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Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--


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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam`s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.


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But not as the trespass, so also [is] the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.


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And not as through one that sinned, [so] is the gift: for the judgment [came] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift [came] of many trespasses unto justification.


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For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, [even] Jesus Christ.


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So then as through one trespass [the judgment came] unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness [the free gift came] unto all men to justification of life.


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For as through the one man`s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.


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And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:


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that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.


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For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;


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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;


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neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.


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Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?


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But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;


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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.


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What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.


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But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.


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Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?


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For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.


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So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.


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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.


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But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.


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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:


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but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.


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Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.


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For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.


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For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.


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but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.


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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.


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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:


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


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For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.


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because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:


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But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.


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And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.


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for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.


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For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.


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and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified with [him].


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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.


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For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope


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that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.


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And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.


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For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?


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And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered;


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and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.


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And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.


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For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:


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and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.


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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?


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who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


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Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.


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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,


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nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren`s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:


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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;


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whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.


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But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:


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neither, because they are Abraham`s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.


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That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.


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for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,


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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.


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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.


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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?


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Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?


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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:


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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,


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As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.


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And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.


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And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:


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And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.


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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:


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Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;


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even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.


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For being ignorant of God`s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.


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But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)


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


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because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:


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for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.


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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same [Lord] is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:


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How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?


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and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!


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But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?


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But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.


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But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.


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And Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me.


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But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.


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I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


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God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:


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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.


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But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.


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What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:


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according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.


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And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:


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I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.


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Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?


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But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;


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For if the casting away of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?


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But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;


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glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.


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


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Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God`s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.


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And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.


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


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For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;


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


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As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers` sake.


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even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.


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


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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.


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


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


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And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;


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or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, [let him do it] with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.


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Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.


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Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath [of God]: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.


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


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Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the [powers] that be are ordained of God.


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Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.


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For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:


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for he is a 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 a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.


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Wherefore [ye] must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience` sake.


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For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God`s service, attending continually upon this very thing.


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Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.


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Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.


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For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


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And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.


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The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.


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Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.


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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 set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.


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Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.


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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.


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


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For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or 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 died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.


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


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


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


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I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


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For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.


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for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


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So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.


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Overthrow not for meat`s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.


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The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.


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But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.


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


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


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Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:


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For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers,


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and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.


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And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.


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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.


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And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.


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But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,


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that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


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For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,


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in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;


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yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man`s foundation;


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but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.


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but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,


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whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--


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For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.


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Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.


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When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by 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 are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;


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that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.


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who 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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and [salute] the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ.


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


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Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.


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


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Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.


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For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.


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For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is 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.


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Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus the brother.


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Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,


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but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:


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unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:


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who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Now I beseech you, brethren, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.


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For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.


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Now this I mean, that each 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 in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.


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For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who 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 the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.


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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 the world?


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For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.


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


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For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:


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but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;


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and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:


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


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


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And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:


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We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:


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but we speak God`s wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:


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which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:


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but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.


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But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.


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For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.


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But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.


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Which things also we speak, not in words which man`s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words].


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Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.


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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.


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


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I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;


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for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?


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What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.


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


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Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.


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


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each man`s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each 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 through fire.


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If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.


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Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.


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


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whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;


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


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For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.


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Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.


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Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.


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


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Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.


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For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and 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 have glory, but we have dishonor.


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


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being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.


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For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.


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For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.


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


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It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father`s wife.


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And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.


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For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,


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in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,


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to deliver such a 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 the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ:


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wherefore 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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not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:


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but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.


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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?


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


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If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?


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I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,


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Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?


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Or 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 men,


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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 were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful for me; but not all things are 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 bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:


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


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Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become 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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Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;


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But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.


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


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Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.


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Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.


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But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband


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(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.


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But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.


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And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.


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


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Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace.


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For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?


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


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Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.


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Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.


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For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord`s freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ`s bondservant.


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


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I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is.


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But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.


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But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;


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


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and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.


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But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:


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and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.


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


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But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.


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But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.


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So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.


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A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


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


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Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.


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Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one.


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


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yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.


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Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.


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But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.


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For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol`s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?


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And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.


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Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.


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If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.


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Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?


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What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not 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 ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,


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or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.


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If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.


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Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?


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But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.


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For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.


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For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.


