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1 40 Matthew 001 Jesus Christ
001- The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
002- Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
003- And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
004- And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
005- And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
006- And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
007- And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
008- And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
009- And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
010- And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
011- And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
012- And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
013- And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
014- And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;
015- And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
016- And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
017- So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
018- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
019- Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
020- But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
021- And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
022- Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
023- Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
024- Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
025- And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
2 41 Mark 001 Jesus Christ
001- The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
002- As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
003- The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
004- John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
005- And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
006- And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
007- And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
008- I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
009- And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
010- And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
011- And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
012- And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
013- And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
014- Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
015- And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
016- Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
017- And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
018- And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
019- And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
020- And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
021- And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
022- And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
023- And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
024- Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
025- And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
026- And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
027- And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
028- And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
029- And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
030- But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
031- And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
032- And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
033- And all the city was gathered together at the door.
034- And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
035- And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
036- And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
037- And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.
038- And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
039- And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.
040- And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
041- And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
042- And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
043- And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
044- And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
045- But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
3 43 John 001 Jesus Christ
001- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
002- The same was in the beginning with God.
003- All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
004- In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
005- And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
006- There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
007- The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
008- He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
009- That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
010- He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
011- He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
012- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
013- Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
014- And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
015- John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
016- And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
017- For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
018- No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
019- And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
020- And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
021- And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
022- Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
023- He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
024- And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
025- And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
026- John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
027- He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
028- These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
029- The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
030- This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
031- And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
032- And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
033- And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
034- And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
035- Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
036- And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
037- And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
038- Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
039- He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
040- One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
041- He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
042- And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
043- The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
044- Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
045- Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
046- And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
047- Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
048- Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
049- Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
050- Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
051- And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
4 43 John 017 Jesus Christ
001- These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
002- As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
003- And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
004- I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
005- And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
006- I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
007- Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
008- For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
009- I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
010- And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
011- And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
012- While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
013- And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
014- 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.
015- I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
016- They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
017- Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
018- As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
019- And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
020- Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
021- That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
022- And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
023- I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
024- Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, 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.
025- O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
026- And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
5 44 Acts 002 Jesus Christ
001- And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
002- And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
003- And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
004- And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
005- And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
006- Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
007- And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
008- And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
009- Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
010- Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
011- Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
012- And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
013- Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
014- But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
015- For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
016- But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
017- And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
018- And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
019- And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
020- The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
021- And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
022- Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
023- Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
024- Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
025- For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
026- Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
027- Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
028- Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
029- Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
030- Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
031- He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
032- This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
033- Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
034- For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
035- Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
036- Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
037- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
038- Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
039- For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
040- And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
041- Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
042- And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
043- And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
044- And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
045- And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
046- And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
047- Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
6 44 Acts 003 Jesus Christ
001- Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
002- And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
003- Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
004- And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
005- And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
006- Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
007- And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
008- And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
009- And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
010- And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
011- And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
012- And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
013- The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
014- But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
015- And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
016- And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
017- And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
018- But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
019- Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
020- And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
021- Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
022- For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
023- And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
024- Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
025- Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
026- Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
7 44 Acts 004 Jesus Christ
001- And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
002- Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
003- And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
004- Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
005- And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
006- 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.
007- And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
008- Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
009- If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
010- Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
011- This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
012- Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
013- Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
014- And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
015- But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
016- Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
017- But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
018- And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
019- But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
020- For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
021- So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
022- For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
023- And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
024- And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
025- Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
026- The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
027- For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
028- For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
029- And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
030- By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
031- And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
032- And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
033- And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
034- Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
035- And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
036- And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
037- Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
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001- But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
002- And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
003- But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
004- Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
005- And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
006- And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
007- And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
008- And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
009- Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
010- Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
011- And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
012- And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
013- And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
014- And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
015- Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
016- There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
017- Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
018- And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
019- But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
020- Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
021- And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
022- But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,
023- Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
024- Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
025- Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
026- Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
027- And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
028- Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
029- Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
030- The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
031- Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
032- And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
033- When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
034- Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
035- And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.
