greater part knew not wherefore they had come together.


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And they brought forward Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander beckoned with his hand, desiring to make his defence to the people.


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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice for about two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!


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But when the Recorder had quieted the multitude, he said, Men of Ephesus, who is there among men that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?


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For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples, nor blasphemers of your goddess.


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If then Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against any one, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring their charges against each other.


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For we are in danger of being called to answer concerning this day's riot, there being no ground on which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse.


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And after the tumult had ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and having embraced them departed to go into Macedonia.


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And when he had gone through those regions, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece.


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And when he had stayed three months, a plot having been laid for him by the Jews as he was about to sail for Syria, he resolved to return through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater, son of Pyrrhus, a Beroean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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But we set sail from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.


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And on the first day of the week, when we had assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, being about to depart on the morrow, and continued the discourse until midnight.


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And there sat on the window a certain young man named Eutychus, having fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was discoursing at great length, he sank down with sleep, and fell from thee third story, and was taken up dead.


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But Paul went down and fell on him, and having embraced him, said, Make no lamentations; for his life is in him.


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And having gone up again, and broken the bread and eaten, he talked a long while even till break of day, and so departed.


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and sailing thence, we came the following day over against Chios. And the next day we arrived at Samos; and having tarried at Trogyllium, we came the next day to Miletus.


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For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not be detained in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.


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And when they had come to him, he said to them: Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you the whole time,


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serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;


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how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have made it known to you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house;


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And now behold, I go, bound in my spirit, to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me there;


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save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.


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But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more.


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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.


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For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


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And from among yourselves will men arise speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.


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Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.


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And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.


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sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they were to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.<pb/>


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And having come in sight of Cyprus, we passed it on the left, and sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unlade her cargo.


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And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; and they told Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem.


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And when we had completed the days, we departed, and went our way, they all accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city; and having kneeled down on the shore and prayed,


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But we, finishing our voyage, came down from Tyre to Ptolemais; and having embraced the brethren, remained with them one day.


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And on the morrow we departed, and came to Caesarea; and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him.


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and coming to us, he took off Paul's girdle, and bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit: So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and will deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.


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Then answered Paul, What mean ye that ye weep, and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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And having embraced them, he recounted particularly what things God had wrought among the gentiles through his ministry.


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And they on hearing it glorified God; and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealots for the Law.


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But they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after the customs.


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What then is to be done? The multitude will necessarily come together; for they will hear that thou hast come.


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These take, and purify thyself with them, and pay the expenses for them, that they may shave their heads; and all will know that those things of which they have been informed concerning thee are nothing, but that thou thyself also walkest in observance of the Law.


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crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is the man that teacheth every one everywhere against the people, and the Law, and this place; and besides he even brought Greeks into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.


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And the whole city was in motion, and the people ran together; and they laid hold of Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut.


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And while they were endeavoring to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar;


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who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.


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Then the chief captain came near and laid hold of him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.


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And some cried one thing, and some another, among the multitude. And not being able to gain certain knowledge on account of the uproar, he ordered him to be carried into the castle.


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And when he reached the stairs, he was obliged to be borne by the soldiers, on account of the violence of the crowd;


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And as he was about to be led into the castle, Paul saith to the chief captain, May I speak to thee? And he said, Canst thou speak Greek?


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Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days made an insurrection, and led out into the wilderness those four thousand men of the assassins?


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as also the high-priest beareth me witness, and all the elderhood; from whom I received letters to the brethren, and was on my way to Damascus to bring those also that were there, bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.


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And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecutest.


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came to me, and standing over me said, Brother Saul, receive sight. And I immediately looked up upon him.


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


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and when the blood of Stephen, thy witness, was shed, I myself was standing by and consenting, and keeping the garments of those who slew him.


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And they listened to him as far as this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth! for it was not fit that he should live.


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the chief captain ordered him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might ascertain for what cause they were thus crying out against him.


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But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?


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When the centurion heard this, he went and told the chief captain, saying, What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman.


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The chief captain answered, For a great sum I obtained this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was born a Roman.


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And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.


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And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.


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Now therefore do ye with the council give notice to the chief captain, that he bring him down to you, as though ye were about to examine his case more thoroughly; and we are ready to kill him before he cometh near you.


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Then Paul called one of the centurions to him, and said, Take this young man to the chief captain; for he hath something to tell him.


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So he took him and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me to him, and asked me to bring this young man to thee, as he hath something to say to thee.


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Then the chief captain took him by the hand and went aside privately, and asked him, What is it that thou hast to tell me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though thou wert about to inquire more thoroughly concerning him.


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But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.


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The chief captain then dismissed the young man with the charge, Tell no one that thou hast disclosed these things to me.


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


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but I found him to be accused only on account of questions of their law, and to have nothing laid to his charge deserving death or bonds.


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And they, when they had come to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him.


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


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for it is in thy power to ascertain that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.


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And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any one, or stirring up a tumult of the people, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;


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But this I acknowledge to thee, that according to the way [[of belief]] which they call a sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and by the Prophets;


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having a hope in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.


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On this ground do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.


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in doing which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult; but certain Jews from Asia [[caused it]],


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except in relation to this one expression, which I uttered aloud while standing among them: Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am tried before you this day.


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But Felix, having an accurate knowledge of the matters relating to this way [[of belief]], put them off, and said, When Lysias the chief captain cometh down, I will thoroughly examine your case.


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He also gave orders to the centurion to guard him, and let him have indulgence, and not to forbid any of his friends to do him service.


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And after some days, Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed, and answered, Go thy way for the present; and when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.


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He hoped also that money would be given him by Paul; on which account he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him.


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But after two years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, left Paul bound.<pb/>


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Festus therefore having come into the province, after three days went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.


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And the chief priests and the leaders of the Jews brought a complaint before him against Paul, and besought him,


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asking for themselves a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, intending to place men in wait to kill him on the road.


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But Festus answered that Paul was in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going thither shortly.


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Let those therefore, said he, who have authority among you, go down with me and accuse this man, if he is guilty of anything.


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And having tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the morrow, sitting on the judgment-seat, ordered Paul to be brought.


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And when he had come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around, bringing many and heavy charges which they could not prove;


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while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offence.


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But Festus, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried on these charges before me?


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But Paul said, I stand at the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest.


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If indeed I am an offender, and have done anything deserving death, I refuse not to die; but if there be nothing in the charges which they bring against me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then Festus having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar; to Caesar shalt thou go.


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And while they were making a stay of some days there, Festus laid the case of Paul before the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,


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against whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought a complaint, asking for judgment against him.


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To whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man on a charge, before the accused hath the accusers face to face, and hath opportunity to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.


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When therefore they had come together here, without any delay I sat on the judgment-seat on the day after, and ordered the man to be brought forward.


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but had against him certain questions of their own religion, and of one Jesus that was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.


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And I being at a loss about such questions, asked him if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be put on trial for these matters.


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But Paul having appealed to be kept in custody for the judgment of Augustus, I ordered him to be kept till I should send him up to Caesar.


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Then Agrippa said to Festus, I should like to hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.


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Accordingly on the morrow Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains and principal men of the city, and at the order of Festus Paul was brought forward.


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And Festus said: King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us! Ye see this man about whom the whole multitude of the Jews applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no longer to live.


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But having found that he had done nothing deserving death, and he himself having appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him;


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and as I have nothing certain to write about him to the emperor, I have brought him forward before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that when the examination hath been made, I may have something to write.


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And Agrippa said to Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand and made his defence:


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I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defence this day before thee concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews;


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especially as thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.


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My manner of life, then, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all Jews know:


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and they know, if they are willing to testify, that from the first, according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.


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which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God day and night, hope to obtain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by Jews.


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I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.


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Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.


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And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.


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And as I was going to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the chief priests,


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at mid-day, on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying with me.


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And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads.


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But arise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to prepare thee as a minister and a witness both of the things which thou sawest, and of those on account of which I will appear to thee;


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to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.


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but first to those in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judaea, and then to the gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.


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Having, however, obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the Prophets and Moses said were to come to pass;


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that the Christ should suffer, and that, as first of those raised from the dead, he was to proclaim light both to the people and to the gentiles.


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And as he was thus speaking in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning is making thee mad.


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For the king knoweth about these things well; to whom also I speak boldly; for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him: for this was not done in a corner.


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And Paul said, I would to God, that with little effort or with great, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, might be made such as I am, except these bonds.