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What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.


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For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.


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And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself 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, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.


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To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.


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Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.


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And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.


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but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.


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For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all 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 a spiritual rock that followed them: and the 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 these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.


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


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


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But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.


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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.


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All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.


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If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are 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 hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake:


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conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other`s; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?


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


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Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even 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 praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.


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For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.


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


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But in giving you this charge, 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 divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.


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


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for in your eating each 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 put them to shame 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 received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;


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


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In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.


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Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.


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For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.


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If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order whensoever I come.


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Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.


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Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.


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For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:


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and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:


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


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For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.


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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not 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; it is not 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 to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


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and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;


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whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor 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 suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.


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And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues.


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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.


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And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.


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And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.


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Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.


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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.


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For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.


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For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.


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Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.


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But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?


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Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?


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So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.


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If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.


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So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto 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 if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?


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howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.


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Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.


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If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?


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But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;


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the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.


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What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.


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If any man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret:


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


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let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.


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And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.


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If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.


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Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,


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by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.


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


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then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, 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 found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.


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


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Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.


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Then [cometh] the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.


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For, He put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that he is excepted who did subject all things unto him.


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And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.


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Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?


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If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.


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Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.


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and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;


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


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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. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body].


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So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.


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Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then 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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But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.


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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.


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Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.


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And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:


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but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I go.


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For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.


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Now if Timothy come, see that he 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 set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.


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But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not all [his] will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.


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


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And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they supplied.


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


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:


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


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who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.


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But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:


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and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.


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For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:


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yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:


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who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;


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ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.


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For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.


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For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:


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as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.


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and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.


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When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the 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 Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.


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For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.


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And I wrote this very thing, 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 made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.


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But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.


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so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.


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


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But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;


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I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.


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But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.


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to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as the many, corrupting 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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Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?


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being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh.


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not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;


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who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.


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But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:


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For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.


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For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.


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and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:


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but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.


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But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.


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but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man`s conscience in the sight of God.


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in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].


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For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus` sake.


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Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who 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 exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;


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always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.


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For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus` sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.


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But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;


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


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For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.


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Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.


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For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an 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 the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.


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For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.


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Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord


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we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.


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For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.


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Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.


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We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.


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For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.


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For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;


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and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.


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Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.


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Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.


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But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;


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to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.


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We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.


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Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.


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(for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):


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but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,


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in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,


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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.


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Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?


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And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God 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 ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,


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


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I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.


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Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.


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For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.


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and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.


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For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),


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I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.


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For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.


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For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.


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So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.


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Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.


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For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.


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


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Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;


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how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.


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For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,


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beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:


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and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.


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Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.


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But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.


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I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also 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 become rich.


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And herein I give [my] judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.


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But now complete the doing also; that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out of your ability.


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For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.


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but by equality: your abundance [being a supply] at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become [a supply] for your want; that there may be equality:


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


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For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.


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And we have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [is spread] through all the churches;


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and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness:


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Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:


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for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.


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and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which [he hath] in you.


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Whether [any inquire] about Titus, [he is] my partner and [my] fellow-worker to you-ward, or our brethren, [they are] the messengers of the churches, [they are] the glory of Christ.


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Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.


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for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.


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But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:


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lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.


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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.


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


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[Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.


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


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as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.


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And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:


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For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;


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seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;


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while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.


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Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:


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yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.


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(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),


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casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;


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Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ`s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ`s, so also are we.


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For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:


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For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.


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Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.


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For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.


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But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.


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For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:


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not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men`s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,


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so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another`s province in regard of things ready to our hand.


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For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.


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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.


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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him].


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But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.


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Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?


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and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I 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 that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.


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It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.


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I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.


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That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.


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For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.


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I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, 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 have I been in the deep;


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[in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [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] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.


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Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.


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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:


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I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.


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I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.


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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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On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.


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For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me.


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And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.


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


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Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, 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 foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.


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


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For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.


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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?


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I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?


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Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.


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For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;


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lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.


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


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I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;


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seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:


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for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.


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Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.


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Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.


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For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.


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Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same 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 Spirit, be with you all.


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


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


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I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;


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which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.


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But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.


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As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.


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For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.


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For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.


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For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.


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For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews` religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:


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and I advanced in the Jews` religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.


