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Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:


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


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And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.


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


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For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.


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And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:


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As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.


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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!


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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.


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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


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For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.


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Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;


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Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.


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Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.


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Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.


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


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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.


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Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.


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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:


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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.


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For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.


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Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.


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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.


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Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.


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Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.


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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.


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He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.


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For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.


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For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.


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But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.


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


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Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.


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I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


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But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.


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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.


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Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.


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For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.


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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.


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Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.


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And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.


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For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.


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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.


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Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:


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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:


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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,


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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.


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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,


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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.


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Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:


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


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But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;


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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.


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For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.


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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.


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When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.


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And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.


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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;


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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;


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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.


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Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.


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Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.


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Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.


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Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.


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


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


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Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.


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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.


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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.


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And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.


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Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.


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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,


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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:


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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:


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Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.


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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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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.


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But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.


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For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:


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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;


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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:


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


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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.


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And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:


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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:


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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:


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Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.


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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.


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But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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


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I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.


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


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Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?


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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.


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Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.


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According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.


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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.


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


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If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.


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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.


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


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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;


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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.


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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.


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For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?


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Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.


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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.


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


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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;


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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.


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For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.


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


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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.


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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.


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And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.


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For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,


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


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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.


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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:


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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


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Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.


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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 idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.


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


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


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If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.


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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?


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


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Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,


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


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


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All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.


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Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.


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Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.


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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.


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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?


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For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.


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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.


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The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.


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Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.


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For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.


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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.


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But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.


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And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.


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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.


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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.


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


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But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.


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Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.


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For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.


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Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.


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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.


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But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.


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But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;


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


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But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:


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There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.


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And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.


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But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.


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Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.


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So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.


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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


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But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.


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Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.


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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.


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For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)


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But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.


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Howbeit there is not in 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.


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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.


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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumbling block to them that are weak.


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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;


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Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.


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Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?


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


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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?


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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?


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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?


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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.


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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.


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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?


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But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.


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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!


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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.


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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.


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For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.


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


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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.


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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.


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Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.


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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.


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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.


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Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;


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And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.


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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.


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Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.


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Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.


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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.


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


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What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?


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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.


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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.


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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.


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If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.


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But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:


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Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?


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Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.


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Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.


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But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.


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But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.


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For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.


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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.


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


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


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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.


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For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.


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What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.


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For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:


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And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.


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After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.


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Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.


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And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.


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Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.


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


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To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:


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For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.


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For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.


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


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And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?


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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?


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And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


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And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.


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For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.


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That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.


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And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.


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And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.


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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.


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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.


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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.


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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,


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Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.


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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.


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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.


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For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.


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He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.


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I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.


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Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?


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


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So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.


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There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.


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Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.


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Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.


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What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.


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Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?


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Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.


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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.


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


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Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.


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If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?


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But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:


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And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.


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How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.


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If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.


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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.


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Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.


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And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.


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


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


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By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.


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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;


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After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.


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For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.


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But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.


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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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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.


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But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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?


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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.


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Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.


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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:


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All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.


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There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.


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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.


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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


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And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.


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Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.


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As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.


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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.


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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.


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


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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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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.


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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.


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


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


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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.


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Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.


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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.


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I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)


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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.


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The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.


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Paul, 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:


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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;


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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.


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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.


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And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.


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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:


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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:


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Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;


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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.


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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.


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For we write none other things unto you, that what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;


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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.


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And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.


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When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?


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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.


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For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?


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And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.


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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.


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But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.


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So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.


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


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


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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,


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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.


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Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.


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To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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


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


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Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.


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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;


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Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.


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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:


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For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.


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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.


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And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:


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But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.


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But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.


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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.


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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.


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For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.


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For 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.


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


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Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.


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For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.


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We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;


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Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.


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For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.


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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.


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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;


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While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.


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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.


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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.


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Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:


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We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.


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For we must all appear before the 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.


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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.


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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.


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For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:


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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.


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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.


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Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.


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And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;


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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.


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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.


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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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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.


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(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)


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But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,


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By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,


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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.


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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?


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And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.


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Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.


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Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.


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Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.


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For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.


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And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.


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Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.


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For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.


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For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.


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Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.


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


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For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.


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


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


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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.


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And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.


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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.


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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.


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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.


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


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And 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.


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


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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.


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But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:


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As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.


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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:


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And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.


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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.


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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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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.


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


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Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.


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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.


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But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.


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Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.


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And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:


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(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.


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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)


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For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;


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Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;


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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:


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But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.


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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)


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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;


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Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.


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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:


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


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


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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.


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But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.


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For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:


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Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,


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To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.


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


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And when I was present with you, and 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.


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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.


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For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.


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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.


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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.


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That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.


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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.


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I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.


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


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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;


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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;


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In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.


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Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.