036- For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
037- After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
038- And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
039- But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
040- And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
041- And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
042- And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
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001- And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
002- And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
003- As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
004- Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
005- Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
006- And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
007- For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
008- And there was great joy in that city.
009- But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
010- To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
011- And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
012- But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
013- Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
014- Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
015- Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
016- (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
017- Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
018- And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
019- Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
020- But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
021- Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
022- Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
023- For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
024- Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
025- And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
026- And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
027- And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
028- Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
029- Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
030- And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
031- And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
032- The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
033- In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
034- And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
035- Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
036- And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
037- And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
038- And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
039- And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
040- But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
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001- And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
002- And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
003- And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
004- And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
005- And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
006- And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
007- And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
008- And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
009- And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
010- And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
011- And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
012- And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
013- Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
014- And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
015- But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
016- For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
017- And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
018- And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
019- And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
020- And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
021- But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
022- But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
023- And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
024- But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
025- Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
026- And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
027- But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
028- And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
029- And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
030- Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
031- Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
032- And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
033- And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
034- And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
035- And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
036- Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
037- And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
038- And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
039- Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
040- But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
041- And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
042- And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.
043- And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
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001- There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
002- A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
003- He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
004- And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
005- And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
006- He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
007- And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
008- And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
009- On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
010- And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
011- And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
012- Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
013- And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
014- But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
015- And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
016- This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
017- Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
018- And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
019- While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
020- Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
021- Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
022- And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
023- Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
024- And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
025- And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
026- But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
027- And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
028- And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
029- Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
030- And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
031- And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
032- Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
033- Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
034- Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
035- But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
036- The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
037- That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
038- How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
039- And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
040- Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
041- Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
042- And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
043- To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
044- While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
045- And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
046- For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
047- Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
048- And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
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001- And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
002- And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
003- Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
004- But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
005- I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
006- Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
007- And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
008- But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
009- But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
010- And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
011- And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
012- And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:
013- And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
014- Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
015- And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
016- Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
017- Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
018- When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
019- Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
020- And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.
021- And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
022- Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
023- Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
024- For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
025- Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
026- And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
027- And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
028- And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
029- Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
030- Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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001- And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
002- When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
003- And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
004- And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
005- But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
006- And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
007- And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
008- And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
009- And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
010- Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
011- But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
012- Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
013- And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
014- Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
015- And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
016- After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
017- That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
018- Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
019- Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
020- But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
021- For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
022- Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
023- And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
024- Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
025- It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
026- Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
027- We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
028- For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
029- That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
030- So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
031- Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
032- And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
033- And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
034- Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
035- Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
036- And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.
037- And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
038- But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
039- And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
040- And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
041- And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
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001- Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
002- Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
003- Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
004- And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
005- And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
006- Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
007- After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
008- And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
009- And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
010- And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
011- Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
012- And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
013- And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
014- And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
015- And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
016- And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
017- The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
018- And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
019- And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
020- And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
021- And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
022- And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
023- And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
024- Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
025- And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
026- And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
027- And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
028- But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
029- Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
030- And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
031- And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
032- And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
033- And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
034- And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
035- And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
036- And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
037- But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
038- And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
039- And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
040- And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
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001- And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
002- And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
003- And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
004- And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
005- These going before tarried for us at Troas.
006- And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
007- And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
008- And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
009- And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
010- And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
011- When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
012- And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
013- And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
014- And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
015- And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
016- For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
017- And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
018- And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
019- Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
020- And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
021- Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
022- And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
023- Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
024- But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
025- And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
026- Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
027- For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
028- Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
029- For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
030- Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
031- Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
032- And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
033- I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
034- Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
035- I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
036- And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
037- And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
038- Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
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001- And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
002- And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
003- And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
004- And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
005- And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
006- Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
007- In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
008- And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
009- So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
010- Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
011- And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
012- And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
013- And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
014- Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
015- And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
016- And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
017- And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
018- Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
019- But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
020- For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
021- And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
022- But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
023- And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
024- And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
025- And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
026- Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
027- For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
028- Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
029- And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
030- And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
031- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
17 45 Romans 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
002- (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
003- Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
004- And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
005- By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
006- Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
007- To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
008- First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
009- For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
010- Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
011- For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
012- That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
013- Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
014- I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
015- So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
016- For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
017- For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
018- For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
019- Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
020- For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
021- Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
022- Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
023- And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
024- Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
025- Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
026- For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
027- And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
028- And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
029- Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
030- Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
031- Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
032- Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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001- Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
002- But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
003- And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
004- Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
005- But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
006- Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
007- To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
008- But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
009- Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
010- But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
011- For there is no respect of persons with God.