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and going aside they talked with each other, saying, This man is doing nothing deserving death, or bonds.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.<pb/>


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And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.


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And going on board a ship of Adramyttium, about to sail along the coasts of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


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And the next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him leave to go to his friends, and receive their care.


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And there the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria about to sail for Italy, put us on board of it.


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And sailing slowly some days, and having with difficulty arrived over against Cnidus, the wind not permitting us to put in, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;


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and coasting along it with difficulty we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city Lasea.


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And much time having been spent, and the voyage being now dangerous, because the Fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,


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saying, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the lading and the ship, but also of our lives.


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And as the harbor was not well situated for wintering, the greater part advised to sail thence also, if by any means they might reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest, and there winter.


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And when a south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor, and coasted along close by Crete.


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And running under a certain small island called Clauda, we were hardly able to get possession of the boat;


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which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should run into the Syrtis, they lowered the sail and so were driven.


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And as neither sun nor stars had appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, thenceforward all hope that we should be saved was taken away.


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And after there had been much abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have put to sea from Crete, nod thus brought upon yourselves this injury and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.


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saying, Fear not, Paul! Thou must stand before Caesar; and lo, God hath given thee all those that sail with thee.


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And when the fourteenth night had come on, as we were driven onward in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were near some country;


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and sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and having gone a little further and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms;


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then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for day.


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And as the sailors were seeking means to escape from the ship, when they had lowered the boat into the sea, under the pretence that they were about to carry out anchors from the foreship,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these men do not stay in the ship, ye cannot be saved.


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And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food; saying, This is the fourteenth day that ye have waited, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.


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Wherefore I exhort you to take food; for this is for your safety; for there shall not a hair be lost from the head of one of you.


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And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and having broken it, he began to eat.


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And when it was day, they did not know the land; but they observed a certain creek having a beach, into which they determined, if possible, to run the ship.


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And cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea, and at the same time unfastening the rudder-bands, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made toward the beach.


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And falling into a place having the sea on both sides, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast, and remained immovable, but the stern was breaking to pieces with the violence [[of the waves]].


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And on the part of the soldiers there was a plan to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape.


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But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and ordered those who could swim to cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land,


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and the rest, some on boards, and others on something from the ship. And in this way it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.<pb/>


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And the barbarians showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the rain which had come on, and because of the cold.


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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid it on the fire, there came forth a viper by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand.


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And when the barbarians saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea, Justice hath not permitted to live.


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But they were looking for his becoming swollen, or suddenly falling down dead. But after looking a great while, and seeing no harm come to him they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.


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And in the neighborhood of that place were lands be longing to the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who welcomed us, and entertained us kindly three days.


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And it happened that the father of Publius was lying sick with a fever and dysentery; to whom Paul went in, and, when he had prayed, laid his hands on him, and healed him.


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who also honored us with many honors, and when we put to sea, loaded us with such things as were necessary.


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And after three months we put to sea in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the island, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.


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and from thence we made a circuit, and came to Rhegium; and after one day a south wind arose, and we came on the second day to Puteoli,


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where we found brethren, and were entreated to remain with them seven days; and so we went toward Rome.


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And from thence, the brethren having heard of us came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns; at the sight of whom Paul thanked God and took courage.


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And when we had come to Rome, Paul was permitted to dwell by himself, with the soldier that guarded him.


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And it came to pass that after three days he called together the chief men of the Jews, and when they had met he said to them, Brethren, I, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, was delivered up a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;


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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not that I had any charge to bring against my nation.


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For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak to you; for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.


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And they said to him, We neither received letters from Judea concerning thee, nor did any one of the brethren that came report or speak any evil of thee.


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But we think it proper to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for with regard to this sect, we know that it is everywhere spoken against.


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And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he expounded, and earnestly testified, the kingdom of God, endeavoring to persuade them concerning Jesus both from the Law of Moses, and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.


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So, disagreeing with one another, they took their departure, after Paul had spoken one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,


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saying, “Go to this people, and say, 'Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn from their ways, and I should heal them.'”


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Be it therefore known to you, that to the gentiles this salvation of God hath been sent; they, moreover, will hear.


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proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without hindrance from any one.


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and shown with power to be the Son of God as to his spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;


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through whom we received grace and the office of an apostle in behalf of his name, in order to produce obedience to the faith among all nations;


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to all the beloved of God at Rome, called, holy: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how constantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers


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supplicating that, if it be possible, I may at last through the will of God be favored with an opportunity of coming to you.


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For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, which may be for your confirmation;


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that is, that I may be edified among you, and you also, through each other's faith, both yours and mine.


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But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.


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For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.


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For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”


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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.


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For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.


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Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;


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and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.


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Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;


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because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.


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and in like manner the men also, neglecting the natural use of the female, burned with lust for one another, men with men practising that which is shameful, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error.


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And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;


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being filled with all unrighteousness, malice, covetousness, wickedness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; backbiters,


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who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who do them.<pb/>


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Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man that judgest, whoever thou art. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.


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And dost thou suppose, O man, who art judging those who do such things, and art thyself doing the same, that thou wilt escape the judgment of God?


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Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?


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But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,


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everlasting life to those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and incorruption;


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but to those who are contentious, and disobedient to the truth; but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and indignation.


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Tribulation and distress will be upon every soul of man whose works are evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;


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but glory, honor, and peace, to every one whoso works are good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.


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For as many as have sinned without a law, will also perish without a law; and as many as have sinned under a law, will be judged by a law,


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for it is not the hearers of a law who are righteous before God, but the doers of a law will be accounted righteous;—


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for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;


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since they show that what the Law requireth is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts in turn accusing or defending them;—


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in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to the gospel which I have preached.


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and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the Law;


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an instructor of those who lack wisdom, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law,—


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dost thou then who teachest another, not teach thyself? Thou who proclaimest that others should not steal, dost thou steal?


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Dost thou who forbiddest to commit adultery, thyself commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?


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For circumcision is indeed a benefit to thee, if thou keep the Law; but if thou art a breaker of the Law, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.


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If then he who is uncircumcised keep the precepts of the Law, shall not he though uncircumcised be regarded as circumcised?


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Yea, those who are by nature uncircumcised, if they perform the law, will judge thee, who having a written Law and circumcision, art a breaker of the Law.


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For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision, which is outward, in the flesh;


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Far be it! yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, “That thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art arraigned.”


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But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)


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For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?


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And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.


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they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.


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Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have practised deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips.


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Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.


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even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.


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whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;


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in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, so that he may be righteous, and accept as righteous him who hath faith.


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Seeing there is but one God, who will accept the circumcised as righteous by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.


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For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.


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For what saith the scripture? “Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness.”


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but to him who without performing works hath faith in him who accepteth as righteous one that hath been ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness;


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Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abraham's faith was accounted as righteousness.


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and that he might be the father of the circumcised, who are not circumcised merely, but who tread in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while yet uncircumcised.


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For if they that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.


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(as it is written, “I have made thee a father of many nations”) in the sight of that God whom he believed, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.


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and not being weak in faith, he regarded not his own body which had become dead, he being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;


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nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;


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but for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,


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who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.<pb/>


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Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;


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through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.


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and hope will not disappoint us; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which hath been given to us.


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Now hardly for a righteous man will one die; perhaps, however, for a benefactor one might even dare to die.


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and not this only, but also having joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.


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So then as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus [[death]] came through unto all men, because all sinned—


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(for all the time before the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not set to one's account when there is no law.


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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the manner in which Adam transgressed; who is a type of him who was to come.—


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And the free gift is not like what happened through one man who sinned. For sentence of condemnation followed one offence; but the free gift is a justification after many offences.


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As then through one trespass all men have come under condemnation, so through one act of righteousness all obtain the gift of righteousness unto life.


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that as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.<pb/>


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We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.


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For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;


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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;


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since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer.


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nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.


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Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is righteousness?


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But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;


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I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.


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What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.


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But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.


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For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.<pb/>


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Know ye not, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who are acquainted with the Law,) that the Law hath dominion over a man only as long as he liveth?


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For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is released from the law which bound her to him.


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So then, if while her husband is living she connect herself with another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband die, she is no longer bound by that law, so that she will not be an adulteress, though she connect herself with another man.


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So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.


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But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter.


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What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, “Thou shalt not covet.”


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But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.


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And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;


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Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.


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For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.


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but I perceive another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.


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Thanks be to God, [[who hath delivered me]] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.<pb/>


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For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;


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so that what is required by the Law might be accomplished in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.