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


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I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.


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


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For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.


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


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


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Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.


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


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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.


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


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


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


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I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?


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


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For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:


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And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.


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


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I 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:


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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.


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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.


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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?


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


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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.


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Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.


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


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


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


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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.


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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.


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


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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:


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And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.


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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:


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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.


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But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.


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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.


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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:


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To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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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:


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But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;


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(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)


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And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.


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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.


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


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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?


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


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But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.


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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless 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.


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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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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?


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This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


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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?


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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.


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


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


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Christ 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:


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


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Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.


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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.


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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.


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For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.


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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.


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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.


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But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.


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


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


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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.


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Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;


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But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,


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


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But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?


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And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.


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


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But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.


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Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.


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For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.


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For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.


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But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.


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


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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.


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Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.


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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.


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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.


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


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


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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.


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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,


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Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: 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.


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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.


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But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.


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For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.


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As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.


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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.


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


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But 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.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.


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


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


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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:


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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:


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Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,


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


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Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:


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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:


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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:


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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,


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


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


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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,


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And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,


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Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,


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


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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:


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


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That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.


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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.


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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;


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


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For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;


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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;


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And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:


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


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And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;


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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;


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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:


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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.


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


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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:


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


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


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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.


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


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I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,


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(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?


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He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)


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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;


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For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:


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Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:


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That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;


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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.


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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,


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Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:


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Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;


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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.


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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.


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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.


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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:


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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.


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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.


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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;


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Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.


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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.


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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.


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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.


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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.


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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;


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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.


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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.


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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.


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For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:


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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.


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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.


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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.


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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;


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Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;


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Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;


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Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.


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Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;


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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,


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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:


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Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:


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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:


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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.


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That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.


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Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.


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But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;


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And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.


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For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.


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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:


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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;


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Only let your conversation be as 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;


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And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.


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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;


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If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,


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Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.


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But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:


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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.


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That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;


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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.


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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;


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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.


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Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.


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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.


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Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.


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For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.


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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.


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I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.


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Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.


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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.


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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.


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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:


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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;


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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,


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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:


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That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;


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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.


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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,


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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.


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Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.


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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:


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Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)


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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.


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Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.


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And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.


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Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.


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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.


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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.


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Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.


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But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.


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Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.


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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.


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Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.


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But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.


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To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;


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Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:


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As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;


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For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;


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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;


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Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;


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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:


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Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:


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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:


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And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.


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And, 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.


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And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled


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In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:


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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;


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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:


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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;


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Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:


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To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:


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Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:


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For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;


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That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;


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For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.


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Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.


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In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:


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Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.


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And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;


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Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;


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And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.


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Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:


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Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


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And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.


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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,


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Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.


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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.


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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:


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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.


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Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.


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Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;


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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.


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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.


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And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.


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Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;


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Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.


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But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.


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Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.


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Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:


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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.


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All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:


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Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;


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With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.


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Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)


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And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.


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Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.


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For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.


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And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.


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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.


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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;


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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.


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And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.


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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.


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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;


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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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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.


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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.


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For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:


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Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.


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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.


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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.


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Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:


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As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,


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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.


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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:


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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:


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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.


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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.


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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?


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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:


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That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.


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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.


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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.


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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:


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For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;


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Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?


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And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:


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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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Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.


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That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.


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He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.


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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.


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And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;


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And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;


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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.


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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.


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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:


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Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


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For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.


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Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.


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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.


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And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;


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Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.


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See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.


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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.


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:


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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;


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So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:


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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:


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And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,


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In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:


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Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;


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When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.


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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:


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That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,


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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.


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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;


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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.


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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.


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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:


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And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.


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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:


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Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.


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Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,


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Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:


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And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.


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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.


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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:


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For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.


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For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.


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Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.


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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.


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;


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Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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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,


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Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.


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Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:


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Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,


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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;


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And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;


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Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.


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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.


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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.


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Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;


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Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:


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Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.


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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;


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For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.


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Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.


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In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;


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Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.


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A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;


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Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;


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Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.


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Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;


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And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.


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For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.


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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.


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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.


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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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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.


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Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.


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But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.


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Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.


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Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.


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But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;


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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.


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I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.


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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.


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Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.


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For the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.


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I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.


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Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.


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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.


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And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.


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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;


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He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,


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Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.


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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.


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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.


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But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.


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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.


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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;


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That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:


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Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;


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Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.


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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;


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Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.


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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,


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To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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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;


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When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.


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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.


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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;


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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,


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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:


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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.


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Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.


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This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:


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The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.


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And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.


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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.


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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.


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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.


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Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.


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Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.


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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.


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But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.


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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.


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Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


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In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;


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And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.


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For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,


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Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,


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For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,


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Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.


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But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.


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But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,


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Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.


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But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;


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And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:


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I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;


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Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.


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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;


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But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.