012- For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
013- (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
014- For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
015- Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
016- In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
017- Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
018- And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
019- And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
020- An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
021- Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
022- Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
023- Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
024- For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
025- For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
026- Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
027- And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
028- For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
029- But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
19 45 Romans 003 Jesus Christ
001- What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
002- Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
003- For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
004- God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
005- But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
006- God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
007- For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
008- And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
009- What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
010- As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
011- There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
012- They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
013- Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
014- Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
015- Their feet are swift to shed blood:
016- Destruction and misery are in their ways:
017- And the way of peace have they not known:
018- There is no fear of God before their eyes.
019- Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
020- Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
021- But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
022- Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
023- For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
024- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
025- Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
026- To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
027- Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
028- Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
029- Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
030- Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
031- Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
20 45 Romans 005 Jesus Christ
001- Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
002- By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
003- And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
004- And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
005- And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
006- For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
007- For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
008- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
009- Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
010- For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
011- And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
012- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
013- (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
014- Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
015- But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
016- And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
017- For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
018- Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
019- For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
020- Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
021- That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
21 45 Romans 006 Jesus Christ
001- What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
002- God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
003- Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
004- Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
005- For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
006- Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
007- For he that is dead is freed from sin.
008- Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
009- Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
010- For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
011- Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
012- Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
013- Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
014- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
015- What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
016- Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
017- But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
018- Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
019- I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
020- For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
021- What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
022- But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
023- For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
22 45 Romans 007 Jesus Christ
001- Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
002- For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
003- So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
004- Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
005- For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
006- But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
007- What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
008- But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
009- For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
010- And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
011- For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
012- Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
013- Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
014- For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
015- For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
016- If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
017- Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
018- For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
019- For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
020- Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
021- I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
022- For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
023- But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
024- O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
025- I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
23 45 Romans 013 Jesus Christ
001- Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
002- Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
003- For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
004- For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
005- Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
006- For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
007- Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
008- Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
009- For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
010- Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
011- And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
012- The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
013- Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
014- But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
24 45 Romans 015 Jesus Christ
001- We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
002- Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
003- For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
004- For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
005- Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
006- That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
007- Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
008- Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
009- And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
010- And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
011- And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
012- And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
013- Now 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 Ghost.
014- And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
015- Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
016- That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
017- I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
018- For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
019- Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
020- Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
021- But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.
022- For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
023- But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
024- Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
025- But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
026- For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
027- It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
028- When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
029- And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
030- Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
031- That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
032- That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
033- Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
25 45 Romans 016 Jesus Christ
001- I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
002- That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
003- Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
004- Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
005- Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
006- Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
007- Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
008- Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
009- Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
010- Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household.
011- Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
012- Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
013- Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
014- Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
015- Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
016- Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
017- Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
018- For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
019- For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
020- And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
021- Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
022- I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
023- Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
024- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
025- Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
026- But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
027- To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
26 46 1 Corinthians 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
002- Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:
003- Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
004- I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
005- That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
006- Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
007- So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
008- Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
009- God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
010- Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
011- For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
012- Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
013- Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
014- I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
015- Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
016- And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
017- For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
018- For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
019- For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
020- Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
021- For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
022- For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
023- But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
024- But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
025- Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
026- For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
027- But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
028- And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
029- That no flesh should glory in his presence.