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Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.


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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath to not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.


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


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But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.


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For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.


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For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage so as to be again in fear; but ye received the spirit of adopted children, whereby we cry, Abba, Father!


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and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.


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For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.


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For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection,


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in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.


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For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;


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and not only so, but even we ourselves also, though having the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption as sons, for the redemption of our body.


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For we were saved only in hope. But hope which is seen is not hope; how can a man hope for that which he seeth?


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In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedeth with groans which cannot be expressed in words.


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But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth the mind of the Spirit, because it intercedeth for the holy according to the will of God.


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We know moreover that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.


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For he determined beforehand that those whom he foreknew should be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.


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And those whom he before appointed, he also called; and those whom he called, he also accepted as righteous; and those whom he accepted as righteous, he also glorified.


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He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?


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Who is he that condemneth? Christ is he that died, yea rather, who rose again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ for us? Shall affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?


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


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For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,


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nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God for us, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<pb/>


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I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that


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For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;


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who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;


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whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.


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nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, “Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac.”


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That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.


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before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, to the end that God's purpose according to election might stand, not depending on works, but on the will of him that calleth,


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For he saith to Moses, “On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion.”


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So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.


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For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth.”


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Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?


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Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use, and another for a dishonorable?


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What if God endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, purposing to manifest his wrath and to make known his power;


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purposing also to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,


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as he also saith in Hosea, “I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, that was not beloved.


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


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But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.


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For he is accomplishing his word and speedily fulfilling it in righteousness; for a speedily fulfilled word will the Lord execute upon the earth.”


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And as Isaiah hath said before, “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.”


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What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;


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Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;


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as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth in him shall not be put to shame.”<pb/>


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For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and endeavoring to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.


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For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law: “The man that hath done these things shall live by them.”


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But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, “Who shall ascend into heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down.


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But what saith it? “The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart;” that is, the word concerning faith, which we preach;


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for if thou shalt acknowledge with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.


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For with the heart man believeth so as to obtain righteousness, and with the mouth professeth so as to obtain salvation.


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


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


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and how shall men preach, unless they are sent forth? as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”


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But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, “Lord, who hath believed what he hath heard from us?”


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But I say, Did they not hear? Yes truly, “Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”


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But I say, Hath not Israel had knowledge? First, Moses saith, “I will move you to jealousy by that which is no nation, I will excite you to indignation by a foolish people.”


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But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, “I was found by those who sought me not, I became known to those who inquired not for me.”


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But concerning Israel he saith, “All the day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people.”<pb/>


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I say then, Hath God cast off his people? Far be it I For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


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God hath not cast off his people, which he foreknew. Do ye not know what the Scripture saith in the passage concerning Elijah? how he pleadeth to God against Israel:


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“Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life.”


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But what saith the answer of God to him? “I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”


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And if it is by grace, it is no longer on account of works; otherwise grace ceaseth to be grace; but if it is of works, there is then no grace; otherwise work ceaseth to be work. How is it then?


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as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that were not to see, and ears that were not to hear, unto this day.”


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And David saith, “Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them;


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I say then, Did they stumble in order to fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the gentiles to excite them to emulation.


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But if their offence is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more will their fullness be?


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For if the rejection of them is the reconciliation of the world, what will the reception of them be, but life from the dead?


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And if the first portion of the dough is holy, so also will be the lump; and if the root is holy, so will be the branches.


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And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and fatness of the olive-tree,


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Be it so. It was for their unbelief that they were broken off, and thou standest through thy faith; be not high-minded, but fear.


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Behold then the goodness and the severity of God; toward those who fell, severity; but toward thee God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise thou also wilt be cut off.


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And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.


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For if thou hast been cut off from an olive-tree wild by nature, and hast against thy nature been ingrafted into a good olive-tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be ingrafted into their own olive-stock?


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For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.


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And thus will all Israel be saved; as it is written, “There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.


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In regard to the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but in regard to God's choice, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.


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so they too have now become disobedient, that they also may obtain mercy through the mercy shown to you.


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O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his purposes, and his ways past finding out!


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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship;


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and be not conformed to the fashion of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that ye may learn by experience what is the will of God, what is good, and well-pleasing, and perfect.


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For through the grace given to me I warn every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath imparted to each.


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so we, though many, form one body in Christ, and each of us is a member of it in common with the rest.


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Having then gifts which dither according to the grace which hath been bestowed upon us, if we have prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;


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or he that exhorteth, to exhortation; he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that presideth over others, with diligence; he that doeth deeds of mercy, with cheerfulness.


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Be of one mind among yourselves. Set not your minds on high things, but content yourselves with what is humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.


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Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather make room for wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”


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Therefore, “if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head.”


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Let every one submit to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist have been ordained by God.


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He therefore that setteth himself against the authority resisteth what God hath ordained; and they a who resist will bring upon themselves judgment.


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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the government? Do that which is good, and thou wilt have praise from it;


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for the ruler is God's servant to thee for good. But if thou doest evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is God's servant, an avenger to inflict wrath upon him that doeth evil.


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It is necessary therefore to submit, not only because of the wrath, but also for your conscience' sake.


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Render to all what is due to them; tribute, to whom tribute is due; custom, to whom custom; fear, to whom fear; honor, to whom honor.


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And this, since we know the time, that it is already high time for us to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we became believers.


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The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us then throw off the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light.


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Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envy;


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Let not him who eateth, despise him that eateth not; and let not him who eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.


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Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? To his own lord he standeth or falleth; and he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.


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One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike: let each one be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord;


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and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. And he that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth thanks to God; and he that doth not eat, to the Lord he doth not eat, and giveth thanks to God.


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But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? And thou, too, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.


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


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Let us then no longer judge one another; but let this rather be your judgment, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in a brother's way.


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I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him that accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


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For if on account of food thy brother is made to mourn, thou art no longer walking according to love. Do not with thy food destroy him for whom Christ died.


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Do not for the sake of food undo the work of God. All things indeed are clean; but that which is pure is evil for that man who eateth so as to be an occasion of sin.


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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is put in danger of falling, or is made weak.


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Thou hast faith; have it to thyself before God. Happy is he who doth not condemn himself in that which he alloweth.


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For Christ did not seek his own pleasure, but, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me.”


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For whatever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that we through the patience and the consolation of the Scriptures might have hope.


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and that the gentiles glorified God for his mercy, as it is written, “For this cause I will give praise to thee among the gentiles, and sing to thy name.”


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And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.


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But I myself am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye are even of yourselves full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.


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But I have written to you, brethren, in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given me by God


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that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


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by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;


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but always earnestly desirous to preach it in this manner,—not where Christ had been named, that I might not build on another's foundation,


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but, as it is written: “They, to whom no tidings concerning him came, shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.”


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when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.


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They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.


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When therefore I have completed this business, and secured to them this fruit, I shall set out to pass through you to Spain.


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that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judaea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;


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that ye may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy, and assist her in whatever business she may need your aid; for she hath been a helper of many, and of myself also.


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who for my life laid down their own necks; to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the gentiles;


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salute also the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruit gathered from Asia for Christ.


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Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.


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Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.


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


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For your obedience hath become known to all. Over you, then, I rejoice; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.


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And the God of peace will soon beat down Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


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Gaius my host, and the host of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus, the brother.


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but is now made manifest, and through the writings of the prophets, by the command of the everlasting God, is made known to all the nations to bring them to obedience to the faith,—


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to the church of God which is at Corinth, the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called, holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours;


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who will also make you steadfast to the end, so that ye may be without blame in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgment.


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For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.


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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.


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For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.


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For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning.”


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Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?


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


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For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;


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but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;


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and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;


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But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;


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and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power;


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But we do speak wisdom among the perfect; not, however, the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;


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but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God determined on before the world was, for our glory;


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which none of the rulers of this world comprehended; for had they comprehended it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;


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but, as it is written: “The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him.”


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For God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the depths of God.


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For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of the man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no one but the Spirit of God.


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But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;


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which things we also speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, connecting what is spiritual l with what is spiritual.


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But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.


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For “who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.<pb/>


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I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.


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I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;


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for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?


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Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?


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And he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labor.


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According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful master-builder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.


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the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every one's work is.


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if any one's work shall be burned up, he will lose the reward; but he will be saved himself, yet as one escaping through fire.


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If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.


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Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: “He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;”


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


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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human tribunal; nay, I do not even judge myself;


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for though I am conscious to myself of nothing wrong, yet not by this am I cleared of blame; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.