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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.


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For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.


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Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.


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The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.


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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;


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But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;


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To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.


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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:


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If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.


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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;


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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.


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Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.


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One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.


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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.


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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.


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The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;


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To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.


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In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,


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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.


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Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;


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Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.


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Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;


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Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;


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Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.


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Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,


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For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.


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Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;


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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.


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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.


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All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.


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Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,


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That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.


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For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.


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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.


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Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:


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But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.


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Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?


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I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.


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Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.


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But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.


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Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;


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Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:


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Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.


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For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?


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And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.


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But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.


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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.


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And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:


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And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.


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But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?


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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?


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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.


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For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;


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How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;


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God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?


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But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?


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Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:


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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.


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But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.


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For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.


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For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,


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Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.


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And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.


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Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;


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Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.


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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;


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For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.


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And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;


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But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.


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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.


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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.


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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.


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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;


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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?


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Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.


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For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.


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For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.


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Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:


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Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.


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Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.


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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.


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Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.


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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.


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Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.


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For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:


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Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.


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So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.


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Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;


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For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.


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But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.


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Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,


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Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.


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For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,


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If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.


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For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:


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But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.


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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.


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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.


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And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:


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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:


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That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:


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Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;


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Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.


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For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;


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To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;


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Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.


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Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.


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And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:


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But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.


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And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.


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If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?


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For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.


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For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.


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And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,


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For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.


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For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.


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(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)


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Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.


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For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;


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Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.


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For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.


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Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;


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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.


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For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:


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Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.


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But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.


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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.


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For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:


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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.


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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:


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And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.


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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.


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In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.


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For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.


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Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;


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And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.


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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.


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But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:


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The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:


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Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;


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Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.


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But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;


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Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.


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For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:


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How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?


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And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


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For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.


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For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,


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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.


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It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:


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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;


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For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.


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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.


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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.


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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.


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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:


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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;


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Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.


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And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:


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But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;


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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;


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By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;


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Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.


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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.


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For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,


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But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.


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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?


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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.


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But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;


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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.


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For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.


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For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.


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But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.


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Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.


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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.


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By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.


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But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.


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By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.


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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.


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By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:


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Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.


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Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.


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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


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And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.


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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.


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By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,


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Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.


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By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.


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By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.


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By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.


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Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;


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Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.


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By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.


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Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.


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By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.


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By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.


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And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:


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Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.


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Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.


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Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:


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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;


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(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.


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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,


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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.


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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.


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And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:


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If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?


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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?


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For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.


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Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.


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And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.


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Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;


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Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.


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For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.


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For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,


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And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:


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(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:


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But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,


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To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,


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And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.


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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:


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Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.


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And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.


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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:


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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.


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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.


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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.


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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.


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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.


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For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.


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Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.


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By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.


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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.


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Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,


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Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.


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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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:


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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.


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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.


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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.


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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:


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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.


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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.


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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.


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My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.


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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;


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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:


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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?


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If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:


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For he that said, 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.


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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.


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What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?


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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?


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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.


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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.


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Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?


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For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.


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Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.


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Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.


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Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!


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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.


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For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:


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Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.


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Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.


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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.


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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.


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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.


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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?


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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.


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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.


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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.


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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.


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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.


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Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.


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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:


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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.


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Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.


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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.


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Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.


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Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.


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Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.


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Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.


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Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.


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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.


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Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:


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And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.


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Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.


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Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.


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Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.


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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,


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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.


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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,


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To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,


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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.


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Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:


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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:


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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:


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Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:


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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.


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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.


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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;


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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:


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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;


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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,


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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.


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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:


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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.


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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:


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But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.


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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.


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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.


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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,


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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.


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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;


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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.


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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;


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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.


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Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;


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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.


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Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.


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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.


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For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:


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Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:


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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.


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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;


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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;


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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.


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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:


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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.


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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.


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Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:


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Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.


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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:


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For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.


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But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;


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But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:


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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.


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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:


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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.


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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:


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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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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;


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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.


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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:


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Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:


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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.


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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.


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As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.


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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.


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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.


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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?


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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.


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The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:


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Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;


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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.


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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:


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Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.


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But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.


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By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.


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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:


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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:


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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.


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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.


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But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.


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Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:


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For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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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.


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Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;


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Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.


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Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.


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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.


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For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.


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We have also 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:


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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.


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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.


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And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.


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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.


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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;


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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;


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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;


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(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)


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The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:


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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.


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Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.


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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;


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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;


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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:


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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;


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But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.


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These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:


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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:


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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.


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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:


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,


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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?


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Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.


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Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.


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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;


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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.


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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.


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But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.


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That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;


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(For the life 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;)


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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.


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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.


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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.


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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


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My little children, 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:


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And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.


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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.


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But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.


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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.


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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.


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And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.


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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.


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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.


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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.