030- But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
031- That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
27 46 1 Corinthians 002 Jesus Christ
001- And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
002- For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
003- And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
004- And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
005- That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
006- Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
007- But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
008- Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
009- But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
010- But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
011- For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
012- Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
013- Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
014- But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
015- But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
016- For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
28 46 1 Corinthians 003 Jesus Christ
001- And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
002- I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
003- For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
004- For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
005- Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
006- I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
007- So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
008- Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
009- For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
010- According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
011- For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
012- Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
013- Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
014- If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
015- If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
016- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
017- If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
018- Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
019- For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
020- And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
021- Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
022- Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
023- And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
29 46 1 Corinthians 005 Jesus Christ
001- It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
002- And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
003- For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
004- In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
005- To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
006- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
007- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
008- Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
009- I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
010- Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
011- But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
012- For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
013- But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
30 46 1 Corinthians 008 Jesus Christ
001- Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
002- And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
003- But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
004- As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
005- For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
006- But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
007- Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
008- But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
009- But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
010- For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
011- And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
012- But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
013- Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
31 46 1 Corinthians 009 Jesus Christ
001- Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
002- If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
003- Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
004- Have we not power to eat and to drink?
005- Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
006- Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
007- Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
008- Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
009- For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
010- Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
011- If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
012- If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
013- Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
014- Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
015- But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
016- For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
017- For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
018- What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
019- For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
020- And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
021- To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
022- To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
023- And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
024- Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
025- And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
026- I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
027- But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
32 46 1 Corinthians 015 Jesus Christ
001- Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
002- By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
003- For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
004- And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
005- And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
006- After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
007- After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
008- And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
009- For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
010- But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
011- Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
012- Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
013- But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
014- And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
015- Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
016- For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
017- And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
018- Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
019- If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
020- But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
021- For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
022- For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
023- But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
024- Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
025- For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
026- The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
027- For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
028- And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
029- Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
030- And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
031- I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
032- If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
033- Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
034- Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
035- But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
036- Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
037- And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
038- But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
039- All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
040- There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
041- 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.
042- So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
043- It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
044- It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
045- And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
046- Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
047- The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
048- As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
049- And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
050- Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
051- Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
052- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
053- For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
054- So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
055- O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
056- The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
057- But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
058- Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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001- Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
002- Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
003- And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
004- And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
005- Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
006- And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
007- For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
008- But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
009- For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
010- Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
011- Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
012- As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
013- Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
014- Let all your things be done with charity.
015- I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
016- That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
017- I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
018- For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
019- The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
020- All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
021- The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
022- If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
023- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
024- My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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001- Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
002- Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
003- Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
004- Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
005- For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
006- And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
007- And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
008- For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
009- But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
010- Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
011- Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
012- For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
013- For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
014- As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
015- And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
016- And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
017- When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
018- But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
019- For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
020- For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
021- Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
022- Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
023- Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
024- Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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001- Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
002- But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
003- But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
004- In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
005- For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
006- For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
007- But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
008- We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
009- Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
010- Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
011- For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
012- So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
013- We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
014- Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
015- For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
016- For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
017- For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
018- While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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001- For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
002- For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
003- If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
004- For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
005- Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
006- Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
007- (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
008- We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
009- Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
010- For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
011- Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
012- For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
013- For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
014- For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
015- And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
016- Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
017- Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
018- And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
019- To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
020- Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
021- For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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001- Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
002- How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
003- For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
004- Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
005- And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
006- Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
007- Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
008- I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
009- 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.
010- And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
011- 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.
012- For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
013- For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
014- But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
015- As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
016- But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
017- For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
018- And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
019- And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
020- Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
021- Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
022- And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
023- Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
024- Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
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001- Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
002- For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
003- But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
004- For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
005- For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
006- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
007- Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
008- I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
009- And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
010- As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
011- Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
012- But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
013- For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
014- And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
015- Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
016- I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
017- That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
018- Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
019- For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
020- For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
021- I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
022- Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
023- Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
024- Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
025- Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
026- In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
027- In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
028- Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
029- Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
030- If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
031- The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
032- In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
033- And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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001- This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
002- I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
003- Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
004- For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
005- Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
006- But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
007- Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
008- For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
009- For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
010- Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
011- 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.
012- Greet one another with an holy kiss.