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So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of men's hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.


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And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.


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For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?


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Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.


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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.


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We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.


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Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place,


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being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the off-scouring of all things until now.


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For though ye have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.


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For this end I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will put you in mind of my ways in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every church.


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But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lord's will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;


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It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.


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And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.


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For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,


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in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit with you are assembled together, with the power of our Lord Jesus,


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to deliver such a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.


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Cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ.


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So then let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


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certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.


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But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.


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Doth any one of you, who hath a matter against another, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy?


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Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?


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Know ye not, that we shall pass judgment upon angels? How much more, concerning affairs of this life?


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If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.


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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?


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Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?


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Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,


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


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And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.


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Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;


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Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!


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Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? “For the two,” saith he, “shall become one flesh;”


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Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.


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Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?


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but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.


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The wife hath not the disposal of her own body, but her husband; and so also the husband hath not the disposal of his own body, but his wife.


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Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.


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I would that all men were as I myself; but every one hath his own gift from God, one man this, and another that.


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But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lord's: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,


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and if she have separated herself let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.


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But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she be satisfied to dwell with him, let him not put her away;


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and if a wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he be satisfied to dwell with her, let her not put her husband away.


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For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.


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But if the unbelieving separateth himself, let him separate himself; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God hath called you to be in peace.


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For how dost thou know, O wife, but that thou mayst save thy husband? or how dost thou know, O husband, but that thou mayst save thy wife?


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But let every one continue to walk in the lot which the Lord appointed him, in the condition in which God called him. And this direction I give in all the churches.


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Was any one called being circumcised, let him not become as if uncircumcised; hath any one been called in uncircumcision, let him not become circumcised.


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Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.


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For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christ's slave.


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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.


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Art thou bound to a wife, seek not to be loosed from her; art thou loosed from a wife, do not seek for one.


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But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.


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But this I say, brethren, the time that remaineth is short; that both they that have wives may be as though they had none;


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


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and they that use this world as not abusing it; for the outward condition of this world is passing away;


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and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;


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There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.


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And this I say for your own profit; not to cast a noose over you, but with a view to what is becoming, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.


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But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [[daughter]], if she pass the flower of her age [[without being married]], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.


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But if any one is settled in his purpose, and is under no necessity, but is free to act as he will, and hath determined in his heart to keep his own virgin daughter [[unmarried]], he doeth well.


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So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; and he that doth not give her in marriage doeth better.


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The wife is bound to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband die, she is free to marry whom she will, only in the Lord.


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But she is happier if she remain as she is, in my opinion; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.<pb/>


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Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;


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Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.


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For though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;


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yet to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.


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But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a conscience directed toward the idol even now, eat of it as a thing offered in sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


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But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.


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For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols?


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Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?<pb/>


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


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Have we not a right to carry about with us a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?


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Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses: “Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out grain.” Is it for oxen that God careth?


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Or doth he say it altogether on our account? On our account, no doubt, it was written, that he who plougheth ought to plough in hope, and that he who thrasheth should do it in the hope of partaking.


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If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?


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If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.


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Do ye not know, that they who minister in the offerings of the temple live from the temple? that they who serve at the altar share with the altar?


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In like manner also did the Lord ordain that they who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.


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But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.


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For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!


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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.


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What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.


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and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;


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to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;


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to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.


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Know ye not, that of those who run in the race-course all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.


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And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.


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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.<pb/>


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For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,


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and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that accompanied them; and the rock was Christ;


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Now these things were warnings for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.


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And do not ye become idolaters, as some of them did; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport.”


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Now these things happened to them as warnings, and were recorded for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages have come.


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No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.


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The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? the loaf which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?


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Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?


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What do I say then? That what is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?


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Nay, but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.


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


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All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all things are not edifying.


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And if one who is an unbeliever inviteth you to a feast, and ye choose to go, eat whatever is set before you, without asking any questions for the sake of conscience.


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But if any one say to you, This hath been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat of it, on account of him that showed you this, and from a regard to conscience;


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conscience I mean, not thine own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty to be judged by another conscience [[than my own]]?


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as I also strive to please all in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many; that they may be saved.<pb/>


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Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and hold fast the instructions, as I delivered them to you.


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But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.


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But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if her head were shaved.


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For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn; but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.


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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man;


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But I give you this charge, not praising you, because ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.


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


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for there must be also parties among you, that they who are approved may also become manifest among you.


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For, when ye eat, every one taketh before any distribution his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.


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What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.


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and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you; this do in remembrance of me.


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In like manner also the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant, in my blood; this do, as oft as ye drink, in remembrance of me.


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So that whoever eateth the bread or drinketh the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty with respect to the body and the blood of the Lord.


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for he that eateth and drinketh eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, if he do not discern the body.


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If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.<pb/>


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wherefore I give you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God saith, Accursed be Jesus; and that no one can say, Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.


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


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to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.


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For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so it is with Christ.


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For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or freemen; and were all made to drink one Spirit.


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If the foot say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it for this reason not of the body?


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And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it for this reason not of the body?


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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?


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And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; nor, again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


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and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;


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while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,


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that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.


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And so if one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.


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God appointed some in the church to be, in the first place, apostles, in the second place, prophets, in the third place, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, those of helping and of governing, divers kinds of tongues. Are all apostles?


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But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And furthermore I show you by far the most excellent way.<pb/>


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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.


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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.


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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.


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Love never faileth; but whether there are prophesyings, they will come to an end; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.


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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.


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For now we see in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.


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Strive to possess love; and desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, but especially that of prophesying.


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He that speaketh in an [[unknown]] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.


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I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification.


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But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?


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And even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, if they make no distinction in the sounds, how shall that be known which is piped or harped?


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So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall that be known which is spoken? For ye will be speaking into the air.


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If then I know not the meaning of the language, I shall be to him that speaketh a foreigner, and he that speaketh a foreigner to me.


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So also ye, since ye are eager to possess spiritual gifts, be earnest to abound in them to the edification of the church.


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How stands it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.


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Else, if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since he understandeth not what thou art saying?


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and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.” Wherefore the tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for believers.


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If therefore the whole church be assembled in one place, and all be speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?


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the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is indeed within you.


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How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a lesson of instruction, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation; let all things be done for edification.


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If any one speak in an [[unknown]] tongue, let it be by two, or, at the most, by three, and in turn; and let one interpret.


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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.


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let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as also saith the Law.


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And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.


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If any one thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know surely that the directions I am writing to you are the Lord's;


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Moreover, brethren, I declare anew to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand,


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by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the same word which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.


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For I delivered to you first of all what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;


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After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.


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But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.


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But if Christ be preached that he hath risen from the dead, how is it that some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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And we are also found false witnesses concerning God; because we testified concerning God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if so be that the dead rise not.


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But every one in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming.


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Then will be the end, when he delivereth up the kingdom to God, the Father, when he shall have destroyed all dominion, and all authority, and power.


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for “he put all things under his feet.” But when it is said that all things have been put under him, it is manifest that he who put all things under him is excepted.


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And when all things have been put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.


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If it be not so, what are they doing, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?


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If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, “let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”


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Awake, as is your duty, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I say it to your shame.


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and what thou sowest, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but a bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or of some of the other grains;


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All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.


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There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.


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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.


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it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.


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Thus is it also written: “The first man Adam became a living soul;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.


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As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly;


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And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.


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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass that which is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”


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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.<pb/>


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Now concerning the collection for the saints, according to the directions which I gave to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.


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Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.


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And when I am with you, I will send with letters whomever you may approve to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;


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Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia; for I am about to pass through Macedonia;


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and perhaps I may remain, or even spend the winter with you, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I may be going.


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For I am unwilling to see you now in passing; for I hope to stay some time with you if the Lord permit.


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Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he is laboring in the work of the Lord, as I am;


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let no one therefore despise him. But conduct him on in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.


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As regards Apollos, the brother, I urged him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come at this time; but he will come when he hath a convenient opportunity.


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And I exhort you, brethren,—ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy,—


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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for what was lacking on your part, they supplied;


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The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church that is in their house, send you many salutations in the Lord.


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the holy who are in all Achaia:


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who comforteth us in all our distress, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any distress by the comfort wherewith we are ourselves comforted by God;


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And whether we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation, which showeth its power in enabling you to bear patiently the same sufferings which we also endure; and our hope is steadfast in your behalf; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation,


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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;


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yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;


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who delivered us from such peril of death, and is delivering; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us,


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you also unitedly helping us by prayer, so that for this blessing bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many on your behalf.