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Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.


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Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.


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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.


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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.


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And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.


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Behold, what 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.


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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.


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Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.


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Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.


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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.


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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?


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And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.


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And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.


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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.


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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.


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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:


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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.


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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.


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We are of God: he that 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.


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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.


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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.


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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.


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No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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?


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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.


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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.


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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.


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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.


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And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.


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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.


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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.


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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.


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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:


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And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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;


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Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


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I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.


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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.


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And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.


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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.


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Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.


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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.


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If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:


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Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.


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Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.


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For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.


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Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:


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I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.


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Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.


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Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.


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Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.


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But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.


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Jude, 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:


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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.


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Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.


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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.


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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.


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Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.


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These are spots in your 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;


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Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.


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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,


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To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.


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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.


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But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.


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Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.


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And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.


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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,


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To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.


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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:


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Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.


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Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.


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John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;


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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,


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And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Behold, he 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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;


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And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.


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His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;


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And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.


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And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.


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And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:


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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.


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Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;


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The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.


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Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;


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I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:


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Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.


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And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;


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I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.


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Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.


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And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;


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I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.


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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.


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Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.


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And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;


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I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.


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Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.


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Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.


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And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.


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But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.


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And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:


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And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.


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And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.


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Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.


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Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.


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Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.


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He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.


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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;


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I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.


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Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.


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Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.


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Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.


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And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;


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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:


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I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.


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Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.


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To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.


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After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.


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And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.


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And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.


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And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.


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And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.


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And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.


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And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.


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And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.


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And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,


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The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.


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And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.


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And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?


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And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.


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And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.


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And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.


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And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.


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And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.


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And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;


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And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;


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Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.


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And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.


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And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.


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And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.


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And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.


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And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.


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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.


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And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.


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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.


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And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:


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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?


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And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.


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And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;


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And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.


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And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


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And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;


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And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:


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And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.


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And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,


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Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.


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Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.


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Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.


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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;


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And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.


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And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,


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Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.


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And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?


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And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.


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Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.


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They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.


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For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.


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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.


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And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.


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And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.


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And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.


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The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.


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And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;


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And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.


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And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;


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And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.


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And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.


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And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!


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And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.


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And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.


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And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


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And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.


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And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.


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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.


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And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.


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And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.


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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.


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And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.


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And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,


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Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.


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And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.


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And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.


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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.


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By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.


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For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.


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And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:


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Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.


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And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:


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And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,


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And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.


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And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.


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And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:


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But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.


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And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.


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And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.


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And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.


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And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.


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But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.


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And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.


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And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.


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These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.


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And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.


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And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.


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And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.


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And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.


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And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.


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And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.


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And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.


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And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.


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And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,


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Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.


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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.


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And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.


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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:


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,


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And the great dragon was cast out, 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.


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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.


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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.


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Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.


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And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.


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And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.


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And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?


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And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.


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And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.


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And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.


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And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.


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He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.


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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.


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And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.


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And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,


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And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.


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And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.


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And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:


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And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.


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Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.


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And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:


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And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.


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These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,


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Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.


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And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.


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And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,


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The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:


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And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.


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Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.


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And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.


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And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.


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And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.


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And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.


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And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.


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And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.


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And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.


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And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.


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And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.


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Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.


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And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:


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And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.


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And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.


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And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.


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And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.


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And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.


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And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.


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And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.


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For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.


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And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.


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And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.


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And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.


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And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,


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And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.


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And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.


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And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.


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For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.


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Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.


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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.


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And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.


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And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.


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And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.


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And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:


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With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.


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So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:


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And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.


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And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.


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And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.


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The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.


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And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.


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And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.


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And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.


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These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.


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And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.


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For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.


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And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.


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And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.


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For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.


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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.


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Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.


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How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.


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Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


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And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,


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Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.


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And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:


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The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,


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And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.


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And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.


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The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,


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And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!


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For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,


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And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.


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And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.


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And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;


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And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.


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And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.


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And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:


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For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.


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And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.


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And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.


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And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.


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Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.


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And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.


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And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.


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And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.


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His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.


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And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.


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And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.


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And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;


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That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.


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And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.


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And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.


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And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.


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And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.


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And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,


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And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.


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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


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But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.


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Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.


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And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.


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And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.


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And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.


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And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.


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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.


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And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.


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And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.


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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.


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And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.


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And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.


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But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.


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And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.


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And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,


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Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;


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And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:


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On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.


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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.


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And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.


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And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.


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And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.


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And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;


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The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.


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And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.


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And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.


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And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.


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And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.


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And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.


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In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.


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And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:


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And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.


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And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.


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And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.


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Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.


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He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.


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And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.


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Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.


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For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.


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I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.


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And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.


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For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:


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And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.