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But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, [even] from my mother`s womb, and called me through his grace,


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to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:


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neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.


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but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;


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Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.


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And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.


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and that because of the false brethren privily 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 in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man`s person)-- they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:


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but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with [the gospel] of the circumcision


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(for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);


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


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For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas 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 Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?


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yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


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But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.


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I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.


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I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.


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O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?


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


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He therefore that supplieth 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 Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, [saying,] In thee shall all the nations be blessed.


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


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Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:


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that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; 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 when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.


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Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.


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Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.


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


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What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by 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 make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.


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But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.


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


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There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.


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But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;


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


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but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?


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but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:


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and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.


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Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.


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But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.


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Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.


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Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.


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Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.


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For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.


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


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Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.


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For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.


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Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.


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I have confidence to you-ward in 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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But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.


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For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.


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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


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For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.


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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,


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envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.


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But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.


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For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.


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So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.


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As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.


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For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.


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But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.


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And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace [be] upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and 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 every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:


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even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:


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having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,


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in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,


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making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him


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unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, [I say,]


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in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;


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in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God`s] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.


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For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,


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


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having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,


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and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might


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which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly [places],


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far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:


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and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,


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wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;


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among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--


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even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),


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that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:


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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.


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Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;


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that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.


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having abolished in the flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, [so] making peace;


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and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:


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So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,


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


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if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;


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which in other generation was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;


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[to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,


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whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.


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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;


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and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;


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to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;


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that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,


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and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto 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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unto him [be] the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.


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I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,


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


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And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;


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for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:


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till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:


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that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;


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from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.


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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,


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being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;


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who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;


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Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.


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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.


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Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.


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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:


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and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.


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and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.


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


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nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.


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For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.


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


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But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.


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Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.


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speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;


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For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.


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But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.


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that he might present the church 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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Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:


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for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;


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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.


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Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.


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


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Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;


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not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;


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knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free.


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And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.


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For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].


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Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.


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Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,


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withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil [one].


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with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,


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And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,


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But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the 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 this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.


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


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being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:


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even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf 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 with me of grace.


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so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;


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


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Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;


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so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;


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and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.


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but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.


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What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.


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


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according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.


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But if to live in the flesh, --[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.


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But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:


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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;


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Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;


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and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;


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because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:


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If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,


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make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;


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[doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;


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who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,


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and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.


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that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth,


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So then, my beloved, even 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 become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,


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holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.


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


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


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But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child [serveth] a father, [so] he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.


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But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;


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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, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.


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I have sent him therefore the more diligently, 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 came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your 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 irksome, but for you it is safe.


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for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:


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though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:


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circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;


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as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.


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Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,


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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:


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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;


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Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.


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Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,


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Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:


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Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.


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For many walk, of whom I 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 perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.


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who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.


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


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Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.


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In nothing be anxious; but in everything 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 guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.


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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, 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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The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.


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But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, 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, therein to be content.


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I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.


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And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but ye only;


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But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.


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To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [that are] at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.


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because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,


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which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;


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even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,


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


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to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;


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strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;


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giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;


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who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;


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for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto 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 through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.


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yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:


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if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.


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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body`s sake, which is the church;


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whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,


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[even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,


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to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:


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whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;


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For I would have you know how greatly I strive 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 may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,


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For though I am 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 builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.


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Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his 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 ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;


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having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.


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And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;


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having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;


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having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show 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 a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:


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Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


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and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.


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If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,


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Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.


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If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.


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When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.


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Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;


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but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:


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and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:


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where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.


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Put on therefore, as God`s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;


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forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:


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And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were 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 with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.


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


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Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:


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knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.


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


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


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withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;


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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.


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All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:


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whom I have sent you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;


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together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that [are done] here.


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Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (touching whom ye received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him),


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and Jesus that is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only [are my] fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, men that have been a comfort unto me.


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Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.


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For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.


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And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also 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 Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.


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remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;


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how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.


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And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;


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For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.


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For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,


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and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.


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but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.


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but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.


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For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;


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nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.


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even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.


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For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.


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Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:


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as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,


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And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.


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For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;


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who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;


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forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.


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But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:


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For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?


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and sent Timothy, our brother and God`s minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith;


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For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.


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For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.


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But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;


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for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:


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For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God 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 may see your face, and may 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 also [do] toward you;


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to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


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Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.