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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.


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For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or even acknowledge. And I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end,


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as also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your glorying, as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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And in this confidence it was my purpose to come to you before, that ye might receive a second benefit;


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and to go by way of you into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be forwarded on my way to Judaea.


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Having, then, this purpose, did I act with levity? Or in my purposes do I resolve according to the flesh, that with me there should be now yea, yea, and now nay, nay?


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For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not found yea and nay, but in him hath been found yea.


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But I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that it was to spare you that I came no more to Corinth;


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not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. For in respect to faith ye stand firm.<pb/>


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And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.


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For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.


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But if any one hath caused grief, he hath caused it not to me alone, but in a measure, not to be too severe on him, to all of you.


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so that on the contrary ye ought rather to forgive, and console him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.


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


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But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,


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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.


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But thanks be to God, who always exhibiteth us in triumph in Christ, and manifesteth through us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.


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For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing;


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to the latter we are the odor of death, producing death; and to the former the odor of life, producing life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as the many, who adulterate the word of God; but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.<pb/>


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Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we need, like some others, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?


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since ye are manifestly shown to be a letter of Christ by means of our service, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on fleshly tablets of the heart.


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not that we are able of ourselves to think anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God;


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who also gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.


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But if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, was so glorious, that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses by reason of the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away,


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For if the ministration of condemnation had glory, much greater is the glory of the ministration of righteousness.


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For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.


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and do not as Moses did, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.


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But their understandings were blinded; for until this day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remaineth, since it is not unveiled to them that it is done away in Christ;


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But we all with unveiled face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.<pb/>


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but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.


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in whom the God of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, so that they cannot behold the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.


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For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your bond-servants for Jesus' sake.


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For it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, that shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.


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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not of us;


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always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.


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For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.


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But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke,” we also believe, and therefore speak;


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knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.


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For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding by means of the greater number may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.


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For which cause we are not faint-hearted; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.


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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;


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while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are but for a time; but the things which are not seen are ever lasting.<pb/>


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For we know that, if our earthly tent-habitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.


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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.


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Now he that hath prepared us for this very thing is God; who also gave to us the Spirit as the pledge.


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We have courage, therefore, always, and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;


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For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.


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Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope have been made manifest in your consciences also.


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For we are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion to glory on our behalf; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in outward appearance, and not in heart.


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For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are in our sound mind, it is for you.


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For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then all died;


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and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for their sakes, and rose again.


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So that we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; and if we have even known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him.


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Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.


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And all things are from God, who reconciled us to himself by Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;


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seeing that in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.


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We then are ambassadors for Christ; as though God were exhorting you by us, in behalf of Christ we entreat you, Be reconciled to God.


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(for he saith: “In an accepted time I heard thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee;” Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation;)


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but as God's ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,


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


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


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Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?


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And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”


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“Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean;” “and I will receive you,


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Having then these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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Receive us into your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.


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I am not saying this to condemn you; for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.


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Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on your account; I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our trouble.


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For indeed when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.


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and not by his coming only, but by the comfort with which he was comforted in regard to you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal in my behalf; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For though I caused you sorrow with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter caused you sorrow, though it was but for a short time.


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Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful, but that your sorrow produced repentance. For the sorrow which ye felt had respect to God, that ye might in nothing receive injury from me.


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For sorrow before God worketh repentance to salvation never to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.


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For behold this very thing, that your sorrow had respect to God; what earnestness it wrought in you; yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what longing desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what readiness to punish! In every thing ye showed yourselves to be pure in the matter.


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Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.


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Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all;


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for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;


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


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Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia;


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that under a great trial of distress the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty increased the riches of their liberality;


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for according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,


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and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God;


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so that we urged Titus, that, as he had already made a beginning, so he would also finish among you this bounty also.


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But as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this exercise of liberality also.


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I speak not by way of command, but by reason of the earnestness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.


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


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And I only give an opinion in this matter. For this is expedient for you, who began before others, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.


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


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For if there be first the willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, not according to what he hath not.


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but to make an equality; at the present season your abundance meeting their deficiency, that their abundance may at another time meet your deficiency; that there may be equality;


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as it is written: “He that gathered much, had nothing over; and he that gathered little, had no lack.”


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and not that only, but who was also appointed by the churches as our fellow-traveler in the matter of this bounty, which is administered by us to the honor of the Lord himself, and of our ready mind;


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since we are careful of this, that no one should blame us in our management of this abundant liberality;


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for we take forethought for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.


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And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often in many things proved to be zealous, but now much more zealous through the great confidence which he hath in you.


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As to Titus, he is my partner and fellow-laborer for you; as to our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.


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Display to them, therefore, before the churches, the proof of your love, and of what we have boasted on your behalf.<pb/>


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For I know your readiness of mind, of which I boast in behalf of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared a year ago; and your zeal stirred up the greater part of them.


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But I sent the brethren, that our boasting of you should not prove unfounded in this respect; that, as I said, ye may be prepared;


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lest, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be put to shame in respect to this confidence.


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I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.


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But this there is to say: He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.


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Each one, as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.


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And God is able to make every blessing abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work;


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Now, he that ministereth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;


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while ye are enriched in everything to all liberality, which worketh out through us thanksgiving to God;


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for the ministration of this service not only supplieth the wants of the saints, but also overfloweth through many thanksgivings to God;


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while by the proof afforded by this ministration they glorify God for your obedience to your profession in regard to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution in regard to them and in regard to all;


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while with supplication for you they long after you on account of the exceeding grace of God to you.


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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I, who present indeed am lowly among you, but am bold toward you when absent;


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but I entreat you, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think of being bold towards some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.


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(for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds,)


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casting down reasonings, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every purpose into captivity to the obedience of Christ,


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and being in readiness to punish every disobedience, when the measure of your obedience shall be full.


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Ye look at the outward appearance. If any one trusteth to himself that he belongeth to Christ, let him of himself consider this again, that as he belongeth to Christ, so also do we.


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For even if I should boast still more highly of our authority, which the Lord gave us for building you up, and not pulling you down, I should not be put to shame;


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For his letters, saith one, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.


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


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For we do not venture to reckon ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, some of those who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.


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But we will not boast of things that are without our measure, but according to the measure of the line which God allotted us,—a measure to reach even to you.


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For we do not stretch ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not to you; (for as far as even to you did we come, in the gospel of Christ;)


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not boasting of things that are without measure, in other men's labors, but having hope, when your faith is increased, that our line will through you be still further extended,


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so that we may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you; not boasting, in another's line, of things made ready to our hand.


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For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ;


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but I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from single-heartedness toward Christ.


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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye did not receive, or another gospel, which ye did not accept, well might ye bear with it.


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And though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but this did we in every respect manifest to you in all things.


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Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?


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and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.


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As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia.


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But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who wish for an occasion, in order that in the matter of which they boast they may be found even as we.


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It is no great thing, then, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.


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I say again, let no one suppose me a fool; if otherwise, yet even as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.


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for ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face.


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I say it to my reproach, that we were weak; but in whatever any one is bold, (I speak in folly,) I am bold also.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;


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thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;


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by journeyings often; by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren;


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by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.


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Besides the other troubles, there is that which presseth upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches.


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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept guard over the city of the Damascenes, in order to apprehend me;


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I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago,—whether in the body, I know not, or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth,—such a one caught up even to the third heaven.


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


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For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.


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And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.


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and he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may abide upon me.


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Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.


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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you with all endurance, by signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.


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For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.


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Behold, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a charge 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.


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


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I urged Titus to go to you, and with him I sent the brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?


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Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God in Christ that we are speaking; but all things, beloved, for your edification.


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For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;


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


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I said before, and now say beforehand, as when present the second time, so also absent now, to those who have sinned before, and to all the others, that if I come again, I will not spare;


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since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty among you.


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For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live together with him by the power of God toward you.


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Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless ye are unapproved?


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Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not in order that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is good, though we be as unapproved.


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For this cause I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.


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Finally, brethren, farewell! Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the partaking of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.


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Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,—


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


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I marvel that ye are so soon turning from him that called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel;


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which is not another; only there are certain persons who are troubling you, and seeking to change entirely the gospel of Christ.


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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed!


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As we have said before, so I now say again, If any one preach a gospel to you contrary to that which ye received, let him be accursed!


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For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.


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for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.


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For ye have heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,


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and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.