013- All the saints salute you.
014- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
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001- Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
002- And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
003- Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
004- Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
005- To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
006- I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
007- Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
008- But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
009- As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
010- For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
011- But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
012- For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
013- For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
014- And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
015- But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
016- To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
017- Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
018- Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
019- But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
020- Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
021- Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
022- And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
023- But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
024- And they glorified God in me.
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001- Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
002- And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
003- But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
004- And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
005- To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
006- But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
007- But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
008- (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
009- And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
010- Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
011- But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
012- For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
013- And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
014- But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
015- We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
016- Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
017- But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
018- For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
019- For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
020- I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
021- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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001- O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
002- This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
003- Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
004- Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
005- He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
006- Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
007- Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
008- And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
009- So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
010- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the 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.
011- But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
012- And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
013- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
014- That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
015- Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
016- Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
017- And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
018- For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
019- Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
020- Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
021- Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
022- But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
023- But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
024- Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
025- But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
026- For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
027- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
028- There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
029- And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
43 48 Galatians 005 Jesus Christ
001- Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
002- Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
003- For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
004- Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
005- For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
006- For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
007- Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
008- This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
009- A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
010- I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
011- And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
012- I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
013- For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
014- For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
015- But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
016- This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
017- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
018- But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
019- Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
020- Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
021- Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
022- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
023- Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
024- And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
025- If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
026- Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
44 48 Galatians 006 Jesus Christ
001- Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
002- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
003- For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
004- But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
005- For every man shall bear his own burden.
006- Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
007- Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
008- 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.
009- And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
010- As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
011- Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
012- As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
013- For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
014- But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
015- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
016- And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
017- From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
018- Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
45 49 Ephesians 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
002- Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
003- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
004- According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
005- Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
006- To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
007- In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
008- Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
009- Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
010- That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
011- In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
012- That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
013- In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
014- Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
015- Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
016- Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
017- That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
018- The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
019- And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
020- Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
021- Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
022- And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
023- Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
46 49 Ephesians 002 Jesus Christ
001- And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
002- Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
003- Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
004- But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
005- Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
006- And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
007- That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
008- For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
009- Not of works, lest any man should boast.
010- For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
011- Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
012- That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
013- But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
014- For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
015- Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
016- And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
017- And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
018- For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
019- Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
020- And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
021- In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
022- In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
47 49 Ephesians 003 Jesus Christ
001- For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
002- If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
003- How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
004- Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
005- Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
006- That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
007- Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
008- Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
009- And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
010- To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
011- According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
012- In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
013- Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
014- For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
015- Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
016- That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
017- That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
018- May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
019- And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
020- 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,
021- Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
48 49 Ephesians 005 Jesus Christ
001- Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
002- And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
003- But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
004- Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
005- For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
006- Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
007- Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
008- For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
009- (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
010- Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
011- And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
012- For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
013- But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
014- Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
015- See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
016- Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
017- Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
018- And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
019- Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
020- Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
021- Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
022- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
023- For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
024- Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
025- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
026- That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
027- That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
028- So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
029- For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
030- For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
031- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
032- This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
033- Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
49 49 Ephesians 006 Jesus Christ
001- Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
002- Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
003- That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
004- And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
005- Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
006- Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
007- With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
008- Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
009- And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
010- Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
011- Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
012- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
013- Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
014- Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
015- And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
016- Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
017- And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
018- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
019- And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
020- For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
021- But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
022- Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
023- Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
024- Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
50 50 Philippians 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
002- Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
003- I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
004- Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
005- For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
006- Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
007- Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
008- For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
009- And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
010- That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
011- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
012- But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
013- So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
014- And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
015- Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
016- The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
017- But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
018- What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
019- For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
020- According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
021- For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
022- But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
023- For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
024- Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
025- And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
026- That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
027- Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
028- And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
029- For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
030- Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
51 50 Philippians 002 Jesus Christ
001- If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
002- Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
003- Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
004- Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
005- Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
006- Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
007- But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
008- And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
009- Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
010- That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
011- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
012- Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
013- For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
014- Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
015- That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
016- Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
017- Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
018- For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
019- But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
020- For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
021- For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
022- But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
023- Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
024- But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
025- Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
026- For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
027- For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
028- I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
029- Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
030- Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
52 50 Philippians 003 Jesus Christ
001- Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
002- Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
003- For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
004- Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
005- Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
006- Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
007- But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
008- Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
009- And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
010- That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
011- If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
012- Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
013- Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
014- I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
015- Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
016- Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
017- Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
018- (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
019- Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
020- For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
021- Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
53 50 Philippians 004 Jesus Christ
001- Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
002- I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
003- And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
004- Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
005- Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
006- Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
007- And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
008- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
009- Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
010- But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
011- Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
012- I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
013- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
014- Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
015- Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
016- For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
017- Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
018- But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
019- But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
020- Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
021- Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.