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that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.


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But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;


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for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound 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 hands, even as we charged you;


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But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep 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 that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen 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 that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


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When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.


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But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.


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For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,


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But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;


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And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.


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See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.


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And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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


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We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another 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 in the afflictions which ye endure;


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[which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:


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and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,


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rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:


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who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,


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when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.


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To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;


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that the name of our Lord Jesus 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, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;


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to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;


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let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,


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he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.


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For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.


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And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;


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[even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,


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and with all deceit of unrighteousness for 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 to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:


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So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.


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Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,


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Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also [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.


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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 they received of us.


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neither did we eat bread for nought at any man`s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:


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not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.


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


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And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.


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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope;


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unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,


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neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].


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desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.


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


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for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;


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I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;


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though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;


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Faithful is the 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 as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.


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Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;


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holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:


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of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.


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


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for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.


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whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.


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I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.


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In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;


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but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.


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The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;


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Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.


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Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;


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For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, 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 men ought to behave themselves 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; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.


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But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,


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forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.


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For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:


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If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:


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for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.


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For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.


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Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.


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


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Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.


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Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.


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But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.


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Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.


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But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.


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well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints` feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.


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And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.


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I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:


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If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it mat relieve them that are widows indeed.


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Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.


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For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.


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I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.


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Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach`s sake and thine often infirmities.


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Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.


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


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If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;


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he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,


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wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.


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But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.


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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have 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 the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.


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I charge thee in the sight of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession;


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that thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:


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which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;


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who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power eternal. Amen.


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Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;


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that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;


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laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed.


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O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;


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


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I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day


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having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.


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For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.


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Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;


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who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,


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but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,


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For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.


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


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This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.


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The Lord grant 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 to find mercy of the Lord in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.


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


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No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.


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Therefore I endure all things for the elect`s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.


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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.


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Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.


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


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Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.


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Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.


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If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master`s use, prepared unto every good work.


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in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,


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and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.


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For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,


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For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,


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And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.


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But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.


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persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.


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But abide 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 babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.


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I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:


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preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.


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For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;


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But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.


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henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.


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for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.


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


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But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.


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The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory forever and ever. Amen.


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Give diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.


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Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God`s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,


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but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;


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to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.


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For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;


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if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.


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For the bishop must be blameless, as God`s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;


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holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.


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whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre`s sake.


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One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.


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To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.


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


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that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;


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[to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:


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in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,


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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 us.


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[Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;


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


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instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;


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looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory 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 people for his own possession, zealous of good works.


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Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,


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


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not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,


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Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:


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but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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


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Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.


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And let our [people] also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.


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Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,


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hearing of thy love, and of the faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;


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that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.


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For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.


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yet for love`s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:


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whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:


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but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.


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For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;


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no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.


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I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.


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Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.


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


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God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,


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hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;


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who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;


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having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited 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 when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.


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but of the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.


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


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And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:


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And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.


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But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?


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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?


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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them].


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For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;


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how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;


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God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.


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But one hath somewhere 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 honor, And didst set him over the works of thy hands:


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


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But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every [man].


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


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For both he that sanctifieth and they that 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 congregation will I sing thy praise.


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


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Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;


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


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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;


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For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.


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


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but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.


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Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;


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Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:


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but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:


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for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:


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And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?


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


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For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.


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For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;


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Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,


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he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.


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Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.


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For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.


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Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.


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For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.


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Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help [us] in time of need.


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


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who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;


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So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee:


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Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,


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and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;


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Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.


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For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.


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For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.


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But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.


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


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


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For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,


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and [then] fell away, it is impossible 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 land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:


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but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; 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 the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.


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And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:


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Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;


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that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:


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which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;


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whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.


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For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,


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to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;


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without father, without mother, without genealogy, 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 Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief spoils.


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And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest`s office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham:


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but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.


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Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?


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For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar.


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For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.


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And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,


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who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:


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(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.


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(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);


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And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:


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Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.


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For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;


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who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.


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For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.


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Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,


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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.


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Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;


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who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.


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But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.


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For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That 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 that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For 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 on their heart also will I write them: 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 fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.


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In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.


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Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.


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For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.


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having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron`s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;


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and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.