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to reveal his Son within me, that I might publish the glad tidings of him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,


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


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Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days;


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but they were only hearing that “He who was once our persecutor is now preaching the faith which he was once destroying”;


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Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me.


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And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles; but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.


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and that because of the false brethren stealthily brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring into bondage;


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to whom not even for an hour did we yield by the required subjection, that the truth of the gospel might still remain with you.


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But from those who were reputed to be somewhat—whatever they were, it matters not to me, (God accepteth no man's person,) for to me those in reputation communicated nothing new.


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But on the contrary, when they saw that I was intrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as Peter was with that to the circumcised,


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(for he who wrought for Peter in behalf of the apostleship to the circumcised, wrought also for me in behalf of the gentiles,)


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and when they knew the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcised;


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For before certain persons came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.


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And the other Jews also dissembled with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.


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But when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of gentiles, and not that of the Jews, how is it that thou compellest the gentiles to keep the customs of the Jews?


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but knowing that a man is not accepted as righteous by the works of the Law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, we also have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted as righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be accepted as righteous.


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But while seeking to be accepted as righteous in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Far be it!


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I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.


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I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness come through the Law, then did Christ die for nought.<pb/>


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O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified.


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This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from the works of the Law that ye received the Spirit, or by the preaching of faith?


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Doth he then who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by the preaching of faith?


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Moreover the Scripture, foreseeing that God was to accept the gentiles as righteous by faith, proclaimed beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying, “In thee shall all nations be blessed.”


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For as many as rely on the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.”


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But further, that through the observance of the Law no one is accepted as righteous with God is evident; for “the righteous shall live by faith.”


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And the Law hath nothing to do with faith; but [[its language is]], “He that hath done them shall live in them.”


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, “Cursed is every one that is hanged on a beam of wood,”—


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to the end that in Christ Jesus the blessing promised to Abraham might come to the gentiles, that we through faith might receive the Spirit which was promised.


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Brethren, I speak according to what is practised among men; no one sets aside even a human covenant, or makes additions to it, after it has been ratified.


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But the promises were made to Abraham and “to his offspring.” He doth not say, “and to offsprings,” as speaking of many, but, as speaking of one, “and to thy offspring,” which is Christ.


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And what I mean is this; that a covenant that was before ratified by God, the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, cannot annul, so as to make void the promise;


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for if the inheritance cometh from the Law, it ceaseth to be the consequence of the promise; but to Abraham God gave it by promise.


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To what end then was the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise belongeth, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.


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Is then the Law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which was able to give life, righteousness would indeed have been by the Law;


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but the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the blessing promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


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But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the Law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.


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So then the Law hath been our schoolmaster, to lead us to Christ, that we might be accepted as righteous through faith;


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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus;


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Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth in no respect from a bond-servant, though he is lord of all;


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but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,


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And to show that ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father!


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But at that time, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye were in slavery to those who in their nature are not gods;


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but now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments to which ye wish to be again in bondage?


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Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as ye are; ye injured me in nothing.


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Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,


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and my trial which was in my flesh ye did not despise nor spurn; but received me as an angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus.


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How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.


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They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.


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But it is good to be an object of zeal in what is good always, and not only when I am present with you.


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I could wish indeed to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am in perplexity about you.


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But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh; while the one by the freewoman was through the promise.


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Which things are written allegorically; for these women are two covenants; the one from Mount Sinai, who beareth children into bondage, which is Hagar;


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for the word Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and she corresponds to the Jerusalem now existing, for she is in bondage with her children;


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For it is written: “Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for many are the children of the desolate one, rather than of her who hath the husband.”


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But as at that time he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born through the Spirit, so it is now.


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But what saith the scripture? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”


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Stand firm in the liberty with which Christ made us free, and be not again bound fast to the yoke of bondage.


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Ye are entirely separated from Christ, who seek to obtain righteousness through the Law; ye have fallen away from grace.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working by love.


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I indeed have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded; but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.


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But as for me, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then hath the cross ceased to be a stumbling-block.


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For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.


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For the whole Law is fulfilled in one commandment, even in this “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”


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For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.


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envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also told you in time past, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Brethren, even if a man be detected in a fault, do ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.


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But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have his ground for boasting in himself alone, and not in comparison with another;


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for he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.


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So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these are constraining you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.


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For not even do they who become circumcised themselves keep the Law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.


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But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are [[in Ephesus]], and believers in Christ Jesus:


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Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly regions in Christ;


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according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;


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having in love predestinated us for himself to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,


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


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


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in reference to the dispensation of the fullness of the times, to gather for himself into one all things in Christ, the things which are in the heavens, and the things on the earth; even in him,


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in whom we also obtained the inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,


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in whom ye also, after having heard the word of truth, the glad tidings of your salvation, in whom, I say, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit that was promised,


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which is a pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.


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For this cause I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and of your love to all the saints,


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


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the eyes of your mind being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope belonging to his call of you, and what the riches of the glory of the inheritance which he hath given among the saints,


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and what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,


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which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead; and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions,


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far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come;


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and put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,


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in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;


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among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;


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


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For by grace ye have been saved, through faith; and this is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;


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


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Wherefore remember, that in time past ye, the gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by those who are called circumcised, having the circumcision of the flesh, performed by hand,—


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


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but now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who formerly were afar off, have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ.


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For it is he who is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition between us, that is, the enmity;


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having abolished in his flesh the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create of the two one new man in himself, thus making peace,


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And he came and brought the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and of peace to those that were near;


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So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow-citizens with the saints, and members of the household of God,


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and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone;


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which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;


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that the gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel;


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of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, given to me according to the effectual working of his power.


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To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to make known among the gentiles the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ,


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to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which hath been hidden for ages in God, who created all things;


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to the intent that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions might be known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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Wherefore I entreat you not to be disheartened by the troubles I am suffering for you, since they are your glory.


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


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that ye may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,


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and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.


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


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to him be the glory in the church in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.<pb/>


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I exhort you, therefore, I the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,


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But to each one of us was given the grace [[which he hath]] according to the measure of the gift of Christ.


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Wherefore he saith: “When he ascended on high, he led captive a train of captives, and gave gifts to men.”


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He who descended is the same as he who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.


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And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;


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for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministration, for the building up of the body of Christ;


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till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;


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that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;


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from whom the whole body, well put together and compacted by means of every supplying joint, is, according to the working of each part in its proportion, building itself up in love.


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This therefore I say, and charge you in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,


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having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;


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who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.


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that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,


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and that ye put on the new man, who was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the truth.


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Wherefore having put away falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.


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Let him that stealeth steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands at that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.


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Let no foul language proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for edification, as the need may be, that it may benefit the hearers;


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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice;


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and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.<pb/>


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and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.


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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,


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neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.


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For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whore-monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.


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Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.


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But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatever maketh manifest is light.


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Wherefore he saith, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.”


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speaking to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;


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for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,—he, who is the Saviour of the body.


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that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.


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In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;


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for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth the church;


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“For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”


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And, ye fathers, stir not up the anger of your children, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.


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Bond-servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as serving Christ;


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not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as bond-servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;


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knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.


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And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening; knowing that both they and you have a Master in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.


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for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions.


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Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.


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Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breast-plate of righteousness,


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taking up, in addition to all, the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One;


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praying with all prayer and entreaty at all times in the Spirit; and watching to this end with all perseverance and entreaty for all the saints,


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and for me, that utterance may be given me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,


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in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.


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But that ye also may know about me, how I am faring, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will inform you of everything;


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whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, together with the bishops and deacons:


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being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus;


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even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, all of you being sharers of the grace bestowed on me.


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so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence against the day of Christ,


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being filled with the fruit of righteousness which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


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But I wish you to know, brethren, that things with me have resulted in the furtherance of the gospel;


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so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;


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and that the great part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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(1:17) but they who are of a factious spirit preach Christ with no pure intent, thinking to stir up affliction to my bonds.


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What then? Notwithstanding, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and therein do I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.


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For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so also now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.


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But if to live in the flesh, if this is to me the fruit of my labor, then what I should choose, I cannot say;


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but I am held in a strait by the two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; for it is far better;


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And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement and joy in your faith,


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that your glorying in me, in the cause of Christ Jesus, may be more abundant by my coming to you again.