022- All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.
023- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
54 51 Colossians 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,
002- To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
003- We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
004- Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
005- For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
006- Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
007- As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
008- Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
009- For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
010- That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
011- Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
012- Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
013- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
014- In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
015- Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
016- For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
017- And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
018- And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
019- For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
020- And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
021- And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
022- In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
023- If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
024- Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
025- Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
026- Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
027- To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
028- Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
029- Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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001- Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
002- We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
003- Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
004- Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
005- For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
006- And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
007- So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
008- For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
009- For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
010- And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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001- For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
002- But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
003- For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
004- But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
005- For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
006- Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
007- But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
008- So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
009- For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
010- Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
011- As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
012- That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
013- For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
014- For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
015- Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
016- Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
017- But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
018- Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
019- For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
020- For ye are our glory and joy.
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001- Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
002- And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
003- That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
004- For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
005- For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
006- But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
007- Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
008- For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
009- For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
010- Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
011- Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
012- And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
013- To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
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001- But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
002- For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
003- For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
004- But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
005- Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
006- Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
007- For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
008- But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
009- For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
010- Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
011- Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
012- And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
013- And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
014- Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
015- See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
016- Rejoice evermore.
017- Pray without ceasing.
018- In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
019- Quench not the Spirit.
020- Despise not prophesyings.
021- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
022- Abstain from all appearance of evil.
023- And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
024- Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
025- Brethren, pray for us.
026- Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
027- I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
028- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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001- Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
002- Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
003- We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
004- So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
005- Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
006- Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
007- And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
008- In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
009- Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
010- When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
011- Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
012- 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 the Lord Jesus Christ.
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001- Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
002- That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
003- Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
004- Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
005- Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
006- And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
007- For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
008- And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
009- Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
010- And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
011- And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
012- That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
013- But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
014- Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
015- Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
016- Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
017- Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
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001- Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
002- And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
003- But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
004- And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
005- And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
006- Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
007- For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
008- Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
009- Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
010- For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
011- For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
012- Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
013- But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
014- And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
015- Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
016- Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
017- The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
018- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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001- Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
002- Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
003- As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
004- Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
005- Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
006- From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
007- Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
008- But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
009- Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
010- For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
011- According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
012- And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
013- Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
014- And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
015- This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
016- Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
017- Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
018- This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
019- Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
020- Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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001- Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
002- Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
003- Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
004- For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
005- For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
006- If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
007- But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
008- For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
009- This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
010- For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
011- These things command and teach.
012- Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
013- Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
014- Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
015- Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
016- Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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001- Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
002- The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
003- Honour widows that are widows indeed.
004- But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
005- Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
006- But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
007- And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
008- But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
009- Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
010- 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.
011- But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
012- Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
013- And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
014- I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
015- For some are already turned aside after Satan.