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Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;


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but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:


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the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;


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which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,


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[being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.


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But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,


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nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.


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For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:


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how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?


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And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.


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For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.


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For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,


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Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.


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And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.


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It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face 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 year by year with blood not his own;


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else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.


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so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.


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For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.


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Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.


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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;


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Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),


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then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.


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By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.


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And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:


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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 on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; [then saith he,]


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by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;


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let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,


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not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.


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For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,


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but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.


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A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses:


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of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged 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 said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.


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But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;


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partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.


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For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.


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But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.


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By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.


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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.


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By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:


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And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.


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By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.


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By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.


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By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:


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By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:


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wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven 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 and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


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And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.


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But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.


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By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son];


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accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.


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By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.


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By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure 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 by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king`s commandment.


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choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;


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accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of 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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By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not 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 swallowed up.


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By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.


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And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and 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 power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.


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Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:


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they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated


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(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.


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God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.


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Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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 perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.


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For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.


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and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;


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It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?


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But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.


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Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten 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 indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.


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All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.


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and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.


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looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;


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lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.


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For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought is diligently with tears.


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For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and 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 entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;


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for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;


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but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,


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to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled 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 a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.


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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:


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whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.


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And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.


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Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:


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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.


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[Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.


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Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.


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So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?


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Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.


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Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.


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For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned without the camp.


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Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.


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Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.


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Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.


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Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.


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Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus,


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make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


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But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.


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Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.


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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.


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But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.


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But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.


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For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.


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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] 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, and he himself tempteth no man:


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Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.


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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.


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Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


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Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:


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Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.


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For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:


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But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.


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If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man`s religion is vain.


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Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.


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My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.


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For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;


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and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;


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Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?


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But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?


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Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor 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 dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.


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What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?


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and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?


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Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.


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and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.


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And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?


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For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.


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Now if we put the horses` bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.


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Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.


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So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!


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And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.


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For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.


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Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:


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out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.


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Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.


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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.


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Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?


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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.


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Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.


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Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?


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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to 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 doubleminded.


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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 one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.


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One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?


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Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:


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whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.


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Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.


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Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.


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Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.


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Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.


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Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.


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Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.


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Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.


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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.


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Is any among you sick? 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 him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.


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Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.


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Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.


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let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.


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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,


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according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,


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unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,


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who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.


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Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,


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that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:


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whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:


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Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come] unto you:


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searching what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.


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To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angel desire to look into.


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Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;


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as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:


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And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man`s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:


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knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;


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who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,


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who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.


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Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:


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having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.


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For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:


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But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.


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Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,


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as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;


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ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.


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Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.


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For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;


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and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.


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But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God`s] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:


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who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.


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Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;


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having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.


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For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:


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Servants, [be] in subjection 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 sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.


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For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:


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who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:


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who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.


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For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.


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In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;


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Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;


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but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.


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For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:


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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.


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Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.


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not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.


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For, He that would 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 upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.


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But even if ye should suffer for righteousness` sake, blessed [are ye:] and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;


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but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:


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having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.


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For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.


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Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;


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that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:


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which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;


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who is one the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.


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Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;


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that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.


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For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:


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wherein they think strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [of]:


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For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.


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above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:


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according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;


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if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:


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but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ`s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.


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If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.


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For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men`s matters:


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For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?


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Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.


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The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:


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Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;


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neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.


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And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.


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Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.


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Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,


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whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.


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And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.


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By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast therein.


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Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and [the] Saviour Jesus Christ:


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seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;


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whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.


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Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;


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and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;


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For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.


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Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:


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for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].


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And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;


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knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.


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Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.


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For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.


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For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:


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And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:


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For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.


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But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.


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And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.


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And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.


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For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;


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and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;


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and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that 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] lawless deeds):


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the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;


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but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:


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whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.


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But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,


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suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;


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having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;


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forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;


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but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man`s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.


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These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.


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For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;


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promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.


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For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.


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For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.


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It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.


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This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;


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that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:


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knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,


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and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.


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For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;


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but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.


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But forget not this one thing, beloved, 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 count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing 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 which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.


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Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness,


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looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?


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But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.


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Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.


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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 to him, wrote unto you;


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as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.


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Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.


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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.


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That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life


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(and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the 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 also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:


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And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce 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 his Son cleanseth us from all sin.