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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,


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and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation; and that from God;


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for to you it was given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but in his behalf to suffer also;


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If then there is any exhortation in Christ, if any encouragement from love, if any partaking of the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,


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make my joy full, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, with union of soul cherishing one mind;


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doing nothing in the spirit of faction, or in the spirit of vain-glory, but in humility esteeming others as better than yourselves;


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who, being in the form of God, did not regard it as a thing to be grasped at to be on an equality with God,


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and in what appertained to him appearing as a man, he humbled himself, and was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.


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that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth,


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So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;


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that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,


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holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.


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But if I am even poured out on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.


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But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I know your state.


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Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and minister to my wants;


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For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.


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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; to write the same things to you, to me is not burdensome, and for you it is safe.


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For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;


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though I myself have reason for confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason for confidence in the flesh, I more;


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circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;


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Nay more, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ,


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and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;


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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,


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Not that I have already obtained, or have been already perfected; but I press on, if I may also lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ.


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Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind; and if ye have a different mind in anything, even this will God reveal to you.


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whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, whose mind is on earthly things.


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who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it shall be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of the power with which he is able to subdue all things to himself.<pb/>


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yea, I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, give them aid; since they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.


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and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


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Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.


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The things which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace will be with you.


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But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived again in your care for my welfare; for which indeed ye cared before, but lacked opportunity.


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Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.


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I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound; in every thing and in all things I have been well taught, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want;


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And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;


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But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus what was sent from you, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.


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to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father.


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on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,


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which is come to you, as it is in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, as it doth also in you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth;


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even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf;


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On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;


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that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;


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endued with all power according to the might of his glory unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;


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for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things have been created through him and for him;


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for God was pleased that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself,


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having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him, I say, whether the things on earth, or those in the heavens.


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in the body of his flesh through his death, to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable in his sight;


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if ye indeed continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye heard, which hath been preached in the whole creation under heaven; of which I Paul became a minister.


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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;


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of which I became a minister, according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me, for you, to fulfill the word of God,


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the mystery which hath been hidden for ages and generations, but hath been now revealed to his saints;


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to whom it was the will of God to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;


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whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;


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to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.<pb/>


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that their hearts may be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;


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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.


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rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.


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in whom also ye have been circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, in putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ,


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having been buried with him in your baptism; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead;


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and to you also who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he given life together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;


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blotting out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was opposed to us, he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;


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and having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public show of them, and led them captive in triumph in him.


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Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feast-day, or a new moon, or sabbaths;


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and not holding fast the Head, from which the whole body, supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments, groweth with an increase wrought by God.


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which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship and humiliation and severity to the body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh.<pb/>


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If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.


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Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;


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but now put ye away all these, anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy language out of your mouth.


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where there is no Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.


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Clothe yourselves, therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, with compassionate affections, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;


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bearing with each other, and forgiving each other, if any one have a complaint against another; even as Christ freely forgave you, do ye also freely forgive;


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and let the peace of Christ, to which ye were called in one body, rule in your hearts; and be ye thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to God;


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and whatever ye do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through him.


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Bond-servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.


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knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance; serve Christ as your Lord.


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Masters, deal out to your bond-servants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.


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praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in bonds;


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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.


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Of all my affairs Tychicus will inform you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord;


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whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he may know your condition, and comfort your hearts;


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together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will inform you of every thing here.


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Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom ye received directions (if he come to you, receive him),


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and Jesus, who is called Justus; who are of the circumcision; these only are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been an encouragement unto me.


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Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.


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For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and those that are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.


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And when the letter hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the letter from Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be to you, and peace.


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remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and perseverance in the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father;


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because the gospel preached by us came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; as ye well know what sort of persons we became among you for your sake.


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And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy from the Holy Spirit;


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For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [[about you]].


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For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,


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and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the coming wrath.<pb/>


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but after we had suffered before and had been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.


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but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.


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For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;


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nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ.


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so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.


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For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.


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Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward you that believe;


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as ye know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,


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And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also is powerfully working in you that believe.


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For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews;


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who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,


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hindering us from speaking to the gentiles that they may be saved,—to fill up their sins always! But the wrath is come upon them to the end.


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But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you for a short time, separated in body, not in heart, used the greater endeavors with much earnestness to see your face.


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For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming?


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and sent Timothy, our brother and a fellow-laborer with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to encourage you in your faith,


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so that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for yourselves know that to this we are appointed;


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for even when we were with you, we told you before that we are to suffer affliction, just as it came to pass, and ye know.


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For this cause, when I too could no longer forbear, I sent in order to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor should prove in vain.


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But when Timothy just now came to us from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you;


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for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction by your faith;


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For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sakes before our God;


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night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may supply that which is lacking in your faith?


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and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we do in love toward you;


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in order that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.<pb/>


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that no one should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.


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But concerning brotherly love there is no need of writing to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;


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for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to abound in love still more;


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and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;


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But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, who have no hope.


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For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are living, we who are left till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those who have fallen asleep.


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For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first;


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then we who are living, we who are left, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.


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When they are saying, Peace and safety; then doth sudden destruction come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.


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but let us, as we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation;


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See that none render evil for evil to any one; but ever follow that which is good, both toward one another and toward all.


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We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as is fit, because your faith increaseth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each ether aboundeth;


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so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, for your constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure;


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an indication of the righteous judgment of God, by which ye will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye are also suffering;


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and to you the distressed rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be manifested from heaven, with the angels of his might,


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in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;


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who will be punished with everlasting destruction proceeding from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,


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when he shall come in that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all who believed; for our testimony to you was believed.


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For which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and perfect [[in you]] all pleasure in goodness, and the work of faith, with power;


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that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.<pb/>


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that ye be not easily shaken in mind, nor troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as if the day of the Lord were close at hand.


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Let no one deceive you in any manner; for [[that day will not come]] unless the apostasy shall have come first and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;


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he that opposeth and exalteth himself above every one that is called God, or worthy of worship, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.


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and then will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the manifestation of his coming;


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[[he,]] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood,


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and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.


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So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the traditions which ye were taught by us, whether by word, or by our letter.


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Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.


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neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.


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Not because we have not authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, that ye should imitate us.


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Now such we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.


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to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than promote God's dispensation which is in faith, [[so I do now.]]


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knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers,


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for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to the sound teaching,


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though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a doer of outrage; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;


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But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me especially Christ Jesus might show forth all his long-suffering, as an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life everlasting.


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Now to the King eternal, the imperishable, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit to thee, my child Timothy, in accordance with the directions of the prophets before given to thee, that thou mayst in them war the good warfare,


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I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men;


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for kings, and all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and propriety.


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whereunto I was appointed a herald and an apostle, (I speak the truth, I lie not,) a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.


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I desire, then, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.


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In like manner also, that women, in seemly attire, adorn themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or costly apparel;


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A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;


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for if a man knoweth not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God—


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moreover he must also have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.


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Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,


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but if I should tarry long, that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.


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forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.


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If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, with which thou art well acquainted.


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For bodily exercise is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.


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For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have placed our hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of believers.


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Let no one despise thy youth, but become an example to the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in faith, in purity.


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Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.


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But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety to their own family, and to requite their parents; for this is acceptable before God.


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But if any one provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.


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well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.


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and withal they learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.


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If any man or woman that is a believer have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be burdened, that it may relieve those that are widows indeed.


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Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor; especially they who labor in the word and in teaching.


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I charge thee before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudging, doing nothing with partiality.


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No longer drink water only, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.


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And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they who receive the benefit are faithful and beloved. These things teach and exhort.


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he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, from which cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,


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incessant disputings of men corrupted in their minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that godliness is gain.


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But they who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.


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For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting have strayed away from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many pangs.


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But do thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.


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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on everlasting life, to which thou wast called, and didst profess the good profession before many witnesses.


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I charge thee before God, who giveth life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who under Pontius Pilate testified the good profession,


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that thou keep the commandment without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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which in his own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords,


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who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man hath seen, or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.


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Charge those who are rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor place their hope in uncertain riches, but in God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good,


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laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.


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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane babblings, and oppositions of the falsely-called knowledge;


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,


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I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, as without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,


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when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwelleth in thee also.


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For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the laying on of my hands;


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Be not then ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship with me for the gospel through the power of God,


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who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and the grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,


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but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,


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For which cause I suffer also these things. But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which he hath committed to me unto that day.


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Hold the pattern of sound words, which thou heardest from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus;


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The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; but on the contrary,


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The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day: and what services he rendered me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.<pb/>


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and the things which thou didst hear from me before many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, such as will be able to teach others also.


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No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.


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For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with everlasting glory.