016- If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
017- Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
018- For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
019- Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
020- Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
021- I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
022- Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
023- Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
024- Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
025- Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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001- Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
002- And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
003- If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
004- He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
005- Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
006- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
007- For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
008- And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
009- But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
010- For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
011- But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
012- Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
013- I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
014- That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
015- Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
016- Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
017- Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
018- That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
019- Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
020- O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
021- Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
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001- Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
002- To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
003- I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
004- Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
005- When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
006- Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
007- For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
008- Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
009- Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
010- But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
011- Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
012- For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
013- Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
014- That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
015- This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
016- The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
017- But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
018- The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
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001- Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
002- And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
003- Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
004- No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
005- And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
006- The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
007- Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
008- Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
009- Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
010- Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
011- It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
012- If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
013- If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
014- Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
015- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
016- But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
017- And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
018- Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
019- Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
020- But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
021- If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
022- Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
023- But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
024- And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
025- In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
026- And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
68 55 2 Timothy 004 Jesus Christ
001- I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
002- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
003- For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
004- And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
005- But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
006- For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
007- I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
008- Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
009- Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
010- For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
011- Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
012- And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
013- The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
014- Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
015- Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
016- At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
017- Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
018- And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
019- Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
020- Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
021- Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
022- The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
69 56 Titus 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
002- In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
003- But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
004- To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
005- For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
006- If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
007- For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
008- But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
009- Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
010- For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
011- Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
012- One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
013- This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
014- Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
015- Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
016- They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
70 56 Titus 002 Jesus Christ
001- But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
002- That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
003- The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
004- That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
005- To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
006- Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
007- In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
008- Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
009- Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
010- Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
011- For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
012- Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
013- Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
014- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
015- These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
71 56 Titus 003 Jesus Christ
001- Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
002- To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
003- For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
004- But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
005- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
006- Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
007- That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
008- This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
009- But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
010- A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
011- Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
012- When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
013- Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
014- And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
015- All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
72 57 Philemon 001 Jesus Christ
001- Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
002- And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
003- Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
004- I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
005- Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
006- That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
007- For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
008- Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
009- Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
010- I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
011- Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
012- Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
013- Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
014- But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
015- For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
016- Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
017- If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
018- If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
019- I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
020- Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
021- Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
022- But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
023- There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
024- Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
025- The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
73 58 Hebrews 010 Jesus Christ
001- For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
002- For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
003- But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
004- For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
005- Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
006- In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
007- Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
008- Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
009- Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
010- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
011- And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
012- But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
013- From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
014- For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
015- Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
016- This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
017- And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
018- Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
019- Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
020- By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
021- And having an high priest over the house of God;
022- Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
023- Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
024- And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
025- Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
026- For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
027- But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
028- He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
029- Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
030- For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
031- It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
032- But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
033- Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
034- For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
035- Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
036- For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
037- For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
038- Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
039- But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
74 58 Hebrews 013 Jesus Christ
001- Let brotherly love continue.
002- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
003- Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
004- Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
005- Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
006- So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
007- Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
008- Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
009- Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
010- We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
011- For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
012- Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
013- Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
014- For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
015- By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
016- But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
017- Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
018- Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
019- But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
020- Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
021- Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
022- And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
023- Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
024- Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
025- Grace be with you all. Amen.
75 59 James 001 Jesus Christ
001- James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
002- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
003- Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
004- But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
005- If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
006- But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
007- For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
008- A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
009- Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
010- But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
011- For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
012- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
013- Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
014- But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
015- Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
016- Do not err, my beloved brethren.
017- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
018- Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
019- Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
020- For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
021- Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
022- But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
023- For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
024- For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
025- But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
026- If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
027- Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
76 59 James 002 Jesus Christ
001- My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
002- For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
003- And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
004- Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
005- Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
006- But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
007- Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
008- If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
009- But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
010- For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
011- For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
012- So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
013- For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
014- What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
015- If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
016- And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
017- Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
018- Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
019- Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
020- But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
021- Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
022- Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
023- And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
024- Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
025- Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
026- For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
77 60 1 Peter 001 Jesus Christ
001- Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
002- Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
003- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
004- To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
005- Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
006- Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
007- That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
008- Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
009- Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
010- Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
011- Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
012- Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
013- Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
014- As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
015- But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
016- Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
017- And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
018- Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
019- But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
020- Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
021- Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
022- Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
023- Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
024- For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
025- But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
78 60 1 Peter 002 Jesus Christ
001- Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
002- As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
003- If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
004- To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
005- Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
006- Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
007- Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
008- And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
009- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
010- Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
011- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
012- Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
013- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
014- Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
015- For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
016- As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
017- Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
018- Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
019- For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
020- For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
021- For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
022- Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
023- Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
024- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
025- For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
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001- Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
002- While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
003- Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
004- But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
005- For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
006- Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
007- Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
008- Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
009- Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
010- For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
011- Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
012- For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
013- And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
014- But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
015- But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
016- Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
017- For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
018- For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
019- By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
020- Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
021- The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
022- Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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001- Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
002- That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
003- For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
004- Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
005- Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
006- For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
007- But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
008- And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
009- Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
010- As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
011- If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
012- Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
013- But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
014- If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
015- But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
016- Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
017- For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
018- And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
019- Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
81 61 2 Peter 001 Jesus Christ
001- Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
002- Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
003- According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
004- Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
005- And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
006- And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
007- And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
008- For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
009- But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
010- Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
011- For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
012- Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
013- Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
014- Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
015- Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
016- For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
017- For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
018- And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
019- We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
020- Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
021- For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
82 61 2 Peter 002 Jesus Christ
001- But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
002- And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
003- And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
004- For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
005- And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
006- And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
007- And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
008- (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
009- The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
010- But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
011- Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
012- But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
013- And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
014- Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
015- Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
016- But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
017- These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
018- For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
019- While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
020- For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
021- For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
022- But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
83 61 2 Peter 003 Jesus Christ
001- This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
002- That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
003- Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
004- And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
005- For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
006- Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
007- But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
008- But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
009- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
010- But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
011- Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
012- Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
013- Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
014- Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
015- And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
016- As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
017- Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
018- But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
84 62 1 John 001 Jesus Christ
001- That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
002- (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
003- That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
004- And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
005- This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
006- If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
007- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
008- If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
009- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
010- If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
85 62 1 John 002 Jesus Christ
001- My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
002- And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
003- And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
004- He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
005- But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
006- He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
007- Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
008- Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
009- He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
010- He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
011- But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
012- I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
013- I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
014- I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
015- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
016- For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
017- And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
018- Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
019- They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
020- But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
021- I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
022- Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
023- Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
024- Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
025- And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
026- These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
027- But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
028- And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
029- If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
86 62 1 John 003 Jesus Christ
001- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
002- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
003- And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
004- Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
005- And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
006- Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
007- Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
008- He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
009- Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
010- In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
011- For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
012- Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
013- Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
014- We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
015- Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
016- Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
017- But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
018- My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
019- And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
020- For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
021- Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
022- And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
023- And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
024- And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
87 62 1 John 004 Jesus Christ
001- Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
002- Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
003- And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
004- Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
005- They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
006- We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
007- Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
008- He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
009- In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
010- Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
011- Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
012- No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
013- Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
014- And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
015- Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
016- And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
017- Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
018- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
019- We love him, because he first loved us.
020- If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
021- And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
88 62 1 John 005 Jesus Christ
001- Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
002- By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
003- For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
004- For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
005- Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
006- This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
007- For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
008- And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
009- If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
010- He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
011- And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
012- He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
013- These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
014- And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
015- And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
016- If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
017- All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
018- We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
019- And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
020- And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
021- Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
89 63 2 John 001 Jesus Christ
001- The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
002- For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
003- Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
004- I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
005- And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
006- And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
007- For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
008- Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
009- Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
010- If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
011- For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
012- Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
013- The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
90 65 Jude 001 Jesus Christ
001- Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
002- Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
003- Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
004- For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
005- I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
006- And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
007- Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
008- Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
009- Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
010- But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
011- Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
012- These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
013- Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
014- And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
015- To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
016- These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
017- But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
018- How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
019- These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
020- But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
021- Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
022- And of some have compassion, making a difference:
023- And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
024- Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
025- To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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001- The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
002- Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
003- Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
004- John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
005- And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
006- And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
007- Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
008- I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
009- I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
010- I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
011- Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
012- And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
013- And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
014- His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
015- And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
016- And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
017- And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
018- I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
019- Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
020- The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
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001- And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
002- And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
003- And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
004- And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
005- And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
006- And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
007- And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
008- And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
009- And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
010- And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
011- And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
012- Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
013- And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
014- And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
015- And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
016- And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
017- And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.