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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous 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 may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:


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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 hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:


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Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.


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Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.


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But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.


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I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.


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I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who 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 evil 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 vain glory 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 hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.


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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.


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I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.


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Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, [even] he that denieth the Father and the Son.


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Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.


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As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.


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And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.


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And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.


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If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.


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Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.


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Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.


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[My] little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:


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he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.


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Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten 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 was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother`s righteous.


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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not 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 know we love, 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 the world`s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?


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and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.


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And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.


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And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.


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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove 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 Jesus is not of God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.


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Ye are of God, [my] 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 who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know 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 begotten of God, and knoweth God.


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Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath 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 beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:


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And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.


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And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.


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Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even 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 punishment; and 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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.


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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.


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For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith.


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This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.


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For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.


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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.


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He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.


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These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.


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And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:


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and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.


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If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and [God] will give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he should make request.


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We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth himself, and the evil 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 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 truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;


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Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


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I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.


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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.


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And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.


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For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.


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Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.


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Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.


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If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting:


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Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.


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Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.


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For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.


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Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;


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who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:


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I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.


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Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth [them] out of the church.


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Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.


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Demetrius hath the witness of all [men], and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true.


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but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] unto thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.


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Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:


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Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.


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For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.


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Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.


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And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.


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Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.


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Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.


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But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.


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But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.


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Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.


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These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;


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Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.


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And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,


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to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.


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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.


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But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking 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 some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.


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Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,


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to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.


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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, [even] the 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 witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, [even] of all things that he saw.


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Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.


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John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;


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and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;


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and he made us [to be] a kingdom, [to be] priests unto his God and Father; to him [be] the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.


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I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.


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I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.


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saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, 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 having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;


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and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.


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And his head and his hair were white as white wool, [white] as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;


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and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.


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And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged 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 one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,


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and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.


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Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass 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 are seven churches.


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To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:


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I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;


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Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.


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And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived [again]:


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I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


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Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to 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 the crown of life.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to 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 Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:


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I know where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan`s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.


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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.


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Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.


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And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:


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I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.


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But I have [this] against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.


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Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.


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And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.


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But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who know not the deep things of Satan, as they are wont to say; I cast upon you none other burden.


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And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations:


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and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:


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And to 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 thou art dead.


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Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.


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Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep [it], and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.


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But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.


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He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and 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 none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:


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I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.


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Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they 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 didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.


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He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.


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And to the angel of the church in Laodicea 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 have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:


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I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.


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Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.


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He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.


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After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, [a voice] as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.


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Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;


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and he that sat [was] to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.


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And round about the throne [were] four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones [I saw] four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.


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And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And [there was] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;


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and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.


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And the first creature [was] like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature [was] like a flying eagle.


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and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.


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And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever,


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the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, 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 back, close sealed with seven seals.


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And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?


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And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.


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and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof.


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And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though 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 living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.


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And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,


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And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures 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 great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might and honor, and glory, and blessing.


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And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things are in them, heard I saying, Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, [be] the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever.


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And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, Come.


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And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.


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And another [horse] came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.


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And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand.


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And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou not.


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And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.


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And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:


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and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?


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And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].


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And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;


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and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind.


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And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


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And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;


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and they say to the mountains and to the 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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After his I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.


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And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great 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 shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:


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Of the tribe of Judah [were] sealed twelve thousand: Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;


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Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand;


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Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand;


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Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand.


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After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of [all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;


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and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.


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And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and [about] the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,


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saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, 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, These that are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and whence came they?


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And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come of the great tribulation, and they 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 they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.


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They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat:


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for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.


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And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.


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And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.


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And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel`s hand.


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And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.


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And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the 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 there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, [even] they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.


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And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the 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; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.


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And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.


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And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.


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And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up 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 out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


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And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.


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And it was given them 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 it striketh a man.


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And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.


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And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men`s faces.


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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 rushing to war.


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And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.


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They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.


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And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,


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one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.


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And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.


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And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: 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 [as] of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.


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By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.


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For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.


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And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:


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and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.


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And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as 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 upon the earth;


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and he cried with a great voice, as a lion roareth: and when he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.


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And when the seven thunders uttered [their voices], I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.


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And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven,


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and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer:


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but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished they mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven, [I heard it] again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.