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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to carry on a strife of words, to no useful purpose, but rather to the subverting of the hearers.


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Study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.


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who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection hath already taken place, and overthrow the faith of some.


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Nevertheless God's firm foundation standeth, having this seal, “The Lord knoweth them that are his;” and, “Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”


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But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also wooden and earthen ones; and some for honor, and some for dishonor.


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If then any one shall purge himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, hallowed, useful for the householder, prepared for every good work.


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But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


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and a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,


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in meekness admonishing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance to attain the full knowledge of the truth,


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and they may awake to their senses out of the snare of the Devil, by whom they have been taken captive to do his will.<pb/>


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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without


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For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,


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Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men corrupted in their minds, reprobate concerning the faith.


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But they will proceed no further; for their folly will be clearly manifest to all, as that of those men was.


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But thou art well acquainted with my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,


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persecutions, sufferings; what things came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.


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But do thou continue in the things which thou didst learn and wast assured of, knowing from what teachers thou didst learn them,


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and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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All Scripture is inspired by God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness;


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I charge thee before God, and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom;


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preach the word, be urgent in season, out of season, confute, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.


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For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own desires will they heap to themselves teachers; because they have itching ears;


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But be thou watchful in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish thy ministry.


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henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me at that day, and not to me only, but to all those who have loved his appearing.


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For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.


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The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments.


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At my first defence no one came forward with me, but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!


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But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the preaching might be fully accomplished by me, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.


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The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.


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Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Christ Jesus, for the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,


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but in his own seasons manifested his word through the preaching with which I was intrusted by the commandment of God our Saviour:


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to Titus, true child after the common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.


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For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed thee;


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if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children, that are not accused of dissoluteness, or unruly.


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For a bishop must be without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain,


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holding fast the sure word according to what he was taught, that he may be able by sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.


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whose mouths must be stopped, since they overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.


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One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said: “The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful gluttons.”


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To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled.


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They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.<pb/>


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that aged women likewise be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,


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to be discreet, chaste, workers at home, good, in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.


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sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is opposed to us may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.


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Exhort bond-servants to be in subjection to their own masters, in all things to be well-pleasing to them,


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not contradicting, not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of God our Saviour in all things.


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teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in the present world;


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looking for the blessed hope, and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ;


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who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people to be his own, zealous in good works.


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Put them in mind to submit themselves to governments, to authorities, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,


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For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.


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not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the bath of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit,


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that having been accepted as righteous by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life.


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True is the saying; and these things I desire that thou affirm earnestly, that they who have believed in God may be careful to practise good works. These things are good and profitable to men;


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but avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the Law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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When I shall have sent Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for there I have determined to pass the winter.


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Zenas the lawyer and Apollos forward on their journey diligently, that nothing may be wanting to them.


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And let those also who belong to us learn to practise good works for the necessary wants that arise, that they may not be unfruitful.


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Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon our beloved friend and fellow-laborer,


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that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us, for Christ Jesus.


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For we have great thankfulness and comfort on account of thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.


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yet for love's sake I beseech thee rather; being such a one as Paul an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus,


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Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel;


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but I chose to do nothing without thy consent, that thy benefit may be not as from necessity, but willingly.


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For perhaps he was separated from thee for a season to this end, that thou shouldst receive him back as thine for ever;


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no longer as a bond-servant, but above a bond-servant, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more to thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord!


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I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it; not to say to thee, that to me thou owest even thy own self besides.


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Having confidence in thy obedience I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.


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And at the same time make ready a lodging for me; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.


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hath at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds,


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who being a brightness from his glory and an image of his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself accomplished a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;


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For to which of the angels did he ever say: “Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee?” and again: “I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?”


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And again, when he hath brought in the first-begotten into the world, he saith: “And let all the angels of God pay him homage.”


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but of the Son: “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; and the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.


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Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”


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And: “Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst found the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.


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and thou wilt fold them up as a vesture, and they will be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years will not fail.”


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But to which of the angels hath he ever said: “Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?”


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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?<pb/>


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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest haply we let them slip.


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For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution,


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how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first was spoken through the Lord, and was confirmed to us through those who heard him,


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God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his will?


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But one in a certain place bore testimony, saying, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him?


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thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he put all things in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.


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But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor; that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.


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For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.


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For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren;


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saying, “I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I sing praise to thee.”


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And again, “I will put my trust in him;” and again, “Behold, I, and the children which God gave me.”


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Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner shared in the same, that through death he might bring to nought him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil,


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Whence it was right for him to be in all respects made like to his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.


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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession, Jesus;


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For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as greater than the house is he who built it.


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And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, that he might testify of those things which were to be spoken;


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but Christ as a son over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and joyousness of our hope.


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Wherefore I was offended with that generation, and said, They always err in their heart, but they knew not my ways;


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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.


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But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.


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And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?


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And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, except to those who were disobedient?


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Let us then fear, since a promise is still left us of entering into his rest, lest any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.


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For to us were glad tidings addressed, as well as to them; but the word which was heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.


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For we who believed enter into the rest, as he hath said: “So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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For he hath spoken in a certain place of the seventh day thus: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”


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Since then it still remaineth for some to enter into it, and they to whom the glad tidings of it were first brought did not enter in because of disobedience,


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he again appointeth a certain day, “To-day”—saying in David so long a time after, as hath before been said—”To-day, if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”


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For he that hath entered into his rest, hath himself rested from his works, as God did from his own.


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Let us then strive to enter into that rest, that no one may fall, as a like example of disobedience.


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For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart;


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and there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and laid open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.


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Since, then, we have a great high-priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.


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For we have not a high-priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who hath in all points been tempted as we are, without sin.


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Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.<pb/>


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For every high-priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;


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being able to be forbearing toward the ignorant and the erring, since he himself also is compassed with infirmity;


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and by reason of this infirmity he must, as for the people, so also for himself, offer sacrifice for sins.


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Thus Christ did not glorify himself to be made high-priest, but he who said to him, “Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee;”


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Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard by reason of his godly reverence,


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For while on account of the length of time ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one should teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.


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but solid food belongs to those who are of full age, who by use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.<pb/>


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of the doctrine of baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.


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and have fallen away, should again be renewed to repentance, since they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame.


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For the earth which hath drunk in the rain that cometh often upon it, and beareth plants useful to those for whose sake it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God;


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but if it bear thorns and briers it is disapproved, and is near to being accursed; and its end is to be burned.


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For God is not unjust so as to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered and are still ministering to the saints.


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But we earnestly desire that every one of you may show the same diligence with regard to the full assurance of your hope even to the end;


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that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.


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For men indeed swear by one who is greater, and the oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.


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Wherefore God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, confirmed it by an oath,


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that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us;


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which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast, and which entereth within the veil;


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where as forerunner for us Jesus entered, having become a high-priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.<pb/>


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to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all, who by interpretation is first King of righteousness, and then also was King of Salem, which is, King of peace,


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without father, without mother, without record of descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but likened to the Son of God, remaineth a priest for ever.


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but he whose descent is not reckoned from them took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.


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for it is well-known that our Lord sprang out of Judah, in regard to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.


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who hath been made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.


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for the Law perfected nothing,—and on the other, the bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.


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—for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him who said to him, “The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever,”—


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And they indeed have been many priests, because they have been prevented from continuing by reason of death;


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wherefore he is able also to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever liveth to make intercession for them.


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For such a high-priest also became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;


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who hath not necessity daily, as the high-priests, to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.


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For every high-priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; whence it is necessary that this one also have something which he may offer.


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For if, indeed, he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those that offer the gifts according to the Law;


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who serve the mere delineation and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, “See,” saith he, “that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shown thee in the mount.”


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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then a place would not have been sought for a second.


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not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.


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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.”


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which had the golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, wherein was the golden pot containing the manna, and the rod of Aaron which budded, and the tables of the covenant;


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and over it the cherubs of glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.


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but into the second the high-priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people;


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the Holy Spirit clearly showing this, that the way into the sanctuary hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing:


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which is a figure for the present time, in accordance with which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, which have no power as to the conscience to perfect the worshipper,


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being only ordinances pertaining to the flesh, which in addition to meats and drinks and divers washings are imposed until the time of reformation.


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not with the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, and obtained for us everlasting redemption.


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how much more shall the blood of Christ, who by his everlasting spirit offered himself without spot to God, purify your conscience from dead works, for the worship of the living God!


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for a testament is of force after men are dead, since it is of no force while the testator is living.


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