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And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the little book. And he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be 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 when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.


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And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.


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And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.


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And I will give 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 desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed.


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These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.


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And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.


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And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.


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And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.


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And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.


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And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.


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And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.


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And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.


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And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become [the kingdom] 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, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,


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saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.


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And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.


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And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.


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And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;


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And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.


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And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.


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And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.


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And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.


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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels [going forth] to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;


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And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.


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And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.


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And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.


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Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man [child].


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And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto 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 after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.


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And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.


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And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus:


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and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names 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 throne, and great authority.


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And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;


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and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to war with him?


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and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.


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And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven.


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And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.


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And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.


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If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.


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And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto lamb, and he spake as a dragon.


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And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed.


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And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.


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And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him 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 who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.


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And it was given [unto him] to give breath to it, [even] to the image to the breast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.


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And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;


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and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the number of his name.


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Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.


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And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on 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 the voice which I heard [was] as [the voice] of harpers harping with their harps:


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and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, [even] they that had been purchased out of the earth.


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These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These [are] they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, [to be] the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;


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and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.


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And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.


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And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, If any man worshippeth the beast and his image, and receiveth a mark on his forehead, or upon his hand,


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he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; 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 goeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, they that worship the beast and his image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name.


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And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.


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And I saw, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud [I saw] one sitting like unto a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand sharp sickle.


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And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle, and reap: for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.


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And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth 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 cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the great [winepress], of the wrath of God.


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And the winepress are trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.


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And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, [which are] the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God.


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And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having 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, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages.


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Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.


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And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:


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and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, arrayed with [precious] stone, pure [and] bright, and girt about their breasts with golden girdles.


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And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden bowls 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 none was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels should be finished.


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And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.


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And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and that worshipped his image.


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And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, [even] the things that were in the sea.


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And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, who art and who wast, thou Holy One, because thou didst thus judge:


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for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.


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And men were scorched men with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.


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And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,


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and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works.


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And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the [river] Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might by made ready for the kings that [come] from the sunrising.


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And I saw [coming] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs:


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for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.


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(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walked naked, and they see his shame.)


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And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, It is done:


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and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.


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And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.


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And great hail, [every stone] about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding great.


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And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;


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with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.


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And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored 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, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication,


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and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE 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 a great wonder.


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And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.


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The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.


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and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.


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And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.


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And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.


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These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they [also shall overcome] that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.


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And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.


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And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.


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For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.


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After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.


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And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.


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For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.


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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:


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Render unto her even as she rendered, and double [unto her] the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.


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How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.


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Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her.


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And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,


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standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.


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And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more;


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merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;


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and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and [merchandise] of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.


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And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee, and [men] shall find them no more at all.


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The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;


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saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!


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for in an hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any wither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,


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and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like the great city?


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And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.


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Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.


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And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.


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And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;


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and the light of a lamp 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 princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.


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And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.


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After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God:


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for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.


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And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.


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And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small and the 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 thunders, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth.


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Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.


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And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright [and] pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.


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And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are true words of God.


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And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteous he doth judge and make war.


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And his eyes [are] a flame of fire, and upon his head [are] many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.


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And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white [and] pure.


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And out of his mouth proceedeth 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 of the wrath of God, the Almighty.


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And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of 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 thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and 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 upon the horse, and against his army.


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And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:


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and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, [even the sword] which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.


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And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.


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And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,


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and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.


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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 had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


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The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.


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Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these 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 come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.


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And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down 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 are also the beast and the false prophet; and they 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 upon 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, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.


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And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.


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And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.


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And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God:


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and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.


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And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true.


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And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the 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 for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.


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And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.


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And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,


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having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal:


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having a wall great and high; having 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 were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.


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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And he that spake with me had for a measure 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 thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal.


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And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.


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The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


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the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.


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And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates 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 hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.


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And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.


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and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb`s book of life.


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And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,


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in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve [manner of] fruits, yielding its 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 curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him;


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And there shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.


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And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angels to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass.


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And I John am he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things.


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And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with them that keep the words of this book: worship God.


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He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.


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Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and my enter in by the gates into the city.


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Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.


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I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.


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And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely.


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I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which 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 from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.


